Hello my dear fellow classmates,
i would like to talk about the fact that in Perek Bet it is pretty much proven that man is needed in order to put the potential created into action. Perek Alef states teh basic things taht are created but in Perek Bet it shows us that man is needed in order to "activate" what was created. There was vegetation, but man needs to work the land in order to turn it from potential to actual.
In addition, man gives us such power and responsibility by claiming taht we were created Bezelem Elokim and taht we are not like teh animals and are above them. My question is the following: why would god give us so much power and control? If human beings are powerful and have control over their own lives they often tend to forget god's role and his presence. This is proven throughout history and even today. When teh African Americans were enslaved and were forced to live in cruel and horrible conditions, they were very pious and believed in god(and did that awesome clapping and singing stuff.) They needed god because they were so miserable and having faith in him perhaps relieved their pain and gave them hope. However, nowadays we often tend to forget gods presence in every single thing taht we do. We do not appreciate him because we have so much power and control over our own lives. It is only wehn god takes something from us and causes us to have no control over something taht we really remember his might and power over us. Therfore i would like to know why god would risk giving us such responsibility and power wehn the chances are very high taht we will abuse taht power and forget god compltely?!
I'm not sure if this would be helpful, but I feel like giving an example that I thought of just now. Let's say there is a mother that really likes being a mother; she likes that her baby needs her and loves her. She realizes that since her kid doesn't know how to do things, he would ask her to help him and she would be happy. But eventually that kid has to grow up. The kid will still love his mother, but he's going to be doing stuff on his own now. He needs to remember to love his mother even when times are regular.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't that good. Anyways, basically what I was trying to say was that things shouldn't be bad for us to turn to God. It is a fault. It's like Yonah! Truly, though, the point is, is that even when we are given all this freedom and all this power,we should still recognize who is in charge.
It is harder to recognize Hashem when times are good than when times are bad. But that's exactly what we should be doing; that is what is important.