Seeing the Sounds: Does Judaism Have a String Theory? - Women's Yisro Class

[music] the yeshiva.net. I think this might be the first time at a year that I will not be sweating, which is very rare for me. Very, very rare. So, I think uh I know for you it's inconvenient and I'm sorry the heat was on all night here, but just understand how cold it is. I thought they put on the heat this morning. They put it on last night. Uh, it's on high. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I hope the Shia could warm you up a little bit. There is a very famous Pak verse in paras describing the revelation at Sinai. And the Torah states, and I quote, And all the people saw the voices and the lid, the torches, the sound of the chaur, the smoking mountain. The people saw and trembled. The unique expression that's employed here, of course, is The entire nation saw the voices. Kylo means voices. They saw the voices and they saw the tortures. The torches, the lidim, the lightning and the sound of the cha. Now we can all see torches. We can all see burning flames. We can see lightning. But the pik says they saw the ky, the sounds, the voices. The voice, the sound of the and the voices on this. The famous medish the quotes who says at that point they saw what is usually heard and they heard what is usually seen. Usually sounds are heard. Torches are seen. Lightning is seen. The sound of the chaer is heard. The uniqueness of that moment says, is there was a reversal of sorts. They saw what is heard. They saw the sounds. They saw the voices even though voices are usually heard. And the lightning which is usually seen, the torches which are usually seen this they heard. What does this mean? How are we supposed to understand it? How can one see voices? Seeing sounds seem out of the realm of existence. So, one might say, well, just add it to the list of miracles. Just another miracle. But that really still begs the question, what was the point? As the famous expression of miracles are not done in vain just to do another trick, another miracle. There's an objective. There's there's a purpose. There's meaning to it. What was the meaning of this? Now, some of you may have heard of a neurological experience called sesthesia. Senesthesia is reported by people. I once read it's around one in 2,000 people report this condition called synesthesia which is basically an experience a neurological experience of what they call a sensory crossover. A sensory crossover is people have reported associating colors with certain words. They'll see a color, but the color somehow is projecting a word or a sound or a number or even a taste. This is what's called sensory crossover. Sometimes the sounds of different frequencies their mind experiences as being of different and various colors. Is this what it means? The venezra says on this p that all the five senses ultimately originate in one's place. There are five senses through which we experience the stimuli of the universe around us. There's actually what we see of course and what we hear, what we smell, what we taste and what we touch. And here there seems like to have been a crossover. So they're they're seeing sounds. The question is if that's all it means, why would this be relevant at the giving of the Torah? In fact, it's the first thing the Torah tells us about the Sinai experience. It's first summation of what happened right after the Ten Commandments. Right after Hashem communicates the Sadbras, the 10 sayings to the Jewish people. The next description in the first summation of the entire experience is they saw the sounds. It seems like this detail is essential to the experience. Sesthesia is a very interesting experience. It's a neurological experience, a neurological condition, however you want to define it. But why was this so relevant, so essential? I want to address it today from two point of views. [snorts] A scientific perspective and then a spiritual perspective. First a scientific perspective. [snorts] Our generation, our times have been justifi just justifiably defined as the era during which we experienced the computer revolution [snorts] and the internet revolution. And this literally takes us into a modern fascinating scientific story. There's a fellow named Jacob Guggenheim. Jacob Guggenheim is an uh electrooptics engineer. He grew up in France as a secular Jew. He later moved to Israel, [snorts] joined the Air Force. due to his uh engineering skills, he was a part of a team that developed the famous Lavi fighter jet in Israel. And when Guggenheim, Yakov, Jacob Guggenheim began to explore Judaism at a later point in his life, he came across this teaching of our sages that at Sinai, at the moment we became a nation, we received the Tyra. Basically the people saw the sound and intrigued him. What might this mean? And sometimes a person who comes from a certain background with a certain training when they hear something they see it from a particular lens based on their wisdom based on their experience based on their scientific research and they can introduce a very refreshing very refreshing and new interpretation. He was intrigued and he asked himself maybe this is not something that's completely incomprehensible, something that is completely illogical. Maybe it was not a phenomenon completely out of our out of our realm even if it was absolutely unique. Maybe there is something called seeing the sounds. what would that mean? He started to study more and he came across what's known as Sephiats. Sephiits is considered the most uh one of the most ancient ancient mystical cabalistic texts of Judaism and one of its basic principles and premises that's explored in many other as well is that the Hebrew alphabet the olive bays has a particular nature has a particular characteristic man-made letters are conventional there's no intrinsic association between the sound of B and the shape of a B or the sound of a C, what C sounds like or D or E and its shape. A letter needs a shape character for us to be able to identify it. But then he learned that the Hebrew language is considered a language which is sacred because as our sages say it's the language with which Hashem created the world. Meaning the Hebrew letters are constructed with meticulous detail because its shape, its pronunciation, its sound, its numerical value, its meaning are all interconnected because every letter is not just a letter. It embodies actually real energy. the names of things or people inesh it says Adam named every single animal. Why is that significant? Sages even say that this proved his wisdom over the angels because the names in Hebrew, a horse is called a susak. A horse is called a horse in English and a camel is a camel and a giraffe is a giraffe. And what if you would exchange it? It wouldn't be uncomfortable, but it wouldn't make a difference to the animal. But what if the letters sak are actually the spiritual DNA of the horse and guml is the spiritual DNA of the camel and kamo is the spiritual DNA of the donkey and ar of the lion and do of the beer. So then you can't just confuse confuse names. Let's take I have water in front of me. We call this a cup of water. A cup is cu p. Water is w a t e r. Why is the name of water water? Well, you could look it up and you could see the ethmology of how water came to be known as water. And a cup is called a cup and a desk is called a desk. And a pulpit is called a pulpit. And a bottle is called a bottle. In Hebrew, in Russian kesh, the word may the name is the beginning of immediately. And then Maya becomes a central feature in the story of creation in its opening verses. So water is represented by three letters mem yud and mem from a cabalistic from a spiritual perspective. The three letters meud are not incidental. You have to give it a name so we should be able to talk about it. If we can't give things names, we can't talk about them. It's very difficult to function. It's much more than that. The three letters memud capture a flow of energy that creates and forms the chemical substance of the water. On a spiritual level and then also on a physical level, a water molecule, every water molecule consists of one atom of oxygen bound to two atoms of hydrogen. every single molecule of water, one atom of oxygen bound up with two atoms of hydrogen. That's why the chemical description of water is H20. The hydrogen atoms are attached to one side of the oxygen atom. And that results in the fact that every water molecule has a positive charge on the side where the hydrogen atoms are and a negative charge on the other side where the oxygen atom is. Because both hydrogen atoms are attached to one side of the oxygen atom, that's where it has a positive charge. where the hydrogen atoms are attached and a negative charge on the other side where oxygen atom is since opposite electrical charges attract. So water molecules tend to attract each other making water kind of what we would call sticky or there's an adhesive element to it. It it becomes connect they become connected to each other. the side with the hydrogen atoms which is the positive charge attracts the oxygen side which is the negative charge of a different water molecule. So the fact that you have two hydrogen atoms attract the opposite electrical charge from the other water molecule which has one side of an oxygeni of an oxygen atom and therefore they