The Ramchal's Essay on Fundamentals - Part 19 - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman

very good so on page 186 we are on the second paragraph this is continuing the topic of miracles which we spoke about some detail yesterday the basic idea is that God created the world god created the natural laws that govern the world God does not and God did so knowing that that was the best way that things should be done and therefore god does not change the normal working of things however of course God certainly does reserved for himself the ability to suspend or to override those laws at any time he ordinarily chooses not to do so because he given normal scenarios God chose the best way that things should be done and that's the way they do that's what it works however there are times when God overrides that natural order of things and that's what we perceive as a miracle and the point that some of the points that we added was that the idea of nests or the nests in Hebrew is like a banner so that's what this is these these miraculous events are standing above the natural working order of things as exceptional cases to the natural order of things and in this way they're like a banner either to say I'm here yes God says or they are simply they stand out as exceptions to the rule of the rules of nature number one another point that we made was that really the whole all of creation and the laws of government creation are certainly themselves also miraculous and therefore we don't tend to view it that way because it becomes very natural to us that the Sun rises and that the Sun sets or that our heartbeats or that birds chirp or that there's a food chain or that there are different influences that regulate climate and so forth and so on that's all natural tones we don't think twice about but the truth is like it says in the Gomorrah he who says that oil should light will have vinegar light which means it's all a miracle and therefore from the from God's point of view there's really no difference between manipulating the physical world according to this set of laws or according to another set of laws all really miraculous and therefore we should we should recognize that Tom and this is ness ness would be there for the kind of bringing forth to the surface the presence of God which is anyway the underlying force behind all of nature and before of creation and that was connected to the point that we made regarding hot eva nature in Hebrew equaling in the gematria the same as a low key God's name for running and governing the natural world this is not about we spoke about miracles until now volim te hace ness Lodi Anita's jajaja so via culto web sha sha say oh the fish Chicago's massive o by mikasa dava extra sheet en mousse agus with nicholas the fish Artemis a vineyard Oh Emma for some we're sure she a the fee and Mr of our fiscal house shovel so this is quite a long sentence let's start do it piece by piece balam he's giving hear the different reasons why God would do a miracle and the different forms in which those new miracles could take place the first one is vu la ma sha sha Shan s lo de dos jajaja the vehicle tow the whole purpose of the miracle might be in order for God to make known his Providence and his power over creation just lets people forget God less people think that God is not able to control creation so God might decide in order to make known and strengthen either an individual or community or humanity with the notion of his presence and his ability to rule the world God will do a miracle for that purpose versace hace will defeat chicago samassa who God might do the miracle just because the miracle is needed it's considered to be proper appropriate and beneficial that this miracle take place it might be through some divine miraculous intervention which saves one individual's life which is not which is something that other people might not even know about at all other than this person so it's not about making known to people God's providence or demonstrating his power over creation of course the purpose is not to satisfy God's ego as it were to show he his providential care over the world and has the power to do something about it but rather like we said the point is to make it known to human beings whether a group of individuals or large group of individuals for their benefit or or it could be that God just sees that it's been fitting to do a particular miracle for an exceptional reason like I said it might be to save one person's life where nobody might not know about it at all in fact a person himself might not even know about it but he's never left miraculously spared the story about a particular anti-semite who had a Jew in his neighborhood who regularly walked by his house on his way to work and day after day this non jew the semi anti-semite had these feelings of hatred animosities he saw the jew passes home till one day that you know what I'm gonna get rid of this Jew we decided to do was you could drew an X on the sidewalk underneath his roof where the Jew walks by every day and he got to the roof of the cinderblock right and the Jew comes walking down as the moment he approaches over that X yeah the guy let's go the the cinderblock crashes down the sidewalk and lo and behold the Jews walking past on the sidewalk how did that happen you couldn't believe it what happened was that the last second God caused the gust of wind to come and blew the Jews hat off his head he did deviated from his past to go pick up his hat and then went back onto his path leaving the crushed stone behind yeah a miracle God intervened through the power of nature to save this person's life in a way that you didn't even know about it even know about yeah so this would be an example of that type of a thing vomito said of our FDA musaeus the nicklaus the phpbb chatima say and as far as the truth of the matter of the miracle itself it's possible that it's something which will be conceived and be revealed according to the simple observation of what has happened and what has been made known we're sure she a the fear mr. ova it's possible the miracle is really something which is hidden something which is not revealed vs Larry hajna huggable and has to do with the more mysterious providential