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living with God is not just having an
idea or a belief that he exists it's
having a relationship with him well how
do you have a relationship with God
there are two basic building blocks to
any healthy relationship first you need
two people it sounds simple but it's
true if you're sitting around one day
and your friend says I have a great girl
for you she's EX actly what you're
looking for and she's interested in you
no matter how great it sounds it's not a
relationship until you actually meet and
find out for yourself number two free
choice both people need to freely choose
each other forcing someone to be with
you isn't a relationship two people
choosing to be together that's the
Paradigm of a great
relationship see we have a problem since
God's not physical we can't sense him
well how do we have a relationship if we
don't know he exists is he here is he in
the sky does he hear me for us to
develop a relationship with God we need
to know and not just believe that he is
real but the more he reveals himself or
proves he exists the less choice we have
to be with him should God ever say hello
at breakfast one morning we would be so
a struck by his presence that we would
be incapable of choosing not to have a
relationship with him but should he not
reveal kill himself then we don't know
he exists filling one prerequisite kills
the other so what do we do God walks a
fine line between proven existence and
free choice for that reason how let's
start at the beginning the first chapter
of Jewish history is quite strange Jews
are slaves in Egypt God instructs Moshe
to ask parro for permission to take the
Jews out of Egypt that doesn't make any
sense God wants to start a nation and
it's parro's permission he's God he
could have just told mosha that at 9:00
a.m. Tuesday morning it's going to go
dark gather the people and just go the
Jews could have been eating falafel in
Jerusalem before the lights went back on
in Egypt what's with the back and forth
of parro we need to understand that
Egypt wasn't just a country it was the
epicenter of civilization Exodus wasn't
just to get the Jews out it was the
platform for God to reveal himself to
the world and 10 plagues later even
Harrow knew God existed and it got
better days after leaving Egypt he split
a sea and then to seal the deal a few
weeks later God revealed himself to a
nation of over 2 million people not to
an elite few not to mosha on a mountain
toop to everyone at that moment God
wasn't theoretical he wasn't an idea or
an image he was real the relationship
had begun the first principle of God
awareness is based on the source a noi
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I am Hashem your God who took you out of
Egypt or said shorter I am
real God is saying I am real but we can
do more than just look at one specific
event to find God look at Jewish history
Mark Twain famously asked what is the
secret of the Jews immortality we should
ask the same question how do the Jews
survive and thrive through generations
of Exile and persecution look at nature
we are begged to look Beyond to how and
ask why I know how my body works but why
does it work so wondrously why are there
millions of parts and they're all in
sync could it all be by chance I know
how the world works but why why does
each aspect of nature seem to fit
perfectly into a larger design and
should anything alter even slightly
we're all doomed see nature is a great
tool for God since it allows us to lose
focus on the terminology of how or
choose to recognize the awesomeness of
why and that's part of God's plan to
give us the choice to find him should we
want to to see him in Exodus in history
in nature everywhere or not to the first
Mitzvah the first principle of God
awareness is to know that God is real
and to choose to have a relationship
with him
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