"I Searched for Hashem Worldwide and Could Not Find Him", Said a Physicist, and Here is Rabbi Steinman's Brilliant Response

"If we live by faith in everything that happens, faith will become a part of us," says Rabbi Benjamin Birenzweig, illustrating what it means to "live faith".

It happened when the sage Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Steinman was 104 years old and hospitalized. When his condition significantly improved, and he opened his eyes, the doctor caring for him said: "The Rabbi is alive by a miracle!" Rabbi Aharon Leib instantly replied with characteristic wit: "So are you!"

From this, we can learn how distant we are from sensory faith. We wander the world feeling we live because we live, and only a 104-year-old elder who almost passed away and regained consciousness is considered a miracle! Here we see the presence of Hashem. But the truth is that at every moment of our lives, we should see a miracle and faith.

Rabbi Steinman said another formative statement. It happened when a religious Jew entered with his brother, a physicist at a renowned university in the US. The physicist approached Rabbi Steinman and claimed: "I searched for Hashem and couldn't find Him"...

Rabbi Aharon Leib replied: "Look within yourself, and you will find Him! Hashem is not something material that you need to search for with microscopes in your lab... There's no need to travel far; look at your own body, and you will find Hashem. Creation testifies to the Creator! A garment testifies to its weaver!"

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It is told about Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, who once traveled to his teacher Rabbi Shmelke of Nikolsburg for an extended period. When he returned, his father-in-law asked him: "You were already full of Torah and fear of Hashem before you left. What did you learn during this long trip with your teacher?" Rabbi Levi Yitzchak replied: "I learned to know there is a Creator of the world!"

His father-in-law asked: "Did you have to travel far for this? Look here, you can know it too!" He called his maidservant and asked: "Tell me, do you know there is a Creator of the world?" She replied: "Surely!" The father-in-law asked Rabbi Levi Yitzchak: "And what do you say?" He answered: "The difference between her and me is that she says there is a Creator, and I know there is a Creator."

There is faith summed up in saying that we know there is a Creator, and then there is knowing that is true recognition: living the knowledge that there is a Creator.

It is told that when the genius Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz, one of America's great Torah scholars, once looked out the window, his students asked him what he learns from what is outside. He replied: "I am not looking outside; I am looking inside—into the very essence of the wondrous creation, marveling at and enjoying Hashem's creation!"

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