While all Authentic Jewish Torah concepts are holy and pure, in our times, there are certain ones that if they are not truly internalized by the Authentic Jew, the lack of such can have cataclysmic outcomes.
These ideas are the ones which control our interpretation of what we see transpiring around us in the past or present. In the absence of firm convictions based on these ideas, the understanding (actually the misunderstanding) of the world can cause weaknesses in the pillars of faith upon which Authentic Judaism rests. That is why we have decided to iterate some of them in this forum, hoping that our devoted readers, as well as us, will take their strengthening to heart.
All these ideas are taken directly from our Holy Sages, of blessed memory, as cited herein.
The first essential idea is that Hashem Yisborach runs his world in such a fashion that He is willing to produce a fantastic abundance of something in order to benefit even one righteous man.
For instance, if one ponders:
“Why does Hashem need so many millions of Chinese people who do not know is Great Name?”
The answer is:
Maybe their country served as a haven for certain Jews during the Holocaust, or maybe today they produce certain products that Authentic Jews require. Whatever it may be – it is solely for Authentic Jewry.
This central idea of the Authentic Jewish world outlook could become hard for one to swallow as he observes so many Chinese (in our example, but this is carried over to all cases) and such a large civilization in ratio to the tiny authentic Klal Yisroel. However, once we understand that this is actually how Hashem runs his world (why He does so is another issue, not for now) that when He plans to use an element to provide or shelter His people or a righteous individual, He will make thousands (or millions, or whatever) of those elements just because of the one needed for His plan.
One of the sources for this in the works of our Holy Sages is the Midrash Rabbah in parshas Noach that the entire reason Hashem created crows was just for the one that would bring food to Eliyahu HaNavi when he was hiding in the days of King Achav.
So when you look out your window and see a crow, remember that the only reason he is there (as well as all the other crows around town, and all the other ones who have been perching there for thousands of years) is for the sake of one righteous man named Eliyahu.
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