GOD AND TIME

[Music] watching that new geham Shear it's amazing it's really good and I'm starting to watch it and you mentioned that there's a lot of people rashim that are going to be there for an eternity and it's a little scary but then I started to think um that if Hashem is not bound by time cuz he is the Eternal eternity then me talking to you today Rabbi is not really happening because if he's not bound by time then how do we know that today is really real versus moso coming down the mountain or tomorrow is really real but um in the future Messiah just came you understand because if he's not bound by time then you and I talking right now and transpiring these ideas is is is it already happened in the past so how do I know that today is really the real day how do we know if Hashem is not bound by time it's like you ever see the movie uh the Terminator the first two not the other four the other four were wer remain by James Cameron the first two were Canon they were they they they had Judgment Day right and then he comes all the way back to to save the future the future didn't have different versions of the future that was the other stupid films talking about the first two were amazing right so again like how do we know that today is really today so for instance if somebody's burning in geham maybe he already burnt so whatever I do is inevitable in a sense meaning because whatever happened already happened or somebody else there's still but again why should we continue to burn today if today is not really real Maybe it's the future and and the burning is over it's I don't know it's it's very confusing this whole thing with the geham and and Hashem not being bound by time because then today is not really real I don't know it's very confusing in so many words um you're looking at things from uh your own perspective which is the wrong perspective because since you are bound to time and you have to look at things based on time you're assuming that Hashem has to look at Things based on time because you know um that's what you could relate to but that's because you're physical is not physical so the the fact that uh he is not bound to time is a couple of points to uh short points I mean more details I highly recommend reading uh first 100 Pages discuss it in detail um and much more obviously but uh the point is two things that you could take into account that'll help you uh number one um if God was bound to time then time would be God uh meaning if he's if he was limited uh then uh then that would make whatever is not limited God uh why is that because if uh uh God was bound to time that means that he has to have a beginning and therefore also has to have an end uh and that cannot be because everything that is bound to time has a beginning and has an end uh so that cannot be uh so but how do I think uh about the concept of no time in reality the rambam writes that it's not possible for a person to think uh about a you know uh the truth of No Time concept of no time because everything we think of We compare to time because that's what the whole M E equals mc² Einstein uh popularized because it really wasn't his original thought it was already written 800 900 years uh before him by the ramban but anyway the uh the the point is is that um the when we think we think of things based on something physical based on something that's material but the only thing that you can uh uh use to to help help your head get around it is as far as thinking of no time is for example when somebody has a dream uh especially when they have a bad dream uh those dreams I don't know if you've ever had them I assume you probably did uh at some point sometimes those dreams or good dreams even but those dreams you know they last for you know you could you feel like you went through a whole journey in I don't know in a desert or something and a person I don't know was tortured or went uh all types of horrible things and literally feels like the whole thing lasted for days weeks months even years but in reality they were asleep for five minutes and the dream uh according to a scientist doesn't last more than nine seconds so whether it's nine seconds or it's five minutes is irrelevant if the person feels like they went somewhere and uh they went through a desert and they got all types of things that took you know days or years of their life obviously they they did it did happen it's just that it's it's nothing that you could compare it to of this world why because the dream is a place of no time no physicality uh whereas your reality uh which includes your thoughts of this world is bound to time because it's bound to material uh so uh just think of any dream that you've ever had uh that lasted a long time in reality it's uh it's something that took seconds uh so that's one of the ways that a person could actually think of the concept of no time uh And in regards to uh geham I mean this answers the question for that also I really appreciate you taking your time and explaining it to me I mean I I'm grasping what you're saying but it doesn't answer if today is really real for me meaning maybe five years from now is really real because if God is not bound by time that maybe today already transpired you understand what I'm trying to say it's like laavo that Terminator movie like he came from the future to go to the past to fix it meaning he already things already existed in the future so which one is the real timeline today or 10 years from now or 100 years from now what is the real timeline I I still don't understand is today really the real timeline and if today is the real timeline how do we know it's the real timeline that's the qu how do how do I know how do you know how does how does everybody else know because these events keep happening CU Hashem is not bound by time I know maybe I'm getting too philosophical over here no it's not philosophy it's just that you're confusing your reality with hashem's reality so here it goes uh for you uh you're bound to the time and the reality that you see uh you are obligated by that time frame you uh have hunger that is current and therefore you eat you have a uh whatever other bodily need uh at this time and therefore uh you meet it why because even if you needed it in the past it's not going to help you today meaning even if you satiated it in the past that you ate it yesterday it's not going to make you full today and even if you already are going to want to breathe the future it's not going to satisfy you today you have to uh meet your obligations of today today you're bound to the time of today your confusion is that you're uh comparing God to yourself which is again not not a uh something that you're doing uh uh you know in a in a negative way you're you're simply confused where God is not bound to time because God is Not Like Us is there's no connection there's no there's no uh similarity between us and God uh when he said that uh let let us make man in our image it's just in essence the uh uh not it's not a physical image but rather the uh the ability to decipher between good and bad that's what making us like an image but other than that there is no similarities between us and God um and he is not bound to time which means that the everything that is uh that is God is one one meaning that for us we are separate from uh we are Parts uh so our thoughts are part of us they not us our body is made up of pieces it's not a single thing uh there's all organs and bones and Limbs and so on and so forth uh whereas God is one what is God meaning one what does mean it means that God is one his thoughts are the same thing