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Garden of Knowledge 25 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Dalton of knowledge. Share number 25.
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  The next scene of the creation narrative tells us that Hashem
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  said, let the waters swarm with swarming living creatures and
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  fowl that fly over the Earth and across the Horizon.
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  Now, shame created the great sea serpents.
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  Every living being that creeps, which is the waters swarmed with
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  etc, etc. Hashem saw that, it was good, a
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  sham blessed them and saying prove who be fruitful and
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  multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the foul shall
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  increase on the earth. There was morning, there was
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  evening. Yum gamma XI fifth day.
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  When are you would have realized that we're looking at the deeper
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  understanding of all? These narratives, not, not The
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  Superficial not the simplistic, the Tara teaches, that man is
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  the most important of creations and therefore he was created
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  last. The animals were created as a
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  preparation for him to help Humanity.
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  With all of our needs providing us with labor and food and
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  transportation, clothing shoes, whatever.
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  Really we need, we are allowed to use from the Animal Kingdom.
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  What's interesting is the connection between us, the
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  terror also elaborates on, animal rights and Prevention of
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  Cruelty to animals like every other creation, each animal has
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  a specific purpose according to the mystics and the Zohar, the
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  purpose of every creation is to help heighten our awareness of
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  the Creator. The person begins to get close
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  to Hashem soon as he realizes how sorely limited you we all
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  are and then we're dependent on us.
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  Time for everything. But we forget that and our
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  arrogance, and our egos get in the way and we see ourselves as
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  being so vital to the success of every project.
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  So so necessary. Such a clever, we know that but
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  Hashem created many ways to get us thinking to get us back on
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  track. And one of these is the Animal
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  Kingdom. So yeah, this is a new way of
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  thinking about it. The animal kingdom is there to
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  help us to connect with Hashem. A person's fear of animals,
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  quickly deflates his arrogance, bring his ego back to a level of
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  humility where it should be. We're scared that something will
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  happen because we know we're not then we fill up a not in control
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  but then we realize that there is a God.
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  So the cycle cannot go backwards and forwards.
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  Many people are afraid of dogs. All those surprising as it may.
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  Seem are afraid of cats. You see a cat.
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  As if it was a tiger, others have fears of mice or rats
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  snakes, whatever it might be. So what's this phenomenon of,
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  I'll fear of animals. So it's our solemn Irish the
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  phenomenon of phenomenon of man's fear of animals, reminds
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  us of our futility, which is the result of drifting away from
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  Emina, which leads to a blemish in our being created and that
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  shems image. Because we created an image of
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  Hashem. All the animals birds and
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  insects should fear us. And we shouldn't have any fear.
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  But because most people have fear of wild animals, for
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  example, that doesn't mean that its natural to fear them.
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  If I Ramona was unblemished, we shouldn't even have to fit, man,
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  eating animals, like, lions and bears.
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  We recharge with a top of the creation.
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  We have the potential to rule over every part of creation
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  Person's fear is an indication that his emunah is not yet whole
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  the more a person lacks and one of the more he or she resembles
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  an animal Hashem says on the sixth day of creation, let us
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  make man in our image, in our likeness.
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  Now, after was champ, blessed, the male and the female.
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  He said, rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky,
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  every living thing that moves on Earth.
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  But how in the world are we supposed to Prevail over the
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  birds of the sky and the fish in the sea?
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  What what gives mankind any Supremacy over the entire Animal
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  Kingdom, especially when many of the animal species are stronger
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  and quicker than we are. We gonna have to come back
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  tomorrow to find the answer to this conundrum.
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  Have a lovely day. Be strong, be brave with.
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  Can remember your made an image of Hashem and with a Mana
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  anything's possible take out