THE TRUTH OF HASHEM ALWAYS COMES OUT IN THE END

All of the biggest scientists, when they reached the furthest point of their wisdom, no matter what it was that they were dealing with, they discovered the truth of the Torah.

The Ramban (Nachmanenis) wrote that there are 50 wisdoms in the world, among them are The wisdom of music, medicine and astronomy. All of these are different Wisdoms that Hashem created and all have the Torah at the center of them all. All of these wisdoms are derived from the Torah.

If you never give up and continue until the end and be loyal to the truth, you will find the truth of the Torah.

This is a very important and fundamental pursuit of attaining true wisdom. Many people in the non-religious world think there's a contradiction. According to science, it's not true. those people, don't completely understand the wisdom of science. Conversely the religious say, according to the Torah, you cannot learn science because they don't really understand the Torah.

The Vilna Gaon who was one of the greatest Rabbis in the past few hundred years wrote that if someone wants to have completed wisdom, he will have to learn all of the wisdom of the world and obviously the Torah and then everything will complete each other. Other Big Rabbunim learned science and other knowleges from Torah .

Vilna Gaon was on such a high level that he was able to learn all kinds of the wisdom of the world.

He wrote the book, Al Meshulash, about engineering and calculations of all triangles. I never read this book, but it is part of one of the books that I have on my to-read list, one day maybe I will get to learn it.

We see that everything goes along with the Torah and nothing is contrary to the Torah.

Ramchal was one of those unique individuals that was able to know all the Torah as well as all different types of wisdom.

It says there's a letter that one of his friends wrote about him to one of the biggest sages of the generation describing that this boy is 18 years old and knows all of the Mishna and all of the Gemara, all of the kabbalah and in addition to this he knows how to read people's faces.

TORAH TOTALLY ENCOMPASSES ALL ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSE

After the Ramchal learned all of the Torah, he learned all kinds of different wisdoms such as science and poetry. Also, He wrote all kinds of plays and different things that normally Rabbis don't deal with but he was able to deal with them. He was one of the unique people who were able to cull from the science the truth of the Torah.

He had the power to sort out the truth of the world and its creation. He believed he can prove the Torah from any angle given. He could prove the Torah according to physics, astronomy, medicine, music, whatever it is that you want him to prove, it can be done.

What he wants to do here in this book is to give you the introductions that are the inheritance of Am Yisrael from generation to generation.

NOTHING CAN EXIST OUTSIDE OF THE EXISTENCE OF HASHEM

Ramchal says that in the quantum reality there's nothing other than the existence of God. When you look upon what is essential within the things around you there's no way you can deny the existence of Hashem.

I will give a parable related to this. We have this book here on the shelf. Can we live without it? Yes. Let's say There's a special person you heard about, can we live without knowing him, If he will leave and go to a different community? Can we survive? Yes, we can survive. Is there something that you take out of our life and we won't be able to survive? There is one thing. It's Hashem. Without Hashem, there is no existence. The one thing that is the most fundamental, and the only essential thing In the existence of all of the reality is God the creator.

Hashem doesn't need any part of the reality to enable his existence. All of creation needs his existence to exist. Everything needs Hashem to be able to exist itself. But Hashem doesn't need anything else besides himself to exist.

In Hebrew Pashut means simple but in the language of the Torah, hitpashut is expanding of the existence of Hashem. It is something that is pashut. It's not something that is complex. It's not something that is limited in a certain structure. It is unlimited. Expanding of the different kinds of completion is found within Hashem.

Many people get confused by the different names of Hashem. There are many different names. This introduction he is presenting here tells us not to get confused by those understandings because all of those names may also be misconstrued as limitations.

He's presenting a certain quality within the existence of Hashem, for example, let's say I take a person that has all of the different skills of literature, art, fighting, medicine and music and all kinds of different things.

I present him to you. I tell you, you see this person, he knows how to cook very well. and That's all I say about him. Yet there's so much more than that to say about him. Why would I make this limitation? The truth is that he can do much more than that. The reason I only enumerated one of his good traits is that I cannot tell you all of the different qualities at one time. I'm simply saying something good about him. Even though it's not the only thing but at least I said something good about one of his qualities. When we are calling Hashem with all of the different kinds of names, nicknames, all kinds of phrases it gives us the ability to say something good about Hashem.

HASHEM IS ABOVE AND BEYOND ANY DESCRIPTION OF HIM

The Torah is giving us permission to say something related to Hashem in a certain way. Even though it's not fully descriptive. But it's something. We could not have the permission to place a limitation on Hashem but since the Torah is doing it in referring to Hashem we can do it.

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