Finding the Divine in the Hidden - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

Life begins with us. On the first day of life, God was here in a revealed way. And it's the connection that that existed on the first day of life. It was very clear to Adam and Eve in the very beginning [music] that life meant a life where we're here and God is here. And that's real life. Today, that reality is hidden from us on at least in the in a way to feel it and the way to actually see it. But that doesn't mean that that reality changed. Reality is and life really is a life that's us in God's world together. [music] That's real life. But things block that from us. Things confuse [music] us. Things cause us to feel at least from our perspective distant from Hashem. The truth is Hashem never really goes anywhere. [music] The real question is where are we? Not where is Hashem. Hashem >> [music] >> is hiding, sure, on one level, but he's here to be found when you look. And if you don't find when you look, so you're supposed to look a little bit harder. And so God is here. He never left. But he is hiding, which creates a challenge for us. >> [music] >> If you work to find him, you will. And if you don't work to find him, then you'll go through life >> [music] >> thinking that he's not here and miss out on all what you can gain from realizing that this is not a world that that God left. [music] It's a world that God put into our hands to see what we will do when he hides.