Basics of Emunah #5 By Can an Intelligent Person Believe in G-d?

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Summary

Can an intelligent person who values science and reason believe in God? In this enlightening talk, Rabbi YY Jacobson explores the balance between faith and intellect. He shares intriguing stories, scientific insights, and philosophical reflections that challenge the binary thinking of blind faith versus blind skepticism. Through engaging anecdotes and thoughtful analysis, Rabbi Jacobson argues for a nuanced approach to understanding the coexistence of scientific inquiry and religious faith, suggesting that true reason is open to the integration of seemingly opposing views.

Highlights

Rabbi Jacobson tells a humorous story about a conference of fools who decide to believe in nothing to avoid embarrassment. 😂
He discusses how both religious faith and atheism can suffer from blind belief, urging for openness to exploration. 🔍
He points out that science is inherently non-dogmatic, as it continually evolves with new discoveries. 🚀
Rabbi Jacobson explains the complexity of the universe, suggesting intelligent design rather than random occurrence. 🌟
He uses the intricacies of DNA as an example of intelligent design, challenging the notion of it being a mere accident. 🧬

Key Takeaways

Faith and intellect can coexist harmoniously, without needing to dismiss one for the other. 🤝
Science can point to the existence of a greater intelligence or design, rather than eliminating the need for God. 🌌
A true seeker of truth is open to multiple perspectives and doesn't fall into the extremes of blind faith or blind skepticism. 👀

Overview

In this thought-provoking session, Rabbi Jacobson tackles the age-old question of whether faith can coexist with reason. He begins by highlighting the folly of absolute certainty, drawing parallels between blind faith and blind skepticism. With a clever anecdote about fools at a conference, he sets the stage for his argument that both believers and non-believers can fall into traps of illogical thinking. Rabbi Jacobson encourages his audience to explore beyond superficial understandings, suggesting that truth often resides in the nuance.

The heart of Rabbi Jacobson's argument is the role of science in revealing the possibility of divine design rather than negating it. He delves into scientific discoveries, such as the fine-tuning required for the universe and life's complexity, to illustrate that these could point towards a higher intelligence. He challenges the comfort zones of both the staunch atheist and the devoutly religious, advocating for a more open-minded inquiry into existence and beliefs.

As the talk progresses, Rabbi Jacobson explores the spiritual dimension, inviting listeners to view religious belief not as blind dogma but as a profound connection with the essence of the universe. He draws from Jewish mystical teachings to present the idea that creation is a constant process, maintained by divine energy. Through this, he bridges traditional faith with contemporary science, offering a holistic and deeply meaningful approach to understanding life and the cosmos.

Basics of Emunah #5 By Can an Intelligent Person Believe in G-d? Transcription

00:00 - 00:30 I'm not a mommy [Music] baby shower Oh [Music] the question we're going to address today which is an obvious question it's a question that many have asked either
00:30 - 01:00 in person or in writing or an email and you're free to share your questions you can write them down or email them to a muna at the yeshiva dotnet and the question is can an intelligent person who has studied science and is sensitive to science and believes in the power of science and is a person of reason an intellectual rationality can such a person accept the existence of God this
01:00 - 01:30 is a question that came in a few questions that came in and if even if yeah who is this God what is this thing that we call God Bosch everybody shillelagh my wish there or whatever the word whatever the word you use I want to begin this discussion by telling you a little story it's one of my favorite stories because it really it's it tells the story about about about so many of us the story goes like this
01:30 - 02:00 many many many years ago there's a mark like as a boy scheme if it happened 2,000 years ago or three thousand years ago and yes I'm him the story is still happening as I talk there was an international conference between all of the fools of the world anyone who qualifies as a tipis as a sheiter as a as a fool an idiot and adesh joined this conference it was
02:00 - 02:30 free they got first-class tickets all they had to do was identify themselves as a typic as a fool and they were good to go what was the nature of the meeting it was an emergency meeting and that attracted many many fools the problem was as follows the meeting happened after hemella coined a phrase in his book of michlean proverbs slow maja Melek wrote and I quote pecci Yaman Lahaul Dover
02:30 - 03:00 our room Yavin double Asherah a fool believes everything because he's a fool or she's a fool whatever you tell them they believe and they trust because they're a foolish a arum a clever person a wise person scrutinizes researches investigates the fools thus faced a major dilemma and that is for so many thousands of years they kept their
03:00 - 03:30 foolishness to themselves nobody knew that they were Shaitan but now slime amela gave out the secret now the moment you going to see somebody believes everything you're going to know he's a patsy he's a fool so the secret came out that they won't be able to do shidduchim they won't be able to get into good you severs they won't be able to gain standing in the community they won't be able to become people of prominence and dignity because
03:30 - 04:00 immediately everybody will point the finger and say there is an hour here's a fool Yaman look hold over the cinnamon was out and this spelled tragedy so they debated the problem and the solution to the problem for seven days and seven nights do you know what the verdict what the solution was the solution was the fools decided to ish effort maleva hut like one man with one heart that's from
04:00 - 04:30 today on they won't believe anything nothing will they ever believe and that way nobody will ever be able to identify them as a fool that's the end of the story the story however I think contains a very profound truth about life because sometimes we can be foolish in one
04:30 - 05:00 extreme and we could become foolish in another extreme sometimes people of so-called religious faith indeed don't use much reason they profess what we call an English blind faith but sometimes you meet people will you read articles of books who also profess blind faith in atheism or blind
05:00 - 05:30 faith in agnosticism with the same irrational commitment and zeal and sometimes even more in other words it becomes a religion in and of itself a true person of Reason never ever becomes bombastic and arrogance and arrogant you sometimes hear arguments between people true science is always open to investigation in fact by definition
05:30 - 06:00 science could never make an absolute claim and say something is this way absolutely and certainly because the very statement runs contrary to the very mo of science science could say based on the information that we have till now we can make these and these speculations or we can make these in these conclusions what we're going to stove it what we're going to discover tomorrow this remains also to be speculated so the first
06:00 - 06:30 principle in addressing these issues is that are for a person to remain truly honest truly open what happens is a lot of conversations about this are more emotional than intellectual but they don't seem emotional they sometimes seem very intellectual but they're really very emotional people have a bias people have an axe to grind people have suffered perhaps pain in religious circles people perhaps have experienced
06:30 - 07:00 God the way it was taught to them in abusive ways people perhaps have been shoved down with things down their throat they have been denigrated or criticized or Astra sized so they have negative emotion and then they rationalize it but their rationalizations are not really open because they have a very deep commitment to a particular side now that's part of human emotions but we have to be able to identify it we have to be able to explore it take a look take a look at a practical
07:00 - 07:30 example how many of you bought tickets for the Powerball yesterday you don't have to all raise your hands at once but besides you everybody else bought or at least 98 percent the business the business came past see so you didn't believe okay what were the chances that anybody is gonna win what were the chances I think one in 292 billion I'm sorry million one in 292 million and yet everyone bought either confident or
07:30 - 08:00 hoping or semi confident or maybe or you never know somebody got a win I'll be the winner now when you text while you drive one in four textures get into some type of accident how many of you text while you drive everyone text and when you say you're driving one in four get into an accident the one of you said not me so when it's one in 292 million it's me when it's one in four it's not me so I