connect and because of this miracle of not millions and not trillions and not billions and not zillions but one probably followed by 19 zeros I don't know sectillions or little less or a little more molecules come together we have the fortune of enjoying one drop of water and never mind one glass of water. But before we drink it, we say something. We meditate on a truth that everything including water molecules emerged through means his word, his utterance, his communication, his energy. So from a Jewish spiritual perspective inim of Kabala it's explained that Mayanim are not just it's not just the name for water. They're the channels OF ENERGY. THE HYDROGEN ATOMS come from the two letters me in Mayim. That's why Mayim is me yud me. The two mems represent the hydrogen atoms. The oxygen atom is a manifestation of the letter Yud. So it's not just you have a ma'am, who cares? Ma'am, yud, ma'am. Those very letters are responsible for the very makeup for the chemical makeup of water for H20. You have two MEMS and one U. Now we have to understand why does oxygen manifest the U? Why does hydrogen manifest the MEMS? But that's the structure of May. And this is true with every single name, every single description in the Hebrew alphabet. When Dr. Jacob Guggenheim from France, you remember I'm going to love a story started to explore this, he got to work. Years ago, this type of work wouldn't be possible. But with today's sophisticated instruments, you can transform sound waves into images that can be displayed on a computer man monitor. When I speak, when you speak, there are sound waves generated. We don't see those sound waves, but they're very real. It has an impact. There's a tangible manifestation of every letter or word you say in the world. It has an impact. You just have to have the the lenses, the caim, the instruments to be able to detect it. Well, part of the miracle of the technological advancements of our times is you can transform sound waves into images and those images can be displayed on your monitor on your screen. So, Guggenheim, Jacob Guggenheim wondered, would it be possible to use our contemporary instruments to display in a very tangible form. The statement that was uttered by Rabbi A close to 2,000 years ago based on the PK written more than 3,000 years ago that they actually saw the sounds and he asked himself, "Every letter emits a sound. What would it mean to see that sound? Maybe it would mean to actually see be able to transform the sound waves into images. That's what it would mean to see a sound. What if I can see what that sound looks like? What happens to the sound? What is the shape of the sound? Every sound has a shape. It creates a certain It creates a certain wave. What does that wave look like? Can that impact on the world be concretized? Can it be shown on my screen? He was naturally skeptical. But he discovered something incredible. And what he discovered was that the sound waves for 17 out of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet which we pronounce today create an onscreen image almost identical to the shape of the written letter itself. In 1997 he was joined by another Israeli physicist a man named Elbaz he used different different software to visualize again the sounds of the Hebrew letters and what he came across was again resembled in an uncanny fashion the shape of the letter itself. So what did they do? They decided let's go search other languages. Let's see what happens. When I say bat, right, I also said a B and other letters. I said water. So there's the W and there's the A and there's the T and there's the E and there's the R or just a letter A, B, C, D, etc. They attempted to get a visual display from the pronunciation of say English letters or letters in other languages, but there was absolutely no correlation which we can understand. A bee is shaped as a B. But when I say B, it has really nothing to do with the shape. What they found in Kaidesh was and they wondered is maybe this this perhaps this is the meaning. They could see the sound. In other words, they can actually see the very sounds of the letters and the words because the concrete imagery when those sound waves are transformed into images, they actually reflect that very shape. So, not only did they hear it, but they actually saw its manifestation on every level. They didn't only hear it with their ears but also their eyes can pick up the visualization of it which is in perfect symmetry with the audio with the auditory experience of it. If this is true it would mean this was their suggestion that the people didn't only hear the letters and hear their words but they also saw the visual formation of these words. Yet you might ask, okay, it's fascinating. It's intriguing. What's the purpose? What's the significance of it? Why was it so important to put on this uh flashy audio visual display where 3,000 years before the computer revolution, the people can experience the truth of these letters or sounds on both levels. us. So let's now take it to the next level. Sight and hearing are two vastly different senses. They are two different ways in which we perceive and process the world around us constantly. Right now you're sitting in this room in this slowly uh I wanted to say in this tent that is slowly warming up if not on a physical level hopefully on a spiritual level at least. [laughter] [sighs and gasps] You hear words. That's a way of processing. But you also see. We all use these senses in order to process, to understand, to perceive, to interpret what's happening inside of us, what's happening around us. Each of them possesses its own unique strengths that allows for a particular perspective, for a particular experience. There's something that eyes can behold and detect of reality that ears can't. But there's something that ears can detect. A famous expression of every one of the five senses detects a certain element of reality. If a person can't see, they close their eyes, they go into an art gallery, it will be a meaningless place. If a person is sitting at a symphony at a conerto but they plug their ears it will be a meaningful experience because here the primary uh the primary experience is one which seeing is important but obviously you need your ears to function to be able to experience it in an through through the auditory skills of a person. One of the key differences between experiencing the world through sight and experiencing the world through hearing, which inhal and seeing or hearing has to do with the nature, not just different ways of processing it, but the nature of the processing as well. When I see something, sight provides me or provides you with the ability to perceive any given scene or event in its totality. Say you walk into somebody's home. First time you walk into somebody's home, it's a newly built home, a beautifully designed home, decorated, furnished. Beautiful paintings, exquisite furniture, great interior designer, great architect, great contractor. I know it's an impossible combination, but at least in our imaginations, what do you see? What do you see when you come in? You walk into the room, what do you see? And the answer is you see everything. And you see everything as one. Your eyes take in the totality of the sin. You walk into a wedding, your eyes take in the totality of a sin. You look at a painting. It's amazing. Amazing. Priceless painting. What do you see? You're overtaken by the overall piece. You see it in its totality. You see a person. You see an entire body, an entire physique. [snorts] The colors, the lines, the shades, the shadows, all combined to create a mood, an energy, a sense. After a few moments, your mind begins to break it down. your mind begins to break down the various components of this home or of this body or of this piece of art or of this uh or of this structure or whatever else you're you're looking at. The eye now has the time to uh to linger and to dissect the details, the nuances. So you're looking at the painting, you could now see the clothes the people are wearing, the expressions on their faces, the individual colors on the landscape, the brush strokes, the pigment and so forth. Anything we view always goes what we would call minal. You always begin with theal, the collective, the whole picture, the big picture. In a fraction of a second, you take in the entire scene. The mind absorbs the entire scene. The entire landscape, the entire mansion, the entire person, the entire event, the entire group of people. You come into a hall, a huge amount of people. You see it all. Can you write a paper and describe all the details? You need more time. But you see it all. You get the picture. What do they say? A picture is worth thousand words. Why? Because in a fraction of a second, a millisecond you take a you got it. Are you now fluent in every aspect and every detail? No, you need time. But you have seen everything as part of the clown. Every detail is there as part of the clown. That's what seeing is. Afterwards, I now come to step two. If I'm interested and I analyze and I dissect and I break it down and I go into prim into details into nuances. And this of course has so many levels of analysis. Sight then is something you will call let's say a topdown experience from the big to the small from the holistic to the detailed from the cl to the prat from the entire picture