Episode 207 - What If Creation Was Built For You

The world rarely misses a beat. Seasons show up on time, the Earth leans at a just-right tilt, and our brains quietly coordinate billions of signals so we can think, move, and create. We take these patterns for granted, but when we pause to notice them, trust stops being vague and becomes grounded in something solid.

We open with a quick celebration of our book giveaway and then pull back the curtain on an upcoming conversation with Aaron Hadida—author of Hate 2.0 and a long-time behind-the-scenes doer who chose to step forward after October 7. From street advocacy in Toronto to countering online hate and launching community security efforts, Aaron’s journey is a case study in turning conviction into action. His story anchors a larger theme: if creation is tuned for human flourishing, then the right response is courage, service, and responsibility.

Across the episode, we connect everyday facts to a deeper sense of meaning. Why does a stable 23.5-degree axial tilt matter to your inner life? How does the sheer scale of the human brain and our thirty trillion cells point to order you can rely on? We explore how reason and observation can become a bridge to faith for those who need evidence, while honouring those who arrive through emotion, study, or tradition. The takeaway is practical: build a rhythm of weekly reminders, store them in your “back pocket,” and let that awareness nudge your choices when life gets noisy.

Whether you’re curious, sceptical, or already anchored, you’ll find clear insights and a call to live with purpose. Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who needs a lift, and leave a review with the moment that hit you hardest—we’ll feature our favourite takeaways next week.

Chapters

• 0:17 Welcome And Giveaway Winner
• 1:09 Preview: Aaron Hadida’s Activism
• 2:52 Why Trust In God Comes First
• 4:54 Seasons, Tilt, And Cosmic Precision
• 7:28 The Human Brain And Thirty Trillion Cells
• 10:18 Evidence, Faith, And Personal Growth
• 10:18 Listener Actions And Closing

