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This Jewish Life - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

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The Ore With an Olive, That's What God Did

The alif, in a word, is is entirely internal. It's something that we cannot see, but it has to exist. We find in various zohars this idea that there was an ore that predated the world. Like the wybracious creation. That's what god did. The olive, so to speak, is why god did as why? Exactly. So the idea here is that alif represents an inner ruton, an inner will.

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