Halong Bay & The Secret of Creation: The Miracles All Around Us - Rabbi Hillel Eisenberg

[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, [Music] I am. [Music] Yeah. Hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. [Music] I'm standing here in Halang Bay, Vietnam. You can take a look around. And honestly, it's hard to believe this place is real. There's giant cliffs shooting out of the sea. There's thousands of islands scattered across the horizon. There's mist that wraps the whole bay. And it makes me stop and think, why did Hashem make the world like this? Why make it so breathtaking? Hashem could have made the world flat and simple and colorless, just an endless stretch of land, the same tree over and over again, same sky every day. It would have worked. Would have been functional, but bland. But he didn't do that. Instead, he made mountains that touch the heavens and oceans that never end and deserts and jungles and waterfalls and valleys and places that like this that leave you speechless. And why? Perhaps the answer is because the beauty is the message. Creation itself is the proof. Because it speaks to us through the natural world. The modern world thinks it has all the answers. Science claims to have cracked every code. They can send rockets to Mars, but they can't explain how a 200ft oak tree comes out of something as small as an acorn. Or they can build AI robots, but they still can't explain how a chicken produces an egg. The so-called anti-God world pretends it figured everything out. But the biggest mysteries, the most obvious miracles are right under their noses. It reminds me sort of of the story with Rib Shiman Schwab towards the end of his life. He came to a camp in a wheelchair and a kid with a little bit of walked up to him and said, "Rabbi, where is God?" And Ribwab didn't argue. He didn't open a safer. He didn't give a speech. He just bent down, pulled up one blade of grass, held it up, and said, "Right here. He's right here." And then he wheeled away. That's the whole answer. Hashem is right here. The world is alive with him. We think we don't have Naveim anymore. We don't see open miracles nowadays. But that's wrong. We do. They're called mountains and oceans and forests and blades of grass. Every single thing in creation is screaming, "There's a creator." That's why Hashem didn't make the world plain. That's why he gave us sunsets that stop us in our tracks and oceans that humble us in skies that make us feel small. He wanted us to see him not just in the Tyra, not just in the Bandish, not just in our history, but in the very world we walk through every single day. So standing here in Halong Bay surrounded by cliffs that look eternal and water that never stops moving. I can almost hear them shouting, "Look around you. Open your eyes. Hashem is right here. [Music]