When Logic Ends: Why the Torah Has Chukim | Rabbi Yosef Benyaminov

There are three categories of mitzvot. Number one, eduyot, from word edut, which means testimony. >> [music] >> Its mitzvot in this category are representing something else. For example, the keeping Shabbat >> [music] >> as a testimony that Hashem created the world in six days and seventh day he rested. >> [music] >> We We eat matzah on Pesach zecher l'tzeitam Mitzrayim, in memory of how we ate matzah in Egypt. So, that's the first category. Second [music] category is called chukim. The parashat chukat speaks about [music] the most famous chok, which means something that which we don't understand. It's a beyond logic. It's chok of parah adumah, [music] the red cow. When somebody becomes tameh, met, he touches a dead body or was in the same room as a dead [music] body, he has to go through a whole process with the ashes of the red cow. And thirdly, is mishpatim, [music] laws that do make sense, like don't kill and don't steal. The question commentators will know, why should there be second category? [music] Why can't just all mitzvot make sense to us? After all, God created us and he gave [music] us neshama that is in our brain that understands things. Why is it that >> [music] >> the even Hamelech, King Solomon, did not even know the reason for the [music] parah adumah, for the red cow? And the answer is about time because Hashem wants us to understand, no matter how smart we are, how wise [music] we are, we still won't understand everything in life. Because at the end of the day, we have to rely on our emunah and bitachon. [music] Why is this happening? Why so much anti-Semitism? Why did Trump Gustav all sudden go against Israel? Why this? Why that? You know why? Because that's what Hashem wanted. [music] And you have to rely on Hashem to that he knows what he's doing. Right? We won't always understand in our own personal life, either. Why this person did this to me? Why am I losing in business? Why I got person is getting divorced? [music] Whatever it is, you need to have that understanding that as much as I know, >> [music] >> I don't know. That's where Emunah and Bitachon comes in, where knowledge and understanding ends, Emunah and Bitachon begins. [music]