A philosophical exploration of G-d's nature and existence according to Derech Ha'Shem.
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Everything has at least two things. There is the thing itself, its characteristics, its essence, whatever it is. And that thing has existence. You see, it is, it has being. Now, we don't know what existence is. We just know the results of existence is that we are, you know, but we don't know what it is to be, what is in us that makes us be. That's the concept called existence. You see? So, I mentioned that wait a minute. If everything has at least these two things, right? It has its essence, two things, right? It has its essence, which is its characteristics, whatever it is, right? And it exists, you see. So there's two things. And that begins to really uh tell us uh what the nature of the rush is, at least so far, is that God doesn't have existence. He is existence, which is a very important distinction. We have it, you see, and therefore it could be taken away from us. He doesn't have it. He is it. Posh means God is identical with whatever he
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- 0:31two things, right? It has its essence, which is its characteristics, whatever it is, right? And…
- 1:01means God is identical with whatever he has. It's him. So therefore God and his existence…
- 1:34being can understand what that is. What is pure existence or existence per se? And I…
- 2:05that he took away. See a being that has existence you could take that away and…
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