The 13 Principles of Jewish Faith - Principle #8: The Control Pad of the World - Rabbi Akiva Fox

[Music] discussing the ninth principle of faith in the ani ma means that cold hot pyrometry ought to be a danger that the entire power that is found now in our hands he hunted sooner my job a hell of a show this is the one that was given to my shrubbery so we're focusing now on the word be a danger that it found now be a Daniel in our hands so we discussed that technically the color is not something that's in the hand sometimes you hold it sometimes you you know you put your finger on the place but it's usually in the mind there it's in the heart so we're discussing what is the term via Daniel that is found now in our hands so I'd like to shift to a completely different perspective and before zeroing in on how that answers the word be a dangle let's go back to the original giving of the Torah on her scene I on Mount Sinai then Gomorrah and the mad Russian tell us that when Moshe obey no went up to the mountain to accept the Torah and to give it over or to be the conduit for giving it over to the Jewish people there was a little bit of a sister there was a little bit of a fight between Moshe a banal and the angels the angels were not happy that God was giving the cola over to mankind to the Jewish people they put up a fight they said no we we assure I this is not the right thing I it's a mistake don't give it to the Jewish people and Moshe Rabbeinu had to put up a fight Hashem actually poke Moshe Rabbeinu no debate them what are you going to say without analyzing or going into the depths of what exactly happened there but let's try to understand what is it that the angels did not want from giving over the Torah to the Jewish people to mankind why were they so apathetic to it why did they not want it what we're nice people we're Jewish look I gotta keep I got sixes what what the Angels have against us that they up a fight Lisa no no don't give it to them what what's the problem the Torah is a lot more than knowledge the Torah is a lot more than hypothetical abstract knowledge the Torah is the blueprints of the world not only is the color of the blueprint of the world but the Torah is the control pad of the world because God created the world in a sense that there's a two-way street he is watching us and this is a very lofty concept but let's try to bring it down to practical terms but he awaits our command or the way that we choose to run the world and he follows through now obviously that's a very big concept obviously it seems a little bit difficult to say that God would be controlled by mankind but the system that God put into place with or climaxing with the giving of the Torah was that now the way that the world is run is in the hands of those who live the total you know you now have the control pad of the entire world because this Torah is the entire world everything is inside it if you press this button and that will happen if you press this button and this will happen and if God forbid you don't press any buttons at all then not only are you removing yourself from the controls but the effect that you will have is a detrimental one is a destructive one because God created a system where he said that this Torah is the key and the keys to everything it is the blueprints of the world it is the design of the world and I am giving that over to the Jewish people so thus far impella that in essence and this is the very deep concept let's try to understand it there were two creation of the world the original creation of the world was when God created the world other mauritian Adam and Eve the beginning of the world was like the computer that was created for mankind but when the Torah was given that is when the software when the keys of that computer were given to mankind and that's a new world because it's not just the computer now now the entire programming the entire control pad has been given to humanity so now in essence it's a new world because it's up to mankind how this world is going to run if we follow the Torah and we follow the codes and we press the right keys and the right directives then we will have the beautiful world that God created and constantly creates to give to us but if God forbid we don't always the wrong key that will not only uproot the entire system but it will destroy it so this is what is given over to us the Torah is not just a book the taurah is not just ideas concepts theoretical knowledge the Torah is the world itself the world itself was given over to mankind and the control of the world itself in essence were given over to mankind at her ce9 this the angels were flabbergasted they couldn't take it God how are you going to give something so great and so powerful to these fools to these embassies to mankind don't release the keypad to the world to someone or someone us or people like them because they're finite they can't do it imagine they have the that famous briefcase that the president carries with him at all times with all the nuclear codes and technically you can press a button a nuclear bomb nuclear warfare goes off Russia's destroyed Iran Iraq it's all gone blown up in an instant and you give that suitcase to a little kid here come here kitty kitty kitty play with it it's just like a piano you go like this and press whatever you want something tells me there's going to be big problems somebody's gonna if anybody's alive in the next ten minutes he's going to have to answer for that and that in essence is what God gave to the Jewish people God gave them the control pad the little keyboard this little book the two lokos he gave it over to the Jewish people and he said okay do as you want Moshe Rabbeinu had to answer the angels why were worthy not only why are we worthy but how the tour was specifically written for these people but you can imagine that the angels weren't too happy about it so when we say should call her I matsuya after that the entire Torah that was given that we have now be a Daniel in our hands in our hands refers to the control that we have not only in essence over the world but over the tour itself because the Torah the way it is understood the way it is defined and what the implications are is all given over to the stages of Cholera who understand and their perception and their understanding the control is being given to them this is another possible understanding of the word tamil sujatha that is found now via Daniel in our hand because that is what the Torah has been given to us in our hands it is now in our control we control with this Torah not only the world itself but the understanding and the conceptualising of Torah and what it is what it means for us you [Music]