A Jealous God Who Rules Jealousy and Never Slumbers

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 287:3

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"For I the LORD your God am a jealous God" (Exodus 20:5). Am I then a God of jealousy? I rule over jealousy, and jealousy does not rule over Me. I rule over slumber, and slumber does not rule over Me. And so it says, "behold, He who guards Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps" (Psalms 121:4).

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MonotheismProvidence

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