08:00 - 08:30 ask you people operate objectively we believe what we want to believe many people believe what makes them comfortable if I'm comfortable in a certain place I believe and then of course I rationalize it not everybody is really open to truth that will challenge them in a very profound way and it goes in many different extremes and in many different ways and I say this to those who ask questions always with a sense of
08:30 - 09:00 cynicism and mockery in the sense that you know you're brainwashed you're indoctrinated I'm a person of reason the person says I'm a person of science and you understand that everything you embrace is ridiculous it's absurd it worked thousands of years ago for people who weren't rational but real open-minded people who are rational never believed and I say remember that the fools do one of two things they
09:00 - 09:30 believe everything and they believe nothing that's also foolish be open and that's an introduction to my words my words this evening I don't think anybody has ever proven anything to anybody especially when you're dealing with issues that are so Al's b'seder huh especially when you're
09:30 - 10:00 dealing with issues that are so stacked so transcendental invisible and so forth I don't even know of the word proof is even workable for this discussion tell me what constitutes proof person says rabbi proof to me that there's a God I say tell me what will constitute proof what do you want what exactly will cancer it's not such an easy how do you prove something you look in the dictionary for the definition of proof look in different dictionaries and
10:00 - 10:30 you'll see and everyone there's a different definition of proof how could there be different definitions of proof proof itself is a very elusive word my job certainly is not to prove again people most people believe what they're comfortable believing there could be people they can hear powerful arguments but if they're not comfortable with it they will find a way to dismiss it intellectually or emotionally that's how it works we are not computers were made up of
10:30 - 11:00 lots of different stuff including very heavy emotions and that plays a role in everybody's life even the greatest scientist the greatest physicist BOE dimmer solenoid them consciously or unconsciously what I want to do tonight is something else not prove anything what I want to do is there is a notion among many young Jews and many young people that the assadís of you distract the assay they serve one of the fundamentals of Jewish faith somehow
11:00 - 11:30 require blindness irrational irrational thinking so you somehow you have to be able to be ready to be an occult to accept it to prove it that's a separate argument you believe what you will choose to believe but it's unfair it's unfair for a rational open-minded person to call the basics of Jewish absurd cultish ridiculous shy of like
11:30 - 12:00 only a who hasn't used his brain and hasn't read a single scientific textbook can embrace these type of ridiculous notions that I maintain is an arrogant statement it's arrogant you could say you disagree you could say it doesn't work for you you could say you have questions our world is a complicated place and there's a lot of questions no question that's that's a fair statement but the arrogance to
12:00 - 12:30 dismiss hundreds of generations of Jews some of them some of them of unparalleled brilliance and extraordinary minds who devoted their life to thought to thinking and did not accept anything anything for granted the status quo was never believed just because it's the status quo this begins
12:30 - 13:00 with the first Jew of Rome who broke every Idol physically and conceptually to dismiss it all as simply people who grew up in a cult and when they open their eyes they'll see there's no basis for it is arrogant it's a very unscientific statement it's very it's not a logical way to approach it you could say so me explain it to me those absolute statements usually eclipse deep
13:00 - 13:30 pain or insecurity or deep anger or indoctrination or simply yet you never really thought about it which is the case for many people many people have not thought about these things that's fair you could say I didn't think about it I think more about my iPhone that's fine then if God exists that's fine or I grew up in a place where the indoctrination was of this nature or
13:30 - 14:00 there could be many other factors but what we want to show is that a person except from a logical point of view the existence of God is not a blind nut job who was a fundamentalist religious zealot soon to join Isis that's not the case true true religion has produced monsters
14:00 - 14:30 it still produces monsters in the name of God millions have been killed nobody has to tell this to the Jewish people we suffered from religion more than any other people in the world Christianity and now Islam since the birth of Christianity and then the birth of Islam a few centuries later but we always have to distinguish the fact because as I was telling somebody the other day are their abusive mothers in the world
14:30 - 15:00 unfortunately yes are their abusive fathers in the world unfortunately yes does that mean we should abolish the institution of motherhood do not be a mother anymore do not be a father anymore some people can use motherhood and use it as a tool for to tutor children but the institution of motherhood is the most important institution in the universe it's the most important and vital if reality to
15:00 - 15:30 raise a new generation of people and not only in the human race among the animal species as well the dedication of a mother the sacrifice of a mother the loyalty of a mother etc and the same is true with a father can medicine be abused what did Joseph Mengele do with medicine Mengele amartia Marie was a doctor a great doctor and used his medical knowledge to administer and behave in the most sadistic barbaric inhumane way
15:30 - 16:00 that the far is the imagination does that mean that every doctor should be fired and the institution of medicine should be destroyed of course not the same is true in our case now there's a lot to talk about here and have to condense it in one class or try to and I want to cover a lot so I'm going to discuss two aspects one is what we call has to do with the macrocosm along
16:00 - 16:30 with the microcosm meaning the macro is the the world at large the macrocosm the universe at large and one of the micro the individual the human being let me begin with an article that I read that I think is worth repeating I'm going to not read it word for word but a few a few sections of the article with some explanation disappeared a few months ago in the December 2014 issue of The Wall Street Journal and I'm going to quote a
16:30 - 17:00 few paragraphs and it's going to need a little explanation which I will insert please please bear with me in 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking the cover story read three words I don't know if any of you remember Time magazine of 1966 I don't but there was a cover story with three words is God dead question mark
17:00 - 17:30 many have accepted the cultural narrative that God is absolute meaning irrelevant as science progressed there is less need for a god to explain the universe or as a boy who came to me a few days ago said rabbi Jacobsen with all due respect the notion of Judaism that there is a God was good before science now that we have science now we have a rational way to explain the world much more we don't need supernatural
17:30 - 18:00 ideas of a moon and faith this was the narrative that prevailed in many in many corners in many parts of Western society yet it runs out if we can paraphrase I think it was Mark Twain when they announced that he was dead he said that the rumors of my death were were exaggerated the rumors about God's death were a little premature that's what it
18:00 - 18:30 seems the hospital's written a little too early right the one who coined that phrase it's hard to say god is dead was nietzsche friedrich nietzsche was a german philosopher in in the 18th century so somebody said that you know they saw on on the wall of a bathroom right on the wall of on the subway graffiti on the subway wall so it said god is dead nietzsche and then there was a sign under it nietzsche is dead god so that's number one
18:30 - 19:00 the eulogy was a little premature but more amazing is something else and that is that the recent case for the existence of god comes from a surprising place and that place is science itself so those who scream that once we have science we don't need God anymore are often now perplexed by the fact or surprised or hurt by the fact that it's often science more than any other source
19:00 - 19:30 in the world that points to God here is one story the same year when Time magazine asked of God is that 1966 they featured another headline which is now very famous there was a world famous astronomer at the time Carl Sagan who announced that they were two important criteria for a planet to support life Sagan said you need two conditions for any planet to support life the right
19:30 - 20:00 kind of star and a planet the right distance from that star that's it if you have the right kind of star and the planet in the right distance from that star the planet can become a source of life on it now how many planets are there in the universe roughly a Patil e'en planets you know how many AP time attract Tilian is huh one followed by 24 zeros it's
