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Is our world real? This world is an ILLUSION

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[Music] it's very popular today the discussion of this world potentially being a just a digital simulation and that's really good in the Jewish world because Judaism has always believed this world's a digital simulation in the art tradition this world doesn't exist in its in Anna's in and of itself it is rather a projection it's being projected into existence via a beam there's a being projecting the world into existence now if you think about it philosophically it makes total sense because we can't both absolutely exist either were projection of god or gods of projection of humans one of us has to be the projection you can't have both of us empirically real why why is that because if you want to say that there's a God so well God is outside space and time unlimited by space and time and we're inside a world that is limpid and so you don't so if God absolutely exists and then you can't have a physical world because the physical world is limited by space and time so how can you have an infinite being that's limited it's obvious not let if it can't be infinite once you say God is infinite you can't have a physical world empiric legions this exists unless we're a projection of the infinite being automatically we have to be a projection of that infinitely or you could say we do exist like we absolutely exist and we're gonna project that there's God out there as long as you don't call it infinite you know I mean it's like Krusty the Klown out there is creating our world just don't call it an infinite God now Judaism we do call an infinite cuttin subway that's why we hold that way Judaism says we're a projection not God's a projection you know materialist atheists say God's the projection but again they'd have to say they have to be talking about some kind of Christian God that is a projection because it really is a projection of humans projecting God onto things but in Judaism we're not doing that we're we're saying that God isn't absolutely infinite being an unknowable state nothingness ultimately it's not anything because it's what created things so it isn't the thing it's just some kind of consciousness that's infinite and and since we're in a finite world so it's not possible that we simultaneously are real and so we're saying that this infinite being has projected finitude into existence so it's kind of interesting having discussions with atheists on that subject because because they generally meaning it's your back to like the God they don't believe and we don't believe in either I mean the God they're projecting the god that that Christians and when I say Christians I just mean like religious people I've done that to be Christians but the God that religious people project we don't believe in as Jews because we know that God's not made of anything it's not anything you could ever think of it's certainly nothing you could ever describe it's you know it's unknowable you know not the kind of pervasive lack of thing miss otherwise known as nothingness which is why we call it I in with an olive iein means pain self like ayan it's it's it's the ultimate its ultimate zero but think about it once you have nothingness well how many nothingness is can you have once before there was something there was nothing but how many were those nothing how many nothings can you have right well one nothingness and that's why we say it's one well when you have one nothingness it's one I know you do mathematically and that makes sense and we can even play with that but we're talking about we're talking about one nothingness meaning you can't have to nothingness you can't have to nothing's you could only have one nothing if you multiply nothing by if you multiply nothing by 30 what do you get nothing it always remains just one nothingness or undifferentiated oneness undifferentiated oneness it's not the number 0 it is 1 and that's an interesting thing and that's something we all have to get is that whatever this being is it's nothing and 1 nothing because you can't have two nothing automatically now nothing stays nothing because if you have nothing it stays nothing if I took all the water out of this cup and sealed it forever you would never get anything in it so nothing remains nothing but in this particular case then nothing created something and that's another reason we know it's gone it's because only God can create something from nothing because nothing creates nothing unless you believe the world made itself you automatically know there's God since there's a world and the world is a space-time continuum that goes expands and expands and expands and so it which started at originally with nothing which automatically means there's a God and that's the classic you know you've if you've listened to my class you've heard me prove God's existence in a million times and my five second proof which is before there was something there was nothing and since nothing makes nothing you know that there's something it must be that nothing was God before there was something there was nothing since nothing makes nothing you know that there's something a mystery there nothing was God for there was something there was nothing since nothing there's nothing another something must be nothing was gone I'm trying to get it under five seconds now now the so so someone's making something up either God's making us up or meghanadha okay again the atheists believe we're making God up but the version of God that the atheists have and the ones that the Jewish people have are the same God like we all believe in the same God they also believe before there was something there was we believe in the same God what believers believe in who knows I mean you should understand there's two things that we have a lot in common with the believers of the world one is you know a lifestyle system every narrative of every religion has a lifestyle system and we also believe in lifestyle systems so the Atheist put us in the same cell the same jail cell because they see we live a lifestyle that's depicted by this tradition so gee we're just like them and the other thing they see in common with us is that his devotion we're very devoted and I don't care if someone's