Beauty Is Overrated - Jewish Lessons From The Alps

I'm standing here in the Alps and looking at this view. It's almost impossible not to quote one of the most famous inim and that is masakashim. But there's something about that puk that always bother me. Dalik is surrounded by one of the most beautiful chapters in all of Tanakh. He's talking about towering mountains [music] and roaring oceans and majestic cedars and lions and birds in the heavens. And then he bursts out, how many are your creations? Which is strange. Like that's the adjective you choose. Not how beautiful are your creations, not how breathtaking are your creations, just how many are your creations. Shouldn't you say like how majestic? It seems almost anticlimactic. [music] But maybe that's exactly the point because beauty is selective. One person [music] stands in front of these mountains and is speechless. Another person couldn't care less. Some people love waterfalls. Other people have no patience for waterfalls. Some people love oceans. Others love flowers. Beauty depends on who's looking. That's why David wasn't overwhelmed by beauty. He was overwhelmed by wisdom. [music] That's why the very next words are every single one of them you made with wisdom. David wasn't saying look how pretty this mountain is. He was saying, "Look how impossible it [music] is to find anything in this world that isn't carrying the fingerprint of Hashem's wisdom. A [music] mountain, a mosquito, a whale, a tree, a flower, a snowflake, a galaxy, a blade of grass. They're all different. They're all brilliant. [music] They're all saying something about their creator. Maybe that's why he says Marabu. Not only because the world is full of beautiful things, but because the world is overflowing with divine ideas. [music] Everywhere you look, another one. And another one. And another one, that's not just a beautiful [music] world. That's a world bursting with the wisdom of Hashem. I've spent the last 2 weeks filming mountains, oceans, lakes, castles, forests, waterfalls, vineyards, [music] and every place keeps teaching me the exact same lesson. They're all different, but they're all saying the same thing. The scenery keeps [music] changing, but Hashem's signature does not.