Transcript

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Hello and welcome to the Trust Factor Podcast, the only podcast that guarantees your success when you implement its divine age old teachings. Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first winner in the book giveaway contest. I'll remind you, Rabbi David Saperman wrote a spectacular book. He's written a few. The one called Amuna, which is really a refresher course in having faith in your creator, which is so, so well written, was won by an individual by the name of Noah. His handle is Noah D2235. Noah, thank you for sharing, liking, and commenting on our episodes. You guys can be next. If you want to win your copy of Emuna, free, ship to your door. All you need to do is comment, like, and share that podcast, and you'll be entered in to the next draw to win. This coming Sunday, your copy of the book Amuna. This week, we have an interview coming up that promises to be very, very interesting. You may know him as the Bear Jew. You may know him as the individual who just wrote the book Hate 2.0. He just did a book launch last week. His name is Aaron Hadida, somebody I've known almost my whole life. For so many years, Aaron has always operated in the background. He's always been a guy just getting things done, but not in the spotlight. Somebody who avoided attention. If you know him, you know that that's his personality. He doesn't need the attention. But as soon as October 7th happened, all that changed. He saw voids, lots of voids, and he stepped up and he addressed them. He has addressed them in multiple ways, whether it's by being involved in pro-Israel activism on the streets of Toronto or online dealing with online bullying and anti-Semitism, or starting a security company called Magen Herut in Toronto that provides security services for Jewish events, pro-Israel events. You've seen them. You know who I'm talking about. This person has stepped up and he has filled so many important roles that are so badly needed to be able to step up and fight anti-Semitism. We're going to get into his head and find out what it took to get him to come out of the woodworking and taking the steps necessary to be able to do these very important things. Most people wouldn't even do one of these things in a lifetime, let alone all the things that Aaron has stepped up and done just in the last couple of years. That's this coming Friday, my friends. It promises to be very, very interesting. For the rest of this podcast, I want to address what we talked about yesterday, a critically important component. If you want to succeed in your relationship with your creator, this is what you need to do. Our entire podcast was designed to do exactly this, and that is to remind ourselves that number one, there is a God. There's so many people walking around this world who have no idea. They don't believe whether they're atheists or agnostics or they come up with new terminology every generation to be able to justify their lack of a relationship with their creator. Number one, to understand that he exists. Number two, to know that he created the world and that he maintains it on a millisecond by millisecond basis. And number three, that it's all done for us, for nothing else, but to cater to us, to allow us to be able to thrive and succeed in this world. That's why he created all of creation. Like Rabbi Saperman so eloquently said, all you need is common sense with a little bit of knowledge to know. Look around and you will see with absolute clarity that the whole of creation was designed for humans, not for cows, not for deer, not for sheep, not for the trees. It was all created for us. We are at the top of the totem pole. All of creation serves us. Let me give you a couple of examples that hopefully have an impact. And by the way, the idea is not that you walk around all day long, 24-7, thinking and being in wonderment about God's creation, which you could easily do and it would be beneficial to you. But it's highly unlikely because life gets in the way. But at least on a weekly basis, at least through this podcast, you're learning these things, which means now you have the ability to put them in your back pocket, have them in your subconscious so that you're aware what God does for us every single day. Yesterday we said that there are four seasons and that he has never missed one of those seasons. We've never canceled a season, we've never had to modify our calendar because the way of the world changed. That's never happened. Yeah, we've had different versions of calendars, but that's not because of him. That's because of us. He's created a perfect system. It just took us that long to figure it out. Why do we have those four seasons? It's a different question. If you understand why we have it and how we have it, you'll have a different appreciation. The reason we have four seasons is because the planet is not perfectly round. It's oblong. That's number one. Number two, it spins on its axis. The world is constantly spinning. Never mind the whole conversation of what it is that keeps the world spinning. Why? It's sitting in a vacuum. There's nothing holding this thing up, and there is absolutely nothing determining which way it spins, why it spins, how fast it spins. Nothing. Yet it keeps doing it generation after generation, thousands and thousands of years since the creation of the world. Same thing with the other planets. They don't suddenly shift the orders of the planets, who's biggest, who's smallest, where they line up, where they are in the solar system. That doesn't change depending on random factors. It has been set once and for all. Anyway, getting back to it, the world spins on its axis, but it doesn't spin perfectly straight up. It's tilted, it's angled off of its center. It's tilted a perfect amount away from the sun. 23.5 degree tilt away from the sun. Why is that important? Because if that was not 23.5, but twenty six point five or twenty eight point five or forty-two point five, we would be either burnt to a crisp or turned into a block of ice in seconds. The access tilt away from the sun is the perfect amount in order to allow us to continue to function as human beings. That precision is controlled by him in an environment in a vacuum with nothing holding it up, with nothing supporting it. It's continuing to do that for thousands and thousands of years. That, my friends, is unbelievable. You understand? We don't think about this because it's not being taught to us, number one, and number two, even when we know it, we don't walk around thinking about these things. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't. We should constantly contemplate his perfection. Look at the human brain. You know the human brain is made up of 75% water, 75% soup you've got in your head. 8 billion people walking around planet Earth with a brain, some questionable, but let's assume we all have them. 75% water. What's amazing about that? In each and every one of those eight billion brains are over 85 billion neurons. Each neuron is microscopic in size, cannot be noticed by the plain eye. Every single one of us has a soup with almost ninety billion neurons in them, and they all function the way that they should. You want to raise your right hand, your right hand goes up. You want to kick out your left leg, your left leg goes up. There are always exceptions to every rule, but by and large, we all have this. Eight billion of us generation after generation perfection. What about the cells in our body? How many cells do we walk around with over here that we don't even think about? Thirty trillion cells. And every one of them of the 30 trillion knows exactly what their job is and how to do it, and it's been doing it every single day of your life, from the moment that you were born until the day you die. Under what power? You figure that out. I don't know anybody that plugs in to get recharged. Bottom line, Hashem in his perfection and his divinity manages all of these details. That's just the human cells and the human brain. We can go on forever talking about these things, my friends, and we wouldn't even begin to scratch the surface. Why are we talking about this? Because God is not going to show up and sit beside you in synagogue and tell you about how he functions and why he does the things that he does. If that happens to you, you and I have to have a conversation. What the closest thing is for you to be able to recognize that there is a God that created this world and that operates it, and it's all for us and for our benefit are these very facts that are indisputable. And there are myriads of them. If you're the kind of guy that needs this type of information in order to bolster your relationship with your creator, there's nothing wrong with that. Some people don't need it. Some people have an emotional connection, an intellectual connection with the Torah and with their feelings and their emotions. And a lot of people, like myself, needed this information. This had a very big impact on me when I was becoming a Balchuva, when I was starting to grow in my observance. I needed to hear these things. Because before I knew these things, I walked around thinking I knew what was going on when really I had no clue. Thank you for spending time with us on the Trust Factor Podcast. If you heard something today that moved you, save this episode and share it with someone who might need to hear it. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss upcoming conversations that challenge, empower, and uplift. And if you're on social media, connect with us. Leave your thoughts, drop a quote that resonated with you. Hashtag the TrustFactor Podcast. Until next time, keep growing in your trust. Keep living with purpose. I'm Jesse Revivo, and this has been the Trust Factor Podcast. Thanks for listening.