And I’ll add something more. Why does this little boy like peaches? Maybe he should like dirt? Maybe he should like spoiled food. How is it that when something is rotten, putrid, he can’t stand it? Why isn’t that when somebody is hungry, he sees something rotten, “Ah! That’s delightful. Ahh, the smell of spoiled milk! It smells so good and rotten” – he wants to dive right in and guzzle it down.
Why is it that people run away from rotten foods? There’s an instinct in them to tell them it’s dangerous. Is it an accident? The evolutionists say clearly it’s a result of accident. They say that there was a time when people and animals ate rotten things; they ate things that smelled bad, that looked bad. Instead of eating apples that look so appealing, they used to eat raw potatoes. They tried it for millions of years and the raw potatoes didn’t agree with them, so little by little, they began to acquire a new taste – not for rotten things, for other things.
Of course, it’s stupid. It’s nothing but sheker v’chazav. And so those who walk in darkness, they see nothing. They’re blind and they’re leading the blind and therefore all they see is accidents. But the Am Hashem, those who want to fulfill the mitzvah of clinging to Hashem, they see just the opposite wherever they look. They see Hashem! And because they’re always looking for Him and always seeing Him, He’s very close to them.
