DON’T RATIONALIZE GOD

[Music] the problem that you have really from the beginning of time but it seems more apparent today than ever is that people try to rationalize the Torah and that's a mistake the reason why that's a mistake is because they're trying to rationalize God if God was something you could understand you would be God if I could understand him I am just like him therefore I'm God we're not supposed to understand God we're supposed to understand what he wants I could understand you cuz I'm also human you could understand me cuz you're also human we happen to speak the same language therefore we could understand each other AEM does not have limitations like us so for a limited creation to understand the unlimited is impossible so the real reason behind every single rule in a Torah all of them all of them without an exception is not because it makes sense it's because God said so God said Keep keep Shabbat and that's the only reason you should keep Shabbat now yes there are benefits to keeping Shabbat yes there are benefits to eating kosher yes there are rational reasons to uh for a lot of things for example a husband and a wife being separated from each other for half the month there are actual real benefits and logical reasons to do it but that's not the reason why we do it that's just a additive to it that's just like a a little bonus the real reason of why we have all of the is because the King of Kings the creator of all creations said so that's enough if a person lives their life that way they'll be very righteous why be simple he said it I'm doing it that's enough if you really believe God said it that's more than enough reasons the problem we have when we try to rationalize things is that even though many of the mitv almost all of them have rational reason for why we do them if you're only going to do things because you rationalize and it makes sense to you it's only a matter of time before it doesn't make sense to you so for example keeping Shabbat you could rationalize keeping Shabbat what's the rational reason everybody needs a break once a week you have a break further everybody needs to spend a little bit of family time once a week you spend some family time further everybody needs a little bit of a special meal once a week you got a special meal once a week further everybody needs a special time to pray to hasem a little extra there you go and I can give you many many reasons problem is this one day a person is going to reach a financial crisis his wife is going to tell him honey rent du in a week we don't have the money we don't have the money yeah but I I get my salary uh in two weeks she go no no no you don't understand you need the money you need the money they're going to kick us out okay but I don't have the money she I have a job I want to make the money and I'll get in a week she go no no you need the money now we need the money within a couple of days we need the money what is he going to do he says he rationalized go well listen God says keep Shabbat because I can take a break who could take a break under such conditions I'm stressed out the whole time who can eat I can barely afford to to pay rent to pay for food who could uh sleep who could want to spend time with the family everybody stressed out so what does he do he says Ah God wanted me to keep Shabbat under these conditions since these conditions are no longer valid ah so therefore I go work on Shabbat why I'm helping God I'm helping God by going to work on Shabbat I'll make the money so that way I can pay the rent and then next week I'll definitely honor Shabbat you just rationalized violating Shabbat which hasem says you're not alloud point being is that if a person tries to rationalize the Torah eventually he'll arrive at a point where he'll rationalize going against the Torah so yes there are benefits to every aspect of the MIT every one of them with a few exceptions that we don't know what the benefit is we don't know how they work for example the red cow we don't know why the red cow that they slaughter and then they burn and then we use the ashes with uh special water and purifies all the impure people we don't know how that works because if it worked according to our rational mind that means that if let's say I'm the Coen that takes the ashes and the water of the red cow and I'm purifying all of you now you're no longer considered impure that would mean that you're all pure and I'm also pure but that's not the way it works I'm purifying you and by purifying you at the same time I'm becoming impure that doesn't make any sense rationally doesn't make any sense that's what the wisest man of all time says this is bigger than me meaning not just this mitvah the whole Tora is bigger than me I tried rationalizing it where it makes sense if I'm pure and you're pure that makes sense if you're impure and I'm impure that makes sense but you becoming pure by me becoming unpure that doesn't make any sense rationally doesn't make any sense so there are certain things in the Torah that make a lot of sense and have a lot of benefits but there are things that don't make sense [Music]