Va'eira - The Faith To Be An Atheist

Hi, this is Davidski and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we give you an insight into the para para vra. So uh we get down to business and we have seven of the macos. The first seven are in this parish. The next three are next week. Denm Oh, it goes on. But anyway, uh I'm going to take the third one, Kenim, because Moshe and Aron turned the water into blood and theim are also able to turn water into blood. And Mosha and Aon summon the frogs from out of the river. and the Kumim are also able to summon the frogs out of the river. And then Moshe says to Aaron, "Watch this trick. Hit the sand and the sand turns into lice and the lice get all over them and start eating them up." And theim try this trick too and it does not work. says, "They tried with their magic to bring out the lice. They couldn't do it. This is the finger of God." Hashem. Okay, he didn't listen. But he, the magicians, the sorcerers, they said, "Listen, this is the finger of God." So at that point, there's nothing left to say. We know now that this is not magic. We know that there are uh miracles. So how come we ever find the again? But we do. We find them in other macos still playing. At this point, Pyro should say, "Well, I'm done. This is clearly not magic because magic doesn't work on, as Rashi says, anything smaller than a barley corn." So, the fact that you're able to produce lights can't possibly be because of black magic. So, how do we explain this? So you'll notice the use of the word when Moshe comes to parro he keeps saying Hashem. Yeah. He says, "Hashem has sent me." And parro responds. He did not recognize Hashem. Yeah, the God of Israel. And in fact, the Medish says he pulled out a directory, a god directory. And he's reading through the different gods and he says, "I'm sorry. I don't see Yud V here anywhere." And Mosha says, "That's cuz you're looking for someone who's alive in a cemetery." Yeah, God's a living God. He's not like all your gods that are dead. So the whole time here is saying to parrom yeah and if not this will come that will come but the whole time it's but when they can't replicate the lies they don't say yud v this is the finger of hashem they say this is the finger of elim now what does that mean so the mafaram explain that even among they recognized elim there was a master god who brought the world into existence and then he turned over the running of the world to a pantheon of gods. But the pantheon of gods were under no illusion that they created the world or for that matter that they created themselves, right? They are distinctly human. Uh they they get married, they have children, there's half half gods, demigods. I mean, they're pretty clear as to what their uh their positions are. So what's the what's the idea of an Elohim? Elohim created the world and created everything else. And then the gods run it. So when the lice suddenly appeared, they said, "This is not black magic. This is Elohim, not Hashem, the master god who works the universe." Because the minor gods can't do this. The master god who runs the universe somehow decided to turn the dust into lice and Mosha and Aaron want to take credit for it. Why? Because kenim was the first maka where there was no hassra. There was no warning. And because of that they can say oh mo didn't predict this. Every third marker there was no warning because I'm warning you once I'm warning you twice. third time. Bam. I don't have to warn you. And then I'll warn you once, I'll warn you twice. Third time, bam. So there was no warning here. So he says, I can't explain why Elohim decided to do this, but has nothing to do with Mosha Aron. This is not Hashem. Because such is the power that when people do not want to accept the reality or to believe there's always an opportunity to disbelieve. Um Dr. Gerald Schroeder who has two PhDs one in physics and one in oceanography he was talking about all the theor theories in cosmology and evolution and he made a statement that was very profound. He said, "You can still be an atheist today, but it takes a lot of faith." And so, anyone who wants to disbelieve always will have that opportunity. But we see what takes place and in the bria and see the nissim that hashem does and that gives us our sense of amuna. Shabas.