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The noun containing the dagesh is the Hebrew word dai meaning "enough, sufficient, sufficiency". [28] This is the same word used in the Passover Haggadah, Dayeinu, which means "It would have been enough for us." The song Dayeinu celebrates the various miracles God performed while liberating the Israelites from Egyptian servitude. [29]
Omnipotent. Jews often describe God as omnipotent, and see that idea as rooted in the Hebrew Bible. [15] Some modern Jewish theologians have argued that God is not omnipotent, however, and have found many biblical and classical sources to support this view. [18] The traditional view is that God has the power to intervene in the world. Omnipresent
The general halachic opinion is that this only applies to the sacred Hebrew names of God, not to other euphemistic references; there is a dispute as to whether the word "God" in English or other languages may be erased or whether Jewish law and/or Jewish custom forbids doing so, directly or as a precautionary "fence" about the law.
The Hebrew words Shaddai (breasts) and Sabaoth (hosts) are wrongly translated as "God almighty" or "divine omnipotence". Pantokrator, the Greek word in the New Testament and Septuagint often translated in English as "almighty", actually means "all-holding" rather than almighty or omnipotent.
In Judaism, some of the Hebrew titles of God are considered holy names. Allāh (Arabic: الله) is the Arabic term with no plural used by Muslims and Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews meaning 'the God', while ʾilāh (إِلَٰه, plural `āliha آلِهَة) is the term used for a deity or a god in general.
God is redefined as the sum of natural powers or processes that allows mankind to gain self-fulfillment and moral improvement. The idea that God chose the Jewish people for any purpose, in any way, is "morally untenable", because anyone who has such beliefs "implies the superiority of the elect community and the rejection of others".
In the Abrahamic tradition, God is one, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and the creator of the universe. [1] God is typically referred to with masculine grammatical articles and pronouns only, [1] [12] and is further held to have the properties of holiness, justice, omnibenevolence, and omnipresence.
In the ancient Greek philosophical Hermetica, the ultimate reality is called by many names, such as God, Lord, Father, Mind , the Creator, the All, the One, etc. [1] However, peculiar to the Hermetic view of the divinity is that it is both the all (Greek: to pan) and the creator of the all: all created things pre-exist in God, [2] and God is ...