The Nature of the Good
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The Nature of the Good

Wonders | June 27, 2025

Everything, even silver, has a point of gold, and even copper has a point of gold. How do we see this? When we add the words in both models together, we have “gold-good” (בב טוהז), “silver-pleasant” (ףסכּבערע), and “copper-useful” (ילעומת מושחנ), their sum comes to 1377, which is divisible by the value of “good”—everything is included in good. Specifically, 1377 is the product of “good” and 81, where 81 is the value of the exalted “I am” (יכונא), the first word of the Ten Commandments, and thus, everything together amounts to “I am” times “good,” or, alternately, “I am” times “nature” (עבט).

Which nature is this referring to? Earlier we mentioned that God’s intrinsic nature is good. So this product is “good” times “nature” referring to the Almighty’s essential good essence. He has no other designation besides being the essence of good. And “the nature of the good is to do good,” as in the verse, “God is good to all, and His compassion is over all His actions.”

Everything, even silver, has a point of gold, and even copper has a point of gold. How do we see this? When we add the words in both models together, we have “gold-good” (בב טוהז), “silver-pleasant” (ףסכּבערע), and “copper-useful” (ילעומת מושחנ), their sum comes to 1377, which is divisible by the value of “good”—everything is included in good. Specifically, 1377 is the product of “good” and 81, where 81 is the value of the exalted “I am” (יכונא), the first word of the Ten Commandments, and thus, everything together amounts to “I am” times “good,” or, alternately, “I am” times “nature” (עבט).

Which nature is this referring to? Earlier we mentioned that God’s intrinsic nature is good. So this product is “good” times “nature” referring to the Almighty’s essential good essence. He has no other designation besides being the essence of good. And “the nature of the good is to do good,” as in the verse, “God is good to all, and His compassion is over all His actions.”

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