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I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior. Let those words be heard in the halls of Dallas Theological Seminary. Let people scream them in the halls of the Vatican.
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This is a very interesting uh video um which attacks the rabbis for changing the words of the Bible so that uh we could remove the doctrine of the trinity from the very Torah itself. What if history has been rewritten not by removing books but by changing just a single word? A word so powerful that its true meaning could confirm Jesus as the Messiah. A word that if left untouched would shatter arguments against Christianity. And yet most people, including many Jews today, have no idea that this change ever happened.
This isn't just a minor translation issue. This is deliberate. The word was altered, its meaning redefined, all to suppress the truth about Jesus. The interesting thing is that the change wasn't just one word. It was two, and both of them strike at the very core of who Jesus is. Let us begin with the first one. Echad changed to yachid.
You've probably heard the famous Jewish prayer, the Shama. "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one." (Deuteronomy 6:4). Pay attention to the word "one." In the original Hebrew text, the word "one" was written as echad. But echad doesn't mean a singular, indivisible unit. It means a unified one, a compound unity. We see this in Genesis 2:24, which says, "the two shall become one flesh." So two people, husband and wife, become one, but they're still distinct persons.
But in the 12th century, a Jewish philosopher named Moses Maimonides rewrote Jewish theology. In his 13 principles of faith, he declared that God is not just one, but yachid, an absolute singularity. Maimonides wasn't just writing theology. He was rewriting history to push back against Christian beliefs.
This is called artificial intelligence. While it it is artificial, there's very little intelligence here. In fact, this is a everything about this is specious. Everything about this is wrong. Um, it's so it's one of those things where you just don't know where to begin.
So, what the video is stating, the Torah says famously in Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 4, "Hear, O Israel, Lord is a God, Lord is one." And Maimonides changed it in his 13 principles of faith to yachid in the second principle. And yachid, this artificial, the AI doesn't even pronounce the words right. Um, he ch somehow changed to Yahid, which the video insists means "alone, one alone." And brings an example from uh Genesis where God says that um, he created Eve, the woman, and they became as one flesh. So this is where do you begin with this?
So the number one and the word alone are very different words. The word the number one is a noun. Now he's arguing, or it's arguing, that means alone, which would be an adjective. So they're two entirely different words, but this is a complete lie. The word echad simply means one. And the context, like in the English language, always determines whether it's one, a unity, an absolute unity of being, or one, a compound unity. It just the same way works the same way in the English language.
Now the the scam, there's so many scams here. It's hard to know where to begin. And if I don't be in the place you would like, forgive me. So the scam here, the shovel here, the prop here, the smoke and mirrors here is that uh the word echad, depending on the context, could mean "one" and "one alone." And as an example, uh Deuteronomy chapter, not chapter 6, but chapter 17:6, uh the Torah says that the context is tors, the prohibition of idolatry, and on what testimony could someone be put to death. So the Torah says, "According to the testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses, can someone be executed? However, you may not be one may not be put to death on the testimony of one." It's the exact same word.
So the the beginning of this scam, see, like it's like watching YouTube and how magicians do the tricks, and then when you hear it, you go, "Oh." So it just depends on the context. So if we're told that God is one, so there's nothing in the context that would tell us this is a compound unity. So what they did was it just simply, it's all smoke and mirrors. Um, the the the proper term to use if you want to say that God is alone would not be, could mean alone, but it also could convey, it's not a word that very clearly identifies its precise meaning, and we'll see that in a moment, but could mean, as an example, something that's special. When God called Abraham in Genesis 22 to "take your son, your only son." But as it turns out, I can only imagine if the word yachid was used in in Deuteronomy 6, they go, "But as it turns out, Isaac wasn't Abraham's only son." So goes on that you love and so on. So that would not be the way to say alone. The proper way is in fact in Genesis 2:18 says about the first Adam, "it is not good for Adam to be." It doesn't say, but it says, which means alone, and then it says, "I will make a helpmate for him." That's how that word uniquely conveys alone. And surprise, in that's how God is described. "You alone are Lord." (Chapter 9:6). See Isaiah chapter 37, "Hashem alone." So there the term is alone, meaning using an adjective. That's how you would say it.
