Parshas Lech Lecha: Emunah From Nature or Torah - Which is Greater?

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buy the one on so then you've bought both that's the deal so that's also available the saer amas also coming up is Kana the light and the Splendor is also available okay we have a very important topic tonight a very interesting topic we're going to talk about the progenitor the patriarch of the Jewish people Abraham ainu and when AB ainu comes to the scene it should inspire you with great hope and great aspiration that this is our forefather AR rinu did not have an easy life AR rinu was childless for many years aru's own father tried to kill him aru sent he leaves his homeland he comes to Canan and as soon as he gets there there's famine there but nothing is daunting to Abu nothing slower slows him nothing tires him aminu is fearless there's a war of the Four Kings against the five Kings the Four Kings win aminu is not despondent he's not down he GDs himself and he on his own with one man attacks the Four Kings where did Abu gain his faith from who taught it to him did he have t was not given the tah the was not given until the year 2448 the med says where did get his he recognize God on his own there was no one who taught him he didn't go to he didn't go to he didn't go to Day School nobody taught this to he learned it on his own he got it on his own what does it mean he got it on his own where did he come up with this idea I mean in the society this was not a prevalent belief nobody believed in one God it was an idolatrous Society where did he get this from the ramb writes in that the god of the world nobody recognized him nobody knew him just a few individuals like shame a and the world continued to plummet until the pillar of the universe rose up and that is AB ainu and when Abu was weaned meaning when he was 3 years old he began to probe he was a young boy and he started to think day and night and he's looking you know the Earth it's rotating it's rotating and I know he remembered playing you know drel as a kid or a top and he knows that a top doesn't spin unless someone's standing on top and spinning it so is wondering you know who's who's spinning this Earth can spin on its own and who's making the Earth revolve around the sun you know who's making all of this happen and ab ainu on his own came to the realization that is the entire society that he lived in were a bunch of Fools and he's living in a society immersed in foolish practices including his own father and mother and he began to think until he realized the truth Tru that there's one God who controls the whole world and there's no power except for him and the world is living in erroneous mistake and the reason why they're living in error is because they have all these icons and all these statues and all these images so went around breaking the icons and breaking the statues and breaking the images and he began to teach that it's only worthwhile to serve the real God and aru convinced them and he was very persuasive until the king wanted to kill him and he ran away toan and he began to call out to the whole world and ab went from City to city and from Kingdom to Kingdom and he would byra bem and people would ask him questions andu would teach them says the ramu had tens of thousands of followers had tens of thousands of and he planted in them this great planting and this great foundation and this is called Ane base Abraham and he wrote books had 400 the explains you know like where where did AB get this from he's like self-taught yeah indeed this says that his two kidneys turned into two sages and they would impart wisdom to Abraham but the basic understanding of where Abraham got his amuna from is that he looked at the world he looked at the Earth he looked at the Sun and he asked himself who made this Fireball that is sending down all this energy to the Earth it could not have happened on its own who is spinning the Earth who is causing the earth to revolve around the Sun how is it that when I eat a piece of bread I it nourishes every cell in my body how did that process happen who orchestrated this aru looked at creation and from creation he recognized the Creator this was the ofu didn't have he didn't have the he didn't have the mar he didn't have the G he didn't have he didn't have aishu had no books aru had no to he saw God in Creation in factu observed the whole t how did he observe the whole T learned from a ant not to steal and he learned from a cat to be modest in other words what we learned last week about perir how every single element of creation teaches us a different character trait and a different Mida aru studied the sun he learned consistency from the sun he studied the ant he learned not to steal from the ant he studied every creature and he learned all good character traits from creation he didn't need the Tyra from the world he saw the Tyra he learned certain Halas from Blades of grass he learned certain Halas from flowers he C learned certain Halas from bears he learned other Halas from kangaroos he learned other things from digestion he learned other Halas from perspiration studied nature and he understood even the question is are we supposed to do that I understand we have to learn Tyra but do we also have to learn Tyra from the world in other words am I supposed to when I walk outside look at the Sun and the Moon and learn something from it or I could just ignore them but isn't that what you said last week or maybe that's why the animals were saved that's why they were maybe now that we have phones we could just look at the phone the whole day and we don't have to make we can make believe the sun doesn't exist well who needs a Sun when you have a stupid phone you could get everything there you could just scroll on stupid videos that people send you the whole day maybe that's what we're supposed to do with our lives maybe we should spend our