JEWS AS GODLY

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I wanted to compile quotes and sources where Jews refer to themselves as Gods or the very essence of God. If you have any to add, please feel free.

The Psalms 82:
6 I have said, Ye are gods; Joh. 10.34 and all of you are children of the Most High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations

''Hitting a Jew is the same as hitting God"  - Sanhedrin 58b.

Since God already gave the Torah to the Jewish people on Mt. Sinai we no longer pay attention to heavenly voices. God must submit to the decisions of a majority vote of the rabbis."  — BT Bava Metzia 59b

"According to Jewish belief, the Jewish People constitutes a species of their its own...i.e., a special, separate act of Creation by the Almighty. 'The thought of creating the Jewish People preceded every other thought' of the Almighty when creating the Universe according to the teaching of Rabbi Samuel bar Isaac."
(Bereshith Rabba 1,5)

"The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created."(Nomades, Kadmi Cohen, (1929).