Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser - Jewish Thought: Creation - How Does One Become Many?

today we're talking about how does one become many Creator the universe is one the world's made of many so how one become many because before the world was made there was total one and then God created the many out of that one so how exactly was that done well there's one amazing analogy and the analogy that's used most by cabalists is light light is uh how it's actually said by our calist light is how God created the world the world's actually was created from light this light is called in Hebrew or reown the first light and God basically shot out light now this is not photons of light the way we know them to be this is beyond space and time this is some kind of PR primordial light a pre-creation light that light sh shined forth obviously it would blow anything away that's in its path and that light is filtered out and filtered out and filtered out until ultimately there is existence I'll give you an example let's find something with light uh know if you can see on this board you see the shadow of my hand here I don't know if you guys can see that over there can you see that here this will be even better see the shadow of my hand there okay let me get a good shadow of my hand there I don't know it's a lot of lights at once so it's making weird shadows but anyway that shadow in my hand are where the light is missing do you see that the reason you see that image of my hand on the on the screen it's because I've removed light and it's now you can see the image on the screen of of where my hand is so the same thing that God created the world with light and then removed light so that there could be an image on the other side and that's exactly just like that God created the world let me give you an example of a a guy comes back from a trip from Yos Valley and he invites his best friend to come like make an amazing slideshow with him so he's helping him out and he's putting out you know the uh the pretzels and the uh the uh crackers and whatnot and he's also helping him arrange slides and anyway the guy's working on the slideshow but what happened is he started putting he put on his projector and the light pops and he loses his projector lamp and he says to his buddy Buddy says please run to the store and get a new light his friend runs to the to the Photoshop but he ran so fast he forgot to bring the light bulb with him and he took off goes to the Photoshop and in the Photoshop they ask him you know so what size light you need and he says I don't know for a projector the guy says in a projector I mean you have 200 watt projectors you have 400 watt projectors you have 800 watt projector you have thousand wat projector what kind of projector he say I don't know it's standard he says there is no standard just give me a light so he says okay here's a light gives him the thousand watt light takes it back to his buddy says here's the light he unscrews the other light looks at it says 200 Watts he's like what do you want me to do with this thing people are arriving like five minutes he says I don't know just put it in put it in puts it in drops a slide inside the inside the projector and what shows up on the screen what shows up on the screen light why because it's way too much light for this particular slide and so what comes out on the screen is light so it says no what are we going to do you know they're coming right now we don't have time for you to go back to the story he says wait I got a great idea he takes five five slides tapes them together and one slide with was a deer and one slide was a a river and one slide was a mountain and one slide was a tree one slide was a meadow tapes them all together sticks them in the machine shines light and they both look at the screen they're just like whoa that's so cool it is a five exposure image of a meadow with a river and a stream and a a tree okay you got to be a little creative when you look at it but it's amazing and okay quick grab grab the tape grab the slides let's put them all together so they're like that'll go good with that and that'll go with that and that'll go with that and they made sets of five to show everybody and they apologize they said it's going to be a shorter slideshow and it's also going to need a bit of creativity but but it's going to it's going to have everything in there that's our analogy now let's look at things from the cabalistic perspective here okay before there was something there was absolutely nothing and that nothing for whatever reason decided to create the world and it's like a light bulb guess that will be the light bulb that shined a light into the world so that's a light bulb and it shines this light into existence now that light makes its way through into the world it's got 10 beams that it breaks into two 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 it's got 10 beams that it shines into and that and so you got a light that's now shining into 10 beams which then it breaks into another realm which is um where those beams actually become more distinguished into things like uh uh animals and uh animals and then uh uh I don't know uh plants and then uh mineral it's water and then ultimately you we get to our realm down here which is the physical world there's the sun there's the moon there's the Big Dipper okay okay so this Begins the world of space and time this is finite space and time this is finite beyond space and time okay and this is an amazing thing for all of us to like expand our mind into a bit is that we grew up believing that space and time was you know the finite and anything beyond space and time was beyond finite or the infinite it's not true at all there is finite of space and time then there is finite that is beyond space and time but still finite and then somewhere back here because don't forget