Peace Thru Dialogue Pt 1

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Assalamu aliekum wa rahmatullah wa barakhatu. May the peace, mercy and blessings of God be on you.
Insha'Allah this is the first video in my "Peace through Dialogue" series where I will discuss with Jewish youtube user omedyashar various issues and points of misunderstanding between Jews and Muslims in the hopes of increasing mutual understanding and clearing some misconceptions both sides may hold about the other. I want to personally thank Yusuf for agreeing to this dialogue. We have always maintained a public attitude of respect for each other, which was one of the reasons I chose to ask you to participate in this dialogue. The other major reason was that I highly respect your knowledge of Judaism, and hope you will continue to share it with the Muslim community, which already tends to respect you.
Without further distraction, I'd like to jump to this video's topic. One of the most critical components of both Judaism and Islam is belief in One God. In Islam, one of the simplest explanations of the nature of God is found in Surah Ikhlas, which was quoted in part earlier in this video. The opening verse is "Qul hu Allah hu ahhad"--Say He is Allah, the One. This is a declaration of the absolute unity of God, and the denial that He has any partners or opposites, as Ahhad also means "unique". The next verse says, "Allahu sommad." This verse means that God is independent of everything, and that everything depends on Him. The third verse states "Lam yalid wa lam yoolad": He does not beget, nor was He begotten. Verse four reads "Walam yakud lahu kuffuwan ahhadu": There is none like unto Him.
We also believe that God cannot be described using terms indicating time and space, as He is outside both. We believe God cannot be visualized or bound to a physical form. We believe Him to be transcendental. We believe God is eternal, without beginning or end. We believe He had no "need" to create the universe, and that it added nothing to Him because He existed with His attributes before time.
We do not believe God has a gender. In the Arabic language, the word Allah cannot be pluralized (as gods or elohim), nor can it be feminized (as goddess.
One of the things we as Muslims believe that God does not do is repent. We believe repentance denotes a need for forgiveness, and also demonstrates that there is one to receive the repentance. The Torah appears to say in several places that God repents.
Genesis 6:6 reads, "And it repented the LORD that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart." Does this verse imply that the creation of man was a sin? Also, why did it grieve God? To what extent are the actions of man beyond the control of God in Judaism?
A similar verse is Exodus 32:14" "And the LORD repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people." Does this verse imply that God can plan to do evil or sin, and later repent of that evil?
Another question I'd like to ask, which is similar to the former, is: Do Jews believe God to be omniscient? In Genesis 3:9 we read "And the LORD God called unto the man [Adam], and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'" Why does God need to ask where Adam was?
In conclusion, although the Jewish concept of God appeals to the monotheistic mind, the Jewish scriptures appear to present God as less than perfect and with what we might perceive as major flaws. I look forward to hearing your understanding of these verses and discussing the questions you will bring about Islam.