to the specifics. Hearing is the exact opposite. In hearing we don't have the luxury to do this. I don't have to give a remote example. Let's talk about this class. Does anybody know what the ultimate point of this class is going to be? Well, if yes, you can leave. [laughter] You don't. And there's a reason for it. If if it was a visual, if I was just showing one picture and then explaining, you would sit down. Here's the picture. YOU GOT IT? NOW, let's break it down. Hearing is the exact opposite. You start with one detail, one sentence, one paragraph, another paragraph, another one, and yet another one. And you slowly, okay, I got it. I got it. I got it. Okay. Off topic. Why is this relevant? Okay. When it finishes now, YOU GO, AH, THAT'S IT. IN OTHER WORDS, hearing goes al you start with the specific. You start with individual. Somebody shares with you a story. What's the difference between observing a scene or hearing about a scene? We all hear about stories. You read about them. You hear about them. But then there's seeing it. It's a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. IT'S not just you're sure the person is not lying. Even if it's in all the newspapers, you don't think anybody's lying. I don't know if that's the proof. My grandfather used to say everything that says in a newspaper. My father was a journalist. So my grandfather didn't didn't like journalism very much. He said everything that says in a newspaper is a lie. EVERYTHING. FATHER SAID EVERYTHING. YEAH. EVERYTHING. EVEN THE DATE. IT WAS PRINTED YESTERDAY. [laughter] Even the date is a lie. I'M NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT now how reliable. say there are witnesses and it's perfectly reliable story but it's a completely different experience when I saw it I saw it all I saw it all and we all know if you have seen certain things in your life the way they become ingrained and entrenched is very profound in a way that hearing about it can't achieve that same level of intimacy and the Gmorra says aid a witness can sit on the court because since he saw it he won't be able to easily find and give the person the benefit of the doubt and find meritorious uh explanations and justification it's a whole different experience seeing that's because I saw it I didn't only hear it but it's also how I experience it when you saw the story you saw You got the whole thing. Now you may sit 20 years and analyze it with your therapist. What did I see? But you saw it. Hearing is the exact opposite. I can't get a general impression from hearing the first sentence of a story. I have to listen to more and more from the ground up. One detail adds up to another detail to another detail to another detail like particles of flour and you connect the particles of flour and then ultimately from one particle another particle another particle you have an entire dough. I take in one sentence at a time one painstaking detail after another. Who was there? How many people? What did it look like? What was she wearing? What was the food like? What was the music like? How were the flowers? How was the gown? WHAT DID SHE LOOK LIKE? WHAT DID IT look like? Who spoke? Who didn't speak? Was it Lebed? Was it not Lebed? Most important thing, what was the color of the napkins? How were the knives set up? How were the spoons set up? Was it organized? Was it clean? Was the food hot? Was there a shortage? What was the vianese table like? Was the cheesecake healthy? And maybe after an hour of you telling me about the I could start imagining the mood. But if I was there, I wouldn't have to hear an hour. I could walk in. I got it. Walk out. You got it. Cuz you saw it all. So re seeing is from the cl to the prat. Hearing is from the prat to the cl. We begin with the detail. After hearing all the details, can we get to the whole scene? [snorts] You may remember that old story about six blind people who encountered an elephant. Yeah, you may even done a a worksheet on it when you were nine. The first blind person bumps in to the stomach of an elephant, which is not a very good idea, [snorts] but for the story it works. And as he bumps into the stomach of the elephant, he says, "Ooh, this must be a wall." The second person detects feels the elephant's colossal leg and he says, "There's a tree here, a wall and a tree." The next one feels the elephant's tail and he takes it to be a rope. And then the next one touches the elephant's trunk and he says, "Wow, this is a big and powerful branch." And the last one touches the elephant's tusk and he claims that he has found some piping. Finally, a person who was blessed with the skill of sight with vision arrives and he looks and he says, "It's an elephant. This tells us a little bit about the different perspectives. Those people were not wrong. They were describing what they felt according to their knowledge. You can't say they're lying. They're describing what they know and they're imposing that interpretation on what they're feeling. We always do that although we don't realize it. I have my tools of how I interpret the world. When I see something, when I hear something, when I encounter something, my brain, my neural pathways go back to give me the information. I want to learn about things because we live in a we live with caution. You have to live with caution. So when you're crossing the street, your brain knows to ask certain questions to identify certain factors and then to dictate an action. Cross, don't cross, run, go fast, don't go fast, make a right, make a left, scream, scream at somebody else. All is good. We all know about different neurological conditions where certain skills are not there. And a person for example sees everything but doesn't see movement that skill is not there on more spiritual and subtle sophisticated levels. If I have a blind spot in a particular sense I cannot interpret this according to what it is because I may not have the skills for it. I bring in my experience my knowhow and then I define the reality. Part of being humble and a student of life is to be able to challenge that, to be able to ask myself hard questions. Is it possible that I have been interpreting a certain person or a certain situation, boxing it in into a particular box for many decades simply based on my own experience of the world. So this is the definition I give for reality. I can't expect these people to call the tusk of an elephant anything else. He is not seeing the elephant. The seeing person saw the elephant and in one snapshot he saw everything. He didn't see a tusk. He didn't see a leg. He didn't see a stomach. He saw an elephant and everything was there. Yes, later he's going to observe the various limbs, but for him they're parts of a hole. He sees the hole, the general immediately and then he could break it up to the detailed limbs. And when he sees the details, he doesn't see them as details. He sees them as part of an elephant. He doesn't see a leg, a tusk, a trunk. He sees the leg of an elephant, the tusk of an elephant, the truck of an elephant, and so on. But for the man without sight, even though he feels every part, he has the same access. He's touching every single part. And he correct correctly discerns even if he discerns that an elephant was standing in front of him the whole becomes a sum of its parts. The parts are not a sum of its whole. Even if this person is told you're standing in front of an elephant you're not standing in front of piping or in front of a tree or in front of a branch of a tree. The way he comes to the hole is like hearing. I touch this. I touch this. I touch this. I touch this. Ah, now I can imagine what an elephant looks like in seeing it's exactly the other way around because he experiences the elephant through hearing. What do I mean through hearing? One detail at a time. The general elephant is a collection of details. His focus is not on the generality, EVEN IF HE'S FULLY AWARE of it, but on the specifics. The general picture is born out of details. Seeing it's the other way around. The parts are a sum of the whole. Not the whole is a sum of the parts. Two different experiences in life. Each one with its [snorts] vital strengths and weaknesses. Yes. Are the parts a sum of the whole or is the whole a sum of its parts? Do I come to the whole through the parts? like by hearing I hear this detail that detail that then ah this is the picture or it's the other way around I see the whole thing and then the details are just manifestations of the whole and each detail I see as part of the cl I don't see the leg think about when you see when you see your child or any child or any person what do you see yes I can tune into the nose I can tune into the forehead and I could tune into the teeth and sometimes if I'm a dentist that's exactly what I have to do open your mouth Wider, wider, wider. And in your career, if I have to give a culture test, that's exactly what I have to do. Open your mouth. Uh uh uh uh because that's my vocation. I'm focusing on the breath. When you're looking at your child, just what what do you see? You say, "I see a nose. I see eyes. I see ar." Yes, I see arms. I I see a person. Do you see arms and legs? Of course, you see arms and legs as part of a person. And which part do I love? I love the person. Does it include the arms and the legs? Of course. But if I can see the person, if I'm hearing