Hashem is One - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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I think we have a picture of it. In fact, it seems so well known and so natural that we take it for granted. And then when something provokes us to think about it, to push a little bit, it can sort of go to pieces right in front of you and you realize wow. Things like that suffer from what someone called over familiarity. someone called over familiarity. They're so familiar that you just assume that they don't have to be extreme and thought about. Here's one. I don't remember whether you were here when I discussed this. I've discussed this so often in the last few years. We have the Shema. Here, oh Israel, Hashem our God, Hashem is one. And we take that to be the statement of Jewish monotheism. Right? Let me ask a very simple I'm not going to You don't have to look it up because I'm not going to any further than those six words. Um let me ask a very outlandish question. Let's imagine a person who lived in ancient Greece. Unless he believed in the ancient Greek religion, which has 14 gods or 26 gods or 107 gods, I don't know, gods, goddesses. Now, imagine him saying, "Zeus is one." is one." Zeus is one. From his point of view, from the point of view of his religion, is that true or false? Well, I mean that guy I guess it really means on what he's intending to say by it. Okay. Zeus is the name of the chief god, right? And he's And he means to say that Zeus is one. He's one. I mean, technically that statement would be true in the sense I mean like

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2. 3:223,300 years doesn't really commit us to there being only one god? I think that's a…
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7. 20:21Says, "Hashem is one." It means first to deny any number other than one. Once you…
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9. 27:00picnic, or writing, you know, Sforno, is because that's the way in which the pollution of…
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