Alaska Adventure: The Animal World & Man as Microcosm of the Universe

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com so many animals today we saw a caribou we saw Arctic squirrels we saw doll sheep and we even saw paintings of moose Savannah was a very successful day um let's talk a little bit about the creation and the animal world and the entire universe so imagine you have a kid you're trying to get him up no it's so hard I'm so tired I'm so heavy say pal be light like an eagle I mean that that's the most ridiculous thing you could possibly tell somebody be light like an eagle I'm a human being I'm not an eagle I can't fly what exactly is the mission telling us we should be strong like a lion a lion is programmed to be strong a lion has the root strength a lion has the physical ability a human being is Meek meager compared to the lion what exactly is pereg is telling us to emulate these animals that are programmed that are created with unusual ability that human beings does not have I mean you didn't can't fly Matthew you told somebody what's taking so long get here like a supersonic jet fly like a jet lastly I'm not a jet I don't have I don't have fuel I don't have wingspan I don't have an engine I don't have that power you know if you told somebody you know you should really try to learn like the Vilma gun I mean that is that is that a meaningful message what exactly is perki Elvis teaching us you know we have a similar idea coming up the end of davarum where my chabano tells Claus Israel I call to witness to testimony today Heaven and Earth says Rashi Sparkle tells Claudia Israel look at the heaven that I created did the heaven ever say I'm going on strike did the son ever say I'm not going to shine did the moon ever say I'm not going to shine did the heavens ever say I'm not going to send down rain look at the Earth do the Earth ever say nah seeds I don't do seeds anymore I don't do trees anymore the heaven always sends down rain and the sun always shines the Sun never went on strike the Sun never took it off the sun doesn't take sick days it doesn't take absence it doesn't take a leaf of absence just like the sun and the moon and the stars and the Earth they work like clockwork and they never go on strike and they're never lazy so to you man you can't take it easy you can't take off you can't say well today I'm not going to serve the almighty learn from the heaven and the Earth also is that a meaningful message just like the sun shines every day we should do our service every day I mean the sun doesn't have free choice they don't have free choice what's revenge so I'm telling Cloud Israel we should be like heaven and earth Heaven and Earth are programmed they're constant they can't choose to do good they can't choose to do bad they do what they're programmed to do man has the capacity to to choose to do what it wants what kind of meaningful message is it be like the Heaven and the Earth and we find many examples tell us you know go learn from the Animal Kingdom the gamara says the Torah wasn't given we would learn modesty from a cat we would learn about not taking other people's property from a ant an ant puts in a lot of work to gather produce but it will not touch anything another ant collected for itself we would have learned um modesty from a dove we would have learned from a chicken really why would we learn anything from any of these animals this is the way God programmed them that's their that's their nature that's how they have no ability to act in any other way the cat has no ability to take care of its functions in a Brazen way why would we learn anything from any animal so I'd like to share with you really a mind-boggling idea a very empowering idea a life-changing idea there's one of the most difficult in the Hamish was the creation of man where the Revenge film says let us make man and of course Rashi points out this is a very difficult uh pasta what do you mean let us make man who's the US it almost sounds like there's more than one Creator Rashi even says Hashem is giving a place for those who want to deny the the unity of God to say maybe either there's more than one power up there offers an astounding explanation on the words Adam says that Hashem first created heaven and earth and then Hashem created the sky and then Hashem gathers all the water into the oceans and then the plants Sprout and the trees Sprout and then the fish are created and then the birds and then the animals whereupon God turns to all of creation he turns to Heaven he turns to Earth he turns to the fish he turns to the birds he turns to the elephants to the Tigers to the Lions to the Bears obviously it doesn't turn to the Moose right because uh but he turns to everything in this world and he says give me what you got you have strength put it in the pot you have flight put in the pot you have consistency put in the pot you have creativity put in the pot you have modesty you have energy you have ingenuity everybody I would like you to donate your ability we're gonna make man man is a microcosm of the entire universe man is what we call Islam Katan he's a small world the capacity of every aspect of this universe the consistency of the heavens the power of the Sun the strength of a lion the boldness of the leopard the Flight of the eagle and the characteristic of every detail of this world was given by everything that was created and the composite of that is