Parshas Chukas

[Hilchos Shabbos]

"מזמור שיר ליום השבת, טוב להודות לד'..."

    "To soar through space at fabulous speed on the way to the moon, is to discover what the Torah always teaches but what men never really learn: that Hashem is infinite. When on the moon, men see that they have not even begun to penetrate space. The moon is but a prisoner of earth's gravity; it is our nearest neighbor and our backyard. Yet even so it is a tremendous distance from the earth. Then how vast is the distance to the outer reaches of our solar system which spins around the sun? But the sun is a minor star (the star Rigel is 13,000 times as bright as the sun) among 100 billion in a galaxy which is in itself inconsiderableamong countless galaxies in the vast endlessness. Traveling at 11 million miles per minute, we could reach the moon in one second; but to reach Rigel (in our galaxy) would take 500 years. And the whole, whatever its measureless dimensions are, is the handiwork of the Creator."    

The Marvelous Wonders of Creation, by Rabbi Mordechai Menachem Reich ZT"L (Mordechai Menachem Mendel -en Dovid Aryeh), adapted from the works of Rabbi Avigdor Miller, ZT'''L