G-d Created the Entire World for YOU — Here's Why - Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Hi, this is David Alowski with that question and answer series where in a few moments, few minutes, sometimes an hour or two, I answer short questions that I can for our listeners. And our good friend, my personal friend, friend of the show, Yo Schmemell writes, "How does one fix or build self-esteem according to the Torah?" This is so so important. Yeah, there is a gamarra in a few different places that says the same thing. A person is obligated to say the entire universe was created for me. I am the most important person in the universe. Now come on. When I was a kid, I was, you know, already bar mitzvah and in America there was Mosha Feinstein, Yakov Kamki, Rev Rudman, Rev Hutna, uh, Rev Gifa, Rev Lewitz, you know, all these Gdali Torah, I'm the most important person. Yes, because of a very deep philosophical work uh that was uh written by Dr. called Horus Hears a Who and there's this little place called Whoville and only Horus can hear it cuz he has such good hearing and he tells them you have to make enough noise so everyone hears you or they're going to destroy Hoot Town cuz it's on a little dandelion. They're going to throw it in the fire and everyone's making noise and they can't hear him and there's one last little who and his voice when he finally adds it in gets loud enough that they can hear it. And so you may not be the loudest guy, but your voice is the deciding voice. You know, it's it's uh I see people they say like, you know, ah what does it make? Why should I bother voting in election? I live in New York, you know, it's Democrat. They're always going to go Democrat. Yeah. And then you read the next morning, you know, he lost by one vote. [laughter] Listen, sometimes it comes down to one vote. The Declaration of Independence was finally ratified because even though Pennsylvania, one of the main people there didn't want to vote for it, there was a split. Benjamin Franklin wanted it, the other fellow did not. [snorts] And uh this third person he cast the deci deciding vote and he said if I if I vote for it doesn't make a difference right because I've joined with everybody if I vote against it I'll be the person who stopped the United States of America from coming into existence one vote so means that I am the single most important person in creation and therefore what I do makes a difference and the Yates does not want to get you to sin. He's very busy. He's the busiest Malik around. The Gmorra says he's the Yates. He's the sat and he's the Malik. He's busy. So what he wants to do is make you believe that you don't make a difference. If I don't make a difference, who cares if I make a bra? Who cares if I dab? You think my makes healthy? Yeah, yila heals the sick and gives children to the childless and gives parnosa to poor people, you know, and stops those bullets and those bombs and those missiles. Those are your feelers. But the the yar wants to make you feel like you don't matter. And so the secret is understanding. Salum elo kim tell you a story. Um I was teaching in discovery in the summer. So they wanted to round up support. So they sent the speakers into town at night to give like lectures to like interest people and they'd have us speak about you know men women relationships things that hopefully would attract that kind of a crowd who was drunk in Kikion at night. So uh in the middle of the show some guy says who did Cain marry? Now this is an interesting concept because if you look just in the text there was only Adam and Eve and Cain and so you might think that Cain slept with his mother right that's how some people want to present it who did Cain marry and I said it says that he was born with a twin sister he married his sister says isn't that incest and I said yes and I said for the record definitely incest to sleep with your sister he goes then why did God choose to populate ate the world through incest. I said cuz his other choice was to make 25 men and 25 women and then every one of them could say if I died it makes no difference. He would rather populate the world through incest and create one person so every person can say that's me. I am the I'm the most important person in creation. The entire universe was worth being created for me. That is how you build self-esteem. This is Davidski with our question and answer