20:00 - 20:30 even more money than most of you imagine you're gonna have one day one followed by 24 zeros that's how many planets there are in the universe so according to Sagan's Hegeman calculation that is only two things necessary two criteria necessary our planet to support life everybody imagined that this should have been at least septillion planets capable of
20:30 - 21:00 supporting life septillion is 1 followed by 2100 support life a kind of star and a distance from that star so they assumed is going to be 1 followed by 2100 encoder with such spectacular odds the 1960s saw a major search for what we
21:00 - 21:30 call extraterrestrial intelligence a large expensive collection of private and public publicly funded projects were launched in the 1960s and they were sure that we're going to turn up something soon we're going to find somewhere from septillion planets we're going to find somebody somewhere where we can find our brothers our sisters on some level
21:30 - 22:00 scientists listened with a vast radio telescopic network for signals that resembled coded intelligence and were not merely random as years passed the silence from the rest of the universe was deafening in coil via an ina deafening silence Congress in 1993 decided we have better things to do with
22:00 - 22:30 our money so finally in 93 Congress defunded SETI which is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence SETI but the search continued with private funds as of 2014 two years ago researchers have discovered what your grandmother would call bupkis bupkis is zero followed by nothing
22:30 - 23:00 that's how much extraterrestrial intelligence they discovered what happened what happens from 60s 1966 to 2014 our knowledge of the universe increased as our knowledge of the university increased it became clear there were far more factors necessary for life then Carl Sagan initially supposed his two parameters that he said you need grew to 10 then to 20 then to
23:00 - 23:30 50 so that the number of potentially life-supporting planets decreased accordingly the number dropped to a few thousand planets capable of supporting life remember from septillion to a few thousand and kept on plumbery plummeting each year the number kept decreasing then they started to discover new factors that were necessary to support life on the planet the number of
23:30 - 24:00 possible planets to support life hit zero and kept on going lower than that what do I mean it kept on going lower than that in other words the odds turned against any planet in the universe supporting life including this planet probability said that even we should not be here because it's illogical that our planet like any other planet should
24:00 - 24:30 support life today as I speak there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life from 2 to 200 every single one of these 200 must be perfectly met or the whole thing falls apart it's not that someday you have one Monday you have another one Schmitt they have a third one all 200 factors have to be consistently working together for any planet to support any
24:30 - 25:00 form of life for example without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby Jupiter's gravity is so strong that it draws away asteroids a thousand times as many would hit Earth's surface and destroy us so in other words you need a massive planet like Jupiter right nearby for its gravity to draw away the asteroids from hitting the earth the UH this is one of
25:00 - 25:30 200 the odds against life in the universe clearly became astonishing yet we are here not only existing but talking about existing what can account for it can everyone of these many parameters have been perfect by accident simply by accident no planet is capable of this that's why we stopped the search more or less that's why Congress stopped the search and yet this planet randomly
25:30 - 26:00 by mistake has 200 distinct parameters that allow it to support life at what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces is it really sheer stupidity and blindness to say that it's logical that we are not here by accident doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require
26:00 - 26:30 far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being and this is just one detail take for example the fact that Earth is in the position where it is if earth would be in a tighter orbit around the Sun if the orbit around the Sun would be a little tight it would be closer it would be incinerated millions of years ago according to science it
26:30 - 27:00 would have been destroyed if the orbit would have been wider broader it would have been destroyed again completely frozen if the temperature would be not much higher a lower again our planet would either freeze or be destroyed wouldn't be able to survive and so they stopped searching for extraterrestrial life on other planets but there is much more than this the
27:00 - 27:30 fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist there is life on our planet but what about the existence of the universe what's necessary for that is completely unimaginable for example I'm a giving here one example if you know the terms you'll get it if not it's still quite interesting astrophysicists now know that the values of the four fundamental
27:30 - 28:00 forces gravity the electromagnetic force the strong and weak nuclear forces were determined less than one millionth of a second after the Big Bang again the value of the four fundamental forces of our universe were determined less than one millionth of a second after the Big Bang alter any one value and the universe could not exist for instance if the ratio between the nuclear strong
28:00 - 28:30 first force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction by even one part in one followed by 17 zeros no stars could have ever formed at all anyone who thinks about this if you take a gulp this is quite astounding multiply this single parameter by all other necessary conditions the odds against
28:30 - 29:00 the universe existing are so astronomical are so insane that the notion that it all just happened it happened defies common sense it doesn't embrace common sense it would be exactly like you tossing a coin and having it come up heads 10 quintillion times in a row really really it would be like the Powerball you buying the ticket 10
29:00 - 29:30 quintillion times you win in a row and this is much more crazy the odds for that are much easier to happen than the odds for the universe to exist so the astronomer who coined the term Bing bet Big Bang Fred Hoyle he was the person who coined the famous term Big Bang he said that his atheism was greatly shaken
29:30 - 30:00 at these developments a common sense interpretation of the fact suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with the physics as well as with chemistry and biology the numbers one calculates from the facts seemed to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question this doesn't mean others haven't argued with him this has been a ferocious debate in science but here is them words of the scientist who coined the Big Bang which was accepted almost by everybody there's a famous set theoretical
30:00 - 30:30 physicist his name is Paul Davis he said the appearance of design is overwhelming there's an ax per Oxford professor his name is John Lennox he said the more we get to know about our universe the more the hypothesis that there is a creator gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here we'll other explanations emerge he says he doesn't know but if science always looks for the best explanation this is the best explanation what does this all tell us it tells us this the greatest
30:30 - 31:00 miracle of all times without any closed seconds is the universe you're looking for a miracle it's the greatest miracle you'll ever read about you'll ever experience study what it takes holidays by the greatest atheists or agnostics what does it take for a life to live on a planet to be on our planet and for the universe to exist and you'll see it's something absolutely astounding and astonishing maybe they don't want to call it a miracle but it's certainly the
31:00 - 31:30 greatest miracle without any close second it's the miracle of all miracles it's the one that points with the combined brightness of every star and the cell of every organism to something or someone beyond itself Wall Street Journal December 2004 teen I want to go from the big world from the
31:30 - 32:00 macrocosm to the microcosm and address one item just one thank you this is a discovery that is really start to link it was made in 1953 it's known as the discovery of the DNA the body the body of any living organism let's begin with
32:00 - 32:30 the human being begins with one cell literally with one cell and it reaches close to a hundred trillion cells the body is comprised of almost a hundred trillion not million not billion trillion cells how does it know how to
32:30 - 33:00 build a body with almost a hundred trillion cells in it thousands of types of cells each is so complex beyond their comprehension so encoded in the cell is a manufacturers manual how to build and operate every single part of the cell this we call the DNA in every single cell in the body in the nucleus of the
33:00 - 33:30 cell there is the DNA which is the chemical blueprint that contains instructions how to build and operate every cell and every aspect of life is created based on that blueprint the fascinating thing is each cell has the entire DNA the entire DNA of the body and with each cell that's reproduced it copies over the whole blueprint the whole manual into the new cell so that
