Positive Proof
A man once asked Rabbi Akiva: "Who created this world?"
"The Holy One - blessed be He!" was
the reply.
"I don't believe you" begged the other, "give me positive proof of this".
"Come tomorrow" answered the
Rabbi.
On coming the next day, the Rabbi asked: "What are you dressed in?" "In a garment" was the reply. "Who made
it?" asked the Rabbi. "A weaver" said the other.
"I don't believe you" said the Rabbi, "give me positive proof of this."
"I
need not demonstrate this" said the man - "it stands to reason that a weaver made it."
"And so you may know that Yahveh Elohim (God) created the world" - observed the
Rabbi. "As a house implies a builder, a garment a weaver and a door a carpenter, so likewise the existence of the the world
implies that the Holy One - Blessed be He - created it."