The 13 Principles of Jewish Faith - Principle #2: It's All Him - Rabbi Akiva Fox

so when we're discussing this second one of the 13 principles of faith that a shame is a cloud that a shame is one it doesn't just mean he's unique it doesn't just mean he's one he is everything he encompasses everything he is the one the only one and there is only him that's what God's oneness means this is something which is brought down in this farm is called a noid movado there's nothing else in the world except for Hashem I don't know if anybody has ever watched a three dimensional movie 3d or 4d but when I was a kid back in the 1850s could be before that I don't remember I'm that old but when I was a kid we used to go to the amusement park called Disneyland and they had 3d movies and you would sit in the theater and they would put on these purple glasses and images would pop out at you and you would think that this rocket ship is coming right at your head you could stick up your hands and you think you could touch it and then nothing is there not only that but they have little tricks that they played on you like they would have thousands of rats running and you would see them coming at you and then they would they had this little fan on the floor next to your feet that blew out air so your your your feet would start feeling things and you were sure that millions of rats are running at you it wasn't really true but that's what you felt now I remember thinking to myself and this is obviously not everybody's on the level but I was brilliant to that age I still am but people don't know it because I hide it very well and Hashem hides it from people very well but I was brilliant at that age and I remember thinking to myself I looked at this image fire coming right a fireball zooming at my face I was petrified I started to sweat I got scared I really was scared and then I thought to myself wait a minute hold on Fox stop for a second this is a movie there's no way that the people who created the movie would get you into trouble there's no way that they would do something that's dangerous then I said to myself wait a minute is a movie so they arranged it that there would be characters and images that would seem so real but all I have to remember is that I'm in a sense in the movie I'm in the theater and I see these images as real but they're just figments not of my imagination because the images do exist but they are not real dimensions they are not physical they are merely images that are being that are being set upon me through certain lighting etc but there's nothing really here and if you close your eyes you'll hear sounds the three-dimensional movie if it would have no sound would be just as scary because you'd see things coming at you but if you close your eyes there's nothing there it doesn't exist the same thing is with the world lahav dil hashem is the world he is 1 a noid movado there is nothing else in the world but God and he wants this image to appear in this image and this image but it's all him it's all his light shining in different places that makes things exist but in times of fear in times of scary scary episodes or things that are very dangerous or seem very dangerous if you connect to this belief if you connect to this reality that there is nothing else in the world ain't I'd Nevada that it's all Hashem his light shining in different ways but it's all him then there's nothing to be afraid of because even the scary image at standing right in front of you and he makes noise and he looks like he's gonna eat you up but he too is merely part of the light part of the images that I sham is sending at you but that in essence they don't really exist on their own they're just from him this is something that the smarm the nefesh sheheim brings down that if a person is ever in a time of trouble in the time of tragedy in the time of sorrow if he connects with this and he repeats it himself enough and he internalizes an ID nevada that there's nothing else but a sham then he has nothing to fear because Hashem will get him out of it why because in essence it's all Hashem that scary Nazi soldier hard to understand this and again close your eyes before internalizing it because it's something that's very difficult to internalize and we cannot live with this at all times we don't have the capacity but in essence that Nazi soldier is a sham and the scary dog that's running at us that's a shame to these are the images of light that he is sending at us but if we connect to the higher light of a night movado that there's nothing else but him then we don't have to worry we have nothing to fear because it's all a sham and putting yourself into that system of actors of sham of a knight movado then you realize that it's just images and nothing can harm you this is something thats a beacon great people have done in the past they have had the ability to connect to it in a certain level that has saved them literally their souls their lives their body their families from terrible things okay now we're going to focus a little bit more on what it means that I xem is one when you say something is one that also means that it's not too very good elementary my dear Watson what that means when we related to the concept of God being in the world is that there cannot be two gods there can't be two gods because if there were two gods that would mean that one doesn't have what the other has meaning that each one is limited to what he can do because apparently there's something outside of it I remember when I was growing up back in the 1500s i think it was there was a tape i don't know if you guys know what a tape is now they have cds and discs and memory cards and flash drives but in the olden days they used to have this little square with two circles in it and a real of something inside it and you put it into the tape recorder and it made music or told stories so there was a music tape about keevy and two key now they had a funny song trying to learn Hebrew in Hebrew it's interesting the word he in Hebrew means she and the word who means him interesting the word dog means fish so they made a funny song about it that they said who is he and he is she so I am you and you are me but that's not how it really works in Hebrew but if I'm you then you can't be me because I'm me excuse me if I'm me then you aren't me because I'm me so you must be somebody else so if there's two gods then apparently one has what the other one doesn't that would mean that each one is restricted is limited that can't be when it comes to us Jim Hashem is everything Anna Shem is all of the forces all of the power and therefore we cannot say he's restricted to who he is but he's not what the other one is so therefore when we say a sham is one what that includes is Hashem is one and there was nothing else there is no other power when we say who levada la que no he is the all the source of all forces powers energies in the world that means there is nothing else but him now we're going to focus on a very deep concept and we're going to end with this when we say that I Shem is one what that includes is also that everything in the world everything that exists in the world is from a Shem and even things that seem to be contradictory contrary to what God believe God wants or desires they are also from a Shem meaning you know if I am light then everything light you could say is from me but darkness which is the opposite of light that can't be from me but when it comes to the forces that God is and God creates God is everything meaning lightness and dark got his kindness and judgment everything is God technically even the impurities in the world even the bad things in the world even the scary things in the world they're all part of God's desire Hashem created a world that would seem to have things that go against him he created a world where things would seem to be contrary to what He desires he is the essence of kindness and essence of goodness and purity and yet there exists in the world things that are the essence of wickedness the essence of bad and essence of impurity so there were some religions like the Greek religion that say wait a minute that can't be that can't be love and hate coming from the same God so it must be there's a God of love and God of hate so if you come to the God of love and you say listen I really hate that guy can you take care of him oh I'm sorry that's not my department you got to speak to the god of hate if you come to the god of hate you say I want to kill that guy he says why don't you learn to love him you know I really want to love it I want to marry that girl oh you want to marry you're talking about love you gotta go to Tony down buck he's the one who deals with love and if you come to God of snow and you say you want some heat and he's gonna say Oh buddy we don't deal with that this is Alaska you want heat you go to Hawaii no that's not how it works with a chef a sham is one God he does everything he is everything and even things that seem contrary to him and what he wants are all there for a reason what's the reason follow stay tuned we'll speak about it in the next class you