Reply To: The Bombadier Beetle

ames

i usually primarily copy and paste from different sources and add some words (or sometimes remove some technical parts) to make it more readable to the Yeshiva world, but completely based on one or more sources. i got in the habit of doing this and sending out the best ones to my Rav and a few other interested parties. it grew out of Seudah Shlesis discussions about Rabbi Avigdor Miller, tz’l.

you know the Chovos HaLevovos states that this is one of two ways of coming closer to Hashem and developing a high level of Emunah, the other is Torah. Avrohom Aveinu, as you know, utilized this first method, and saw the second method within it.

Hashem made the Briah with its BILLIONS of wonders for us to utilize. shall we ignore his will and kindness?

in many regards (not all, certainly not for direct Schar) it is equal to learning Torah

(the Gemorrah you might know about not stopping learning to appreciate the trees outdoors, which you might bring as a contradiction, referred to taking pleasure from the trees, not studying them)