God's not a light bulb God created the light source but somewhere back here I don't know where you'd put it because it's everywhere also but somewhere back here is infinite infinite and obviously beyond space and time okay so there's this whole intermediary realm that exists between space and time and beyond space and time a whole Realm before you even get to infinite it's a little hard for us to put our minds around that but our world is just the explicate of an implicate World our world is the unfolded of an enfolded world is that clear meaning there's a whole realm that's right beyond our realm that is an that is enfolded and it unfolds into our Physical Realm here is that clear so there there's this it's you know it's talked about in English too this is called the physical and this is called The Meta physical okay there's a physical there's a metaphysical world and then there's God now what do they mean by the universe when they say the universe if you're a physicist it means all the galaxies and the SpaceTime Continuum but if you're a spiritual person whether you're in Judaism or you're in Buddhism doesn't matter they call the universe they're talking about the entire physical and metaphysical Jews are only the people audacious enough to believe that you can actually have a relationship with this okay the rest of the world you're supposed to become one with the universe which would be all of this all the way to here but this being and people shouldn't make the mistake to think that they don't believe in God most Aboriginal cultures that are involved with all kinds of deities in the metaphysical phical world we often make the mistake of thinking they don't believe in God they do believe in God they just don't believe you can have a relationship with God and if you think you can you're like you're like you got a big ego problem if you think this being that's beyond you know your wildest imaginations because if we if I could somehow give you a pill that you swallow with a cup of water and you saw and you just saw like here you know just there yeah you'd be freaked out for the rest of your life You' be freaked out for the rest of your life now these people who know these Traditions who are all into becoming one with the whole metaphysical World they've they've been over there they know how how incredibly intricate these Realms are so they think that's about as far as anyone's ever going to get and so the Jews come along and say oh yeah well guess what the the you know the creator of it all is totally interested in us and actually created us just have a relationship with it and they just look at us like what now how are we supposed to prove our Point what's our proof of that meaning where we we're if a guy came and approached you know a Hindu master and said listen sir I'm sorry but you're selling yourself short being at one with the metaphysical and physical because you could be at one with the creator of it all and he'll say yeah how do you know there's only one way we know answer Sinai Sinai is the only time we know there was never a time before and there's never been a time since it where God actually said hello hello and there he said hello and there to everybody he said AO to individuals but that doesn't matter you know so and it's true God has spoken individuals throughout history but it but it doesn't mean anything it's means a lot to him but it doesn't mean anything to us whereas sin God was letting an entire population know that I'm actually totally interested in you now let's go into detail this realm here is where everything is one totally United as one when we say sh is God hero Israel the God God is our God God is one when we're saying that we're really talking about here okay that's when we're talking about everything's United totally United now God chose to create the world with 10 forces and those 10 forces are totally United here they're here but they're all embedded and United in each other they have not distinguished themselves they are still totally one and what God does is from this realm which we'll call realm one in Hebrew it's called that cus is God distinguishes those 10 into existence and now those 10 which are those 10 now create the whole the whole world's being created via these 10 so now God's creating the world via these 10 beams now these 10 beams are mentioned in Genesis and therefore we also know that days are not days yet because if God's saying these over a course of what the Torah calls six days when he's really talking about beams that don't even take place in space and time you know he's not talking about 24hour days so the first of them all as I said was called HMA that's going to be this first line that first line which is called HMA is the beam that doesn't relate to any of the specific things that God created rather that first beam which is called everyone say the word is the sum total of all the beams and it's the sum total and sum POS potential of everything if you change the words around in it becomes K in Hebrew means strength but it also means potential the word kak means a potential poal and ma means what meaning the potential of all possibility is all locked into what's called which we say every morning everything that God created the whole creation via this some potential of everything called HMA and when you open the Book of Genesis the word HMA show shows up that first beam shows up with the word bous the word bous is what create is this kind of some total word Braes is a super heavy nuclear explosive word that has all of creation locked in kind of like that that that like condensed matter of those who are big bangers like that kind of thing that would be a great example of H where every bit of potential is connected to that one dense condensed piece of matter that's but then the the if you read on in Genesis over the next few lines it keeps saying let there