bowing to cows holy cow I don't care if someone's bowing to cow once you go devotion once you go to vote latest table for two just pull this chair back to that table and then you'll have to - right next to each other tell secrets in the middle pass notes so the once you go devotion this is very important I never discussed devotion with you before Shalom Shalom hey table for two do you mind joining this lady here and we'll give these people a table for two please no you must sit together I my whole job is keeping people together you know you know a few divorces I have the only divorce I ever had if someone who was willing to work with me they divorced he remarries divorces her and remarries the ladies of the couple I worked with I mean the only divorce I ever had is married yeah there ain't too many people who not too many rabbis have zero divorces I mean I have one divorce but they're married and the in the outside when when people try to drag their spouse into marriage counseling you know they even can do it legally like they can make it like an injunction in the law proceedings so I tell the man man getting dragged in I tell the man by the way I'm working with the man behind the scenes or I'm sending him to someone to work with man behind the scenes so we just need to stall his team his stall because if we can work with a man she'll drop the drop the charges we're just got to work with man she'll drop the divorce so so they I need time so how do I get time I tell the man to agree to marriage counseling however they have to go to a marriage counselor who has a 90% success rate of keeping people married doesn't exist we got time now because now they have to research a marriage counselor kept people married and a 90% success rate the whole job of marriage counselors is usually they're like you know the long arm of the law just creating the right stamped pages to push a divorce through and so so yeah we all we need is just to work with the guy just needed three months six months if the guy's really bad nine months next to no she drops everything the divorce is never the problem of the wife it's always the husband that's why the first page of the mis'ess's SOTA first page of a second soto which is about wayward women is the very first page it's all about the husband isn't the only reason she's making trouble is because he's a problem he's the problem then it goes into everything you got to deal with when there's a wayward woman but the very first page in the sect is the guys the problem and you know our sages understood that the guy is always the problem now oh devotion so so once someone's gone devotion you're wasting your breath to talk them out of something when someone's gone devotion and it could be to a holy cow it could be anything could be dead too you know JC once someone's gone devotion don't even bother it's offensive to talk them out of it why because there's something very special that happens with devotion when it comes to devotion devotion is a function of surrender and surrender is the purpose of creation okay the purpose of creation is that we all come to surrender this is why God basically pulls the plug on all of us at the end of our lives cuz he's thinking like yeah okay if everyone knows you know you got a limitation on things you know it's not like back in the Genesis where you know you got people living in 900 years old I mean when would you get busy if you knew you had 900 years probably when you're like 890 or something you'd be like okay ten years left better put on my running shoes you know maybe maybe do something you know and by the way don't think it was like people 700 years old just gone like you understand like the time it's not it's like turtles in the sea that lived like 350 years are like floating around like this for 300 years you know you gotta use your brain you know like based on the lifespan of a being whether it's humans or Turtles you get full function of your life until the end and then there's been all age sets in like people shouldn't be thinking like you know miss sushella which is I don't even know how you Mithu ZL and in English who lived that long and lived 900 and what was 969 years so couldn't God like just get him to an even number anyway 969 years everyone's like thinking the poor guys like suffering for years and years and years of old age no not like that it wasn't like and but what happened was in the time of Noah you know when God basically scraps the whole creation when God gets when we get to know what God says that's it and 120 is max like from now on like the most anyone's gonna live is around the 120 range why so people put the running shoes on so people get busy and so death is really important that's why you'll notice in the biographies of the greatest artists writers and movers and shakers of all of human history you'll notice that they had a brush with death when they were children that I lost a mother I'd lost a father or they lost both of them or they lost a sibling or a day themselves were deathly ill and everyone was saying goodbye but somehow they got better and that's the and then they wind up becoming these great people because they don't have this period of time where they do nothing a society that has any section of time and I that includes even eighteen to twenty-two which is the you know 13 14 15 and 16th grades otherwise known as university okay the like even those times that that leeway we give those kids is is a great way to cause some you know cause real mediocrity in a lack of greatness don't don't have time off time offs not good for us we need to understand death is real and every day is an opportunity and use it and squeeze it don't ever get used to not doing that and because because then you'll you'll live a powerful life so many of us you know like like I get when building our silk and taking it down people would be like we had some people volunteering who just don't work very much so after they would lift a couple things for awhile you'd find them sitting down they just feel like yeah and no keep it going keep it going look how effective yard keep your body in it don't don't rest you'll sleep tonight you're getting your bed just gonna sleep like a baby for like 10 hours you know but stop trying to rest every second the fact that you can move your bag of bones and