about the person, somebody's describing to me when a novel novels always describe what people look like, right? What do you do? You start imagining the color of the eyes, the color of the hair, the physique, the chest, the stomach. You start imagining. You put it together. You compare it to other people you know. You compare it to some. And then in your mind you put together the whole from the parts. The whole is basically a sum of its parts. They tell a story about uh the balhatana. He had a gr grandson who he raised. He's came to be known as the sadik and he was orphaned at a very young age from his mother. Her name was Rabbita. She sacrificed her life for her father. It's a whole story and it was a condition that her father is going to raise her young orphan whose name was. So the bal raised him as a father and as a mother and uh he was once sitting on his grandfather's lap. If you've seen probably many of you have seen the painting of the Bal Hatana Rabn of Leadi. It's a beautiful beautiful piece of art. At that time there were no pictures yet. It was a few decades before photography was introduced. And this painting you're familiar with the painting. This painting was depicted while he was in prison in Petersburg in the late 1700s. He was in prison and a gentile artist painted this painting when he was in a moment of very deep pain and agony and a future completely unknown. And you could see even in the picture the nature of his beard and his grandson the was sitting on his lap stroking his grandfather's long beautiful beard and saying in Yiddish zeta zeta zeta. He was like caressing his grandfather saying zeta zeta my grandfather. So his grandfather says who is the zeda? Where's the grandfather? So he was touching the beard. He says thus is the za. He says thus is the za. Thus is the bird from the za. This is not the za. This is the beard of the za. Where is the za? So he touched his face. He started to caress his cheeks. He said the za. This is the beal for the zeta. These are the cheeks of the grand your grandfather. Where's your grandfather? So he touches his forehead, his head. He says, "This is the head of the grandfather." The skull, the forehead, and go they go to the eyes and they go to the ears and they go to the nose, they go to the mouth, the arms, and the legs and the abdomen, THE CHEST, THE NECK. And each time he says, "This is not the zeda. This is the neck. These are the eyes. But where's the zeta?" And his little grandchild who was two or three years old was silent. It seemed like grandpa scored an intellectual victory over his grandson who could not answer the question, "Where is the zeda?" A few moments later, he got off his grandfather's lap and he went to play, you know, [clears throat] time for some fun. And the balatanya went to do whatever he was doing. And suddenly HE HEARS A SCREAM. AH. SO HE TURNS around and he sees that his grandson had the door slammed on his finger and his finger, you've experienced it, and his finger was stuck right there. And he was screaming. AND HE RUNS OVER. He literally with A LUNGE, HE JUMPS OVER TO HIM. MANDELA. And he looks and he smiles. Says, "Thus is the zed. Thus is the zed. This was an act. He slammed the door on himself. Gave a scream to set up his grandfather and he said, "Ah, THUS IS THE ZEDA. THAT'S the zeda." The passion, the the the connection, the urgency. You're right. The nose is part of it and the heart is part of it and the chest is part of it. But he wanted to see the nud the core the clal and thus is true with every experience of reality. The seeing person sees the cl the whole picture and when he sees the details he sees them as an extension as a manifestation of the full picture. I see an elephant. Yes, that elephant has a very powerful tusk. That's part of it. But what do I see? I see it as part of a big picture. And that's why it's automatically connected with every other detail because they're all manifestations of one. And because they're all manifestations of one, the smallest detail in the elephant IS CONNECTED TO EVERY OTHER DETAIL because I'm seeing the whole picture. Just like when you look at a body, you look at an organism. The great physicians, the great healers are the holistic healers. Those who see the entire body. I DON'T SAY, "OKAY, YOUR CHEST HURTS, your back hurts, your head hurts. Every day something else hurts." And if you're Jewish, that's true. And then I have to start asking the question. I want to know who you are. I want to know who IS THE ZEDA. WHERE ARE YOU? DON'T JUST COMPLAIN. TODAY IT'S YOUR EARS. TOMORROW it's your nose. TOMORROW IT'S YOUR HEART. THEN IT'S YOUR LEGS. AND THEN IT'S THE DISC. AND YOU can't move and you can't breathe. You can't go up the stairs and you can't eat and you can't sleep. And some people only know about details. Just details. And we're always treating one detail, another detail, another I'm not talking about you. Another detail, another detail, another medicine, ANOTHER ANTIBIOTIC. IS THERE A TRUTH TO IT? It's a certain way of accessing reality, but it's a way of accessing reality. There's a deeper way of accessing reality. I see all the details, but I could see them in the context of wholeness. And then all the details are interconnected. We know today that in every cell of the 40 trillion cells, you have a copy of the DNA, a double copy of the DNA which has in it the manual and the instructions for the entire body for every other cell. In other words, everything is interconnected once you find the cloud because everything is a manifestation of that. So seeing is I see the whole picture. I SEE THE DETAILS TOO AFTERWARDS, but I see them as what? as simple manifestations of oneness. There's the person without that vision. Somebody told me this week, he said there was a person who couldn't see and asked God, "What's worse than losing your eyesight?" And God said, "The only thing that's worse than lo worse than losing your eyesight is losing your vision." I think it was Helen Keller who said there are many people who see but they have absolutely no vision. And she describes a person who told her that they went hiking through a forest. And the person came back and Helen Keller said, "What did you see?" And this person, it was pretty boring. Nothing. And she said, "Wow, you could see a forest, but you have no vision. How could you come back from a forest and tell me you saw nothing?" Some people could look at a leaf and enter into a state of of of ecstasy because it reflects so much. It contains so much. And some people I guess could stand at the Grand Canyon or could observe a child birth and okay next let's move on next. So the person without sight, he may know it's an elephant and he may feel every single detail and he may reach the right conclusion but the whole is a sum of the parts. The parts are not a reflection of the whole. [sighs] There's two ways of experiencing Yiddish kite. You could see it and you can hear it. You see it's coming together. That's what hearing does, right? You build, you build, you build and it comes together. [snorts] You can see it and you can hear it. Now remember, I can hear something and only get stuck in the details. I never get to the end. But even if I get to the end and I get the whole story and I imagine the whole story and I put together all the pieces, I'm putting together a puzzle of pieces and the whole is a sum of the parts. The challenge of course is I may not even get to that space. BUT EVEN IF I GET TO THAT SPACE, essentially it's a detailed experience. It's an experience of pratt not an experience of cl [snorts] before si hashem tells so everybody knows the entire system of education created by in 1917 in krakow in Poland was called bas yakov and the reason she named it basakov was Because of the verse in parasy and kazal say au hanoshi SPEAK TO THE HOUSE OF JACOB. These are the women Israel then speak to the sons of Israel. The sons are obviously the male the men. In other words mira God said to moisha first speak to the women and then speak to the men. And as the famous medish puts it, God learned a lesson from what happened by the tree of knowledge. The problem with is he trusted the man. He told Adam the rules and everything went downhill since. So now he decided, we're going to change the situation. I'm not talking to the men anymore. Let them hear it FROM THEIR WIVES. YOU SPEAK directly to the women BECAUSE THE WAY IT'S GOING TO BE GIVEN OVER THROUGH THE men through the male filter first of all the women won't get it they won't understand it they will misconstrue it that's why when feminine is given over through masculine filters it can be distorted listen to what I'm telling you very important when feminine tora is given over through masculine filters it gets filtered through a certain way of accessing it. And women who hear it know that they're feeling empty. They know that there's something missing. They may not be able to articulate it, but there's something missing. What's missing? So if you look in the med says something very very deep SAYS he says give them over the clum give them over the clim give them over the details that's what the says and that's why here there's a word simar and here's the word saget one interpretation is simar is more soft saget It is more uh more strict. That's one interpretation. But the makulta says simar is clullen. Give them