The 13 Principles of Jewish Faith - Principle #4: The Great Will of G-d - Rabbi Akiva Fox

the next one of the 13 principles of faith is the fourth fourth principle an imam and I believe bama Nash Lane was complete faith shahab by Reyes proxima that the Creator blessed is he who resigned boo hoo ha crying he's the first and the last when I was a kid back in the 1840s we used to have a you know you get in line for school or your teacher says everyone line up or going here we're going there and we used to have a little chant that we used to sing first is the worst second is the best third I don't remember what third was now when we say I Shem is the first and the last last is a rotten apple I think that's what it was so we're not trying to say that a sham is the first and he's the last so he's not the right an app that's not what we're trying to say they're obviously something much more important much more essential that we're trying to understand about a shim in the world not only that but it doesn't mean when we say he's the last it doesn't mean like he's the last of the mohicans the last of the ones standing in the world is shem he made it he survived he's got a big t-shirt i survived the world I'm the last one there's no survivor show for Hashem so what does it mean he's the first and the last in order to understand this we're going to go back to something we've spoken about before which is the word Rutzen the word rudd sign desire will Hashem is the will of the world what that means is Hashem wants the world to exist we spoke we said that the word rut sign will has the same numerical value the same game a tree as the word makar the source interestingly the word source and the word first are the same thing because if you're the source and you're the first that's brilliant maybe we should stop there what that means is that Hashem is the source for everything shams will is the source for everything whatever exists in this world is only here because Hashem wants it to be here and if he didn't want it to be here then it wouldn't be here so if we're here that's because we're wanted you know what they say the difference between in-laws and outlaws is outlaws are wanted I hope my mother-in-law's not watching what it means when we say that we are wanted the world is wanted is that Hashem creates he gives the existence to things by wanting it there let's try to understand something this is a muscle but there's a lot of depth to it if you create an image in your mind like a dream you have a dream I had a dream you have a dream and in your dream you see somebody god forbid standing over you with a knife or a chainsaw and he's about to stab now you are sweating in your sleep you're screaming your wife hears you screaming your kids hear you screaming it's so real the image is there it's almost physical but the second you wake up the second you open your eyes it's gone not only is it gone but it was never there so think about what happened for a second what happened is that your mind your one thing in a certain sense I don't mean your desire to see it but your mind set what your mind frame had you picture was a one hundred percent reality but it only existed because your mind the frame was dreaming but the second you stop it's gone so as long as you keep dreaming it's going to be there the second you stop it's going to not be there anymore so that is called and this is something we say the prayers on Rosh Hashanah kaha line yo like a fleeting dream Hashem in a certain sense and again everything we need to understand and clarity and I'm trying as much as I can but the world that I sham created is here because he wants it to be that is presently his mind frame for it to exist but it's reality could stop existing the second that mind frame stops it will evaporate it's gone as long as I Shem wills it to be here it's here that's called Rutzen if I sham wants it to be here it will be here ashim stops kahala no it's like a fleeting dream it's over and really and maybe never existed we are all part of that we are all in that we are part of Hashem is rut sign the will the desire to see us and to see the world as it is now that is Hashem is rut sign and that is the source for everything that exists in again I'm going to use a terminology that's cheaper but Hashem is mindset a sham is my frame of mind right now is that that's what the world should be with me here and you there and this desk here but if God would will it that it shouldn't be if this discussion would not want it to be here or that I shouldn't be here and I wouldn't and you wouldn't so what that means is that the source the mccar for everything is rut saying as I Shems willing it to be but once you get that word Rutzen will desire there's a consequence to that word that means if a sham wants it to exist and obviously he wants it for a reason he expects something from it he wants it to achieve something that rut sign is with an expectation you don't just make things and then say alright whatever I made it I'm out I got more projects no that rut sign is the beginning but it's also the end that rut scene is Hashem is the regime but also the occurring the last what that means is that ultimately from everything that I Shem wants now desires to be here obviously he desires it to be in a certain form in a certain fashion so whatever we have in the world around us whatever our existence includes we need to look at it and assume that there's something here for it and for me to accomplish with it perhaps one way if it's money perhaps it's for me to support myself to give to charity if it's a friend for me to love and to help but there's something for everybody and everything but there's more when we say I Shem is the reshoring the beginning the first and he said he's the Akron what that also tells us is that the consequence the final climax of what that desire from Hashem what the will of God is you want to know what the final the last chapter not the last thing standing do you know what the ultimate goal for everything in the world is Hashem by yahoo yeah on that day will be Hashem ahad he will be one who shmaya hood and his name will be one what that means is that the entire world will unite completely hard body and soul with the oneness of a Shem with the kingdom of a Shem and in essence we will all be one huge part of god of godliness in the world so when we say a Shem is the reshoring we mean he's the source the rut sign the will that gives everything the ability to exist but we also say he's the akron he is the final Hashem alone is the climax of this world and what is meant for it the great achievement the big accomplishment that the rod sign of a Shem that the will of a sham wishes for this world the big desire the reason for everything is the law the hope the aspiration hashem akan push my ahad he alone will be one and we will all unite we will all be part of that oneness so when we say in this honey mom and I believe that I Shem is the regime we mean he is the first he is the source his will his rut sign gives everything its existence but that will has a consequence that will as a price to pay and we're here to pay the price not to pay for it to build it to make it better to make to create a reality that is called Hashem evolution method that's called kiddush Hashem the more that I can help or to use my talents or my abilities to bring out the oneness of a Shem in the world to point to everything that exists and say this is a sham this is a Shem the more that me and you as humans have the ability to accept the mouth of mine to accept the yoke of a shams kingdom of a shams oneness on ourselves then what we're doing is we're uniting with that goal we are accomplishing a shames aspiration for this world which is to be a Shem Akhilesh my aha the more things that you could perceive in the world as relating and coming from the source from the ruts I'm you are being a Makeda changsha mine you are making the world be the world that I shem wanted it to be so if there's any way that you could turn to everything that exists and say Hashem I know you're here Hashem I know you're here you created this you want me to do this I pray to you I serve you because you're in charge that's being part of the great will of a Shem Hashem ahad the words me barra la me bara Ella is a puss again tell him and saw in Psalms who created this this is what in essence of rama v new Abraham our forefather said when he looked at the world and he said who created this where did this all come from and he came to the reality that it's from God me mem you'd and ayla these meaning the ability to look at all these all the plurals all the many wondrous things that exist the billions and trillions of different creations and species in the world to look at all of these Ayla and say me who did it who made it who wanted something from it that creates the me and the Ayla ello Kim together they become ella me you switch around the letters ello Kim God if you want to be able to make the oneness of Russian who levada la que no he alone is a sham by Yamaha gia Shem Akhilesh Mahad when the entire world will recognize in every facet of creation in every part of the world that exists in front of us and not in front of us that it's all from ash a method that will be Hashem is the recien the beginning the source who occurring and he's the final climax the ultimate hope the ultimate dream his dream for the world is that the entire world will recognize hashemi I wish my ahad the LA Kim the god of me borrow Ayla who created this you