Parshat Va'eira: The Nature of Miracles - Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

[Music] this week's partial partial aur Hashem starts to perform the miraculous transcending nature through the Makos the plagues and the Ramban Rodney's famously says it is through everything is happening in TS that's trying through the Exodus a sham is actually disproving three different forms of heresy the first heretic the first disbeliever in Hashem says that I don't think I'm exist at all I don't see him I can't smell and I can't taste them none of my senses allow me to perceive the transcendent I don't believe I should exist and the second type of heretic he believes the Hashem exists I mean after all if you walk around beautiful it's magnificent flood biology chemistry physics just look around the beautiful world that we live in and you say there must have been agree but this is called the watchmakers theory that maybe God created the world that just left it to run by its own and one of the reasons people assume this is that maybe gods like us maybe he gets bored maybe you like us when we try something we get bored go to try something new God created the world and just got tired left us for some different projects but the third-level says that I believe that God exists I believe that God created the world I believe that God is still here he hasn't left us he's just not all-powerful he cannot intervene with nature meaning he exists he's here he's just not all-powerful when they're on bond explains that the events of the atieast I am the exodus is proved all we proved that Hashem exists he's here we prove that he hasn't left us he's still involved in this world he still cares about number three he's all-powerful but he can do anything he can uplift uproot and intervene with nature itself belly up the desks there actually takes us a step further and says in order to really understand how to perceive chemise ask yourself how many perceive nature we're talking lation of lifting or uprooting nature transcending nature how do you perceive nature so the first type of person perceives nature as something that Hashem can intervene with can uproot but something that exists as a natural way of running the world so Hashem sort of speak is in a transcendent world transcend dimension beyond time and space and nature is what runs this physical world and passion can intervene with nature so such a person might pray you know I know that if I put hard work and I'll succeed Hashem please don't intervene don't mess up my plans meaning if everything runs smoothly according to nature it'll be great unless Hashem descent otherwise please don't do now from Destler puts this type of person has the lowest person in terms of their understanding nature the lowest level the second type of person says now Hashem isn't sort of speak above a nature is below I shall use his nature everything in this world is such I'm using nature somewhat like a tool where everything in my life comes from God and that's where the type of person who sees the world like this was a very spiritual life and they see how shikaka I see divine intervention in all aspects of their life but there is a limitation because why would God need a tool the only need a tool when you can't do something yourself you need a pen because your finger itself can't write so why does God need nature and there our bond actually believes in this third level of nature which of death source s is the highest level of understanding what is this level it's when you understand that means just the word we use there is nothing called nature there is nothing natural in this world everything is an expression of the when you want to do something you have a macabre a thought and then you express it through my set the reaction everything this world is an expression of our shams will the Russians thoughts shall express himself into this will do everything that happens and if miracles are momentary instances where I shouldn't choose to do something out of the way there'll be something different but everything that happens in your life is a reflection there are Bank famously says that the open miracles of myths Ryan revealed that nature itself is a hidden miracle and that's our job is that we don't see open miracles but we have to learn to see beneath the surface past the mask of nature to recognize that everything in this world has the beauty of divine spirituality within it and if you conceive beneath the surface then you can see the miraculous within the natural you [Music] [Applause]