Pemikiran Yahudi Yesaya 45:18: HaEmunot veHaDeot, Duties & Guide for the Perplexed

The Second piece of evidence is from the collection of parts and the composition of chapters, and it is that I observed the rain being composed of connected parts and the chapters being intricate, and in them, a sign of the act of creation and innovation was evident to me. Afterward, I thought, "Perhaps these chapters and connections are only in the small rains," meaning the sensory and vegetative rains. I narrowed down my thought to the earth, and behold, it is indeed so, for it consists of dust, stones, sand, and similar particles gathered together. I ascended to the heavens and observed many categories of celestial bodies, some of them within others. Among them are categories of luminous bodies called stars, varying in size, some large and some small, some with abundant light and some with little light, all composed within those celestial spheres. As the grouping, connecting, and composition became clear to me, which are innovations in the rain of the heavens and others, I affirmed through this evidence that the heavens and all that is in them are renewed. I found the scriptural statement saying that the dispersion of the parts of living beings and their composition indicates their renewal, as it says (Psalm 119:73), "Your hands made me and established me," and it says about the earth (Isaiah 45:18), "He fashioned it and made it," and it says about the heavens (Psalm 8:4), "When I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon, and the stars that You set in place." The Third evidence is from specific instances. I found that all the rains will not escape.

It would not, however, further the welfare of mankind if everyone would practice asceticism like them, because this would lead to the abandonment of civilization and to the end of the human race, and the verse already said: "He did not create it to be a deserted but formed it to be inhabited" (Yeshaya 45:18).

This class is the furthest extreme of all the classes from the middle way prescribed by the torah. For they renounce worldly interests completely and the torah does not bid us to give up social life entirely, as we have introduced earlier from the verse "He did not create it to be a waste but formed it to be inhabited" (Yeshaya 45:18).