Blood Brothers Live: Atlantis, Eigengrau, Four States of Matter, Quintessence, and "Mah Nishtanah"

Yeah. Welcome to the first episode of Blood Brothers Live. I think this is maybe the fourth or fifth episode of Blood Brothers, but this is definitely the first Blood Brothers Live. And as they say at Blood Brothers Live, anything can happen and it probably will. Is that a line that you stole from? Well, you got to get close to the mic. You got to get closer to the mic. Is that a line you stole from somewhere? I made it up just now. Anything can happen and it probably will. You never know what to expect. You never know what to expect. Except I'm pretty tired, so I'm not going to do anything too crazy. No somersaults or anything like that. We don't have any topics, but you have to go really close to the mic. Really? Is that how it works? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you could pull the mic closer to you. You could move the mic. Yeah. You want to wear the headphones like that way? I would know. I would then you would realize how I'm sound. I'm not sure how much are we monitoring? It's very interesting to audience. Yeah. Hello. Hello. Yeah. Make Yeah. Can you hear now? Hello. Hello. Oh, all right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, now you realize now I realize what's going on here. Okay. All right. All right. So, uh All right. So, we don't have any topic planned for today. I feel that you're a little bit higher than me, so I'm going to raise my chair. Your I don't think your chair does that. Can I lower it? No. No. You don't put the other guy down. We raise ourselves up. But no, your chair does adjust. Yes. Thank you. Your chair doesn't. This is a nice Modway chair that I got. Um, and it goes up and down. It's a drafting chair. And, uh, this is just a regular, uh, counter height stool. This is counter height. People can't see, but these this desk here, this was made in Arizona. This desk, okay? And it's uh 36 in. It's counter height. Uh whatever. That's where it was made. It was made by a craftsman in Arizona. And it was shipped out here. And this this is counter height because I like counter height. Um like a table height would be about that high. This is a counter height. I like counter height, too. Yeah. used to have have a counter height work surface in my workshop. But did you have a standing desk? I did not have a standing desk. I had a I had a co-orker, a partner who had a a standing desk. Yeah. He did not have a standing desk. He had a desk and then he propped it up on like toy bricks that he got from home from his kids. Yeah. Then it became a standing desk. Ad hoc standing desk. Okay. So, um we now uh have people uh joining us from Oh, yeah. real human beings. I'm going to actually take a look and see uh how many people Irony is though that the PE if there are any people who are actually here while you're checking to see if they're there. Yeah. They have to sit and watch it. Yeah. Um, so what did you wanna All right, so this is my proposed says there's two people watching. All right, fantastic. Maybe it'll pick up. Well, this is for you guys. Um, and I use the term guys in a gender gender neutral sense. Yeah, dudes. So this is my proposed structure for today is that I have a I found a random word generator online and what I want to do is pick two words. We're right before pes. So pes on the mind and we could think about pes and talk about that. So this is my idea is pick two words and pes and that's like our three-act structure. I want to keep the angle a little bit by the way. So don't look straight at me. Yeah. We want to So that's our our three-act structure is we start with the first word. Are you random word generator an app or website? What is this? A website called random word generator. How do they make money? I don't know. Ads, I assume. Um, yeah, I see ads. Okay. All right. So, um, for medications. What? For medications. This ad. Oh, it just switched. Now it's And now it's for uh for sparkling water. For salsa. Oh my goodness. It read our mind. Oh, it didn't read our minds of it. It heard us talking. Heard us talking about seltzer? Yeah, we're drinking salt right now, by the way. Is Is that a a a real fact-based thing that our phones listen to the words that we're saying? And I believe it is. Okay. and YouTube bots are reading the transcription of this video in order to decide who to push it to. So, I just want to say that um I have a lot of controversial hot takes on a lot of the hottest issues today. Yeah, I definitely feel we're being lied to and I think that's an important thing for everybody to know and yeah, you got to uh do your own research. Yes, that's important. Do your own research. Follow the science but not the science that that they're telling you, right? Um, real science. Okay. So, we're going to generate two words. Start with the first word, work our way to the second word organically, and then eventually these are English words. English words. Try to work our way towards Pesak. Okay. Word association. Yeah. Okay. So you're going to randomly I was actually I was at a a puram suda recently on purum where where they did a similar thing for their for purum tyra. They