33:30 - 34:00 each of the trillions and trillions of cells contains the manual factor is manual for the entire body it's even programmed to correct replications errors it's like an editor that reviews a news paper reviews an article to look for mistakes it has special protein enzymes that go up and down DNA molecules and repair its second by second it has a code which has editor enzymes to repair it like literally an
34:00 - 34:30 editor looking for mistakes how now when the body is building another cell and another cell in another cell and each cell has to be different because each cell is there to create another function in the body that's why we have trillions and trillions of cells what if it takes the wrong call what if the nose takes the wrong coat what if the liver takes the wrong coat the kidneys take those are harbin the DNA has what we would call a mafia on index before it has the
34:30 - 35:00 whole manual it tells you with points this is what you need in order to create this cell this is what you need in order to create this type so you have here the DNA which is basically in the nucleus of every cell it's a ladder of a billy of billions of rungs a ladder of billions of rungs of course tiny with trillions of messages in order to produce trillions of cells basically the DNA to
35:00 - 35:30 use the language of your familiar it tells what they call amino acids how to form proteins amino acids come together to form proteins and build cells now understand if you would take the DNA of every living organism every person every living creature every fish every animal every plant every plant from the
35:30 - 36:00 beginning of the universe from the beginning of existence that we know all the DNA would be able to fit in to one teaspoon that's how small it is one teaspoon and you'll still have place in that TSP to put in all the letters of all the books in the world so in such a space microscopic the DNA contains in each cell the entire blueprint of the
36:00 - 36:30 entire body and therefore it builds this is the blueprint from which the entire body is built what they discovered is about the DNA is that essentially it's sequence is letters its letters that are the messages contained in the DNA which then build a body now this is really a fascinating fascinating discussion but
36:30 - 37:00 now take a look at something to say that it's ridiculous it's absurd it's illogical to say that the fact that the DNA of every creature in every cell is organized so impeccably to be able to create almost a hundred trillion cells that work with the brain that has
37:00 - 37:30 trillions of neurons and connections and a brain that has to make a hundred trillion calculations every moment so that the body should exist and if the amino acids which form proteins in a wrong shape anything would be in a wrong shape it would be it would be the destruction of human life so the organization and the structure of billions of rungs with trillions of messages organize perfectly in such a
37:30 - 38:00 space the G DNA is recoiled it's microscopic of course we can't see it it's a it's today with that technology we could see the shape we can discover the shape to say it's all by accident it happened by accident it's far more crazy than believing that there's a 747 airplane and that happened because there was a tornado and from the storm at the end of the storm all the pieces formed together to create a 747 or to look at a
38:00 - 38:30 safer say fiducia ha Raja or Rashi and himesh or addition Rebennack i'm olivia la Rambam olijavi bill wah ha still a play by Shakespeare and say in the famous metaphor of the 5s olive Ava's the ink spilled out the ink spilled out on the desk and from the whole mess a toy service was written on a sack the gittin just happened to be that the ink formed together to create letters and some of
38:30 - 39:00 them created words and some of them created sentences and that's how come what Bob Lee was written any person in there sane mind would say that's ridiculous if you tell me that believing that Talmud Bavli was written by an author and it didn't happen as a result of an explosion of ink and I say no to believe that you're an occult real science tells you it happened through random random events there was no
39:00 - 39:30 intention there was no design it just happened I'm not sure that the person who says there's an author is the illogical one or it's maybe the other way around this is nothing compared to what would have - what would it would take over billions and billions of even they argue the world is not older than 15 billion years and a few days maybe more than that it would take hundreds of billions of years even for slight slight slight
39:30 - 40:00 probability or possibility not probability possibility that should happen but now what's really fascinating about this is everything DNA is the building blocks of the whole of all living of all living creatures of human beings of every animal of every fish of every tree of every plant of every bush
40:00 - 40:30 and most of our DNA is identical but it's the slight differences that make the individuality of the person your height the color of your eyes your facial features the you hear the nature of your body most of our DNA is identical even with other forms of life but those slight tiny tiny differences account for the fact that no two people are alike some little variation in some point of the
40:30 - 41:00 DNA which will probably be extremely effective in eliminating disease if we can identify that in the DNA which is what science is working on it's a fascinating fascinating discussion in and of itself but this is what makes the individuality of every person of every living creature and it contains within it the entire secret so now if you'll ask a question scientifically today what is the world built off what is every cell built on
41:00 - 41:30 every single cell the answer is information letters intelligence now you go take a look at hummus and it says Valmer l ik e mihi over here Basara mom Morris liver harlem the world was created through letters through speech the whole safing it serie the earliest cabbalistic text explains that
41:30 - 42:00 the universe was created through AI seus through letters suits a roof from different combinations of letters we always thought it's a mystical spiritual abstract idea but this idea is translated into very real science today embraced by any researcher and that is that the DNA is basically information letters that is at the core of every single cell Basara my amorous never ha
42:00 - 42:30 eylem its words it's letters I want to read with you here if you can go to your source if you can go to your source this is a piece from Tania Shara you said Ramona Parra Calif take a look he makes Eve Lola Hashem Dworkin it's of Bashar Mayan it says in tehilim in Co few tests your word way stands in heaven what does this mean
42:30 - 43:00 well Peters about sometimes I'll said about some tovarisch hamartia here opieop etem i am your words which words you said there should be a firmament in the water in Bhatia's Havers voracious a low in its avez-vous I'm disloyal pathetic I am I am Oh mellow blushes but I color Hakeem Lila moi fearsome these words these letters hehe rakia stand in the heaven constantly to give them life could
43:00 - 43:30 exceed with Viral Akeno your camera element VAR f can become what his words eternally are alive key in the wall you is Moustakas Gallagher Hospital number Kaiser Islamic Iran if the ladders were depart and returned to their source how you call a sham I am I invest managed Mahal you can lawyer you clown the whole heaven would cease to be as though it never existed vishal-shekhar Safari so this is what our result such a gambit diamond Mama's come have on them by offering my machinist nefesh whiskey is ruinous the Heineken is a slap she
43:30 - 44:00 sediba Matt Sorum amorous Hamas hiya Sam Harvison solemnly yes maíam effort olefination since memory ages Tyrese already said that even rocks have a soul even inorganic inanimate matter has a soul what type of soul everything has in it letters that giveth existence and vitality and is the only reason it doesn't become North Valley Oscar shame Evan Bayh sorry mom Elizabeth IRA I in the ten utterances of voracious says via American God said let there be a heaven
44:00 - 44:30 let there be man let there be a Sun and a moon let there be light he doesn't say let there be Iraq he didn't say let there be a rose he didn't say let there be a hippopotamus he said let there be an animal but not an individual creature and not a stone I fabricating in shock I eleven I did see roof invasion Luffy Isis it's the same letters of a surah memores that go through combinations and mutations which he goes on to explain
44:30 - 45:00 based on say Fiat Syria this thousands of ways in which letters can be a rearranged and therefore every single creature gets its unique letters that give it sustenance that give it that give it identity now now we come to the next step and here is where you this kite takes it one step further what we say there's a creator
