The World on Fire - Rabbi Akiva Fox

[Música] the tells US something very interesting the Says that when avram avin went out into the world [Música] to Discover or to uncover God the elokim the God ineva in Nature so it Says he Saw the world like a City On Fire like a City Burning and he said well obviously Somebody lit the fire so Who lit the fire and he came to the conclusion that There Was a god that there was Somebody Who built the city that there was someone Who lit the city on fire and at that Point God turned to him and said Who I'm the one I Did it and that was The Beginning in a sense that was The Beginning ofrin abraham's FAI and how he learned or discovered or uncovered God in the world So what exactly Is this parable of saying thatu when he Saw the world or the city On Fire What was it coming to say so there's an a brilliant depth to It it's a fascinating Insight that some of the rabbis have explained and I'd like to preface It with a a little Story when I was in yiva yiva is the High School Place that Boys learn when I was iniva in aiva in Amer they didn't have a lot of money and therefore because there was not a lot of money there wasn't a lot of food either and as you can tell I I'm very much affected by that and Till this very day I feel like I'm undernourished possibly uh possibly worse um so there wasn't a lot of food Now One of The Things That they in Order to get food was they to some Called the food B the food B is when you have different Stores let say sho or ralphs or whatever it is the big Stores The Big chain Stores they had um let say certain not so Quality Foods Let's say they Where the date went out or the boxes were smashed the bags Open they Don food to the food B and then etc fore so Basic the Shiva hooked up with the food Bank to arrange to get whatever they could from the food Bank on a biweekly basis and whatever they would bring Back From the food Bank that's what we would get to eat I remember for breakfast for had Called uncle Sam natural cereal that was very which wasle syr and we would that in the uncle Sam's natural laxative and with that that was our Breakfast I can tell you that it wasn't very tasty and I can also tell you that the line to the bathroom during the morning S was quite quite long but again we had to eat whatever we got from the food B now thef the cook he Had rough time because he could never have a men a scheduled menu because it was all dependent on what they would bring from the food Bank so sometimes they would give him you know tuna Fish and Flow so he would have to make something with that sometimes they would give him eggs and lettuce so he would come up with these concoctions and he would come up with these hungarian names and tell US you know Famous dis whatever Any when the Type of product that he going to out is very Limited for example thef iniva you could have the best Chef in the world the guy Who wins all the cook shows and if you give him lettuce and water and tell Make me a Fancy dish Make Me Something so tasty much can do because he limit dependent on el is with Any ingredients you give ay Contract and tell you want him To Build a building but you're only allowed to use nails and I don't know Plastic he's very Limited in the product he's going to out because he dependent on something else for the materials he has when hasem created the world hasem did not Create the world with the existing materials that existed meaning he didn't look and He Says all right Well let's see I got people here I got Animals here I got Trees here I got some grass you know what Let's this All Together then he then he took a piece of play-doh and he rolled it into a little Ball and then he on Top All These Little individuals Together and he's like wow I think I'm going to call It The World that's not What happened hashem was not dependent on anything for the ingredients or for the materials that he created the world with what he did was he created the materials themselves in the way he Wanted it This is Called Y means he created from Absolute nothingness there was Nothing and he created when you have magicians magicians Can Take a and a Rabbit and someh pull the rit out of a trick but he has and he turns that into that's a big trick so we don't obviously to compare that to God is foolish but there was nothing in the world there was there was Absolute garnished a lot of other Ways to say I don't know but there was Nothing and God created exactly what he need the substance May in from Nothing there's a lot of different aspects of this Creation and We're Going to learn about that but one thing is very crucial to understand the difference between creating something from Nothing and from something meaning the difference between creating something with no materials and you create materials ased And and got nail and you got w and youve got Steel then Once you up the building Boom out of there they don't need you anymore the contractor is no longer necessary Once the building is up you know why the materials are in Place and you Them in the in form over canate from from it doesn't ex unless you stay There For example if you make a Shadow on the wall like the Bat signal or you take a light and you Shine it in a dark room and you make a little circle Gone so in Order to keep that something there when you Create it from Nothing it only stays if you stay where you are but the second you leave You turn off the and say All the materials Together That's it out going on another pro Now I'm learning I don't know homeopathic medicine it doesn't work Like That when God created the world he needs to constantly Renew the Creation for it to continue existing because like that light that's Shining Circle The Wall God is that as long the light Circle the light God Will From This world Being there it won't ex Anymore That's What is something from Nothing means that only can continue existing As Long As God there a Flame a fire if you look it looks oneit FL Wax or kerosene or whatever it is continuous New Flames Constant Going more and more and more That's why it flickers That's why Lights When You Look at them from far it looks like it's flickering why because a Flame is continuously liting And liting and liting again abam there World Is On Fire The World is a Flame what that means Is that God is constantly renewing the world's existence with his wanting it to be there As Long As God Says I want the world to be there It's there but the second God Says Not Now no more when he removes it doesn't so God created a world on fire doesn't mean that it was Burning Saw that the world was constantly Being renewed and god's will to have the world continue existing was Something That needed Constant Constant rejuvenation constantly Being renewed and this is something that we learn about amun amuna is not just that God created the world Way Back And then said I'm out of here see you guys later fend for yourselves I'm on my own no God in the world is nature god's Will for the world to exist and for Nature to continue functioning the way it does is a Constant Constant continuous thing that Goes again and again and again this is what abram Saw when he said the world was on [Música] fire