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Today’s Daily Dose of Emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Chagit Renana bat Sara. May Hashem send her a complete healing refuat hanefesh v’refuat haguf among all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.
First principle of Emuna according to the Rambam ztk’l:
We must believe that any part of existence is impossible without the existence of our Creator. Yet, the Creator requires nothing for His existence.
The Rambam refers to perfect emuna; believing with perfect faith and knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt. This principle defines a clear understanding that Hashem created everything from nothingness. Before creation there was no darkness or light, right or left; nonexistence. Essentially this means that time and space were created on the first day of creation.
In addition, this principle teaches that Hashem is the sole director over everything. He supervises existence in a very intimate and personal manner; both the material and spiritual realms. From the ants crawling on the ground to the farthest galaxy – Only Hashem did, does and will do all that is done.
What does it mean the Jewish soul is a spark of G-dliness? A Jew possesses all the same qualities that Hashem has, down to the smallest details. The difference is Hashem is the Creator and we were created; two letter difference but eternally apart. Mankind does not merit independent existence. Hashem is One and Only.
Many of these ideas are complex and beyond the scope of human intellectual grasp. Yet as taught by Rav Dovid Shimshon Pincus ztk’l, “Understand that Hashem is the One and Only Creator of everything. He created us all.” We must always return to this origin no matter how much we attempt to comprehend. The Torah is the only truth yet the world is filled with spiritual and moral corruption of the worse kind. The outside world pounds us with denial and disbelief.
Yet, stay with the simple truth: Hashem was, is and always will be the only Creator and Supervisor of all of existence.
