Question

Hello Rabbi,
I wanted to ask about giving thanks for “what exists.” For example, the fact that the whole world is arranged before us with everything we need in order to live, and that this shows, for example, the goodness of God—is there room for that claim? The issue is that if there had been no food to eat in the first place, we wouldn’t have been hungry. And if there were no oxygen, our bodies wouldn’t have needed it. In other words, the basic assumption is that there cannot be a need in me that reality is, in principle, unable to fulfill, because that need developed in me in the first place as a response to what exists in reality. A possible answer I thought of, בעקבות the “argument from outside the laws,” is that indeed, within the laws there is no room for that claim, since clearly if I am hungry that means there is food in reality, because that is how the process works. But perhaps the laws need not have been this way. Maybe there could be a system in which creatures develop in such a way that their needs arise arbitrarily, without any connection to what exists in reality? In other words, if I assume that there could be systems of laws different from ours, and that there a situation could exist in which there really is no harmony between human needs and what exists, then there is room to give thanks for what exists, because that is not a self-evident state of affairs. Does this answer seem right to you?
Thank you, and have a good new month.