What is God?

(4) "Hear, O Israel! יהוה is our God, יהוה alone."

(4) “Listen Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.”

All the gods of the peoples are mere idols, but the LORD/YHVH made the heavens.

(11) Who is like You, O LORD, among the celestials;Who is like You, majestic in holiness,Awesome in splendor, working wonders!

(8) When the Most High gave nations their homes

And set the divisions of man,He fixed the boundaries of peoplesIn relation to Israel’s numbers. (9) For the LORD’s portion is His people,Jacob His own allotment.

"I wish to see God". Rabbi Yehoshua went and stood the emperor facing the [summer sun]. Rabbi Yehoshua said to him, "look at it". The emperor said to him, "I cannot".

Rabbi Yehoshua said to him:
Now, if with regard to the sun, which is only one of the servants that stand before the Holy One, Blessed be He, you say: I cannot look at it, is it not all the more so with regard to the Divine Presence?

A Gentile once asked R. Joshua b. Karhah: Why did the Holy One, Blessed be He, see fit to speak to Moses from within a thorn-bush? [R. Joshua retorted]: If it had been a carob tree or a sycamore tree, would you not have asked the same question. However to send you away you without any answer is not possible, [so] why from within a thorn-bush? To teach you that there is no empty place devoid of the Shechinah, not even a [lowly] thorn-bush.

(1) It is undoubtedly an innate idea that God must be perfect in every respect and cannot be deficient in anything.

(1) Now, if you obey the LORD your God, to observe faithfully all His commandments which I enjoin upon you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

(2) You alone have I singled out Of all the families of the earth— That is why I will call you to account For all your iniquities.

[R. Eliezer] went and said, “If the law is like me, from Heaven they will prove it”; a heavenly voice came out and said, “What have you with R. Eliezer, who the law is like him in every place?” R. Yehoshua stood on his feet and said “[The Torah] is not in heaven,” (Deuteronomy 30:12). What does "[The Torah] is not in heaven" mean? R. Yirmiyah said: “That the Torah was already given at Sinai, we do not pay attention to a heavenly voice, since You already wrote at Sinai in the Torah, “After the majority to incline,” (Exodus 23:2). R. Natan met the prophet Elijah and said to him, “What did the Holy One Blessed be He do in that hour?” He said to him: “He smiled and said, “My sons have defeated Me, My sons have defeated Me.”

(28) The righteous can look forward to joy, But the hope of the wicked is doomed.

(1) You will win, O LORD, if I make claim against You, Yet I shall present charges against You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are the workers of treachery at ease?

(15) Rabbi Yanai says: We don't have the ability to explain the success of the wicked or the suffering of the righteous.

(1) All Jews have a share in the World to Come, as it says, (Isaiah 60:21), “Thy people are all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.” These have no share in the World to Come: One who says that [the belief of] resurrection of the dead is not from the Torah, [one who says that] that the Torah is not from Heaven, and one who denigrates the Torah. Rabbi Akiva says: also one who reads outside books, and one who whispers [an incantation] over a wound, saying, (Exodus 15:26) “I will bring none of these diseases upon thee that I brought upon the Egyptians for I am the Lord that healeth thee.” Abba Shaul says, also one who utters the Divine Name as it is spelled.