man advancement points out that it comes out as dangerous as a lioness and as dangerous as a tiger is and as dangerous as any wild animal is there is nothing more dangerous than men because man is not just a lion he's not just a bear he's not just a tiger he's all of the above and of course throughout history we've seen how dangerous a man could be because you know the story of the Lions of Savo in the beginning of the 20th century they're building these railroad tracks in Africa and there are these dangerous lions they ate almost a hundred people the man eating lines of Savo yeah but what a dangerous lion could eat can't come close to what one Wicked man could perpetrate what a Hitler what a Stalin could commit so man is in a composite of every Power in the world that is why Salam Al teaches us how do we Define man because if you need an iron cage to house one lion how many bars of iron do you need to keep man in check and the answer is there's only one thing that keeps man in check that's how like camera the fear of God the fear of God is the only thing that keeps all of the latent ability Talent power ingenuity that the fear of God is the only thing that keeps all of this in check and therefore Shalom says this is man man is defined only foreign that if man has in him the late disability of everything in the animal kingdom we are able to turn to man and say Amen be bold like a leopard summon access the quality of the leper that you have inside of you and channel it and harness it to the service of God access tap into the strength you have of the Lion say well lying I'm not a lion I'm a human being no when you were created there is the element the quality of the lion was in doubt and you access that tap into that you know sometimes everyone says I have to get up for chakras every single day I mean can I take off once in a while maybe five days a week six days a week every day I can't do it no you could do it not only could you do it you are programmed within you to be able to have the consistency of the shamaya varas of the sun the sun like clockwork it rises and it sets and it rises and it sets and it rises and it sets and it never wanes and it never dulls and it never takes off so in the surface of Hashem when a person feels a little bit of a downer they have to access and summon up the kayak of consistency of the brilliant that day in and day out no matter what rise and set rise and set chakras day after day after day it's within man's capacity it's within man's ability tells us look lazy man at the end you know the medrish points out wondrous qualities of the ant the letters tells us the the ant does not live more than who knows how what the life expectancy of an ant is not at Matilda you're an animal how how what is the life capacity of an ad six months an endless six months and an aunt does not really have a vertebrae it doesn't have a bone Network an enhance only needs one and a half kernels for its entire life and yet the ant gathers 300 times approximately more than it needs for its entire life why is that system energy the ant gathers so much because the ant says you know who knows maybe I'm gonna live seven months maybe I'll get a live eight months maybe I'm gonna live nine months who knows maybe God will decree that I'm gonna live a little bit longer and I'm not gonna have enough sustenance a human being who we know that we have the possibility of the afterlife forever and ever and ever if the ant gathers and Garners and collects so many mid-slice the last much much more than it needs for its lifetime because maybe Hashem will say that the ant will live a much longer life Allah has come of the Kama to learn from the end that a person in their lifetime should try to gather as many midsoi samasitogen as possible and if you say what should I learn from the end the ants is not acting out of free choice then the ants is not acting because it's making a decision it's just instinctive how can a creature a free choice learn from the Instinct of an animal and the answer is because a human being has these instincts inside of their soul now building upon what we said this morning the same way everything in this world is reflection of a dimension of God well we know that everything in this world donated to the creation of men so just like everything in this world reflects God everything in this world likewise reflects man's ability this is the reason why after Hashem created everything in this world Heaven Earth water bodies luminaries Animal Kingdom bird kingdom fish Kingdom man is the very last aspect of creation because man is a composite NASA other man is a micro cosm of the entire universe so the next time a person thinks to themselves money what am I what ability do I have what can I accomplish what talent do I have what talent do you have only all the talents in the entire universe what ability do you have only all the ability of the entire universe next time you think my kid what's gonna be with my kid what could he become who could he be [Music] the entire universe is from here we learn the greatness of man so when we're commanded when we're we're told it's not only to recognize the greatness of the creator by recognizing the greatest of the Creator we recognize our own greatness the greatness of man himself man is the composite of the entire world and therefore we could be told thank you very much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com