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Our Every Thought: the 10th Principle of Emuna

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

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Good evening from the south of Israel. This is Laser Brody with another session of Emunah Hour. Tonight, Bezrat Hashem, we're learning the 10th principle of Emunah, which is omniscience and divine direction. Principle 10 says in the language of Maimonides' language, the Rambam, "I believe with complete belief that the Creator, blessed be his name, knows all the actions of every human and all their thoughts. As it is said in Psalms 33, he produces the hearts of them and discerns all of their thoughts." So, Hashem not only produces our hearts, but he knows everything that's in our hearts and in our brains. It's all there in front. And some people say it's difficult to believe, difficult to believe. Well, someone Wait a second. Were you on a computer today? They say, "Sure." And did you use Google Search today? Yeah, Google. How can Mr. Google know what's going on and all all through the world, everything? It's got all this information bank. Well, yeah, but that's it can't think. Uh, artificial intelligence. It's really artificial intelligence cuz it can't think. It's just a bunch of algorithms that you can put in a particular topic and tells you what's being said about that anywhere. But, that's not what Hashem is. Hashem knows exactly what our motivation is, what we're thinking, where we've been, where we want to go. He produced all of us. So, this is the belief in Hashem's omniscience. Hashem knows everything that's going on. This is difficult. Again, our principles of Emunah are

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