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Why is this? Because when you look at the universe, especially the discoveries made in recent years, you discover its enormous and unimaginable size. Certainly that of one system such as our solar system, and most assuredly and definitely the size of the stars which surround us.
Even one constellation like the Milky Way, spanning a hundred thousand light-years, is inconceivable. When you go further and look even farther away, five million light-years away, you can see the local group of galaxies, thirty in number, which make up one group, and fifty million light-years away you can find another.
Thus, when you understand that there are billions of galaxies, each with billions of suns, and each sun has many stars surrounding it, and everything is organized and conducted regularly with unfathomable intensity, you are capable of a much more comprehensive view. If we think of the gravitational pull of merely one star system, and the enormous force that holds so many stars in one orbit, looking at it gives some proportion to God and His Power, far beyond our grasp.
The splitting of the Red Sea, with all its magnitude and intensity, was a specific, one-time event. When we look at what is close to us, it opens our eyes to see what is happening on the highest heights, and then we realize that to His Greatness and Prowess are incomprehensible. When you contemplate this, you literally see God, and this is called the Awe of God.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu
Chief Rabbi of Tzfat. Son of Rishon Letzion RH"G Mordechai Eliyahu zt"l.
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
