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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

... Teach me Your decrees. Let me understand the teaching of

Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.
(Psalms, 119:26-27)

Praise be to the Lord God... Who alone does marvelous
deeds. (Psalms, 72:18)

... He Who made the earth, the Lord Who formed it and es-
tablished it—the Lord is His name. (Jeremiah, 33:2)

He Who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals
His thoughts to man, He Who turns dawn to darkness, and
treads the high places of the earth—the Lord God Almighty
is His name. (Amos, 4:13)

He Who made the Pleiades and Orion, Who turns blackness

into dawn and darkens day into night, Who calls for the wa-
ters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land—
the Lord is His name. (Amos, 5:8)

... You forget the Lord your Maker, Who stretched out the heav-
ens and laid the foundations of the earth... (Isaiah, 51:13)

For this is what the Lord says -He Who created the heavens,

He is God; He Who fashioned and made the Earth, He
founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to
be inhabited- He says: "I am the Lord, and there is no other."
(Isaiah, 45:18)

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and
create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things. (Isaiah, 45:7)

Did not He Who made me in the womb make them? Did not
the same One form us both within our mothers? (Job, 31:15)

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