whole lives looking at ridiculous emojis that people send after elections after all today's the day after election the main job today is to look at dumb things that people send you let's say you could you could to devote a good 9 hours to innan dancing images of the president elect because why should you no someone someone told me about it yeah because nine out of 10 guys right here sent it to me so does the Sun have any meaning anymore are you supposed to look at the sun are you supposed to look at the moon are you supposed to look at the stars or they're irrelevant event all we need is well it's interesting thek says lift up your eyes and see who created this he takes out by count their hosts in other words AI is saying even though the T was given you have to look at the Sun and the Moon and ask yourself who created these who needs that I have the the T the T says everything I need to know no the Nai says you have to look at the sky interesting you know in we say in where did he come to recognize hem he says how powerful you are that you give your majesty in the heavens when I look at your Heavens the work of your finger your the moon and the stars I say I gain humility what was looking at the stars why didn't he just learn humility from there's a whole Su about humility no it's not enough to learn you also have to learn from nature do you do you actually have to meaning let's say I'm walking in the street and I could just like look at another dumb thing someone sent me or I could I know when I'm in the B Med I have to learn but when I'm outside are there things I have to learn or no the navi doesn't really mean it the na'vi was not really written seriously maybe when the navi says I should do it it doesn't mean I should do it and it's not important to listen to what the navi says so we have to understand what exactly is the role of our responsibility to learn from the Bria now that the Torah is given by the way the says that says you don't fear me you don't quake in front of me so if I was writing this I was say you don't fear me I wrote in the T if you don't listen to the mitz I'm going to kill you that's not what says the says you don't fear me don't you see that this Mighty ocean I made a boundary with it with sand do you see the of that the ocean will never go beyond the sand it Quakes can't go the the the waves are moaning and it will never pass over other words says how do you not have sh when you see the ocean not be able to go beyond the seashore understand what happened to what the T says to be afraid of punishment clearly we see in yesah we see in tahim we see in y that there's a certain responsibility that a Jew has to look at nature and to learn amuna it says look at the stars and ask yourself who made this look at the vastness of the universe and feel humility look at the wisdom of the seashore and learn fear of God was that only before the Torah was given does that not apply anymore so there's a commentary to parak Shira by La who says that we learn from here the importance of learning parak not saying it there's no value in saying it if you're a cut it out with the zugg of paraka the value is learning it understanding it understanding what we could gain from the Bria because we see throughout the N that it's a basic expectation that we have to have to learn certain value from the Bri we have to learn certain types of behavior the greatness of the greatness of the Creator says the saer look at number nine this is the way thatu recognized Hashem you know we said thatu was M the whole T before it was given every single in was m where did he get it from even he didn't and he didn't bring a phone into the B he saw in nature that it's a basic violation of human decency and to go into the house of every you could imagineu recognized it from creation not only that you know what did the other Place do for a living what did they do they sold used cars life insurance what did they do nursing homes what did what did the a do for a living they were jewi doctors lawyers what did they do the O were shepherds why were they Shepherds that's like the most boring job I can imag you would you want to be a Shepherd so the kram says of course they were shepherds because where did they learn their values from studying nature they couldn't be in business they couldn't be in any other for line of work other than being out in nature and pondering the different facets of creation that's why they were all Shepherds Abraham y even mosu when did Hashem appear to mha only when he was shepherding his sheep the great Revelation when he was shepherding his sheep what was he doing when he sheering his sheep he was listening to the Sheep say ba what what what what noise are the sh you know they say ba so what was he doing like riling them up let's go let's hear a good bad he was studying nature came up with every single including paruma do you know that don't say Abu didn't know paruma understood paruma from nature how you know how how did he know he figured it out eight days he you have to S whatever whatever there are figured it out in fact it says what does it mean means with the it says about the T so our question is is this relevant to our lives today or look we don't need nature nature is not relevant to us we have we have a we have M we have G we have we have our we don't need the sun the sun doesn't really enhance our learning or ants we don't need ants in other words let's say you know you're in the kitchen you see an ant on the floor the only you so you call the Exterminator you don't need to sit there watching the ant I mean do does nature have any value to a Jew in 2025 what would you say to that do you spend time in your life studying nature you say what in the world is he talking about tonight you do but now it's too late what exactly he didn't know about mil he was told about mil he knew about mil he did yeah he did it only only afterm told you problem