Series: Daily Shiur

Venue: Kew Gardens Hills Kew Gardens Hills

Machshava:

Emunah,  Hashem,  Revelation 

Nach:

Shir Hashirim 

Personalities:

Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik 

Collections: Rabbi Berzon: U'Bikashtem MiSham 2012

Description

In this section, the Rav presents the thesis that man cannot find God on his own. Neither the discovery of God through nature, nor the abstract philosophical arguments for the existence of God will succeed in sustaining man's discovery of God. God alludes man. And even when man comes so close to finding God seeing His Hand in nature, nevertheless sin will generate "siluk shechina" the hiding of God. Man needs faith. This faith is a result of revelation.