לע"נ סבי ר' שמואל פנחס בן ר' יעקב צבי
Avraham Avinu is called Avraham Ha-Ivri because the whole world is מעבר אחד - on one side and the rest of the world was מעבר אחר - on the other side.
Avraham Avinu is called Avraham Ha-Ivri because the whole world is מעבר אחד - on one side and the rest of the world was מעבר אחר - on the other side.
We cannot IMAGINE what it means to think differently than everybody else. The nature of the human being is to be influenced by his surroundings. Avraham Avinu was SUPERNATURAL. He KNEW that Hashem runs the world and the fact that EVERY website, EVERY newspaper, EVERY magazine, EVERY book, EVERY Professor etc. etc. denied that, didn't faze him.
WOW!!
Chazal say that Avraham said that it CAN'T BE that the wold has no מנהיג - leader. This would imply, said Rav Dov Kook, that the other people agreed that the world was CREATED by Hashem. The point of dispute was whether he is STILL involved. They couldn't accept that.
To believe that Hashem created the world is EASY! How can a world with such INTEGRATED COMPLEXITY create itself?? How could the HUMAN EYE alone, with all of its incredible complexity, create itself. IMPOSSIBLE.
The test is to believe that Hashem is still involved. We see a lot of pain, suffering and seeming chaos around us. Where is He???
The answer is that we are descendents of Avraham Avinu and we KNOW that Hashem is involved in every aspect of the world. One way of seeing this with our very own eyes is to witness the UNBELIEVABLE history of the Jewish people - including our INCREDIBLE revival after the Holocaust.
We have to connect to Avraham's deep Emunah despite the כפירה that we find all around us.