the paradigms the general cloud comes from the word kyo clustrol that which encompasses the all the holistic. AND THEN COMES from the word gidden. You know what gdim are in the body? Ligaments arteries the senus. What is their function? They restrict and they channel the blood through particular channels which have to be detailed or oriented. Study the arteries. Study the giddim. The word vagade means you got to channel it into giddim into channels like into pipes into prin. There's the piping of the elephant. There's the tusk of the elephant and there's every single artery. These are the prim. start with kal and then vag lib is go to prat and it has to do of course with different souls. Okay, Judaism has two dimensions. There's what's called the [snorts] and there's what's called the huh okay yeah I got that is what's called the z calls it the body of the living organism of and the soul of what does it mean the body and soul of ty in a person there's the physical and there's the spiritual what does it mean in tyra but tyra also there's the goof of tyra there's That's what the Z says in Gmorra in in in one is called the component of Judaism. The other one you could call the if you wish. There's a lot of different names for it. I'll use for this context the mystical component and mystic. PUT TOGETHER AND MYSTIC AND YOU HAVE THE WORD HOLISTIC. Holistic Judaism. Gara, [snorts] which is what we would call migra, the revealed concretized dimension of Tyra with all the intricacies and the details and the explanations and the pulum AND THE BACKGROUND AND THE whenever the Gmorrah wants to bring proof to a statement to an idea to an observation to an opinion. The words are two words to come and hear. Come and hear. In other words, every yeshiva ANYBODY WHO LEARNS GOMORRAH KNOWS come in here. Basically, let me prove it to you. Come in here in zar which means light. Zyar means light. Zoia when he wants to bring proof to something you know what the expression is come see. Why both are Aramaic? It's a different process. One is a process of hearing, one is a process of seeing. And here you'll see a very interesting contrast between these two dimensions of Judaism. Generally in Judaism, we always say the Gmorra says, "If the formers were angels, we're like people. If they were people, WE'RE LIKE DONKEYS." AND NOT LIKE THE DONKEY of who wouldn't eat UNTITHED FOOD BUT LIKE SOME OTHER donkeys that you may know. [snorts] So for example the will never argue with the won't argue with the won't argue with the won't argue with the later won't argue with the early there's a system called which you've all heard about. the generations descend and they love nostalgia. IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS, AS SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME, NOSTALGIA today is not what it used to be like. People knew how to be nostalgic. Today, nobody knows how to be nostalgic. Even their nostalgia is in their air. THERE'S THIS concept in Judaism, the more back, the holier, the clearer, the smarter, the brighter, the wiser. And the reason is Mad Hari. There's the famous story whether it happened or didn't happen I don't know who it happened with I don't know but it's a story that always circulates where Yakov Kamitki was on the airplane it'll be interesting to find out and authenticate the story but the vart is certainly a beautiful vart and he was sitting there some professor and they were arguing about evolution versus creation and every few minutes Ryakov's grandson or student came over Rebe or grandpa Zeta Zeta can I get you something a CUP OF WATER YOU NEED ANYTHING and this professor looks at him at some point and says doesn't you pay these guys? How do you get such good service? And he says it's all based on our divergent philosophies. You teach your son that we have evolved from apes, which means his father is yet closer to an ape. His grandfather is yet closer to an ape. HIS GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS THE APE. I teach my child that my father was closer to my Medidhari and his father and mother yet closer and their parents yet closer and so forth. I once [snorts] uh a rabbi once told me that he met a Jew in Kipper. He says, "Well, I haven't seen you. Where you going?" It was in Texas. He said, "I'm going to Schultisker." Now, they would always argue about evolution. He says, "You, a guy like you should do yiskar in the zoo. [laughter] you should pay tribute to your true ancestry. So he laughed somehow for Yizker that didn't work. He felt that he comes from homo sapiens from people and that's the system of there's a certain hierarchy. We can't argue today with the Gmorrah not because PEOPLE DON'T HAVE GREAT MINDS. There's a certain understanding that the closer to Mina the more clarity. That's in the world of nigla. That's in the Gulf of Tyra. When it comes to the world of Satyra, the world of Kabala, the world of the world of the other way around for example who lived in the 1500s is CONSIDERED THE GREATEST AUTHORITY OVER ALL THE PREVIOUS ONES. DARIZEL TODAY IS THE UNDISPUTED AUTHORITY ON KABALAM MUCH GREATER THAN THE CABALIST WHO LIVED BEFORE HIM. CORDO, EVEN THE RAMBAN, EVEN THE RID, THE MAREN PARROTS, GREAT Moba was later. Tho should have said sorry. [snorts] The answer to this enigma is Nigla Tyra is the Tyra that was revealed by Matyra. The further you go away from Hari, the further you go away from that clarity, the more we have to respect the past is the of Msiah. It's the of the future. The closer you get to Msiah, the more clarity you have of that. Rashi says in the beginning of I want you should kiss me with your mouth because your love is more precious than wine. So Rashi says this is talking about when Msiah comes he says God is going to reveal to the Jewish people the secrets of Tyra THE UNDERLYING REASONS THE ULTIMATE DNA OF Tyra that's considered the ultimate intimate kiss as Rashi says pel face to face not just a kiss on the hands. [snorts] So when you're dealing with the nigla of Tyra, THE FURTHER BACK YOU GO, the closer you are to that truth. When you're dealing with the Torah that's going to BE FULLY REVEALED WHEN MASHIACH COMES, the closer the generations GET TO THE GULAH, the more clarity and depth they can have in that that's going to be revealed in Gulah. You understand? Come here. Come see. It goes so far as to say it goes so far. The medish says inelis and this is not some modern vert. The medish rabb written by the says in medishelis on the heav that the of this world that we learn TODAY it's he means uh vanity like like I don't want to use the word but you would translate it as p he means he like ear just just intangible ear the medish is saying this what does it mean heaven Heavily he mean he means it almost has IT HAS SUCH SMALL VALUE AND SUBSTANCE relative to that to minimize the today what the message is trying to bring out is the depth that's going to be revealed is so powerful what is this depth it's the difference between come and hear and come see there is seeing Judaism and this hearing Judaism What is the difference? Hearing Judaism means what? Detail by detail by detail. Today we're learning about this. Tomorrow we're learning about this. Very powerful, very important, divine wisdom. Detail by detail by detail. WHAT DO I GET WHEN I FINISH THE SHIA? I learned another detail. I learned about the nose. Today we learned about the ears. Tomorrow we're going to learn about the pancreas. We're going to learn about the nails. Very important. Detail by detail. What do I have now? I know a detail. I know a Pratt. I may master it. Some doctors tune in. It's called zooming in. They're zooming in and zooming out. What's zooming in? You zoom in on something and you dissect it and YOU KNOW IT VERY, VERY WELL. THE PROBLEM is you only know this. There's nothing else. There's some people they're experts, but they only you ask them about anything else. Sorry, not my field. They say there were two kev arguing. They in the early morning they saw something in the sky. Somebody said it's the sun. Other one said it's the moon. They decided they'll ask the next person and he's going to tell them and whatever he says that person wins the bet because they made a bet. THEY MEET THE NEXT PERSON. WHAT IS THAT? HE SAYS, "SORRY, I DON'T LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I don't live IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SORRY, I'M very good with details. And there's a truth to it because you can't expect one mind to master everything. The Gmorra says when Rebi is learning this track day, don't start asking him questions on another track date. It's not fair to him. There's something we're talking about this. LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS. HE DIDN'T PREPARE THE other issue. There's a truth TO IT. THAT'S HOW LIFE WORKS. THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU HAVE A QUESTION IN LAW, YOU GOT TO GO TO A LAWYER. THE RIGHT ONE. And [snorts] sometimes YOU NEED A CARDIOLOGIST, SOMETIMES YOU NEED A NEURAL NEUROLOGIST, SOMETIMES YOU NEED ANOTHER PHYSICIAN, SOMETIMES YOU NEED A DENTIST, sometimes you need a plumber, sometimes you need AN ELECTRICIAN, SOMETIMES YOU NEED A HANDYMAN, AND SOMETIMES YOU JUST need a simple guy who knows who's not an expert in anything. But as somebody once said, today people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. This