Moreover, now we'll go to Maimonides. The most famous expression of what one must believe in order to be a believer Jew or gentile uh is articulated by Maimonides, and it's articulated in his commentary on the Mishna on Shraate Sanhedrin. This video is so wrong and so stupid, and I don't normally say that. It's really so dumb because Maimonides didn't write the 13 principles of faith as we see it as it appears in a prayer book. Many people, myself included, say um, Maimonides, recite Maimonides' 13 principles of faith daily. That's a common practice. And Maimon's commentary on the Mishna is written in Arabic. It's not written in Hebrew. It's written in what's called a Judeo-Arabic, which means written in Arabic, but using Hebrew characters, Hebrew letters. And this is uh would be like the equivalent of Yiddish, which is like, I don't know the exact, but like, let's say 85% German, but it's using Hebrew characters. So, as it turns out, this thing is so wrong because Maimonides wrote this. He wrote this in Arabic, in Judeo-Arabic. So, there's it's um, Hebrew characters. He's not using these words. This is so misleading.
Moreover, so it was rewritten in Hebrew in the form that we have it, that most people are very familiar with who recited in the synagogue. There's even a a song, a Yigdal, that people recite in the synagogue uh which enumerates all the 13 principles, core principles of faith. If someone denies any of these 13 principles, and that person is regarded as a heretic and no place in the world to come. So what's coming under attack is the second of these 13 principles. The first principle is, "I believe that I believe with perfect faith that uh that the creator, blessed be his holy name, that he created and guides all creation." So right away, it's using the word, the biblical term, not that word, and "he alone created, creates, and and will create all things." Obviously, Jews around the world did not understand Arabic. Jews in the in the in the Middle East, in North Africa, they would have spoken Arabic. In Arabian Peninsula, they would have spoken Arabic and understood it. Jews of other parts of the world would understand Hebrew. So it's was rewritten in a way that was also liturgical. And you'll see here that the rewrite is davo, is deliberately articulated to attack uh the word y meaning, and maybe I've overstated that. I want to rephrase that to italicize that the word is inadequate to convey the oneness of God because in Tanakh, God is one alone, and there is no oneness or alone-ness as God. Nothing is that's very, very critical. So is not enough. It's a absolute unity of being. Here's a Second principle of faith: "I believe of perfect faith that the creator, blessed be his name." Okay. So there's that word. "He is alone." But that word is not adequate. And that's why look at the next words: "And there is no other like him." Means completely and absolutely utterly. That's what it really is conveying. So the actual phrase is saying that everything else that we see that there's one, we we can now say um that there's one water molecule, but it's really made up of of three atoms. No, that every other thing that's in the world, nothing is as alone as God.
Now look at the next words. Elohu, and he, there's the word. This stupid AI thing leaves it out. It says, "He alone is our God." So immediately after abandoning the word Yid, use the word lvado, which is a clear, unambiguous way to say alone. That's there's your adjective. So it's mind-blowing that this charge we made that Maimonides, Maimonides was born, I believe in 1135, he passed away in the winter of 1204. He would make, he never even wrote this. And the, we'll call it the translation, it's not really an exact translation, but we'll just say the Hebrew translation is deliberately saying that yachid is not enough. "There is no like him." And therefore, that word is enough. "He alone."
Moreover, when we look at Tanakh, what do we find? We find that is there an idea that's conveyed with more clarity that God is alone and there is no one besides him? Isaiah chapter 46:9, "There is no one like me. You are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "my servant whom I have um chosen so that you may know, believe, and understand that I am Lord. Besides, there was no God formed before me, neither will there be one after me. Verse 11, I, even I, am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior." Let those words be heard in the halls of Dallas Theological Seminary. Let people scream them in the halls of the Vatican. Let the classrooms of Moody Bible Institute be filled with these words. Deuteronomy chapter 4, that there is there is no one besides Hashem. Nothing else. No one that I share my glory with. No one.
