The Monkey & I - Rabbi Yaron Reuven

[Music] now seven nights Leah there is a growing epidemic today that is really destroying not only many innocent souls within our nation I'm Israel but also around the world that's called atheism people are constantly looking for reasons of how to go against God by disproving him now the scientific world constantly rediscovers the wheel they redo things and they proved that the previous scientists were wrong even though at the time they proved what they proved everyone thought it was fact but then we realized that fact in theory at two different worlds theory in so many words by definition means an educated guess it does not mean fact as much as people like to make it seem like it's fact it's not and when you argue it they usually raise their voices because that's the sign of weakness but nonetheless the scientific world is constantly try to disprove God now the question is why why do we want to disprove God why don't we want to say that we came from monkeys or we came from I don't know lizard so fish or whatever there was one time a guy in a plane scientist professor successful had lots of money lots of power lots of everything and I had a son that every five minutes would ask him something about can I have drink okay about can have something to eat okay about can I get a blanket okay about can I disc about can i this aback a night every five minutes the whole flight he's asking for something love coming it's key was actually sitting also with his son of community was also sitting with a son close and every five minutes his son says other do you need this or do you want a drink other do you want this I would you want a blanket or do you want to eat above this Abbas but other do you need now the professor was eating his heart out the whole flight how could it be the me professor University Harvard Bingham whatever-whatever university is in i'm running the place where my son is a little monkey keeps asking for stuff turned me into his pet and this rabbi maybe he makes 500 bucks a week his son is serving and with joy how could it be you eating his heart out at the end of the flight he says listen rabbi I have to give it to you you've trained your son well because what do you mean look the hole played all right I'm watching it my son is asking for stuff your son is giving you it just doesn't make any sense how did you do it he says no no pursued it's not it's not that I trained him it's that there's a difference you told your son that we all came from monkeys and your son believes you because you're his father every son believed his father so your son says that you know what Saba if we came from monkeys that means that you are closer to the monkey than I am which means that I'm more advanced than you therefore you should serve me we on the other hand believe in Hashem we believe in God and we believe that God created men and then man was the top creation mama made from the hands of a Shem and we've been going down lower and lower each and every generation unfortunately but nonetheless each generation that's passed us that's before us is closer to the original it's closer to Moshe Rabbeinu it's closer to Allah be akiva it's closer to Kurdish could it's causing a Mount Sinai therefore it's greater so my son he serves me because I'm closer I'm closer to the best your son thinks you're closer to a monkey so the reason why we have a generation of people that are dying to be monkeys dying to be monkeys why because if you tell somebody that God exists then that means I have to listen to what he says and if I have to listen to what he says that means I need to know what he says and if I need to know what he says that means have to spend time away from the things that are my desires away from baseball and football and and all the different desires that people have which means it's obligating me it's obligating me to change its obligating me to improve its obligating me to be not a monkey and that's what people don't want to do it so it has nothing to do with monkeys poor monkeys all has to do is with our yetzer our desires of how we don't know how to control ourselves and how we refuse to improve but that's also why the Torah began with the word beta-sheet Bereshit bara elokim at the shaman violets in the beginning in the beginning of creation a Shem created the heaven and the earth why did the same beginning the Ramban says the beginning means with wisdom with wisdom beginning means with wisdom if you use a little wisdom you understand that it's impossible for us to come from monkeys and the reason why is because simply put if there was just five steps between the monkey and us let's say there was five steps from the monkey and us for every single creation to be able to mutate that means it has to be self-sufficient that means it has to have the sustainability power it has to survive which means that at every given time from point A to point B C D and E a and B could exist at the same time for B to become see a still has to exist because it has its self-sustaining it's fine it's strong enough it can't just disappear because it has to have enough time to mutate which means for argument's sake that if the five step process actually was real we'd still have all the steps or at the very least at least a few of the middle all we have today is the monkey and the person that's trying to be a monkey stop being a monkey be a Jew [Music] you [Applause]