is the concept of hearing detail after detail after detail after detail. And that's my experience of Judaism. Now there's this that this detail and as you know when you zoom in could you dissect things? Who could you dissect? Today there are FULL BOOKS. YEAH. MAY I USED TO think may was a simple thing. But I see in THE STORE TWO FULL BOOKS. YEAH. I used to think, excuse me, I used to think making a bra on the trees. Niss is a very simple thing. That's what I thought. But today there's two books. Dissecting dissecting what happens if you did this and you didn't do this. And if you forgotten, you didn't forget. AND YOU THOUGHT YOU FORGOT. AND WHAT IF YOU MIGHT HAVE FORGOTTEN? and etc. And you go deeper and deeper and it's amazing because the cell is like infinite. It's like subatomic particles sub sub and you're in the pratt and then MAYBE NEXT YEAR YOU'LL GET TO ANOTHER PRATT ANOTHER PRATT another pratt another pratt and you may not finish all the details but even if you do your sum is always remember [laughter] [snorts] the whole is a sum of the parts That's one experience of Yiddish. There's another experience of Yiddish. It's a very different experience. You see, [snorts] it's all one. Everything is one. Holistic mystic holistic. [snorts] There's a oneness. You see the big picture. And for this you have to answer a few questions. What is the core of Judaism? What is its ultimate message? I know the details. Tayag mitzvah and many many halas. And each mitzvah is subdivided into parts which are subdivided into further parts into further further further like arteries which are then subdivided. You ever see how the body how the body is built? But now give me the soul. Give me the nishama. Where's the soul? The soul is everything. Every pinky has the soul. Every nail has the soul. Every strand of hair has the soul. That's how it grows. The soul is the unifier. The soul is the energy. And every detail is an expression of the whole. This perspective is I see. I don't hear. I see oneness. And then when I see details, I don't see them as details. I see them as details, but what I'm seeing in each detail is this is a tuskavd. This is a tusk of an elephant. This is the eyes of the zeda, the nose OF THE ZEDA. YES, IT'S A NOSE. AND a nose is a nose. A nose is not a kidney. And if a nose decides to become a kidney, and a kidney decides to become a nose, not good. But I see it as a nose of a living organism. I don't only zoom in, I zoom out. I see the cloud. What is the cloud that the person observes? What is it that the person observes as the the core? I understand. I see a painting and I see the whole painting and everything fits into that painting. And I see a person, I see the whole person and everything fits into that person till the last wisdom tooth until your dentist decides that you don't need it. Everything fits into that person. And I see a beautiful home and every good balabusta sitting in this room and only good balabusters come to this place knows what's the definition of a balabusta. Definition of balabusta this I heard myself from the lab. What the definition of a good balabusta is [snorts] he said as follows. I heard this from his mouth. Definition of abalabusta is not only is the house neat and clean and organized and not only does everything have its place and it's put away in its place but furthermore anything very deep anything that the woman has in the house is somehow connected to the entire home. It's not just there. Somehow it fits in to the entire energy of the home. And he said if you want to understand what hashgap means, you have to see how abalusta runs her house. What's hashgapus? Divine providence. What does DIVINE PROVIDENCE MEAN? NOT THAT EVERY DETAIL COUNTS. YES. NOT THAT EVERY DETAIL MATTERS. YES. NOT THAT EVERY DETAIL IS ORCHESTRATED. YES. BUT THAT'S A SMALL PART OF IT. THAT EVERY DETAIL is essential to the whole picture of creation. The Balmp said it's a windy day and he knew about windy cold days in the Ukraine, not like our spoiled New Yorkers when it gets nine below zero and we're like we don't want to leave the house for 9 weeks and we stock up for a year and etc. I'm not talking about you guys. You came to the class today. I'm talking about everybody else who's watching it eating popcorn. eating popcorn and potato chips on our couch while you're sitting in coats. I mean, at this point, I'm sweating, but I don't know about you, [laughter] but I'm having a workout, so it's fine. You may not be. It's not. It's important. It's he said, "You walk outside, there's a leaf." He said, "There's a leaf rolling and the wind comes and it rolls even more." And where does the LEAF END UP? SOMEWHERE IN A CORNER. NOT only was that by divine providence, but somehow it's indispensable to the entire story. A real organized home is not just why is this newspaper here? It belongs in the garbage. Abalabusta puts it in the garbage, which is one of the hard things, right? To put things in the garbage. Especially if you're in Muny and you have space for garbage. When you're in Brooklyn, you got no choice. If you don't put the garbage IN THE GARBAGE, YOU END UP LIVING IN the garbage. My father Allah shalom had a weakness. He could not throw out a newspaper. Why? He knew the blood and the sweat and the tears in those days that went into printing a newspaper, a magazine on glossy paper. So we had I could read from the 1950s. I go to his bedroom. Eisenhower is president. Kennedy is wasn't assassinated yet, etc. Eisenhower was alive in my house. Don't worry, he also had all the contemporary ones, but he couldn't throw it out. And my mother and him had this argument that probably went on for 40 years. What do you do with old newspapers? And she said, "When are you going to use this magazine of time that was published in 1966 during the Vietnam War? When are you going to use it?" He says, "I know where everything is." And you know what? HE WOULD DIG IT UP. He He had a kush. Okay. So when you live in Brooklyn, it become a crisis. When you live in Muny, you think you can JUST LEAVE THE GARBAGE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A BIG HOUSE. BUT AS YOU KNOW, IT ALL ADDS UP, especially when the ANACL MOVE IN. IT'S NOT JUST YOU PUT THE GARBAGE IN THE GARBAGE CAN. THAT'S YEAH, THAT'S STEP ONE. STEP TWO is that whatever is there is not just there. Somehow it fits in to the vibe. It fits into the energy. It's essential and indispensable to the entire Of course, there's levels of indispensability, right? I'm not going to compare the indispensibility of a dishwasher to the indispensibility of a husband. You'll figure out which one is more important. But, uh, there's levels, but the point is, it's part of my home. In other words, when a woman cast her glow on something in the drawer, it's not just an item. It's part of my home. It's not part of my house. It's part of my home. It's part of the symphony we call home. That's what means. Not every detail is not only that, but every detail is an essential part of the whole. Whatever happens to you in life is part of your whole story and not just part of your story, part of our story, part of God's story, part of the universe's story. So when I look at this dimension, when I look at when I look at the kal, it's an understanding in which you see Judaism as the spiritual DNA of the universe. It becomes the missing link between science and psychology. Everything in the world knows what to do. Mosquitoes and bats and beetles and bees and hyenas and lionesses and ants and butterflies and caterpillars know exactly what to do. They don't have an identity crisis. They're not in therapy. They're not figuring out how to raise their children. They're not busy with guilt over raising their children. Somehow every tree and bush and shrub and plant knows what to do to bishmat. It's a time to hibernate so that you can get back your energy so that in the spring comes and we can unleash. The only ones who don't know what hit them in this world are us where are you? And the Tyra becomes the link that describes the ultimate spiritual force and DNA of the psyche and of the entire universe and how the human life becomes the link that integrates the entire universe allowing the human being to become synchronized with the music of the world since we're the only ones who have a choice. So Judaism then becomes the unifying link between creator and creation. It becomes the unifying link that allows a person to be able to perceive the divine core in every moment in every experience in every act in every reality or as desire puts it to allow one to become one with one. There is oneness. But to be able to allow the one to be able to experience the oneness, then every detail is an outgrowth. It's the leg of a person. It's the arm of a person. It's the kidney of a person. It's the chest of a person. It's the eyes, the nose of the zeda. I see always see the claw. And even when I see the prat, I see it as a sum of the whole. Not the whole being a sum of the parts. [snorts] I could be learning about clayish, clay sheni, clayishi, the laws of cooking on chabas. I could be learning about the laws of mtaha. Am I allowed to move a hammer if it's on the chair or not move a hammer on the chair? I could be learning about the laws of mikvah. I could be learning about the laws of kashras. I could be learning about the laws of