make something of yourself and make a difference for others it's a point where someone might even give you money for you moving your body around what a privilege it's fun to move your body around anyway I was having a blast with all this sick of building and taking down the sukkah and stuff no one's handing me no money for that but the fact that people do hand me money for moving my lips around people like the fact that I can move my jaw and get paid for that which means like I have something to do with this body of mine what a pleasure what a pleasure it's not work so soon as work that you moved your body around and someone handed you money for that that's not work that's your pleasure now the purpose of creation is surrender God's gonna take all of our lives we're gonna every one of us is gonna lose everything we got called death but we're all gonna lose it and so you can surrender before a head you can surrender during it but like you'll want to live an amazing life get devoted and surrender get devoted and when someone's devoted to something even the most insane thing but they're devoted to it don't mess with that person don't mess with that person this is why you got to be careful debating people or Doris already surrendered to something probably not a great idea probably not a great idea as long as they're still fighting the good fight they're not quite surrendered debate but in the end we all have to get to that place of devotion and devotion is an amazing amazing place to go to like it like men think they get a big like badge of honor for getting married because they've devoted their lives to this to this woman and they devoted there were lives to this person at the expense of three and a half billion women so they think they get like a permanent badge of honor for this like which is ridiculous of course and our wives will make us work for it you know for even thinking is such a thing but but where the but the truth is devotions very powerful stuff and when we when we're devoted to something we're unmovable when shakable and and it's an it's an important thing to realize that that when someone's got that level of devotion now what's the big issue though the purpose of creation is surrender is to finally surrender Griego and devote to something the problem is there's a ton of things you can surrender to and then you're a loser no offense but meaning I don't mean loser like a loser socially I mean like you lose because in the end it's God's creation and you weren't supposed to surrender to cows and you're not supposed to surrender to - you know JC and you're not supposed to surrender - to anything you're only really supposed to surrender to the creator of heaven and earth that's it that's who's gonna sweep us up anyway at the end of our lives like why would you surrender to anything else like that's the ultimate all of us know in the end you meet God you know not gonna meet a cow not gonna meet Jesus you know you're gonna meet God and so why would you surrender to anything but God like that's who you surrender to and that's why it says in the Torah that God is a jealous God because so many people are surrendering to some other thing and gods like the only reason I made you was that you'd maybe devote yourself to me and like surrender your own ego and devote yourself to me maybe you'd do that but anyway going all the way back to the atheists is the atheist see the Jews just like other believers have a lifestyle connected to it so gee maybe were the same and they see that we're very devoted gee they sound they seem the same except the atheists and the Jews believe in the same God and the God that the atheist don't believe in is the God that the believers believe it meaning the non-jews so in the end the atheists and the Jews have everything in common and I've proven it over and over and over again that before there was something there was nothing is the God we're talking about in the end I've had many atheists raise their hands and say rabbi and that's a god I could believe it because I always thought God was nothing so that's right we're on the same page now how does God do it had us got project us the answer as he projects us via parallel realms this bowl system is being created by parallel realms just like this board is there's light shining on the board but if I put my hand and I create now a filter of that light now I've created this an image there's now an image created via the filter of my hand well what if I what if I made that filter more complex well after a while maybe it'd be I don't know what it'd be yeah I can't make anything creative on there with this angle but you know if there were another angle maybe I can make a dog or a chicken or something but but the you understand that the the more complex the filtering system the more complex the image our entire world is a direct result of input light shining through parallel universes our entire existence is because of infinite light shining through parallel universes infinite light shining through parallel universes that's how we're here down here and this being that made us is the source of that light he's not light he created light and made this whole situation and you've been put here as a conscious sentient mean who's here just to surrender ultimately your ego to this being you can do it during your lifetime and you win and then God will sweep you up at the end of your life and you'll see what that was all about and you'll see the parallel worlds which is called GaN Eden or you can lose by either surrendering to the wrong thing or obviously deciding there's no God like the materialist state and then you lose you still get swept up and then you get to see what you see but it's better to to fulfill the purpose surrender we're gonna do a special song in honor surrendering to the purpose of creation please begin I'm doing this singing backup I'm singing with you good seems some bad surrenders some with death [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] secret ladder than your return [Music] don't leave me [Music] just about the anomalies me eternity [Music] Wow don't leave me eternity eternity don't leave me eternity when we get in that mode and we surrender you never want to okay that's another subject that is not a question anybody's breaking rank so I'm gonna play my