The Torah states, "Before a blind man you should not put a stumbling block", so why does Hashem Himself do it by allowing so many false ideologies to flourish?
ANSWER:
Hakadosh Baruch Hu is not obligated to keep the Torah.
And His business is to put us to tests. Our business is not to test anybody including ourselves. We ask, al t'vieinu lo lidei nisayon, don't bring us to tests. We run away from tests, but Hakadosh Baruch Hu puts us to tests, and that's our success in this world. If not for the false religions, it wouldn't pay to be a Jew, because everybody would recognize the truth of Judaism, so where do you come in?
Today you are an aristocrat. As you walk through the street, here is a gentile, here is a Mohammedan, here is a Witness, here is an evolutionist; you're an aristocrat. You believe in Hakadosh Baruch Hu, you believe in matan Torah, in brias haolam yesh m'ayin – you'll get reward for that.
What reward would you get if you'll walk let's say through Brownsville or the wilds of Bensonhurst, and everybody around you believes the same thing as you do, so you're nobody.
So it pays for us, it's the best business for us, to have so many different ideologies, and despite them we are able to withstand all the tests; so that's our success.
Good Shabbos To All
This is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures. To listen to the audio of this Q & A please dial: 201-676-3210
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