45:00 - 45:30 there's a mind is intelligence it's not a random it's not a mistake and as I said earlier that science itself points to this more and more and more even though there are many scientists themselves who debated for whatever reason in other words it's it's an important debate but we're not now discussing the reason for every person's position but the point is that when one studies science one recognized this is
45:30 - 46:00 more and more let's see a deeper concept that you described emphasizes to understand this process to understand what it means or to put it differently what is when we say there's this god behind the universe what does this really mean who is he so many of you grew up and you always heard a term
46:00 - 46:30 comes from commish Pasha's vez con and moshe rabbeinu says after her a solid ask a sham who are the Kim a knight Nevada and there's some nice songs on the words a knight Malvado there's nobody beside him somebody who dabbles in the works of Kabbalah and Sidis will know to say that one of the main ideas of the Baal Shem Tov and his students is the emphasis on annoyed Movado annoyed Marathi doesn't only mean there's no other God beside him a nod Nevada is
46:30 - 47:00 there's nothing else beside him ultimate after session complete unity what does this mean what does this really mean so you grow up with it a night move out there in that moment what does it mean does it have meaning can we apply can we can we apply it to ourselves but now we can appreciate this some more let's see how the Rambam says famously
47:00 - 47:30 voracious bara elokim mr. Shimomura starts the beginning of sham created he says whenever it says Bora it means yes may I and something from nothing something from nothing what does it mean creation something from nothing we create something from something does something from the other something can be very remote but it's still something from something for example you take this seed of an apple tree you plant it for a sea to develop in an apple - an apple tree is something absolutely extraordinary we take it for
47:30 - 48:00 granted a single seed how does it develop into an apple tree the DNA the brilliance of the DNA how it develops into an apple tree and then the apple tree of course has to create a synthesis between the male part of the tree and the female part of the tree what they call what we call pollination through insects or winds who come and take the pollination from the male part of the tree into the female part of the tree so
48:00 - 48:30 could get fertilized and a new seed is created which will then reproduce either in the flower or in the fruit and so on and so forth absolutely phenomenal extraordinary when you eat an orange when you eat a peach don't take it for granted study it something something phenomenal but it's still eh my ish from a seed came an apple tree proof from the seed
48:30 - 49:00 of an apple tree you'll never get a goldfish you'll never get a goldfish from one dollar you can make a hundred dollars from a thousand dollars hopefully you'll make ten thousand dollars from a hundred thousand dollars you should all make a million dollars tonight but you start with something the silversmith takes silver and turns it into a manure and the the carpenter takes takes lumber from a tree and turns it into a beautiful Stender or a beautiful table or beautiful bouquets and so on and so forth yes me yes
49:00 - 49:30 something from something creation of the universe we call the ash may iron something from nothing and this is a major distinction it's not just a sham didn't have something to make it from but it represents something very profound about how we understand cosmology from a Jewish perspective and this is really the theme of the first few chapters of Shara you should vimana the origin of this idea that the Baal Shem Tov used to speak about is already in the shallow the shallow speaks about a noite via die
49:30 - 50:00 ahoy wash a vessel of of earth cash Anwar looking much my marvel arts we talk us annoyed we say in a lay know everyday also from Dharamsala Ben who says doesn't only mean there's no other God ain't eat that's quite obvious that there's no other God if God is God there's no two gods if there's two gods then God is not God but a no it means there's nothing else how do we understand this the best I think metaphor there's a lovely book called something from nothing by by a professor from McGill University a neuroscientist
50:00 - 50:30 is also accosted name is dr. dr. Yaakov Brauer he gives a beautiful metaphor the metaphor actually comes from Tania but he applies it here very nicely comes from Tania chapter 48 but he applies it very nicely to this and I want to give I want to give you an illustration so we should be able to to understand what this means one of the great blessings that the rabbinical eylem gave each and every one of us and especially the men sitting here have employed it over many years over the years in yeshiva or
50:30 - 51:00 whenever you're sitting at a faculty meeting in the office it's called the gift of daydreaming the gift of daydreaming means you're sitting now at the shear and it's late then you're tired and you're exhausted and and you shut off your iPhone so you can't text so so what do you do what do you do what do you do at a faculty meeting what do you do at a shear what do you do for 15 years in your Shiva during the class many people do it throughout darvany it's something called daydreaming
51:00 - 51:30 daydreaming means you don't even realize you start dreaming about a reality you concoct the whole reality and you can daydream for two minutes some experts can do it for five and some people can do it for 15 years straight they wake up just to go to sleep and for dinner daydreaming is a very very interesting phenomenon what is a daydream right somebody once said avoid a liver Athavale of a system I'm not
51:30 - 52:00 gonna shame a similar Kanan Oscar it means when a Gentile wants to get somewhere he needs either a car or a horse when we want to travel somewhere but shame assemble okay none ask you just our dominance - are you mentioned God's name barakaatuh Hashem and you go first-class ticket to Australia tear it sister all to Moscow to London to California Miami and it's always first-class the food is excellent as a shower on the plane in your daydream you create a reality that is uninhibited
52:00 - 52:30 unlimited you can go shopping in your daydream you buy the dress it's fits you return it and you keep it everything works you can go to a big conference yeah you can imagine yourself giving a performance you can go to a game you can fly the world anything you want and in your daydream you can copy the people you see the people you even get angry at the people you get angry at people you get jealous you get angry you see them jealous from you you can hear the applause in your daydream you have
52:30 - 53:00 emotions you have faces you have places you have times you can have a whole reality or a daydream you all know that in fact I may have woken up at least 50% of you from a very sweet daydream tonight where were you in your date Jim I don't know some of you were in Israel some of you were back home finishing the challah some of you were shopping some of you were winning the lottery some of you I don't know where you were so there's - if I have enough my own daydreams I say to you Shalom Aleichem welcome back somebody once has to see me
53:00 - 53:30 once asked us told me then he said how do you have a hutzpah you do a host Vanessa then you come to the last piece he'll erupts and Umrah a fever head you're in Libya for NASA the words of my mouth you should accept willingly you weren't thinking anything you were saying you finished he'll erupts anymore I feel do you have the audacity to say it to the boy says he says he says they're ever what do you why do you think we're thinking about these words either we said he let us eliminate fear also not thinking so what's what's the
53:30 - 54:00 problem I'm not going to Samer Shambala Kanan asked but now let's think about this I want you to think about this for a moment when you concoct this daydream in your mind and you built this whole reality you maybe let's say at a game and there's 30,000 people there eating kosher hot dogs with mustard and sauerkraut Mehadrin minima hardened of course Glatt Kosher and you're eating it and it's all there you see the people where or whatever your interest are kedusha her whatever it is
54:00 - 54:30 what happens when you stop daydreaming what happens to all these people anybody you remember when you woke up what happens to the daydream it's gone not here why they were all here what happened would they all disappear the answer is rabbi Jacobsen it's a strange question they had no existence outside of you
54:30 - 55:00 thinking of them the definition of their existence is that you're thinking of them they are basically waves of your brain so the moment you stop thinking of them they cease to exist because they don't have an existence outside of you actively thinking about them that is the definition of their existence so now if you want them to disappear you don't have to kill them you don't have to destroy them you just stop thinking so you're not creating them anymore in your mind in other words in other words
55:00 - 55:30 you'll say wait this is a strange example of course they don't exist when you stop thinking about them because they don't have an existence outside of your mind this is the story of the whole universe this is what the H may I in means something from nothing if I stop thinking about you you won't stop existing because you have an existence outside of my thoughts yesh