be this and let there be that let there be Earth upon the waters and let there be vegetation upon the land and let there be fish and let there be fowl and let there be animals each one of those let their bees is another one of these beams there's nine others so the first one's bis and the next nine are these are all the let their bees so for example Let There Be vegetation upon the Earth is what is creating the table that's in front of you right now let there be vegetation upon the Earth is what's creating the cotton inside your clothing right now right now God is saying let there be vegetation upon the Earth and now there's a table and there's clothing if God now listen this is really important you guys get this point you have to know this stuff this is part of getting your head on straight if God were to stop saying let there be vegetation upon the Earth for one second then every ounce of vegetation inside this room and outside this room would disappear these walls are made of wood gone okay these tables gone You' just be sitting with a metal frame in front of yourselves I'd be really happy that I'm wearing wool pants and a wool sweater right now because I'd lose my undergarments okay gone okay the rest of you would probably be naked unless you're wearing wool okay because that's Let There Be animals upon the Earth the only reason why there's any cotton in the room right now is because God's saying Let There Be vegetation upon the earth now why would you have thought otherwise the reason you would have thought otherwise is because for us we're not used to having such an intimate relationship with God we've all been seeing God as someone who as this being that created the world not who creates it but when you look at our cabalistic prayers which we say every morning when you look at those cabalistic prayers prayers you see its present tense we say he creates he creates not he created he creates God is creating you right now into existence with and and is intimately bound up with that creation at all times so you're being created right now and God's right here and why wouldn't we have thought of that because we're we like to have God elsewhere we like God you know putting parisel in a lot while we're doing our thing but God is like God is intimately bound up with everything at all times now I got to turn to physics for a few minutes um let's do some Physics so the physics are as follows there's something called Holograms and Holograms are really interesting things Holograms come from holographic plates so like the most famous and first hologram that ever existed was in a movie called Star Wars where Princess Leah is projected via a project an holographic projection inside of R2-D2 and she is has this message for Obi-Wan Kenobi it was one of the most famous Holograms now what is a hologram a hologram is a three-dimensional projection it does not require a screen it actually exists in 3D you can walk around it you can put your hand through it because it's a projection it's not physical but it's a three-dimensional projection no screen required now where does a hologram come from it comes from a holographic plate it looks like a slide like any slide bigger but it looks like a slide and you shine light through that plate and it creates a 3D image instead of a regular image now here's the amazing thing about a holographic plate imagine we had a a slide of Austin just a regular slide now I shine the light through the slide onto this screen there's Austin yeah now I take that slide and I cut it in half no offense okay we'll cut off the lower half okay so we cut off the lower half the slide what's there going to be on the screen okay half of Austin it would be from the waist up cut that in half and now we only have uh let's say from the neck up it's on the screen you will see Austin's head cut that in half half of Austin's head okay it's clear now what if it were a holographic plate first of all we don't need a screen anymore so we got a holographic plate we shine the light through it and there's Austin 3D it's much cooler 3D of Austin now I take that plane and I cut it in half what do we have a picture of now that we shine light through it what do you think cut cut in half the answer is all of him three dimensionally just lower resolution cut in half again now we got a quarter all of him three-dimensionally just lower resolution cut it in half again now we got an eighth of the original all of Austin lower resolution now we just cut the whole thing away and all we leave is one square millimeter of our original holographic plate and we shine a laser through it it's lasers you use shine a laser through it you get all of Austin what does that tell you about every millimeter or micrometer of that plate what does it tell you about it it all has all of the info it's kind of like DNA it has all the info of Austin inside of every millimeter of it this is a fact in physics we know how to do this their Holograms are totally creatable today this is a this is technology that's 40 years old Holograms it's really a wondrous thing it's hard to get the mind around but it's what it's called is is that on that holographic plate Austin is a locational you get that he's allocational now once we shine lasers through the plate and now Austin's 3D there now Austin's locational you can see Austin locationally he's standing right here in the middle of the room but he's being beamed from a plate that's allocational this whole realm here where the 10 spheros they're called spheros these 10 beams these 10 spheros are distinguished from each other is a is a um is a holographic realm and how our comist describe it is quite amazing you ever seen an electrical cord like an extension cord white extension cord and you open it up it's got three wires in it it's got like a ground and a and a positive and a neutral line but it all look like one chord to