Emuna Greater Than Conviction Through Analysis - The Great Teaching of the Chofetz Chaim

Progress. >> Okay, good morning, friends. Parshas Lech Lecha. Va'ha'emin ba'Hashem va'yachsheveha lo tzedakah. Avram believed in Hashem, and Hashem considered it charity. Chazal tell us Avram Avinu recognized Hashem on his own. And Avram Avinu said that it's analogous to an owner of a palace who he peers out of the window of the palace. To tell you that with all of Avram Avinu's intellectual proofs to the existence of Hashem, he was only praised in his emunah, not because he came to it through intellectual substantiation. It's because he had we'll call it faith. The mashal is a guy's drowning, and he sees a piece of wood. What does he try to do? He's trying as much as possible to get as close to the main stump rather than just grabbing the tips of a branch because the main stump is immutable, is ironclad. If he just grabs a branch, it might break off. The tree of life to those who cling to it throughout the generations, the strong tree that keeps us fastened to the Torah and Hashem more than anything else is the main bar, is the main stump, which is emunah. Banach sick, let us cling to it be the way not to have it happen. In other words, the Hafetz Chaim is differentiating between Abraham Avinu's hakara through intellectual riyos as opposed to we'll call it emunah pshuta. And after all was said and done, Avram was appraised for his emunah more than his personal hakara. And throughout the generations, what have what has kept us afloat more than anything else is the emunah and the emunah pshuta more than the hakara that we come to through our own seichel. Have a good day, everyone. Bracha v'hatzlacha. Kol tuv. >> Recording stopped.