How Great is Hashem?
The Real Ruler
רָם עַל כָּל גּוֹיִם ה׳– Hashem is way up High above all the nations. It means this: Hashem is the Ruler of all the nations.
Now every Jew will say, “Certainly. Mai kemashma lan?” No; saying it is not enough. You have to get it into your mind that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has the control over all of Russia, over all of India, all of America, North and South. Hashem is actually in 100% control of their governments. And when they come together in their parliaments, in their congresses, and they pass laws, they're not making the laws—Hashem is making them do these things. Even wrong laws Hashem is making them pass in order to give them a chance to cause trouble to their own countries.
So therefore רָם – Hashem is exalted, עַל כָּל גּוֹיִם – over all of them, means that He is the Ruler. He is the King. He is the Prime Minister and the President. He sits on a Kisei ram v’nisa, on the Throne above all thrones, and all the empires of the world, big and small, are at His bidding.
The Great Big Puppet Show
That’s something to think about during the month. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is driving the car and therefore you can sit back and relax.
There’s no need to worry about Gorbachev. Don’t worry about Khomeini in Iran. Because Hashem is רָם עַל כָּל גּוֹיִם – He’s sitting High up, above all the nations, pulling the wires and managing everything with a design. You have to know they’re puppets and הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא יוֹשֵׁב בְּסֵתֶר עֶלְיוֹן – Hashem is hiding, but He’s manipulating them; the One behind the scenes is pulling the strings.
So in the White House right now there’s a business going on between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir. Now I’m not going to go into the details of that fight between them, but something is taking place that might affect the whole Am Yisroel for the future. And some people are interested in that; they waste their time with that. But you have to know that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is manipulating the whole story.
Hashem in the White House
Hakadosh Baruch Hu is holding the king’s heart in His hand. פַּלְגֵי מַיִם לֶב מֶלֶךְ בְּיַד ה' עַל כָּל אֲשֶׁר יַחְפֹּץ יַטֶּנּוּ – The mind of a melech is like water in the Hands of Hashem. Anybody’s heart is in the Mind of Hashem but it’s saying here that, “Even a melech, his heart is like water.” Water you know has no resistance. A king cannot resist when Hashem says, “That’s what I want.” Hakadosh Baruch Hu is pulling wires and we are all puppets.
I have to make one little remark. When we say we are puppets, it doesn't mean our minds are puppets. Our acts are puppetry. But our minds are up to us; that's bechirah chofshis. We have free will to choose but Hakadosh Baruch Hu is manipulating the acts of man.
How does He do it? Endless ways. It could be President Bush’s wife was a little bit fresh to him and sullen to him, and therefore he became despondent and bad tempered and so when Shamir applied for a loan guarantee, President Bush wasn’t in a good mood. Now I wasn’t present when Mrs. Bush spoke these words to President Bush, I’m just surmising, but something happened, Hakadosh Baruch Hu made something take place that caused him to be in the wrong mood so that he wouldn’t accept Shamir’s request for loan guarantees.
Exalted Above All
Things are happening like that in the families of the most noble people in the world. The most exalted families, whatever happens there, Hashem is making it happen because He is Exalted over them. And so saying this possuk and thinking about the words is a good way to prepare for the upcoming month because it means a month of menuchas hanefesh. You can relax for the next thirty days! Everything is under control of the רָם עַל כָּל גּוֹיִם.
