G-d's Veil of Nature - Rabbi Akiva Fox

my grandfather he invested a number of years ago in one of the gigantic aquariums in America one of these aquariums or they have you know they have penguins and and and killer whales and sharks and you walk into this glass tunnel that's basically completely glass you walk through and you're surrounded by sharks and you basically walk through this tunnel while you're completely submerged in a tank of sharks so he invested in this many years ago I always had this dream of walking into such a tank with a little hidden water gun and while you have all the lean or the line of people in front of you just give a little spritz and somebody's going to feel water dripping and that would make a lot of panic stampede and that's why I never did it but it was an interesting thought as a child to be able to have some fun I also thought about doing it in the Holland Tunnel and New York going to Manhattan when you go under the ocean to take like a little super soaker and get water to drip down from the ceiling I know I have a warped sense of humor sorry forgive me like I said rabbis are allowed to do this once in a while again anyway so my grandfather invested in this aquarium and he met the the staff that was going to put the aquarium in place and the scientists and the the technicians that were needed unlimited believable and they had a meeting and one of the things that they had to discuss was how at different times during the day and during the year they needed to control the temperature of the tanks for different fish and for different periods it had to be it sometimes I have to be a little bit colder sometimes a little bit warmer sometimes there had to be more salt some time that had to be less salt in this tank the salt water had to be at this level let's tank in this level because too much would kill this type of fish too little would kill this type of fish and my grandfather looked at the people around this table and we're talking about millionaires and scientists and technicians and everything and he said did you ever wonder who does this in the real world did you ever consider that there's so someone out there that has arranged the big tank or the big many tanks called the oceans of the world that this is all done by itself that the salt levels are perfect for each animal in their habitat and the and the cooling and the heating and somebody taught actually somebody taught the different mammals to travel across the world during winter so that they could get the heat that they needed because their body wouldn't be able to do well in the freezing cold and other animals wouldn't need to because they knew already that they could survive he said did you ever think who taught the world who put this system into play think about it if you've got an aquarium and there needs to be constant checking constant different amounts of different things constantly being put in to keep everything perfect and the world it's run and very much the same fashion just we have no idea that there's somebody controlling everything some people call it mother nature we don't believe in that there's no mother and she's definitely not natural there's father that's God Hashem Hashem is everything in nature is him interestingly the numerical value the gematria of the word hacked ever hot eva means nature is the same numerical value as hello Kim the name of God and the reason this is is because hidden meaning numerically hidden in nature is God God you can see him you can realize you can feel him through nature if a person is able to remove all the things that don't want him to see God and say when he sees this beautiful brilliant world this universe and how everything works together and now everything is set up perfectly this is called sing ello Kim seeing God in hot eva in nature this Avraham Avinu taught us he looked at the world and he saw that there were stars and he said where did the stars get their life from then he said well maybe it's from the moon and he said well wait a minute the moon can't be the main source for everything because it only comes out at night during the day it goes away so he can't be the main thing so maybe it's the Sun but it's not the Sun because the Sun goes away at night and only comes out during the day so where's the source for everything said of Rome avena and his answer was not long and coming the answer was a low king the answer was Hashem the answer is God if a person wants to believe the person wants to have faith then one of the things that he's told to do suggested to do is go out into the world study nature look at the brilliance look at the beauty look at the intricate systems and patterns that exist that the world goes around and the Sun and there's spring and winter and fall and summer and it works out perfectly and this animal or this creature or this being when it dies it goes back into the system and something else comes out this is something that I've rama beam was discovered and he helped us internalize than in order to come closer to faith to come closer to belief go out into the world see and seek God in nature that will help you assist you in discovering and uncovering the emunah that is so easy so tangible for us to connect you