55:30 - 56:00 may I ins something from nothing in other words nothingness doesn't have within it the potentiality for something necessity of something so when we say the world was created eh me ayan something from nothing it act on its own it absolutely has no existence when you create yesh me a sh something from something that something existed initially I didn't
56:00 - 56:30 create its existence it doesn't exist because of me it exists independent of me the artist simply takes colors and a quill and a brush and a canvas and he puts it together a beautiful piece of art so it remains there even after he's done because it's not something from nothing it's something from something but when the world was created it's Bora the ash may I in meaning it's like the daydream in other words it has no existence so what does it mean that it
56:30 - 57:00 exists that Hashem thinks he Fink's up the world or speaks up the world every moment and that is the definition of its existence that is the meaning of its existence so that is why what does Hashem have to do for the world not to exist one word one word what does Hashem have to do for the world not to exist
57:00 - 57:30 nothing nothing he has to do something for the world to exist so you'll say wait wait wait rabbi this does this you're exaggerating my thoughts the people in my daydream are not autonomous beings they can't rebel against me they don't have free choice we exist don't tell me that we are in gods they dream we all exist we have existence we have independence we have free choice we have autonomy right and that's why beret shoes doesn't
57:30 - 58:00 compare creation to God thinking it compares creation to a Shem speaking that's the uniqueness the depth of the analogy of speech because thoughts remain inside of me my thoughts don't have a reality outside of me my words reach you my words have a certain independence of me the uniqueness of creation is that God thinks or speaks the world into existence what is the definition of
58:00 - 58:30 the world the definition of the world is the kayak le key the divine energy the divine words just like the daydream the stuff of the daydream is what is me it's my brainwaves there's no two realities nobody ever talking about Jamie you know I'm very lonely so I told them why don't you daydream that there's thirty thousand people living in your brain and you won't be lonely anymore we all know that that advice won't work you know why
58:30 - 59:00 because who are those thirty thousand people there you there you they're not an existence outside of you their existence is you it's something from nothing it doesn't have an existence outside of you so now think about the whole universe including you and me what is it essentially what is it so science uses the words DNA DNA are words DNA are letters and the DNA is constantly there but now let's understand it from a
59:00 - 59:30 Jewish prefer merge data perspective especially from our Kabbalah pretty saturated perspective what is it essentially these words contain within them what are they loyal Amish and - its ibaka Mayan it's the divine energy the divine words the divine force the daydream the words by your marilla Kim that actually create the world they have no existence outside of Hashem creating
59:30 - 60:00 them that is the definition of their existence just like the characters in my dejan don't have an existence independent of me thinking them so therefore when I stop thinking they're not here when he stops creating if the words depart for a moment they're not here where are they they were never here it was him creating that was a definition of their existence you ever see a speaker was a PowerPoint he brings a projector right he has a laptop right the laptop is connected to the projector the projector projects on
60:00 - 60:30 on the canvas say on a screen on a wall and you see a beautiful picture you see a picture of a person you see a picture of a zoo you see a picture of a circus you see text now but he walks in front of the projector and it's blank you see his shadow or somebody takes away to protect that there's nothing here what happened we're gonna go why didn't it stay here you'll say what is it it's simply the rays of light of the projector being projected on the wall
60:30 - 61:00 it's not independent it's not the project to create something independent of it it's the light of the projector being projecting you take away this source there's nothing because there was nothing there outside of the projector there was nothing there outside of the projector so now now let's take a look inside and then let's bring it back together take a look at the second source oh so Cheryl you fed them wound up a regime oh we're gonna learn a few lines
61:00 - 61:30 here but think about this think about this V&A I heard a advert in by Emma Sylar after explaining everything he explained in Chapter one and two chapter one that the words of godliness are this source of every being and chapter two which I didn't read is about the difference of eh - Mahesh and EH me I in something from nothing versus something from some nothing something something from nothing versus something from something listen to this coal Maskull
61:30 - 62:00 yelled over Yavin la shiroi any really intelligent person will understand something will understand well X akahl never aviation bombers next supplyin VFS mom-ish legate kakapo IL vous avez Shaban if allah Mojave are you so palma de might see i'm AI in mammoth leash that every existing being every speck of dust every flake of snow every drop of rain every cell every protein every
62:00 - 62:30 chemical every Nivea is really is really not in the presence of the power that brings it and gives it existence oma so here's the big question Oh Marsha Cole never Davina for near a linoleum emotions I every single created being appears as something so yes egotistical and substantial Cellmark machine anima sig
62:30 - 63:00 enviro in been a busser as Koya Shambu Yaakov Shabana Vera it's because we don't see with our eyes the divine energy and the spirit of his mouth in the created being of Elune it nourishes lion leiris lajas against our highest veneers Shabak all never ash a failure by me might say PR shamba receive if the I would be able to see the energy and spirituality that flows in every being from God's mouth why hire gosh miss
63:00 - 63:30 unlivable home Maria mom Austrian Iroquois Lena no we would not see the physicality and substance of it Kia bottle the matsyas mom Isla GABA is Varro's ninja boy because it's so nullified relative to the energy may a fashionable or they are ruining so your eye in various management conversations maybe relations manage because without it it would be north like before creation for Haruka near such a failure I love me much zippier Shambo a thief who Levada I'm HCA Tom admire his manly
63:30 - 64:00 Ashima hava ISA and the Ruth me is that flows on him from God's energy that's the only thing that brings it out from nothingness to somethingness in kenaf so f SB Lauber ms there's really nothing out nothing outside of him now what does this mean let's start let's try to understand this take even in plain science right when you look at when I'm looking what I'm looking at when I'm looking at this Mike I'm looking at my hand I'm looking at a bottle of what I'm looking at you essentially what am I seeing
64:00 - 64:30 I'm just seeing a plain body a solid body inanimate matter extend a piece of paper but we all know that inside of this there's a whole moving universe because everything is made up of atoms everything is made up of atoms including the cell in the body but everything is made up of atoms and the atom itself is comprised of what we call subatomic particles so why does it look like and there's a movement the electrons are moving around the atom with an
64:30 - 65:00 incomprehensible speed celebrity Khafre look and everything I don't see it i see something dead it's completely dead why so scientifically the because the electrons are moving so fast and we're dealing with we're dealing with a microscopic material and it's moving so fast that the impression that it gives to the human eye is solid matter so I don't have the calum I don't have the instruments to be able to see with the regular mat I'll do - little
65:00 - 65:30 annoyed with the ordinary eye to be able to see what's the bottom of this but here the shara you could them one of the panniers taking it a step even deeper and says and what's behind all of that the osseous of Eliquis but it's not that God creates the world this God and he creates the world what is the revolutionary idea here the toilet jus does not see intelligence and purpose in the design of the universe we don't see
65:30 - 66:00 intelligence and purpose in the design of the universe Tyrel sees intelligence and purpose as the stuff of which the universe is made that is the universe it's not that there is intelligence and design there is a God who made the world know it's not a God who made the world it's not that there is intelligence in making this beautiful beautiful universe of this person the very stuff of which
66:00 - 66:30 the universe made is made as what is divine it's the ISIS just like in science it's the DNA it's not DNA right you have cells that then create something else when you go on when you go and you look at the underlying structure the building blocks of the human organism what do you find you find cells and within the cell you'll find the DNA but there's a process amino acids proteins cells