with mil there that's a very he waited till told exactly that's that's a big question we spoke about that commandment so I want to share with you an epic s on the r the r talks about the mitzvah there's a to so the r says how do you come to love and fear says the at a time that a person contemplates God's creations and his wondrous world and he sees the wisdom ofm it has no estimation likees he will immediately love and praise hasem and have a great yearning and desire to know Hashem do you havea don't answer that question do you have t to know hasem do you have a to know hasem you know how you could develop a t to knowem by contemplating science the ra says says as soon as you think about the vastness of the universe the complexity of the eye the complexity of the digestive system you will recoil you will be in awe when you recognize you're a small creation lowly dark having limited intellect before the whole some Creator like says when I look at the heavens the work of your hands I think to myself the way to come to love hasem is to study the science of creation that's the rambam you ever hear that ROM you know about that had no if he saw something bad happen a storm or something like that he was able to interpret that as also being Yash and he had the know how to filter that and to know right in other words that means when he saw one animal consume another animal he was able to learn from that maybe there's a time to go to war which he did in this week's para but what I'm trying to show from this ramam is the ramam says how do you come to Love hasem by studying creation by studying nature now what about a guy he just spent the last 10 years learning in a b medish can he love Hashem he doesn't know anything about nature he just knows there's a son and their eyes he never studied it but there's another R the ra the ra says we're cre we're commanded to love we have to contemplate the and teachings until we understand it and we get pleasure from it this is an obligatory like the says how am I supposed to know how do you love what does it say after these words that I command you today should be on your heart by learning you recognize the Creator so how do you come to to love hem by learning bakama by learning gar by learning T the way you come to hasem is by studying his mitz you see anything about nature here not a word about nature so this is a epic the r in says how do you come to Love by studying the complexity the science of creation the ra says how do you come to Love hasem by learning Tyra now you might ask how would you come to believe in hem by learning Tyra I'm learning a gar about a cow Goring another cow and if he does it the first time he pays half damages and if he does it the third time he pays full damage and I'm going to come through to learn to love God it doesn't even talk about God there's no subject matter about God in the whole I could be learning for 30 hours God's name does not appear how do you come to Love hasem by learning Tyra it seems like there's some kind of mystical powerful way that by learning the to of hasem and realizing it's truth and it's yashus and its divine origin you just realize there's a Creator now the question is how do you reconcile these now most people or many people they will indeed concede that there are times that they learned something in a gamar or in AES and it just imbued them with amuna it's not that it's because it said God created the world in six days and he rested on the seventh day it's just something about the Toyah that gives you the conviction that there's a Creator so the question is which one what really leads a person to believe in Hashem or to love Hashem is it nature or is it Tyra what would you think or is it both or is it both I mean look around the world you don't really have what Yesa do you go to I'm in BMG oh again what y do you go to I'm in uh um BMS what's BMS Bas Med of science yeah what what do you do there we what first we wake up we watch Sunrise then we study the earth rotation then we study it revolving around the pal you expect to get a well not it's might be a nice thing but you know who exactly do you ECT yeah she said I'm there's a special kind of Seminary that they also teach these things but really I mean is that a Mahal is that is that an approach to Judaism today what role does studying creation have in Judaism post SI about no all we have are these two Rams the begin the introduction of of the r Mar maybe talks about everything there yeah the rambam talks about it but maybe that's you know for before the Torah is given but once the Torah is given it's not really relevant so actually I'm going to share with you tonight four approaches and they're pretty interesting and they might be very shocking to you approach number one is the he says like this you know say had the not been given you would have learned not to steal from an ant you would have learned to be modest from a cat so he says look carefully at the gamarra had the toyra not been given then you would learn all these things but guess what Good Morning America the Toyah was given so therefore you no longer need to learn not to steal from an ant so the ant is basically it's you know we don't need him anymore you could put him in the Museum of Natural History where the have exhibits about things that happened a long time ago and Exhibits about things that never happened the cat we would learn modesty from that's if the Torah wasn't given but now the t is given we don't need cats you know what do you need a cats for cat for you don't need your rebi doesn't have to be Rabbi cat maybe Rabbi Cats Could Be Your rebi but Rabbi cat does not have to be your Reby as kazal say kazal say about the T delve into the T deepen your understanding everything's in it no further investigation is needed need to learn from the cat and from the son because he didn't have the T nowadays we have the TOA so we don't need to learn