Why does G-d have so many names?

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good morning so um this week's paraa is shamot shamot means the name names or um and is the first para of the book of shot the book of Exodus we finish the first book bit Genesis last week or yesterday and so we are moving on to the book of shamot and the this next couple weeks tells us the story of The Exodus of Israel from Egypt and uh I should note Israel from Egypt and uh I should note um that these next six weeks starting with this week shote next week's par is going to be called V the following week is called Bo then B then then Mish those are the six weeks kind of coming up and so those six week these six weeks are known by their acronym as and uh that and these six weeks are as and uh that and these six weeks are known as six weeks of hashem's Mercy where it is firstly the um six weeks of the winter it always comes out in the middle of the winter January February time these six weeks um there's also a time when we speak about the Exodus and we have a tradition that these six weeks are six weeks to um to do TOA to return to Hashem and to ask Hashem for salvation for help in anything that we need in many Jewish communities historically it was widely

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1. 0:16good morning so um this week's paraa is shamot shamot means the name names or um…
2. 6:34and so they go back they bring him home and he ends up he stays there…
3. 12:47them some names of Hashem we never pronounce we don't even know how to pronounce some…
4. 19:04known and commonly used but before we begin to explain hashem's various names it's important to…
5. 25:23will be a k a um little T underneath and those are the vowels of AD…
6. 31:39more yes Alex do we understand U you know the history of of creating these six…
7. 37:59it's found throughout scripture it's less common than the first two names of Hava and Elohim…
8. 44:19connection and then the last of the six names that are not pronounced is the name…
9. 50:35the story of the splitting of the sea um the verses there are three verses each…
10. 56:43relate to Hashem as a name we cannot grasp Hashem himself is beyond definition Beyond name…

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