Why Did G-d Create the World? - Living on Purpose - Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

[Music] rabbis inspirational speakers psychologists almost invariably will tell you that the goal of life is to become great they'll tell you that the goal life is to manifest your potential to become the best you can be but the question is why what's the underlying purpose of becoming great what's the underlying purpose of fulfilling your purpose it's a question which should really strike us as fundamental why is the purpose of life it's the purpose of life is to become great why is that the purpose second question is that many people have a philosophical question if Hashem is really so perfect how can he create such an imperfect world a world with poverty in disease and natural disasters why is the world so full of chaos and imperfection and last but not least why is life so difficult why are we faced with so many challenges and obstacles if the purpose of our life is to become great why's it so hard so those are the starting questions now there are a couple important prerequisites prerequisite number one is that when we talk about Hashem we are only talking about the way that we perceive Hashem we're not talking about objective reality because we can't understand objective reality we can only understand how shun based on how he appears to us like you can't understand you a cave of K Hashem himself you can tell him how I should expresses himself into this world number two is that when we talk about why I shall created the world we're not saying that this is why Hashem had to create the world Aristotle famously said that the nature of guys he has to create the world so we believe in rats on that the rotten hmm chose to create the world so there are now the Vilna Gaon they always say in the morale and there are bond that Hashem chose to create the world which is one of the most fundamental starting points before we have this discussion there are Mao and the Rambam explain ourselves there I'm how mentions and asked who knows in there Hashem in the beginning of missiles showing him in great depth and he is not as well as many others explain us Hashem is absolute and ultimate goodness now sham is awesome more than absolute goodness but the way that we perceive Hashem is that he's absolute goodness but there's two aspects of being absolute goodness no but one is that he is absolute good but the other is that Hashem can also do good unto others not only be good but to do good so I shouldn't trust an actual a potentiality when he created the world and he chose to do good unto others and what would be the ultimate good to give unto someone else if ashram is the ultimate good the ultimate good he can give is himself so Hashem allowed for there to be an opportunity for other than him to experience Hashem for other than him for let's say other Mauritian to experience the ultimate goodness and oneness of Hashem which is if you think about it to be all-knowing all kind all-powerful to have complete self control to be godly so in other words Hashem created that which is other than him to experience godliness to experience perfection now the question is and this is the ultimate question why didn't Hashem created in Olam haba who eat us you know a realm of reality where we can experience that perfection where we can experience Hashem now remember we're talking about to almost be in a oneness relationship to be have the ultimate connection with Hashem that's why the relationship between klystron Hashem has always referred to as marriage as as oneness that's why when we talk about my Torah Kleist or marry Hashem that her Sina was the hope of it that we were literally we marry Hashem that it's East miss Ryan was Arison and matter was the Hopa so when we talk about the marriage that we have with Hashem why Hashem created us that way why he creates in Omaha why he creates in the world where we have to build it where you have to use freewill we have to choose it where it's hard and difficult where so many people aren't living spiritual lives where you laughter choose to be one of the rare individuals that lives life on a higher plane that maximizes their potential that has developed in their mind in their needles that is making the most of their life why is it so hard so there are mile explains that the reason why it's so hard is because it's the term of the you shall need the bread of embarrassment rush em they don't want to give it to us for free because if it was for free then it would be embarrassing a poor person gets handouts it's embarrassing he didn't earn it so I shouldn't want it to be that we can earn our own haba and this is the famous answer now an angel has that concept of perfection he never earned his perfection he didn't choose it he and build it he was created that way so instead of Hashem creating us as Malcolm the ultimate perfection would be to be a human being to be able to choose your perfection to build your godliness to become godly however there is another fundamental problem with this why do you - create us in a way that we aren't embarrassed of getting free handouts remember that it's a circular answer if the whole reason Hashem created us was so that we can enjoy the fact that we chose that we earned our perfection we earned our godliness why not create us in a way that we can enjoy godliness for free as a gift as a mala why do we have to come into this world to choose it and build an Internet and the answer is understand the concept of oneness the concept of marriage the concept of a relationship the concept of connection remember own hobby isn't just getting gifts it's being an absolute existential connection oneness with Hashem experiencing a sham you can only have a oneness relationship with something that is like you you can't marry Iraq there's a reason humans Oh marry rocks is because rocks have nothing to do with human beings they're completely different if Hashem created us in a way that we receive perfection for free without choosing it without building without earning it we would be the complete opposite of a Shannon and with it would not be the ultimate connection it would not be the alternate oneness Hashem would be the creator we will be the created Hashem would have perfection no one gave him his perfection we would have been given our perfection for free Hashem would have freewill and we would be forced hashem would be the creator we'd be the crate a sham would be the giver we would be the taker so instead has sham Chris and that we can literally become godly we can become selam aleykum we have the potential thefts all around him but our job in this world is to become godly we can become that the creators of ourselves we can become all giving we can become knowing we can manifest our free will and we can become like a Shem and that's really why it the difference between Hashem and us is a hash time is perfect that Shem is godly and we have to choose to become godly Hashem is good Hashem is the ultimate good we have to choose to become good we have to use our free will to manifest our potential to become godly and that's why I shall create us an imperfect world he created us in a world with with a lot of challenges with the world's not perfect coz we have to choose to become perfect we have to use our free will in a world where we don't see how Sheng we have to choose this yasha it has to be difficult cuz we have to earn it and build it ourselves and this is also why we live in a world of time in a world of movement of process because our goal in life is to become godly it's not to be godly that's Hashem is perfect our job is to become perfect the constantly become more and more to grow more and more to learn more more to manifest more and more of our potential and this is why the purpose of life is to become great it's not just to become great for the sake of Ingrid it's to become our perfect cells to become godly that is why I'm created us and this is also why we have so many challenges there are bound explains that the purpose of a challenge is to help you manifest your potential Hashem didn't give our own challenges so that he can see whether or not a dream could become perfect shrim gave out of challenge so that our forum could manifest and actualize his potential and this is what Olam haba is Olam haba is the result of everything we built in this world everything we do and don't build in this world we get to become in Olam haba you get to exist as everything that you created in this world and the problem is that people think they'll live forever but time is dying and the question we have to ask ourselves is what are we extracting from time are we becoming the people we are meant to become because if you think about your memories your memories are all of your past that you have actualized is everything you are as everything you've become and the question is what are you going to do with the rest of the time you have left because we only have a limited amount of time in this world to become the best people we can be and the question is what are you doing with the time that you have left [Music] [Applause]