There's there's no, and I I want people to understand. People ask me, have sometimes of why does the Torah and the prophets, why does it keep repeating this so much, and why is it so important? Listen up. Why is it so critical that we know that God is one, and why are you repeating it over and over again? Is this a numerate issue? Is this just stating that God is one? Why is a person denies the oneness of Hashem, then that person has no connection to God? Why? Why? And we also intuitively grasp that if someone, heaven forbid, believes in four gods or eight gods or anything like that, then it doesn't matter anymore. We all know intuitively. It's we're hardwired to understand that if if it's two gods or 20 gods, then it it doesn't matter anymore. It only matters one. Or why, why is this so critical? Because if God is one, meaning oneness of being, oneness of persons, that means there's only one, these individ, and there's no alone-ness like him. It brings us to the question of then why did God create the universe? Why did he do this? Means that means God is completely omniscient, omnipotent. He's all-knowing. He's all-powerful. He's immutable. He's eternal. He has no beginning. He has no end. Which comes across here. So why did he create the universe? Before creation, it was just him alone. Whatever that means, but it was him alone. There is nothing therefore that his creation would possess that he didn't possess already. There's nothing you have. If God is one alone, there is nothing that you possess that God requires that he lacks. And therefore, the world could have only be created out of a complete act of love. So his oneness, his absolute unity tells us about the nature of Hashem. And that's why when the absolute radical monotheism, that's not henotheism, but monotheism, that God alone is God, there's nothing else, no one else. When you tamper with that, as the church did, it then tampers with the nature of God. Like if there's one God and one God alone, that means he's all love, and there's nothing he cannot do. And if you confess your sin, renounce your sin, and a ask for forgiveness, then God's mercy is infinite, and he can forgive you with just that act. There's nothing restraining him. Follow.
Conversely, if you believe not just in the Trinity, and I'm going to upset some Unitarians here, but if you even believe in a christology that we find in the Christian Bible where Jesus is already Lord, he's not the Christian authors of the New Testament didn't believe in the Trinity, but he certainly, he he is elevated in the Christian Bible of as something worthy of worship of sorts. So then in the Christian Bible, you can't do that. So there is one God and one mediator between God and man, that's the man Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5). You you need something to die for you in order for God to forgive. But why do I need something? Why can't God forgive me? Because we've already tampered with the whole deal. None of us would ever think of worshiping Isaiah. All of us, I am sure, await the day when we'll see Daniel in the resurrection. Every one of us will be shaking when we see the prophet Samuel and Jeremiah in the resurrection. Please God, may it be soon. I think about this often. What would it be like to meet Abraham and Sarah? We'd be trembling, be shaking. However, none of us would dream of praying to them or thinking that I need Isaiah to intercede in order for God to forgive me. We would just be enraptured by encountering the greatest men and women that ever lived.
To wrap this all up, what this person take, whoever created this, took it from some dumb book out there of why you should believe in Christianity and how the Jews invidiously uh changed the text in order to hide the doctrine trinity. Nothing uh could be more silly. Lied about the authorship of the 13 principles of faith. Lied. I I'm saying lied, but I'll say that these people are so ignorant. They, the even the AI thing couldn't even pronounce the words correctly, but they get it from people lie about this. The way you would say alone is the way the Bible says it in chapter 9:6, livad. That's how you would say alone, which is in Tanakh, which is in Isaiah 37, which is in 2 Kings chapter 19, that God is alone. That's how yachid is a tricky word because it can mean special, unique. If you chain a little yak, it can actually mean together. It would be a terrible idea to employ that. And that's why the 13 principles of faith as we have it actually goes, there's no uh yachid like God. So the word yachid is is inadequate. Just the opposite. This is what happens with our enemies. Our enemies accuses of something of exactly a thing that they do.
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