workings of things involved here so it could be well known it could be hidden Bev showed share the Tommy McAdam and Robin built-in Usagi milano cloud the miracle meaning God's exceptional intervention and manipulation of nature might be four reasons above and beyond what it appears to us to be the reason Vinick fargi Christian circles bogu nisi muggy day Avada vuckovic no it's also true that God does miracles through those individuals who are very close to him his servants Larissa Kiba shumakov of I saw him back off sure most of the hem in order to show his delight and his pleasure with them in so far as he transfers to them the power of doing these miracles the oyster multi- bria like it says in the more exotic goes there Akash maha mcian yes the righteous person decrees and God fulfills so that God actually enables those who are close with him the righteous and the pious and the pure to be involved in the miraculous running of God in the world so that a righteous person might pray for example on behalf of another person become well and the person is cured lo and behold a miracle God is performing a a natural miracle through the venue of the side who caffeine madrid awesome bacova love and according to the level of closeness that the person has to guard his ba carry a coke on the shiatsu algodon nice even if loss so right to that extent the person will have the power to do these miracles in these wondrous things yeah would that necessarily could that be like giving motion as an example motivated the power to like do a miracle I when he sees when he decides it's time for it or just acting through this solid to wait that is who wouldn't necessarily be able to choose when the miracle needs I think it's I think it's both I think it's both um that's my understanding or means the the first side I think that you said but but but I think it's both meaning yes God when he wants to intervene in the running of the world in Iraq euless way can do it independent of a person of course but God can also perhaps do it through an individual and in so doing gain glory and and and what's worth looking for what's that the attention she has to to this righteous person and in this way demonstrate his love and his closest to that person but I think he's saying much more than that that God actually empowers that sadiq the righteous and the pure to be able to perform as it were miracles in order to show people that God right bestows his power on this person because his person his beloved to him and you're choosing very good example I think would be ma che or in other words what's your point in other words God wanted to God want to redo the Jewish people you want to subdue Pharaoh so he chose Moshe as a venue through which to do that but it wasn't really emotionally was deciding what to do God told Moses pick up your staff right or hit the see the world the water or do this or that or the other so what you're saying is that would be actually God's decided that he wants to perform a miracle for example shows on how to braid hell yeah Annie Annie Annie include ma che in it for the purpose of what of showing his his love for moshe gaining Moshe respect and recognition I can feel example swear lay beyond that word it actually would be an individual's decision to bring about miracle he's been I forget the pain thing go together just right off the bat like there was a wall I told him like something about tilting in love every time at the stop tilting yeah and is that you know my god yeah is there a couple documented yeah yeah yeah really people like ask for the miracle to happen it happen I would call it similar to the lighting the vinegar instead of oil that you're asking for the miracle and it's not deserving of it but not actually doing it yourself you never do yourself yeah he's not trying to say you never say brother same page now yeah but but but I think that your distinction is still relevant distinction which is that sometimes God can choose to do the miracle and he can also choose to do it to the venue of human being but there are also times when a person can of his own volition initiate the miracle which is basically fueled by God in which case you know presumably it wouldn't have happened other aside from the fact that this person kind of initiated so if the not too long ago for example we spoke about lee allen ave calling the false prophets up to Mount Carmel in order to have a contest there in order to demonstrate to the Jewish people who their allegiance should be with right it was it was the prophet who called them um I don't recall that it was God who said to Elijah call and make an assembly on cam well and there I am going to sanctify my name but rather he himself pharmacol makati say uh where do you want to go thing not here's the keys you drive yeah so so he was you sure that's okay it's like a movie like destroy your relationship with someone attock to a sham the more you have wound to ask like also you know it's just the way it works the board we got through the ask and also the more the more the more God cooperates so that uh Elijah in Le ow made this pyre he offered the sacrifice and he basically crystallized a miracle fire came out of heaven and burned the sacrifice I mean he initiated the Merkel a little funny like like the you think I like you know somebody initiating miracles and people kyla but that's the thing about these two Deacon was that there's such a high level that Latino it's not that at all it's really just right right right know about to play with it yeah not to play with a tourney you know not to get the credit the credit for it it's already questioned them so of course I shine like this yeah the boom the only problem is you know they might consider that even though they know very clearly that it's all a sham the observer might come to give respect honor glory and even a tribute power to the person himself so he might refresh religion yeah so he might refrain from using his power of miracles in order to avoid misleading other people and causing other people too and you know there are kind of documented stories about this type of thing as well that city can actually refrained from doing things which would be perceived as their miraculous intervention with the working of