know there is a G-d! (6 minutes)
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1:29Not that they believed that I am Hashem, they knew I am Hashem. This is something very, very different. There's a significant difference between those two words. Every religion in the world, whether it's Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and everything else, is based on faith. Someone said that something happened, and you have to believe it because they say so. Believe, believe. Why did this happen to me? Believe it's for the good. How could I prove Hashem? Just believe He's there. How do I know this? Believe, believe. If you go to a doctor or you go to a scientist and you tell them, listen, you did this experiment or you're going to do this surgery. Do you know if you're going to succeed? And they say, no, I believe I'm going to succeed. What's the difference between the two words? If I believe I'm going to succeed, that means there's a certain part of me that says there's a chance I may not. Meaning there's a certain part of me that says that I don't really know. I hope. Hope, believe. Believe means hope with a lot of ambition. I believe, I'm confident that it's going to happen, but I don't know for sure. To know...
2:51It means that it's a fact, that there is no other way. So Hashem says, unlike what everyone tells you, which is to believe in God, in every single verse in the Torah, with the exception of one time, Hashem says, I want them to know that I am God, not to believe that I am God. Meaning that I gave them enough tools in the Torah and around the world and different things that we have in creation. I gave them enough words. I gave them enough things in creation that should provide you with sufficient tools to know that I am God, to know that there is a God—not just to believe that there is a God. Whether it's through science or through spirituality.
3:52several other ways that you can try, if you search enough, you can confirm a hundred percent that there is a God. One of the things that people have difficulty with as far as believing in God is that people believe they know science. And anytime you hear a few things about science, people think they heard something in class, they heard something in school, and they think that just because they heard a scientist say something, and he has a degree and a doctor before his name or a PhD after his name, it makes him right. And they think that just because they heard that some scientist said something, and he has a degree, and he has "Doctor" before his name or a "PhD" after his name, that makes him right. Unfortunately, what most people don't know is that the vast majority of science is theoretical. Theory, by definition, means it's a guess. It's just an educated guess. So, when somebody says the theory of relativity, or the scientific theory that they have about the Darwin theory, or quantum theory, or any of these other theories that they have, it's an idea that somebody has made—an educated guess—that they think this is what happened. They can't prove it 100%. They believe this happened. Theory.
5:17Unfortunately, when people are uneducated, they think that just because somebody mentioned a theory and happens to have a title like "Doctor" on their business card, or perhaps they have certain physical attributes like a specific hairstyle or a beard, or they present themselves in a particular way and even wear a suit, that automatically makes them right. If only they would spend just a little bit of time... looking on Google, what theory means, or even if they ask that person or something, just read about the theory itself, they would see that this is just a guess. Unfortunately, people don't do that. People don't spend much time doing research. They just assume that what people say is right. One of the things I told you guys when we first started this shiur, and I try to tell you all the time, is that anything that we read or discuss here, I encourage you to go check for yourself. Why? Because you shouldn't just take my word for it. Maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe I'm making it up. That's why some of the sources that I have, whether it's the book from Zamir Cohen, or Torah, or Midrashim, or anything like that, I always tell you guys the sources after, before, during. So you go check it yourself. See where the source is. If I'm lying, then you know I'm lying. You shouldn't come again. If I'm not lying, you see it's right. This should be something that should cause you to change. Something.
