ספר דברים

An alternate way of understanding the words: ‎ה' אלוקינו‎, ‎loosely translated as “the Lord our G’d,” is that it is a fact that the ‎Jewish people possess the “power” to describe G’d as if He were ‎somehow restricted to the attributes which we choose to assign ‎to Him, as expressed by our sages when they formulated the ‎liturgy. However, this “power” will be universally recognized only ‎in a future era, and this is why Moses says: ‎שמע ישראל וגו'‏‎, which ‎‎Rashi already understands as something addressed to the ‎future when he says that the word: ‎ישראל‎ in our verse means that ‎as of the time when these words were spoken, G’d was “G’d only ‎amongst the Israelites,” whereas in the future He would be ‎recognized as such universally. This is basically what Rashi ‎meant when he spoke of the future, i.e. that the Israelites possess ‎the potential to bring about universal recognition of G’d as the ‎Creator and Owner of the universe, and all the consequences that ‎this recognition entails.‎