{"id":44490,"date":"2017-09-18T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=44490"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:50:06","slug":"state-god-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/state-god-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the State of God in Our World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harav Amital zt&#8221;l would always speak on first day of Rosh Hashana about the presence of God in the modern world and whether it had been a good year or a bad year for His presence. This shiur is in his memory. 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