begin with until you open it up so the 10 spheros in the in this realm in this second realm is totally holographic so let's say there's 10 spheros and I want to open up the fourth of the 10 I want to open up the fourth so I take that fourth wire right there's 10 in there I take I open up one two three four now I splice it with an razor blade and I open it up how many what's inside there all 10 all 10 are inside there and now I want to open up of those 10 I want to open the sixth one so I open up the sixth one and I open that one up guess what's inside there all 10 and now I open up the eighth one in there and what's inside there all 10 do you get how this is holographic what's going on is totally holographic inside these 10 beams in this realm which is called Berea the first realm realm one we called it celus the second realm is called Berea in the realm of Berea all 10 spheros are inside of every being ad infinite I mean it never stops it just keeps going and going and going the point is is that if you've noticed you're you're sitting in a 3D room is that much can we agree on you're in a 3D room why are you in a 3D room right now because God is is God is is extracting or or taking light out where's some light right the reason you see my hand Shadow on a shirt because I'm removing light so God is removing light via a holographic realm which is creating the 3D nature of this room all I'm trying to do is describe why the world's 3D do you get that now all I'm just giving you a very long- winded cabalistic explanation of the 3D nature of life every part of the Hologram has the whole universe in it so like your fingernail has DNA so does a hair so does your saliva so does your cheek that's got the whole makeup of your body but it's also got the whole makeup of the universe well you're asking wear questions about things that are beyond space and time so space is a wear question and this is outside space okay so there's no wear question available here where can only be on this side here we can talk about where here is no longer so I can't answer the question where there is no where anymore where is only a struct mental structure for people who live in this fourth realm here when I said when we remember we opened up the fourth wire so the fourth wire has got its own theme so it's and now when I open it up it's 10 to the fourth theme it gets like real rocket science at that point but it's 10 to the fourth theme and and by the way cist like really go into this so they're like they'll be talking to each other about stuff and they'll like oh that would be six six it would be uh six in the fourth theme you know when describing Sixth and the fourth theme whatever is it's wild stuff we go through this every Passover till shivu is 50 days and they go through seven of these beams because 49 and then 50 is like the culmination is p is shabas the day we got the Torah at Mount sin so those seven weeks each week is one of these beams and then there's the day which is seven so one of the seven days to that beam so you could have the so I had mentioned that the sixth week is called yod the six beam is called yod so the sixth day of the sixth week was the sixth day War in 1967 that began on the sixth day of the sixth week which is called yod she sixth of the six so yeah it gets all like rocket science stuff usually spartic kists are more interested in this kind of rocket science and ashkenazic kist are not as interested in that stuff this is so here you got infinite being absolutely nothing absolutely everything projecting light okay out of this first realm where the 10 spheres are are united IT projects the 10 where the 10 now distinguish themselves in this in this endlessly networked world of these 10 beams but then it hits another major shift where the actual beam of Let There Be vegetation upon or let there be animal upon the Earth let's say it'ss here and now that beam is now starting to like distinguish itself as animal world Kingdom so there is lamb chop yeah and now what are you g to get here cruising around in South America is lamb chop physical Lamb Chop in space and time now lamb chops got another lamb chop up here in a totally metaphysical realm which is the end of this whole beam now the beam up here is totally connected to the tree which is connected to the river you know which is connected to Lamb Chop but as it goes it starts to like coales into what it's actually creating which is Let There Be animals upon the Earth that's the original that's the original nuclear vocalization Let There Be animals upon the Earth but later it aesque until it finally hits Lamb Chop the spiritual Lamb Chop though this is a spiritual lamb chop and then here's Lamb Chop walking around yeah there's Lamb Chop cruising around a meadow in uh you know Argentina okay and here's a tree so it's like Let There Be vegetation upon the Earth Ding and now there's a physical tree in our world this is the fourth level okay one all beams United two beams distinguish themselves but are holographic by Nature three this is the metaphysical realm that is these are all metaphysical but this realm is where that actual beam hits its desired being which is an Angelic form it's not it's the Angelic form of the tree and that Angelic form of the tree ultimately pops out as a tree right here in North America there's things you can connect to this this is yud this is he this is V this is hey um this is the sacrifices the offerings we say every morning this is the PUK zimra this is the shama and its blessings and this is the silent meditation and the cottage between each one is an elevator to take you from run Realm every time we say kades takes you to the next one okay these are the levels of the Soul there nees R andas in the out there okay there's a lot of stuff to connect to it but that particular one's more how we study the Torah there's four levels of Torah study