as him uh the past the present and the future are all the same there is no difference for him in as far as the past the present and the future it's all the same thing now we do not have the capability of thinking that way or even truly understanding that concept of what does it mean the past the present and the future because the past is a uh you know is a is is a memory to us so we vaguely remember certain things we remember other things uh clearly uh but generally speaking it's unless you have a uh a unique illness uh which is an illness where a person remembers every single event in their life uh a person doesn't remember everything uh there is an illness like that that people remember literally every single thing in their life and it's a very very terrible disease because the person doesn't stop uh feeling those feelings so for example if somebody ever uh I don't know lost somebody in their life or had any type of uh uh pain uh they remember it all the time so it's a one of the biggest uh gifts that hem gave us uh the biggest that he gave us is actually being forgetful that we forget because that that allows us to overcome uh difficulties in our life uh whatever that difficulty may be somebody was uh you know had a uh a heartache of some kind a uh uh you know wants to uh forget it as soon as possible now the point is is that uh these thoughts are separate from us so what we thought of yesterday or two weeks ago may not feel like it's separate from us but if you give it enough time it becomes a distant memory and and in in essence usually it's forgotten to some extent God on the other hand does not have such a thing his thoughts are uh and his will and he himself are all one meaning that when he uh thinks of something thing it becomes a reality instantly uh because there is no separation between he and and his thoughts and the reality uh for us we have a thought and are that thought is a part of us and but making it into a reality is another part uh so that's the uh another very very big difference between us and God so the fact that God has no uh no past no present and no future it's all the same thing to him is does not in any way shapee or form change our reality because the way you understand it is this if let's say uh I told you that I know the future and uh and you said okay fine prove it to me and I said okay I'm gonna write I'm gonna take a piece of paper don't look okay I'm gonna take a piece of paper and I'm gonna write it or in today's terms I'm going to make a voice note and I'm going to uh send you voice note but you're not allowed to hear it until tomorrow okay and you're an honest guy and you're not you're going to go on your day and do whatever it is that you do every day you're G to work you're G to be with the family you're G to play with the cute kid in the profile picture you have and all all that stuff okay now the next day you're gonna press play on the profile on the uh on the voice note that I gave you and you're going to discover that I said every single thing that you did that day I already said it today meaning I knew the future now did my knowledge of your future change your decisions no it did not change your decisions because the fact that I had pre-existing knowledge of your decisions does not mean that uh it I uh I uh uh made you decide one thing or the other uh you decided it on your own your own free will now it's the same concept with God now at the same token that the the conflict comes or the difficulty comes comes well if it's decided uh then how does chuva help so the fact that uh uh uh we have free will doesn't mean that there's only one option it uh and that God knows that future of that one option but rather every single decision that we make has a different outcome and God knows all of those outcomes meaning if let's say you uh uh uh pick up a piece of paper and you read that piece of paper and that piece of paper leads you to do the chuva or you don't pick up that piece of paper and you don't do chuba or you pick up that piece of paper and you rip that piece of paper and therefore that leads you to uh uh discover that there was something under that piece of paper that you ripped that actually uh uh encouraged you to start becoming a man's Freedman listener okay or option number four is uh you just simply ignore the piece of paper all together and uh as a result of it you uh just go on your life as if nothing happened now all four of those things have to do with that same piece of paper with four different decisions but four different outcomes okay now uh God knows that outcome for all four of those items and not just those four all infinite amount of items that are possibilities for the result of your actions and all of those future realities are a current real it for God uh and thereby he is not altering your decision you are altering your your future by your your uh uh your decisions and uh God allows you to do whichever one that you want if you uh you know pick up the piece of paper and do Chua then of course that's the outcome that you chose he didn't choose a for few he knew it it could happen and it but he didn't decide it for you if you choose to rip it then you know he knew that that could happen also and uh exactly what that reality looked like from beginning to end and what the reward is going to be and what who is going to be in your in your in your life and not just that one decision but an infinite amount of other decisions that follow it that lead to an infinite amount of decisions that lead to an infinite amount of decisions all of those things he knows currently and thereby uh uh uh has no past no present no future but at the same token does not uh interfere with your current choice choice you are bound to the current timing and again there is no such thing as a which time is real which which time is not the reality for us is what we see what we see that's why Al is judged based on what we see not what we can see so for example when people uh uh are um looking for uh for bugs and food you know we are judged based on what the naked eye can see so if let's say there are there are there are going to be some organisms on the food that you can't see with the naked eye you need a microscope for it you're not going to get judged for it as a sin uh if you didn't clean those which is virtually impossible uh you're not getting judged for it they still affect the body but you're not getting judged for it you're only getting judged for the things that you can see because that's the reality hopefully this explains it for you and uh let me know if you have any questions thank you so much for taking your time this second voice note really hit the nail on the head so it's basically it doesn't hinder your free choice because Hashem lives in the past future and present and he knows all the alternate versions of the choices that you're going to make you could have done a b CDE e FG whatever multiple ver multiple um versions of what you were going to do he knows it's almost as if somebody like the Terminator he came back from a like a time machine and said this and this happen in the future at the same time like uh it doesn't hinder like John Connor making those decisions because it would have been a little bit different or somewhat different but at the same time uh in essence the future would happen but in in different versions but you still have the freedom of choice it makes sense I see that it's it's basically Freedom of Choice with alternate versions [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] sh [Music] for oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]