milk and meat. I could be learning about the laws of beron shabas, separating things, selecting things. I could be learning the door laws of how I fix my muza on my door. How I light kaneka candles from right to left, LEFT TO RIGHT. WHAT I USE FOR SHABAS CANDLES, oils or candles. Could I crossbreed animals? I could learn about sprinkling blood on the altar. I can learn about CONSTRUCTING AN AVIV. I CAN LOOK ABOUT LEARN about the laws of slaughtering a chicken. I could learn about the laws of how I get dressed, how I walk, how I go to the bathroom. I could learn about the laws of intimacy or relationships. I could learn about the laws, excuse me, of yipper or matzah or building a suka and what type of to use on my suka. I can learn about the laws of acquisition or partnership or civil disputes or oaths. When I see Judaism, when I see it, there is no distinction between theology, philosophy, psychology, civil law, politics, biochemistry, astronomy, cosmology, familial life, business issues, and practical day-to-day. Why? I see one. And every detail is a manifestation a particular channel of that oneness. In every pratt I see the whole cl all details of life all disciplines of the world. Everything going on inside and outside converge to mirror the harmonious oneness OF You have seen SAYS I WANT YOU TO GO and it's but God said no you can't say now you're going to have to hear not see but now that I'm not going in is the sun the sun allows you to see the moon is in the time of darkness Now you're going to hear until you come to the time of when you'll be able to see. [snorts] So to see Judaism from this light is what they call today in physics seeing the string theory. String theory is scientists are looking today for the string theory. Is there one law that unites all the laws of physics? Is there one law that unites all of Judaism? Does Judaism have a string theory? DO PEOPLE EVEN KNOW THAT IT'S CAPABLE OF HAVING A STRING THEORY? To see all of the parts as literally one and then there is hearing. There's a famous expression from the BM says inra that doesn't have with it work won't last. So the said means to get involved in something said that doesn't have with it. He says what's the is the implementation of in the love of another person is the if the doesn't make you a a source OF LOVE IT'S NOT what did he mean I'm learning about I'm learning about sprinkling the blood on the mbe I'm learning if this vessel is pure or impure I'm learning about the LAWS OF HOW TO MAKE A MIKVAH I could USE THIS WATER OR THAT WATER. WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH LOVE? I'm hearing. I'm not seeing. I zoomed in and I don't have that that fuller picture. And the full picture doesn't MEAN YOU DON'T ZOOM IN. It means that the zooming in is an extension and part of parcel of the zooming of the zooming out. So I think now we can understand says they saw what is usually heard and they heard what is usually seen. What is usually heard they saw. What is usually seen they heard. Because really you have two approaches. One approach focuses only on hearing details, details, details, details, details which are important, which are beautiful, which are amazing, WHICH YOU COULD SPEND A WHOLE LIFETIME WITH. But what are you missing? You're missing the core. You know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. You know everything, but you didn't get it. You just didn't it the it. You have information, more information, more information, more information, but there's a soul missing. There's an essence missing. You can hear it immediately, especially if you're in touch with feminine energy and feminine tyra. But then there's another approach approach of those who love seeing and not hearing. They love talking about big pictures. the big picture it's people who had a meeting will always talk about changing the whole world and changing the whole city and changing the whole community big I don't have time for small stuff right the devil is in the details and according to them it's the devil don't don't don't go there right there even Jews who made this mistake they said Judaism is you got to repair the world. There was a rabbi who came to his shul and he started to give sermons. So the first week he spoke about shabas. So the president said not a good idea in this shul. They're not so into shabas. They drive. Okay. Next week he spoke about kashras. President says you know most of them don't keep kashras. Okay. The next week he spoke about muza. Nah they don't do this. So next week he spoke about family purity. It's not for this fill in. No no no we don't do this. So finally he turns to the president say I got it. WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO TALK ABOUT? PRESIDENT SAYS talk about Judaism. TALK ABOUT JUDAISM. TALK ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE. The specific demands of Judaism seem to them petty, small-minded, narrow, maybe even inexplicable. You're going to tell me that a big infinite God cares if after I ate scholabas afternoon and m Shabas THEY DELIVERED THE PIZZA BUT I ONLY ATE SCHOL 5 HOURS AND 59 MINUTES AGO AND I'M STARVING FOR A SLICE OF HEALTHY pizza and you're going to TELL ME THAT A BIG INFINITE GOD WHO CREATED MORE THAN A 100,000 MUSCLES IN THE TUSK OF AN ELEPHANT AND THAT'S JUST THE TUSK OF ONE ELEPHANT CARES CARES IF Y JACOBSON OR PLY ALMIGHTY WAITS ANOTHER 60 SECONDS to eat VANILLA ICE CREAM OR SMEARING CHOCOLATE or doesn't I'm talking [snorts] about according to the six hour uh [laughter] I know there's different I talking to the sixth hour which most do HERE COME ON THAT'S WHERE A MOLE comes in a malik is the gamatria rum 240 I am Lit. What does Ram mean? Ram means exalted. God is the big picture. He's not the small picture. It's big. You're going to tell me this detail, THIS NUANCE. COME ON. HOW unintelligent can you turn God into? I want to remain in the big and the cloud. But now tell that to your organism. Tell the cell, the DNA. It's just a little detail. Who cares? One little variation in detail in a chromosome translates in the most dramatic consequences of the entire human life. And how much do you think is the difference in the DNA between me and a chimpanzeee? You know how much percent? Huh? 2%. REALLY? TWO? COME ON. THE BIG PICTURE. Real truth is expressed in everything and every detail is an expression. If it's truth, it's expressed in the tiniest particle. [snorts] And that's why the moment we became a people, the first thing that says about was they saw what is heard and they heard what is seen. That which is usually heard they saw and that which is usually seen they heard. There was a complete sensory crossover. What does this mean spiritually? They could see the sounds. NOT JUST PHYSICALLY THEY saw the sounds. It means MUCH MORE. YES, GUGGENHEIM IS RIGHT. They saw the sounds. What does IT REALLY MEAN? WHAT IT MEANS IS THEY SAW WHAT IS USUALLY HEARD. WHAT IS USUALLY HEARD? DETAILS. They saw it. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? THEY SAW IT. All the details became part of a harmonious whole. They saw it. They could SEE THE DETAIL. MEANING WHEN YOU SEE A DETAIL, WHAT DO YOU SEE? You see it in the context of everything. But they also heard what is usually seen. Meaning that big overarching picture. They didn't only see and remained in the world of clout. They heard it. They heard what is usually seen. They had the ability to be able to see how it trickles down into the smallest particle of into the smartest particle of life. Seeing and hearing became one. Come and hear. Come and see. That moment were completely intertwined and integrated, completely inseparable. CLATT PRATO CLATTO CL as we say every morning in the 13 formulas in the 13 uh 13 method methodologies they can experience both perspectives they saw WHAT IS USUALLY HEARD IN EVERY DETAIL LAW RITUAL NUANCE THEY PERCEIVE THE GRAND VISION TO TRANSFORM THE ENTIRE world and reveal its oneness anoid mulvad at that moment they understood that putting on fillain it's not a detail. Putting on fillin has profound implications on refining your heart, your emotions, your disposition, your character on the world. Conversely, they also heard the vision of Tyra. They perceived how grand ideas, how the ultimate essence trickles down and is expressed in every strand, in every here, in every nail, in every single aspect. THEY WEREN'T SWEPT AWAY BY GLORIOUS, ABSTRACT, TRANSCENDENTAL themes which PEOPLE OFTEN ARE SWEPT AWAY and then they're often they often sober up and they're left with a world of details depleted, devoid of romance, devoid of inspiration because they didn't have the ability to link the claw and the prat to BE ABLE TO TRANSLATE the abstract into something audible into something specific into something tangible. Toshma and Tazi became completely completely one. I'm going to conclude with a story. They tell the story about the BMP that he shared this with his students. He told them as follows. He would often teach through stories and he said there were two neighbors. One neighbor was a Torah scholar. The other one was an impoverished laborer. The scholar would wake up before dawn, 4 in the morning. He would rush to the base medish. He would study for 4 hours. He would then daven sincerely. He would hurry home for a quick bite of breakfast. He would return to the base medish for many more hours of study. After