god Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/god/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:45:18 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Shabbat Yitro: Belief https://www.jwire.com.au/shabbat-yitro-belief/ https://www.jwire.com.au/shabbat-yitro-belief/#respond Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:45:18 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=155534 “I am Ad’nai, your God, who took you out of Egypt” (Exodus 20:2).  One of the most difficult subjects to write about is God. There are seven different names for God in the Torah and some people like to say this is evidence that the early Israelites worshipped several gods. But it is possible to […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/shabbat-yitro-belief/feed/ 0 155534 Why? https://www.jwire.com.au/why/ https://www.jwire.com.au/why/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2023 03:40:21 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=144922 Innocent worshippers were shot outside a synagogue. Children were mowed down intentionally at a bus stop in Jerusalem.  Seven people were shot in Monterey. Nineteen people were killed in storms in California. A hundred dead in mudslides in Peru. Over 40,000 and rising innocent humans were killed in Turkey and Syria by the earthquake and thousands […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/why/feed/ 2 144922 Shabbat Vaeyra: Hard Hearts https://www.jwire.com.au/shabbat-vaeyra-hard-hearts/ https://www.jwire.com.au/shabbat-vaeyra-hard-hearts/#respond Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:52:05 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=144116 Moses and Aaron are locked in a power struggle with Pharaoh, who seemingly holds all the cards.  It is a battle both physical and spiritual, with God exercising superior authority. The theological issue, of course, is if God has decided in advance to “harden Pharoah’s heart”, where is the choice?  And does it matter? And why […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/shabbat-vaeyra-hard-hearts/feed/ 0 144116 Shabbat Shemot: Who is God? https://www.jwire.com.au/shabbat-shemot-who-is-god/ https://www.jwire.com.au/shabbat-shemot-who-is-god/#respond Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:59:21 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=143915 Throughout the Torah, God has been referred to anthropomorphically. God in human terms. God has a finger and a hand and gets disappointed and angry. All these are metaphors because humans can only think in human terms. When we’re faced with something that is not human, we find it easier to use such human terms […]

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