from nature however says but that's only if you're you know what is is if you spend your entire life learning you wake up in the morning you go to Davin you learn and when you finish learning you go to sleep you don't have a job you don't go to school you don't go out in the world you don't have Leisure Time you spend your life learning if your world is the world of Tyra nothing more is needed but if you have a job and you go out into the world or you're walking you're a kind of guy you need to walk around in the street a little bit go shopping a little bit go on vacation a little bit so then we need to give you an Avenue to seees outside of your realm of Tyra so for you you need parir you need to study nature because you're not living only in the four cubits of Tyra and he says and even a guy who's Tyas maybe while you're learning the gamar an ant will walk across the gamar and you'll be distracted for a minute and now in that minute that you'll be distracted maybe all of a sudden that will rip you away from AES and you'll be torn away and you'll be led to sin but now that you know how to to learn about Hashem even from nature even if you have like a brief distraction you'll even be able to use that to come close to Hashem but his principal idea is that actually the main way and the primary way and the best way to recognize Hashem is through the Tyra recognizing hem for through creation was basically archaic it was for before the tarah was given or it's for people who cannot so to speak hack people are not cut out just to sit and learn for them okay we'll let them uh try to see Hashem in nature that is the approach of the cfim and I'll tell you the truth it didn't really sit that well with me so what the sun really this the people who learn and want to make Tyra their career they don't need the sun the sun doesn't offer them any insight or they don't need nature it's so to speak like a second um Avenue of recognizing Hashem but you know the elite approach is only Tyra for those who are not capable of G of gaining amuna only from Tyra will let you use you know Plan B which is creation and is that really what the rambam means when the rambam writes in the way to come close to Hashem is by studying nature the rahan was talking about you know lowlevel people who can't really come to love hem through Tyra so they have no choice but to recognize hasem through nature but for the real special people that the RA in the that they need to recognize and come to love only through T so I want to share with you three other approaches and K was a commentary on I want to share with you three other approaches and I think they're going to come as a very big surprise to you approach number one this Ste on the ram was actually asked by none other than the earliest rash the the Mas as the on the r where the rambam writes in that the way you come close the way you come to love hem is by studying nature and the r writes in the ram quotes the that the way you come to love is through by the way rash do you remember the Rashi look at number 13 the says you should love with all your heart and then it says says how do you come to love from the so it's a how do you come to love God studying nature or studying the Tyra you ready for this comes mrai and the mascal it and they say you can only come to love Hashem by studying nature if you cannot if you don't have the ability to think about how is it possible look you see this camera it's a HD camera when it's finished with the 45 minute Shar the the size of the shear is going to be about 2 and a half gigabytes okay after let's say I give uh I don't know seven eight nine weeks of shum the SD card is full it's done it's one of my big nightmares all of a sudden I hear a mid share means it's full that means I could be talking and however many people are here let's say there are 700 people here I'm just saying like the people watching they have no idea how many people are I could be talking to the wall let's make believe there's 700 people here no there aren't nowhere near okay I'm just you know and that means no one else will ever hear it so I have to actually erase old files now when you listen to my Shear the quality of your visual is much greater than 2 and2 GB it's going to be like probably 200 GB so really after one Shear you should say God it's time to go I have no memory left you know that after listening to One Shear in this high definition quality sound and and visual there should be no memory left in your head after a person goes through one day on planet Earth it is impossible to Fathom how your mind has incorporated all that information it's not possible they don't have a computer that could take in even one day's worth of the quality of visual and audio that you bring in one day it's impossible so there's only one way to recognize Hashem and to love Hashem to study the complexity of creation not by learning T said thei so where does come in by doing mitv and learning T that will alert your mind I'm doing a Mitzvah there must be a commander I'm learning the T there must be a Creator oh there's a commander there's a Creator let me study his universe and when I study his Universe I'll come to love hasem but if you never study the universe you will never come to love hasem you could learn Tyra sh 101 times you won't come to love hasem you'll just be alerted that there's a world out there that you need to study and when you do so that will bring you to even ra Feinstein would daily contemplate one of the wonders of Creation in order to have love of hem to say hey ra you would think he leared enough to love Hashem that's a man who learned enough to yeah he learned enough T so it actually alerted him to study creation to bring him to that's AI That's a Pella it's unbeliev that's the this is the the most authoritative answer to this theor on the rambam is a is really a very sort of uh somewhat surprising and shocking idea that