Parshat Ki Tisa: Keep Your Headlights On! - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

have you ever driven down a country road on a moonless night and turned off your headlights now don't do this for more than a second or two because it's like driving into complete nothingness it's amazing how are those two small pencil beams of lights allow you to navigate a twisting country road even in the blackest night I do we sometimes wonder to yourself why the road curves so much why can't they just make this road straight this world is like Knights and the world to come is like day it's possible to see at night if you turn on your headlights there's a big difference at night your vision is restricted restricted to what's illuminated in the beams of your headlights by day you can see the whole picture in daylight it becomes clear why the road twists and turns so much why sometimes you go up and sometimes you go down over here as a hill there's a river over there the chasm in this world a person catches a few brief excerpts of reality mayor flashes of the way the Creator runs his creation the rest is night with only a few chapters of world history at our disposal we can't visualize the whole of his story God's story history from where it's coming from where it's going that's why this world is like night in the world to come everything will become as clear as day I'll understand why Hashem did what he did why the road had to have this Bend why we had to go so far down that's what Moshe was told by Hashem when he said my face you cannot see in this world you can't see God's face God's direct control of the world in the bright light of day but his back the tell-tale footprints in the snow of history that's clear for all to see if we keep our headlights on [Music] [Applause]