Dr. Marc Gafni

And then you have heretics.

You know, my my dear friend.

who you met briefly at a meeting at one point, someplace, somewhere, whose husband Harvey was the chairman of the physics department at the university in New Hampshire.

And Harvey, who passed, and I remember him and I can see him in my mind's eye well, he wasn't having any of the God thing.

He's like, I'm not having any of this.

And what he meant was he would say to me or say to Kathy, he would describe some caricature of God.

And he says, I'm not having that.

That's not God.

And he was right.

And it's almost like he made a contract with God in this lifetime.

You know, he probably subscribed to some version, I would always tell him, of the God that you don't believe in in some earlier lifetime, and he made a contract not to settle for a small God, right?

And, you know, Cook writes, he says, if you have a small imagination, you have a small God, and then you become a small person.

So that's a big deal.

I mean, so we have to really, so that's one.

That's one.

Right, right.

And that's one reading of the story.

And we do have scripture on this.

It appears in Exodus, right, and in Deuteronomy, in the two tellings of the Ten Commandments, and happens to be number two.

So, lo yelacha Elohim acharim alpana, you shall have no other gods in my face.