of course T is the greatest Mitzvah but in terms of what it will do in cultivating a love forem it will alert you that there's a Creator yes by learning Tyra you will be alerted you'll get a notification in your soul do da do da what what oh you know taka there's a Creator let me think today about the miracle of vision did you ever notice my glasses how many times a day do you have to clean your glasses am I the only guy in the world I have to carry one of these shmatas around there's a guy in the back Anon every time he sees me he gives me like 10 shatas right he's a sadic he gives me 10 shatas I could clean this well right in an hour it's filthy I don't know what am I doing already could somebody tell me how come you don't have to do this to your eyes did you ever have to take out a shata and clean your eyes saying my glasses multiple times a day I'm I'm and then after thing I have to throw out the why do you not why are your eyes always clear you don't have fingerprints on your you don't have on my glass I have these little white dust things I where I don't know how come I don't have on my eyes CU you have automatic lubrication so how come I'm not always changing the batteries this senis this is the best sound system you could imagine everybody who listens to the shim know I'm changing these batteries 70 times a day so why do you might not why don't I have to like put things into my into my head every 3 minutes so that my eyes continue to operate no you have batteries cuz you're eating bread oh really so can I put bread into this how no no don't worry eating the bread will power you are you kidding me how come you we don't think about these things if you learn Tyra it will alert you to think about nature and if you think about nature you'll come to love but not the other way around that's a I don't know that most people would have said that now there's a commentary on the rambam from the author of theam basz the son of the he says something also very surprising he says and he says in his opinion this is what the mrai means and that is I don't think most people would have said this but he says studying nature is a much stronger way to bring you to love Hashem than learning Tyra I'm not saying my words I'm saying what he says why he says something very interesting I'm going to give you a mush let's say a godar came into the Sha and set over a shear and then a speaker came and he said over about about from thees about how you could get along better with your wife and your children and the gave a complex sheer about the laws of UA which one will make a bigger impact on you now there's no question the godar is much much greater than that speaker that came in so you say well I don't know it's hard to know how do I know what makes a bigger impact on Me Maybe the the real meat and potatoes of the to impacted me more okay fine which do I feel made a bigger impact on me the that hit me in an emotional way or in a way that I understand he says the same thing with Tyra versus nature Tyra is amuna amuna is so to speak belief but it's not something I fully understand and it doesn't necessarily resonate with me emotionally but if I study nature it will be understandable to me and it will resonate with me emotionally and therefore studying nature will bring me to love Hashem even more than learning Tyra however only if I learn tah properly will that give me the proper frame of of mind and prepare me to be able to Want to Love by studying nature so the m and the say their miss the son of both learn that the answer to the Ste and the r is what do I need to do to love hasem do I do what the r says in namely study nature or do I do what the ram says in the Mitzvah study T the answer is first learn the study and if I first study T then I'll realize you know what there's a Creator let me learn about him and I'll climb to the higher level of studying nature and I'll follow what the r says and I'll study nature and I'll come to love I don't think most most of you would have said that that's how the M learns but I want to share with you another approach and this is something I saw uh based on something I saw many years ago in so basically what we have so far is the konm says nature that was that's so PR you know that's like before the Torah is now the Torah is given you don't need to study nature just you learn leave natur is for like prehistoric people but M says no learning to is what's going to alert you that you need to study nature and that will bring you to but here's another approach you know in the you should love your god what are the next words how do you come to love h that the Tyra should be on your heart but wait a second is there any remes what about the other way to love hasem studying nature what do we call studying nature the says lift up your eyes on high comes the the word sh stands for and you know what else it stands for Shak you know what else it stands for Shak you know what you'll accomplish by doing that you'll be sh is a quadruple acronym lift up your eyes on high to when what will you accomplish [Applause] so really both Avenues of coming to love hem are in these first you have then you have love Hashem then you have learn Tyra now according to the m it's really out of order because Mai says learn Tyra you'll be alerted there's a Creator you you're going to learn to study about him and that will bring you to love hasem but that's not the order it is in sh the in sh is first then you love hasem and then the in the says we have a parm and this parm that teaches us there are two ways to come to recognize now I do want to say another approach could be it's the same exact approach cuz how did Hashem create the world he created the world with the T the t is the blueprint of creation so creation is really the result of the tah and the Torah is The Artisans tool which created it so it might not be two separate things you're studying the result of the tah