things because they felt that people would come to give them credit rather than God or truly to them power and recognition more than they were comfortable with so they refrained from doing so yeah probably time they're like using natural processes something made very obviously yeah that's also true certain subtlety yeah yeah yeah that's a good point again there's a my sir I don't remember who the rebbe was but there was a couple who didn't have we didn't have children so they decided that they were going to go to the Rebbe Rabbi and ask ask for a bracha for children so he went into the Rebbe and the rebbe heard the complaints of this couple they were all there already and of course it was a very sensitive issue and the wife was very upset and they came and they asked the rebbe please please help us have children and so forth and so on and the rabbi kind of thought for a minute and he said you know this is a very serious request something like that's going to cost you a lot of money money that's not something they thought about the rabbi's asked me for money for his blessing how much you told him something exorbitant amount of money and so the wife of a sudden I'm very upset kind of business is that coming as a rally for helping no this despair and anguish and he has insensitivity to ask us for money and then so much so he pulls her husband out of the rebbes room is it means it ready we're gonna let what play ourselves so they went and they prayed with a great fervor that the child so afterwards are kind of with that it was a blessing so yeah so afterwards kind of the word the word got out that this happened with you and the rebbe explained that that was exactly why he didn't want to give the broho because he realized that they were relying on him and they thought that he was going to be a somehow giving him the child and he didn't want that he wanted them to rely on their own belief and faith in God and pray out fervently in God and that's why he constructed he orchestrated this whole was horrible interaction is if he wanted the money and exhort amount of money in order to like I said disconnect them from from him they shouldn't rely on him and have faith in him and think that the child is coming in and the power of their pure faith they don't need and they can do themselves right with God their prayers were answered so why do we ask becca from hot on so we asked you know we asked the bracha from the hot on you know for for certain reasons and i'll tell that and we'll say that in a minute yeah but the groom okaasan yeah but but even there we have to realize of course that the brokers are being you know the the the the prayer the blessing is coming from a shell of course it's not coming from the heart on why do we direct its specific to the hot on on the day of his wedding and why did we ask him a month before and why don't we ask him a month later why specifically earth day because look more says that that uh the deposit on the day of his casa de is nymphal coven ahs column you know so he all his transgressions are removed oh so the point is since he's so pure he has no trans no transgressions he's especially beloved in the shims eyes number one number two he's also in this very this very wonderful position of sheva where karishma who is bringing him his soul mates on that day and there's tremendous divine blessing over the over what's happening to him in his life now so for because of his purity and because of the special divine providence over him at this dave is marriage from such important day he becomes connected like a conduit like a source like a channel through which the blessing of a sham can come and so we asked that brought the brother from the husband's visited on the day we don't ask him a few months earlier we don't ask him a few months later it specifically on that day why because because he's free of sin and because the the whole aura of divine favor is surrounding this person who's being a hot time and therefore it's propitious for having the blessings received but when a person does that of course he has to realize that it's really coming of course it's coming from a Shem with an ordinary horse on a person's less likely to be confused about that but with it sonic a person might think it's that solid who's answering my prayer it's that sadiq who's doing it for me and forget that it's really a shame it was a story out a particular person who who needed a refuah and he was uh he was like deathly sick everybody was like he went he went so he went to show and he was asking people what should i do and whatever and this one says you know what ask Abraha from my ready he's the greatest static and this is no no no come to my reverie my rabies the great inside of you for asking me all of your prayers will be answered and the other one no no you have to come to lie to my ready my baby is the greatest a tiki anything he says yeah happens so the guy was in dire straits yeah he decided to go to all the rabi's he got him over this one and from this one and from this one and lo and behold he got well so then everybody started arguing all the Hasidim started arguing it was my rabies Braha no one's your red it was my baby's bottle works the other was as yours are you guys talking about my rabies brothers the one that made the guy better yes it started argument so the guy was confused when idea which rabies brah so we went to Rabbi expressly situation what's going on here yeah who's blues brother who's bracha really helped so I tell you secret it's really a cottage for who made you well only nebach unfortunately he doesn't have any Hasidim who doesn't have any hidden yeah so so that's the point yeah people can get can get into this whole mentality and mindset where it's the rabbi in its at sadiq and it's the holy man and he does and he prays and he'd makes and he this and that and the other and that's dangerous business over there yeah you have to realize that it ain't all Nevada and only comes from college park oh yes yes and that Sadiq himself if he's a true sadak knows that he's only a channel as we mentioned um the for Karen it's because he empties himself of self that he becomes a channel all right only the problem is that other people don't recognize that and they'll come to come