66:30 - 67:00 tissues limbs organs and then they're combined together to create the claim of Shlaim of a person so what do we see we see the outside but what is it what is it there's an underlying building blocks what is the universe the universe is not made created by God the universe just like the characters in your daydream they're not created by you what are they what are they they are you
67:00 - 67:30 they're an expression of you they're not the full expression of you you have a little more in your brain hopefully besides the daydream but they have no reality independent of you you have a reality outside of them but they don't have a reality outside of you and that's what you have to create them every moment because if you're not there there's no reality outside of you it is you being expressed that's why creation happens every single moment because if it ceases to be one moment what do you want should be like
67:30 - 68:00 taking away the projector how do you expect on the canvas there should be there should be images from what they have their own images they don't have their own images it's a projection of the high you sell the car utility the high you sell a key that's the uniqueness of yes may I in something from nothing now if this is the case what are the ramifications of this let's now bring this together what are the ramifications of this the ramifications of this are many but I want to bring out a few major major results of this and that is listen
68:00 - 68:30 to this when we talk about having a relationship with Hashem building a relationship with God serving our Shem connecting Tosh M what does this mean very good say that louder you heard enough of my serum you know what the answer very good say it louder say it
68:30 - 69:00 louder shumsa finished there's two ways of understanding you disguise there's two ways of understanding you disguise one way of understanding he descried is Ella Kim Bassam I am Vani pah-wraiths but he's bigger and stronger than me so I gotta listen God is in heaven he's powerful he's infinite he's omniscient he's omnipresent he has a lot of power and he sets the rules and have to listen
69:00 - 69:30 to him now on a technical level yet true but that's that missing the punch line it's missing the punch line to have a relationship with God means to have a relationship with whom with my truest self with my deepest self the very eye is a reflection of God's eye the variation of the liver is a reflection of the a Shama T a relationship with God doesn't mean I deny myself I destroy myself I crushed
69:30 - 70:00 myself I become a slave of the big boss a relationship with God means that you identify your truest energy you align yourself with yourself avoid this hush that means you align yourself with yourself with your DNA with your true with your true core with your true energy so when the boss when we say the Baal Shem Tov wanted to bring out a night Movado what does this mean not only a song and it's not just words it's
70:00 - 70:30 a very profound may be the profoundest idea about life and that is it's not that we are in a relationship with God God created us a night move on day means that the whole universe and every detail of the universe the macrocosm and the microcosm what is it essentially it's a love course it's a reflection of Ilocos avoid this Hashem means getting in touch with the truth of the world with the
70:30 - 71:00 spiritual DNA of the universe with the ideas of it you want to know who you are you have to find gods that's who you are you want to suck the marrow out of your life you want to figure out your deepest uncle's you want to extract and actualize all your crisis all your creativity that's what a relationship with God is means a relationship with your deepest energy which is essentially divine and that also means that you're always in a relationship you're always
71:00 - 71:30 in a relationship in fact that Shem is recreating you every single moment not just intentionally if he would not you would cease to be every single moment a new creation something from nothing right now that's how deep the relationship is but he speaks the world he doesn't think the world if he would sink the world that could be no Distortion it's all in him he speaks the world in
71:30 - 72:00 other words he externalizes the energy so now I could take the energy and completely misinterpret it just like I sometimes say things and people hear what they want to hear they don't hear what I say they sometimes hear exact opposite of what the speaker says by Saaremaa Morris my Maurice never eylem that's the metaphor of of speech that's why interestingly that's the deep association between simcha and Yiddish Scott why is simcha joy such a
72:00 - 72:30 fundamental aspect in Judaism in subway the whole time since my taxes Slovakia malcolmus improve to live off the Rambam says at the end of hostess lulav that this is one of the greatest aspects of Yiddish guide the similar kind retail says the result was that all of his my drag is because simply show mitzvah never mind after the Baal Shem Tov simply became such a major focus why is it so important so you'll be in the press you what's the problem well we all
72:30 - 73:00 know the practical benefits of driba there's something much deeper as long as one doesn't get this ultimately it's very hard to be a serious Juba scimitar you know why because let's say I tell you I want you to be a slave for 90 years a slave you you repress your typhus you don't follow your craving you're a slave to their burnished leather but after 90 years ooh you're gonna have babka forever with a
73:00 - 73:30 hasten make for 125 degrees especially in the winter and you'll be able to have a coffee and free sushi and a free mortgage of free tuition with our spender and a beautiful Vilna Gomorrah and a hot thermos there 90 years in effort but one day eternity you have Olam haba it pays very nice beautiful but for 90 years I'm a slave and it's not exciting that's the real question is Yiddish guide ultimately repressive or
73:30 - 74:00 liberating we go back to our last week's class what is it really I could tell the person crush your typhus one day you're gonna get rewarded one day you're gonna get the lottery the fireball 1.5 billion dollars for 70 years that's as much and so what and hopefully hopefully you'll develop a taste like lettuce if you eat long enough you'll develop a taste of a circum nurse two potato chips so how this similar can you be that's
74:00 - 74:30 why you'll forgive me but sometimes you see you see that somebody once told me said the more religious I become the more depressed I become why because the more serious I take life the more I have to challenge every one of my cravings and it becomes very hard and that's what you see sometimes that people associate real heroes shamayim with being spiritually and mentally hunchback you have to be a little more it a
74:30 - 75:00 little sad a little OCD a little non-social if you're a happy person it's already it's frivolous it's almost homeless the baal shem tov had a very different that's all if you don't understand a night Movado if you don't understand nathan is movility there's ultimately a competition we don't talk about it but in the competition LMI god is the big boss i surrender i surrender you know why Lamar Birla Mazda he could punish me I want his reward I want
75:00 - 75:30 cotton candy I don't want the electric sword and you know what if something is motivating you not to do a Nevada shine broadens Farnum and say free moose anything that stops you from doing innovators I could to hurt them but the I make of you - guide is the Havanna that avoiders Hashem ultimately is really connecting with the only truth of existence with your deepest truth with the truth of all existence a relationship with Hashem is not your
75:30 - 76:00 enslaving yourself to the big guy you're not enslaving yourself to the big guy avoid us our Marines really realizing that a noite movavi the whole world is a schtick helices every moment every experience every encounter every horse every faculty every new could in a person's life every cell every part of the Gulf and every part of the nefesh what is it eluded nourishes lion leaders what is it a relationship with God means
76:00 - 76:30 a sensitivity to the music flowing in the world the world is music the world is words the world is consciousness the world is intelligence the world is mindfulness it's not mindfulness created the world this is the sidewalk I walk on the carpet I step on the bed I sleep on the people I talk to that is not a sidewalk not a bed the shoes I wear it's essentially streaming with life with
76:30 - 77:00 vitality it's more consciousness it's all mindfulness it used to be a few hundred years ago people these like this language would be strange very superstitious very weird today today if you can't relate to this language wake up smell the coffee this is the language of science this is the language of physics this is the language of cosmology this is the language of
77:00 - 77:30 quantum mechanics certainly this is the language of the new world the language of the new world is the language in which we can relate to the universe and see that the universe is essentially the beat entirely the universe itself the stuff of the universe is is is godliness the Vegas with Asha means Vegas with Hashem means Vegas with the essence of