to to learn the values of the Tor or you're studying the tah to learn the values of the but the K says there are two ways to come to recognize in this world two great lights the light of creation the light of the Sun and the Moon and the light of the T and the truth is if you study creation it's a very powerful tool to bring you to recognize Hashem as it brought abin to recognize Hashem what does the son say you know the sun talks talks it speaks daily however however as much as a son testifies to the greatness of the Creator says the tah is a much more compelling testimony different than the M the testimony of the tah is much more compelling than the testimony nature in other words you could have two guys one of them will study t one of them will study nature and not like we said in in the M the one who studies the tah will have a deeper conviction in the belief of hasem than the one who study nature and then goes on to say six advantages that studying Tyra has over studying nature number one you know if you stay out in the sun too much you know what it's going to do you you're going to faint I remember one time I was walking uh I don't want to say where I had to walk very very long and I came to Davin I fainted I was dehydrated so but if you learn not like the sun that it could cause you to faint it's it restores the soul you know what else those who stay out in the sun too long they lose their mind they become crazy buty now do you not lose your mind it makes you smart sometimes people spend too much time in the sun it gives them anxiety people think yeah I'm relaxing in the sun no you're not relaxing in the sun you're magnifying whatever nervous wreck you are already you're you're promoting the you were before you were a little anxious now you come back from your vacation a complete nervous wreck why you spend too much time relaxing in the sun proven fact the sun too much sun will promote the guy comes back he looks like an orange he thinks he's going to feel good he thinks because he used to look like an egg now he looks like an orange he thinks he's healthy now he's out of his mind now the sun promotes anxiety not so the then people spend a lot of time in the sun it dims their eyesight no but not the toy what do we say about the it illuminates the eyes the sun sometimes it's cloudy it's a hazy day it's not Pure or sometimes people worship it as Navara so it's not pure the sun it's pure is pure the sun is not consistent in the day nowadays I don't I don't know what how they how they pulled this one off I wake up in the morning I try to dve in and learn I'm preparing my shear grab something to eat it's already look it's it's the middle of the afternoon and the day is over what happened to the good old summer days no nowadays there's like 4 hours of sunlight I don't know they're trying to save money the green the green bill I I thought she only got 0.4% of the why she didn't win anything she didn't get even one electoral vote no but still they have to save electricity but toyra is constant it's a so so we learn from here there are two great ways to recognize hm but says recognizing believing and coming to love hm through T is superior that's why in daving first we say we thank Hashem for the light of the Sun but then we say there's an even greater light and way to recognize Hashem and that is by learning so this is different than the mrai it's that the first step so to speak the most Elementary way to come to recognize and believe and love Hashem is by studying nature but then by learning T it brings it to a whole different level learning T elevates and magnifies your love of hem to a completely different level in fact abramsky would say more than the mighty water the powerful waves of the sea you are so powerful on high meaning would look at the ocean and we say Hashem you know I don't know how powerful you are but when I see the waves Crashing Down On The Rocks as powerful as the water is you're more powerful but you know what teaches me even more than that how powerful you are your mitz are even more faithful when I study your mitz I recognize your greatness even more than when I studi the waves of the ocean so this is a new idea this is a very powerful idea and that is yes there are two ways to recognize hm in this world there and you need that you can't ignore that you can't ignore gaining awareness of Hashem by studying creation but now that the tah was given the tah is a superior way of recognizing Hashem so basically we have two approaches where R says the t is a superior way of recognizing hasem and the mrai says that creation is a superior way and it could be in a certain element the Torah is a superior way because Hashem gave us this mystical entity called Tyra that for our souls ultimately it will give us the most faithful and enduring method of coming to believe and love but there are going to be sometimes elements of creation that will hit you in a certain way that maybe we're not on the mreo that to could hit us on because maybe we have a certain human or human emotion so we will sometimes need creation to influence us to see Hashem and to recognize him according to the intellect we have and according to the emotion we have so really we do need both of these methods of recognizing Hashem of course we need Tyra and Tyra perhaps is the superior method but nevertheless the Nim are replete with many references that in order for us to really believe in Hashem and to love hem we cannot ignore the wonders of the world this is what brought AB to his conviction and even now that the Torah was given it will definitely enhance and bolster the amuna and the love we have Hashem uh by learning Tyra okay R have a wonderful rest of the week and uh look forward to next time next week the will not be uh there's no share next week no share next week okay Wednesday night no share next week call everyone be record sto no you guys downstairs right now