the afternoon, he would go to the market and engage in some minimal handling, just enough to earn him some BASIC NEEDS. GO BACK TO THE BASE MADISH. David MV eats supper and then he would again sit over his sacred books until late into the night when he would get a few hours of sleep. His neighbor was very different. His neighbor also woke up early. His situation, his mind, his education, his illiteracy, his simplicity didn't allow him for a lot of study. He struggled to earn a living. But he barely succeeded in putting bread on his table for nine children. He would dab him with the first minion at daybreak and then the labor would consume his entire day. On chabas he would take a book in his hands but soon drop off from exhaustion and he couldn't understand much. Those two would pass each other every morning in the yard of their home. The scholar would throw a crass look of contempt on this peasant as he rushed off to his holy pursuits. And the poor laborer would look up and he would give a sigh. He would give a thinking to himself how unfortunate is my lot. How fortunate is his? If I can only learn like him. If I can only d like him. We're both hurrying. He's running to learn and I'm running to try to [clears throat] lift off some of my mundane burdens. And the BMP said this continued every day. They would take a fast glance at each other. The great scholar would look at him and it was like he wouldn't say anything but it was that look of of disregard and contempt on such a wasted life. And the other one this look of inner you know he would give what we call wishing for for for better circumstances. Bendu says they both passed away and they came to the heavenly court and over there the life of every person is weighed on the balance of scales of divine judgment. And Malik Mul came and he took the scholars many virtues and hours of learning and dvening and he put it in the right cup of the of the scale. Hours of learning, hours of dining, dedication to and all everything he wrote and his and people he taught and explained and everyone who asked him questions. And then came the prosecuting angel. And he placed a single object on the other side of the scale. The look of contempt that he sent every morning to his neighbor. And slowly, he said, the left side of the scale began to dip until it equaled and then exceeded the formidable load on the right. THE POOR LABORER ALSO DIED AND he came to THE HEAVENLY COURT AND THE PROSECUTOR was very excited. He loaded his miserable spiritually void life on the left scale. And indeed IT DIPPED RIGHT DOWN CLOSE TO THE ABYSS and then the advocating angel had only one weight to offer. The sigh, the sorrowful sigh, the cr that he would emit when he encountered his colleague, his ne not his colleague, his neighbor. And when he placed that sigh that he admitted every morning on the right side of the scale, it counterweighed everything on the negative side, lifting it. I mean, dipping it lower and lower. And by the way, it lifted the left. It validated every moment of hardship and misery in his life. that sigh somehow redefined it. And the bos told his students, I want you always to remember this. And of course, he was giving a martial. He was illustrating a point. And the point is that sometimes a person could be a master of hearing, a master of the details. But they lost sight of the bigger picture. They lost sight of the essence. They lost sight of the soul where the other person sometimes may not have any details but somehow there's a connection a connection to the soul and I guess it connects to the fact that before the bump became public and became the founder of movement he served as a in a small village in Ukraine and when he left his post the village hired another to slaughter their fowl and cattle. One day a villager sent one of his non-Jewish servants with a chicken to the The used to be the BMP before he was revealed. They called him Israel. He left. They had a new sh. So this guy, this non-Jew went with the chicken of his of his of his boss to the he soon returns back home and the bird is hollering and screaming and singing. I said, "What happened?" And the nonjrew says, "This new slaughterer you guys got is no good. NO GOOD. WHY?" ASKED THE VILLAGER. He says, "I will not give him any chickens to slaughter. FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, THEY'RE NOT KOSHER." SAYS, "WHY?" WHAT DOES HE DO? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT HE DOES. HE STANDS THERE WITH A PICTURE. And when he NEEDS TO SHARPEN HIS KNIFE, HE USES ORDINARY WATER FROM THE WELL TO SHARPEN HIS KNIFE. NO GOOD. Isolic would sharpen the knife with his tears. Have a wonderful week. Now the source. Yeah. The source comes from earlier commentators. Yeah. The Malbam. The Malbim Rabenu mayor Libish Beniser who was the chief rabbi of Romania and a great rabbi in Poland. He lived in the 1800s. He's one of the greatest minds of his generation. He's known as the Malb. He has a safer called. It's basically a commentary on he explains what does it mean. And it says who that the writing on the it was a divine writing says what does it mean it's a divine writing what what distinguishes it so the malbum says clearly this idea the malbum says that every single letter that we utter creates sound frequencies that enter into the ears of the people who are listening and every single letter or word that you utter creates a certain shape shape. There are sound waves and there are different shapes created in the ear in the atmosphere as a result of this particular letter that you're uttering. He says the uniqueness of the holy of who is that when somebody utters the letter B what happens is that shape of bay is created in the atmosphere. So it's a mik of elib it's so to speak a divine writing a divine handwriting because it's not just it's a picture that somebody chose that very picture is created in the world when somebody utters that letter even though you're uttering that letter verbally and the malam says clearly that usually we don't see it our eyes can't detect this but by mime hari when there was transparency they could see this they could see the sounds This already the Malbam says this. The cleer who lived generations before says it. The most surprising thing is it's already brought from the recanti. The recanti was one of the one of the early cabalists. He lived in the 1200s in Italy recanti. And in his commentary on par he quotes you're dealing now with the 10th century after the common era. And this is what he explains. Messiah they saw the sounds. He says clearly that every sound gets engraved and takes shape in the ear creating air waves and they could see the nation could see as he puts it the picture the vis of the letters that's what he says this is already the in the 13th century but the uniqueness in our times is that Guggenheim and Elbas they use technology ology and they could look at the word in a spectrogram. When you look at the word in a spectrogram, that which graphs and shows us an image of the actual sound frequencies that are going into everybody's ears basically demonstrated the authenticity of what these what these commentators say. And this is somehow what the Jews picked up and saw by Mata. They saw the words and the waves. They saw the physical manifestation of the sounds at our scenai. So this interpretation is an ancient interpretation. But in our times, we could see the authent authenticity of it. It's incredible. By the way, it's a different subject. There's a very famous verdict of the Bach. One of the great piskim 16th century was the bases the rabbi of Kraka and in the laws of inim the bach gives a verdict a very interesting verdict and that is that say a cipher is writing fillin right so he says that before he writes the fillin even if he has a text to look at he has to say each word he has to utter each word before he writes it. So before he writes he has to say he has to say every word before he writes it. So the reason for this the Bach writes and it's quoted in the Mishna Buroso in in in Sim B he says an extraordinary thing the Bach says he says something of that the he the ear that comes out when you pronounce every letter and every word there's a kaduca. There's a holiness in that ear and that is conferred upon the letters that he's that he's writing on the parchment. Now what does this mean? What does this mean? Yeah. In Tanya chapter 5, he brings from the that when a Jew utters words utters words of it creates a certain light, a certain energy in the world. But the idea here is that when I'm uttering words, those very words that I'm uttering also have a physical manifestation in the world. In other words, here you see the integration, the synthesis between and the world. Toyota is not just some set of laws. Tyra constitutes the spiritual DNA of the universe, the divine energy that encompasses the universe. In other words, appreciating is appreciating the pure energy that encompasses the whole world. So even their shape their shape it it has an impact in the world. So this explains the that the can't just write it in he has to say each word. Somehow saying the word impacts and assists to the holiness of these letters that are now written on parchment and ink by the scribe. It's one one of the one of the explanations in this Bach. 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