77:30 - 78:00 me with the essence of you with the essence of the universe and there is also another very important is a lot but I want to bring out one more implication of this may be extremely significant and important because if even the smallest particle an event requires constant animation by Hashem swilled thought he has to actively
78:00 - 78:30 want to dream it up bring it into being without it it doesn't exist so then obviously these little details what we call little details are are of great importance to God otherwise he would not continuously trouble himself quote-unquote to actively think them up so that means every detail of life that we think is garnished for Hashem it's extremely significant because he's
78:30 - 79:00 willingly he wants to bring it into being in addition in addition the fact that he chooses to create our finite world with all of the details and nuances is absolutely astounding it means that nothing is trivial the existence of a speck of dust requires the same attention as a galaxy the existence of a small little creature requires the same attention as hundreds
79:00 - 79:30 of millions of stars in the galaxy so the speck of dust the little person the little moment is as essential to God's plan as the galaxy there is a transcendent purpose in everything so there's no such thing as a coincidence that's why the same Baal Shem Tov spoke so much about what rajagaha paratus the leaf that turns over the little encount come on give me a break if God really
79:30 - 80:00 exists he cares about the leaf you know what you look like from outer space like the Chinese checker worse smaller a little bean smaller than a bean that's only from outer space from God's perspective Hakka properties by divine providence every person you meet every detail of your life he really cares if you wait 5 hours and 58 minutes after Shabbos afternoon Shaolin to eat ice cream it's our Shabbos or 6 hours this is what he's busy with a little
80:00 - 80:30 embarrassing no he stands with a clock 5:58 and 106 hours at a pizza pizza with a Shoppers pizza Bharatha tosh Djamel Aquino Mohamed Salah common RS this is Judaism you making a joke person lit a match on Shabbos so you gonna tell me the big God cares about a match you know as Noah max is significant it's not a guy wants all meets up to courses and
80:30 - 81:00 it's a logical question it's a very good logical question but now the question is what does he care about a galaxy the galaxy is a heft sir but the same attention needed for the galaxy is needed for the match is needed for the flake of snow is needed for the droplet of rain is needed for the blading grass is needed for this little person because everything needs active creation every
81:00 - 81:30 single moment so if that's the case there's no difference between the big thing and the small thing in other words there's no such a thing as a small thing does this describe to us who God is no but it describes to us who we are annoyed Movado thank you very much so there's even some labels for me thank you I think I learned that somebody said what's the hole
81:30 - 82:00 thank you Robert and continue short and short as such nostalgia I saw something on the doctorate in medicine there's many many people I told you the time of the Marcus which is a DNA I gave in [Music] there we go I say sir T of the frontier
82:00 - 82:30 you couldn't only like the matter as a hurricane going to a garbage dump
82:30 - 83:00 and do the same at 7:46 the odds of what of DNA have come to a head if it's Ashley I and then has to be it
83:00 - 83:30 doesn't exist like a daydream if metate home it's at cycle desire to say he did it that way if you want to use cycle there's a tire if something is yesh man you have to create it every moment it's like you throw up a football in the air it's not gonna stay no no mitts at the yesh right but I'm
83:30 - 84:00 saying since the yesh on its own governing earth like the carrot invitation no but that's a whole a yeesh that created from iron can't have independent existence because it reverts to what it is doesn't with smartness he's smart but the ashes a yes ISM it sees the campuses
84:00 - 84:30 so it's his energy so it's right there's energy but him and his energy are one that's not if it's his energies right - his energy understands that his energy is not separates from LMI you wanted to exist outside of his energy so that doesn't mean he's smart that means that smart you get it just because shrimp should not get as powerful doesn't mean I could pick up a building it means he
84:30 - 85:00 could not me the age on its own as iron that's what's at cycle let's say [Music] that's a good to shine I'll strike start with the Schuyler yet those are easy so that misses like this you have to tell them Alec in yeah then you have
85:00 - 85:30 neshama tell them Ella Kim is the ability of a person to Debbie my Rufus you can't expect the egg it goes process and it's not that will never change it always fulfills its purpose doesn't grow but it also doesn't doesn't destroy anything it does exactly what it has to do but selam aleykum is the ability for
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86:00 - 86:30 everything is authentic of the part about the shot the difference of people are shocked the difference of people nearby it means to be able to make an
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87:30 - 88:00 you everything together but what is behind it what is really behind it lines of code just work someone put the lines of code and now you are you think you can choose what everyone talking on the phone whatever beautiful but what was it
88:00 - 88:30 are you sure [Music] science is a beautiful thing science is the ability to know the world science pepsin the Mishnah sanhedrin then I told you about Kiva if people are worshipping the Sun why does not some lattice son have she said to fear above the moment if they are shaken we understand you know the
88:30 - 89:00 mission you know the mission they told you about Kiva if people are worshipping the Sun why does Hashem let the Sun in the piadmin a runway that there - you know that means same thing science is a gift a person could misuse it of course the mouth is also a gift the person could misuse it that's how the world is created is this everything
89:00 - 89:30 could be used in productive ways and non-productive ways a knife you could use to cut collar will be Makai mmm excellent uh commissioner and you could use it for other things but it doesn't mean that every knife is better friends I use it famous science the rambam rights and who can say they are traitor if you want to reach Aven you there you have to study a natural science not everybody held that way but Saddam bomb
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90:00 - 90:30 but that's the most real thing god no he spoke remember I said he spoke it becomes concrete this is deeper becomes yangshin
90:30 - 91:00 no he's a wire some cults called iron come is called iron that's a good question the answer to that is because that's a question generally why we say debris is yesh man I would you say degree is yes for much from him yeah from him as dipper the answer is there's a few reasons I'll tell you two one is because
91:00 - 91:30 we call I in that which we can't detect we can't grasp it with all that iron in our universe of what we can have is iron we have no way of being at typhus right it's iron to us in other words what are we talking with typhus things with our five senses even with our safe hole right we detect things godliness something we don't detect we call it iron there's a deeper reason that lagaa by him it's called iron why because because it's only array it's
91:30 - 92:00 only AI seus the muscle let's say you're thinking up a daydream right so you have these things in your daydream how much of your personality how much of your personality does it occupy how much percent of all your thoughts ah I in let God be your whole presence in science of God by Hashem it's called iron iron so it's both ienaga by us because we can't detect it and it's I in the gamma him because it's only a harder told me an
92:00 - 92:30 ice you know Bahama Varela massa so it's iron on both levels that's why it's called ayah States that's what the ballot on it's beautiful in many ways yeah that's a divine it's everything as a divine and godly godly energy where we're always doubled with
92:30 - 93:00 them yeah yeah yeah of course yeah we are so to speak Rambam rights be a Diaz at smiley idea : Avraham obey meatus emotes IM so Colin and Sian the ideas as my limits idea : Avraham because they all come from him
93:00 - 93:30 just obstruct annoyed Movado a night move oddly means that every new code in life right it's it's so true things no I shan't and there's a world except and there's me it's not separate it's one Actos it's one in Union and beyond there's no we have no identity outside of God God has an identity outside of us
93:30 - 94:00 the characters in the daydream don't have an identity outside of you but it doesn't mean that your whole identity is the characters in the date the Gemara says who McCoy my shillelagh cuz I'll say mentor says who McCamish a loyal vein Olomouc i'ma write you typhus [Music] stuff is given a smudger sure not
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