to ascribe powers to him which are really the powers of a cottage Babu so that siddiqui might refrain from being actively and openly involved in helping people as a channel if they feel that that it's actually going to distract and deflect people's commitment and enthusiasm from God from God yeah I make it refrain from doing it in an open in an open an open type of away in any case the the whole point you know the whole point of bringing together Hassan and calendar the copper is it is a tremendous tremendous scenario of sheva and you're talking about literally the coming into the bring into fruition the purpose of creation for these two people and therefore it's that kind of that point of contact between the Causton and kala meaning not only physically but spiritually is a tremendous manifestation of sheva of divine blessing and therefore he is he and also she the cut the call as well are very pivoting poised to share of that Braco that sheffer with other people uma Klaus a ha onion included in this matter shaheen a rut saw don't borrow the car Eva's shamash on him oh I was thinking about this point myself which was these missing that did that take place through the tzadik or you know to what extent is it they kind of the gods fulfilling their will and to what extent is dependent on that sadhaks ability to pronounce divine names and manipulate spiritual forces in that way so that's I think what is getting out here in this in this last paragraph who McLouth aaeon included in this phenomenon of God fulfilling miracles or performing miracles in order to fulfill the will of the sadak included in this is she here are taught embargo the car by shamu Shannon it was God's will that he be referred to by different names cafecito a hospice shamash p LOL amo Basha Manik according to the specific form of Chef of abundance and influence that God wants to bring down into his world Vaughn oh gosh a manic and a particular rulership which she expresses so different divine names express different forms of divine influence in the world and different forms of divine rulership over the world voom nom lots of the hawk hawk shabako action MOS abaka Doshi and therefore god desired and he decreed that through the power of these particular holy names but his quran when they are pronounced yes I'll tissue gum can nif los lobos bölüm there will become renewed very wondrous influences in the world so that for example that sadak might not just pray that this person get well or express his desire that the person get well such that God miraculously fulfills that sadhaks will that this person be better but that it's ah tiko could also pronounced divine names which had to do with the power and influence of remedy in the world and therefore right it's more specific than just God's fulfilling the will of the righteous it's the righteous ability to actually manipulate power spiritual powers which pervade the world and use them for good so there are names of angels which are associated with for example curing and healing Rafael for example other types of divine names and things like this so that the Saudi kemar not just asking God to perform a miracle but they're actually more specifically manipulating the forces of refuah in the world or the same thing might go for par NASA or 40 soulmates or for whatever else they're trying to do interact and help intercede on behalf of the world mulan hillock vicita huh drawing by hoffman if law all of these matters were organized with a wondrous wisdom the shahnshah gula excuse me the samsa gula behold shenda Shem and God placed a special power in each and every name commercial Gaza Hamas according to was according to what was decreed by his wisdom laham busker also in order to draw down through his recitation of this name harsh boss a Hema these particular influences Sheridan through which is naturally flow Estella there will be renewed these these influences into the world so we find for example even on Yom Kippur when the Kohen Gadol would mention the Shem Emma flourish the divine name you'd cave I've k and all of the conium and all the people that were there listening heard that name they fell on their faces and they cried out right bush voluntarily or involuntarily hey I think even in voluntarily yeah that they were so Austrian by the power that was infused into the community as the Kohen Gadol impurity pronounced this name and as he pronounced his name people were awestruck and they fell on their faces they pronounce the glory of God so what the clown gola was doing and yom kippur was bringing down an influence of power of God in order to bring about a spirit of chuva of repentance upon the people and they all fell flat out frustrated yes prostrated themselves before God so much so that were told empirical all of us said the tremendous miracle took place there were so many people packed in the area of the base of my gosh that for every three people one was lifted off his feet because he was crushed by the other two that's how packed it was yeah but when they heard the Divine Name the ineffable name we need the unpronounceable name which doesn't mean to say it cannot be pronounced it can phonetically be pronounced but it's something which were not allowed to do only once a year by the conga line yom kippur did he pronounces divine name and at that time such a spirit of humility entered the people that when they fell down in repentance like this while standing they were so cramped when the paragraph has told us a mere took place that literally every person who was lying flat out had a distance of four almost around so that each could repent and say his confessions privately without another person hearing I never heard the four of us around or during when I was kind of all said and the unpronounceable me is like during Evita and the Elena when it's time to prostrate yourself yeah so here they actually did what's called P shoot your diver gleim was not only they bowed but they were flat-out hands and feet spread like this and there was enough space between everybody that each one could be involved in his own personal confessions without being embarrassed at the thought that the person next time hurt and all this was through the power of the congos pronouncing that name in purity