With our first encounter with Rashi as second graders in a haredi heder, we are taught that God’s two names יהו-ה (ADONAI) and אלהים (ELOHIM) refer to the Almighty’s alternating manifestations as a ...

Although there is some question about whether echad means one or “alone,” the import is quite clear: Adonai* and Adonai only is the people of Israel’s God. This is Judaism’s quintessential statement ...