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B'riahChartp. 108.02

Paradoxes within Common Prayers: Sh'ma Yisroel

"Although" God is One, Holy, thrice Holy... "paradoxically, however," also Our God, Blessed, whose glory fills the earth.

p. 108.02
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Sh'ma Yisroel ltho God is called Hakadosh God is called 1nN Yah Ekhad God is one God is holy The Divine is constant across every state and field ... The Divine is entirely beyond conventional limitations ... God is praised as Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh God is holy, holy, and holy. The Divine is manifest in a self-similar series of higher dimensions Paradoxically,however, God is also known as Yah Elohaynu Yah is Our God God is also known as Barukh Hu The continuing line says that niN:;t~il: iliJ:;J flijiJ 'J~ N'JQ Yah Tz'vaot M'lo Kol Ha-aretz K'vodo Blessed be He I She The God of many things, Its glory fills the entire world That the Divine is in the process of interfacing with the conventional world. That this very dimension has all that we need to fully appreciate every aspect of the wonder of the whole. ~gg~s Somehow, identification with God and a kin relationship is possible for humans.