had like a random roll the dice and you get three topics and you had to make a data. I thought it was an interesting idea. It's like Mad Libs. Yeah, I guess it's like Mad Libs. Yeah, like story cubes. Rory Story cubes. Ever played with those? What are they called? Rory's story cubes. No. Who's Rory? The guy who invented the story cubes. Yeah. and they have little pictures on them and then you roll them and then it's like, okay, now I got to tell a story about these three things. All right, so random words. I'm going to omit anything that I feel like is inappropriate. Or, you know, we'll we'll talk we'll discuss Yeah. omit anything that's inappropriate. We'll discuss the ones that come up. We'll feel like if it's something that's doable that we can think about that we grip. Okay. Grip. Yeah. Okay. Conspire. Wait, hold on. He just said conspiracy. He did. So maybe the maybe I don't I don't think that this this website is that sophisticated. Okay. Grip conspire. Yeah. And h humanly. I'm just going to throw out a few and then we'll pick the two that humanly. Yeah. Okay. Let's one more. System. System. And we have to put all those words together. Well, or we can pick two and say something about Pes. Yeah, we can pick two of them though. Uhhuh. So, I'll throw one more in there. Aviator. Aviator. Okay. So, grip humanly. No. Grip. Uh, conspire. Humanly system. An aviator. Aviator. Just pick ones that off the bat are interesting to you, even though you don't have anything particularly that you think we're going to get to, but like just that you feel like there's there's room. Well, you know, there are theories that the pyramids were built by ancient astronauts. So, that's all three right there. Um, aviators conspire and pesos right there. There are those who conspire to suppress the the information such as that and that the Mayans invented television and bank that battery. What? But there's a there's a system in place. All right. This is not how I imagine the game going to. Now, how's the How did you imagine the game? I mean, I don't want to be controlling. I don't want to be overcontrolling. Well, the way I imagine the game going is that we'd start with one word. Let's say we're going to start with you. You remind me of what? Knock knock. Who's there? Control freak. Control. Now, you say control freak who? Control freak. Who? Oh, I know. I got it because you interrupted me and told me what to do. Yeah. Um, I would So, what I would imagine is we start with one word and we talk about it for a while. Okay. And in the ways that we feel it connects to Tyro. And we don't just rattle it. We don't rattle through that. No, we take our time. Take our time until we organically get to the next one. Oh. Organically. And then from from And then from there, we organically get to pesa. Okay. Organically. Organically. Yeah. All right. Okay. All right. So, we're going to start with aviator. Oh, okay. We're gonna Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. All right. We're going to start with aviator. We're going to get to conspire and eventually we're going to get to pes. What about the other words? Like you're leaving them out. I just I was just trying to give us some room to to choose from and but then you got confused so I decided to control freak this and just pick pick the two myself. Okay, let's go. All right. We're going to start with aviator. Do you know anything about aviators? Charles Lindberg. I I do not know nothing about him. He was an anti-semite. I know that um flying machines are mentioned in a mimer of the alreb. Well, they're mentioned in the gum where amigduls like uh if you fly over a land with a amdal in a flying chest or a flying tower. Oh, it's it's like a like a con conceptual Yeah. uh thought experiment. It's a it's a to be able to common expression in the sha table amigdal flying uh wardrobe, flying uh chest. I know Gamar talks about flying camels every once in a while. Flying camel. If you're familiar with that, I think what's that? Uh the diver hav like words of exaggeration. What's the flying camel? Flying camel is used as far as I know in a couple of situations where it is trying to figure out how a person could be in two places at once or like in two places at the same. Yeah. By the way, Adamim, it doesn't mean it's an expression that they it doesn't mean an actual flying camel. Again, it's a super fast camel. It's right. Right. It's talking about Adamim. If he says if they say that they witness something in Lud and then someone says, is it Shia? Well, if you have a flying camel yet and I think there's something about Giton about if like two guys with the same name but they live in two different places and maybe it's the same guy was in both cities and he had a flying camel. He had a flying camel. Yeah. But it is it is a purely I mean I think it's a purposely non-existent. It's not it's like a it is a uh it's a hypothetical thing in Gammora because well then it was there weren't actual flying machines at that time. But when was the the first flying machine invented? First of all, do you know the date of the flight at Kittyhawk? uh06 1907. What was Kittyhawk? 