so this is the type of thing that we're talking about the influence that can be brought down into the world the sheva that can be brought down the road through the righteous that silicon is pronouncing the difference of the of the Divine in chico and God will pronounce this name 10 times during yom kippur 10 times three times during each of the confessions that he made either for him in his household his fellow konam and the Jewish people those are three different confessions he made on behalf of those three categories and during each category he pronounced the Divine Name the chemin move Farage the name you'd hey involve in hey as it's pronounced phonetically I'm announce it three times each for total of nine and then he pronounced it a tenth time when he made the girl roll out the how do you say girl out in English loss thank you yeah the Lots between the the the the goat that would be offered for the Yom Kippur service and the scapegoat which was tossed toppled over off the cliff and and and that's the that's the the 10th time that he mentioned this Gemma Farage and there was a miracle that took place that there was a scarlet thread that was hung in the basin Mick dodge and when that ser la gizelle the scapegoat was tossed over the cliff and dismembered and the Jewish people's transgressions were there for disembodied and nullified they became purified from their transgressions this red string that was hanging in Jerusalem far away from where the gold had been tossed but we're actually turned white as it says that God will make our sins which worse like scarlet white pure as white yeah but that all depended on the holiness of the Kohen Gadol in later years when the corn Donald's position was not acquired by being voted in by his fellow kahani who were it's a deacon but rather it was a paid position yeah paid in what way through bribery and Jews were paying the Roman authorities for the honor of becoming the corn gödel but it was not earned through one's righteousness purity and sanctity so there the name of God was not pronounced and it didn't if it was it didn't have the proper effect nor did the atonement a place and the right the red thread did not become white and and actually more often than not the Kohen Gadol didn't make it past yom kippur because when he went into the holy of holies he was out of place there and he died yes and they had to tie ropes around his waist in order to talk him out of there in the event that he wouldn't make it which has happened in the majority of cases in the latter years of the base of Mick dodge when the clinic when there when the cut of the Corn Belt was not in the level that he should be shouldn't be pronouncing those divine names and he should have been in the Holy of Holies given his lack of holiness the college deduction was a missing something inside the base anything yeah i was missing the honor code ish so does that with the point still die if you went in um yeah yeah I mean it's still it's still the place of the Holy of Holies yeah you know this said that the Holy of Holies it clutters good a shame and a person who would go in there would be high of Charis and meaning yeah movie 25 cars aside from the corn cuddle on Yom Kippur if he was taller but but since the coining like I said we're not befitting to to do the service they were rejected from it and they died and that just shows you how much the pursuit of honor and glory can how far I can push a person even though they knew that in the past and it is would probably be the case with them they probably wouldn't make it through Yom Kippur still being the corn gödel until Yom Kippur yeah it was worth paying all that money even though they knew that they probably died that's how infused they were with jealousy and with with with desire for power recognitions only she was that that's rightfully yeah I don't know if that would work but it's true that before Yom Kippur they would appoint a secondary Korengal offend happened to the first so it could be that some guy said you know I'll be coming go to yom kippur every I'm Carol disqualify myself and let somebody else to do it but but that was that was the that was the glory that was the the EOD yes that was the highest far the highest experience in corridor rule which distinguished him from anybody else was the ability to serve on Yom Kippur and the Holy of Holies polym is that through this is this desire for power and recognition and so forth and so on people will be actually willing to sacrifice their lives which many did the question when study of the host additionally when does the screen actually rest is it right after everything put in place or as soon as they can that's an excellent question but yeah yeah that's an excellent question the discussion about that regarding whether since you're allowed to build the Holy of Holies by people who are not calling and even if their tummy we learn that together didn't we learn together if if if there's no if there's no way of getting tarconi there's a hierarchy of who you can use ending up with even people who are impure impure non konam their lot to do that for the person's ability the basic dodge the question is what do they do between completing building it yeah and getting out there permitted to be there for the purpose of building but once it's built right when does the the kedusha when is the kedusha actually found yeah the condition begins when the the last daughter's birth the place yeah all over they leave yeah as I no one should be punished for building because yeah but on the other hand I would expect no one should be in time a for preparing a part I do not either and that's not the case yeah yeah so I don't have a clear answer for that one I don't have a clear answer whether it could very well be that the holiness takes place as soon as it's completed but a special dispensation is made that's also part of building even though they're not building but part of building is finishing building and getting out so that may not held that but there's such a thing as inaugurating the the temple and it could be that that's the that's the time in which it really becomes fully operative with the Shekinah okay let's end here let you guys have time to get to that class consider those Auto Show you