1906 or07. I'm going to look at the history of flight. I think it was 13 seconds. Look up Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk. Okay. Wright brothers at Kittyhawk. Um kite flying in China. No, that's not what I'm at. Kittyhawk, North Carolina. First in aviation. I know, but I'm I'm looking on the Wikipedia entry for the entire history of aviation. Just 1908, Wilbur Wright to Europe and started starting in August gave a series of flight demonstrations. Okay, I was off couple. No, but that's not Kittyhawk. Oh, I don't know when Kittyhawk was. All right. Whatever it was. Okay. Uh because I also wanted on the same page to uh to see when the first air balloons because 1907 19 it was 1903. Is that what you said originally? Kittyhawk. Yeah. I said 06. Okay. 03. Mhm. Right. Flyer 1903. But I was trying to figure out when uh hot air balloons started flying because around the world in 80 days. Yeah. So when when was that? 1800s. hot air in the 1800s sometime in the 1800s. So because there's a mime where the alterba asks about about um basically on the one hand it seems like we're getting like we're getting stupider and and better at understanding things. The other hand we're getting smart enough to build things like like a machine that can fly in the sky. says people have technology now to build a machine that flies in the sky. Yeah, but I'm trying to think of the exact words that he uses. I forget the words word for the device, but he says something. Um, where did he would you remember which mimer this is? It's either in or in Yanim. Something that flies in the air, but he didn't say it was a vehicle like that people could actually Sina. Oh, Sina. And and actually that term a is used also hypothetically earlier in in in like uh I think um uh the Rambam used in huh but the alibaba says we can build today a flying yes ship and he's using it as a as like a contrast to say that so supposedly we're getting smarter and smarter. Okay. So when was the the first hot air balloon? You want to look that up? I'm looking that up. first hot air balloon. It's very interesting. Yes, we're live on YouTube right now, but but it's okay. Hi. Okay. Um, wicker basket. I'm I'm going to hold back my my curiosity of of tapping on the hyperlink to the Wikipedia entry on Wicker Baskets. history. The first man flight was in se uh 1783. Oh, okay. 1783 was the first man hot air balloon hot air balloon. Mhm. So, uh tough kof pay gim. Oh, wow. You know what? Wait, hold on. 1783. Oh, tough tough kof. Uh, one of the pioneers of gimmel. Tough mamm gimmel. What? That's hot air balloons. What's tough? M gimmel 1783. Yeah. Uhhuh. So before before Tanya even came out. So there were hot air balloons before the Tanya came out. Interesting. That would make sense because most of these short memoir predate, right? Because after Petberg, after the imprisonment, Alterba spoke at length, but before the imprisonment, he spoke shorter. Yeah. Very interesting. wondering if I can look at the year on. I I did one time look at the year and try to um try to like see if I could connect it to any his significant event in aviation history. You know, I was once looking for world maps from the 1790s because there's a story that when the alterba was imprisoned, they brought him a map of the new world and he said it was incorrect because of the go says that the north side of the world is not closed off. There's different explanations why, but uh he said that the the maps of the new world were incorrect because it showed a land mass going all the way up to the top of the world or the top. It's not really top, but the way that the the north side of the world, what we call the um boreioentric maps, the Yeah, right. Bor boreentric means with a bias to the to the north. Have you ever looked at maps that are that are upside down? That are quote unquote upside down. Uh, actually, not only have I looked at them, but if you'll notice the globe behind you is I specifically No, it is not. I I particularly bought a globe that has two axes so I could put on top. Oh, is that why we have it the way it is? That's why I have it that way. I put on top and I put the on the so I put I put on top so that you make aliyah from any spot on the globe you're going up to I did not put the north pole on top see I tilted it so is on the top which is conceptually correct according to our worldview right yeah anyway so they showed the W on on our when on a boreoentric map. Yeah. Um well, everything's wider at the top. Yeah. Because of the projections. Well, there's different Oh, is that because of the projections? It's because the way that they made maps is they would basically put paper around a glowing globe like this and then they would trace it. But then you see the the farther away the paper is, the paper's a cone or not a cone, a tube. The paper's a tube. Imagine putting a tube around that and then tracing where it projects. Are you trying to tell me that Argentina is actually much bigger than we think it is on that globe everything's accurate? I'm saying when you flatten it, when you flatten the globe, you're going to get distortion. So on the So one of the popular ways I think it's called a merkantur projection. It's a It's a certain type of projecting. Why do I want to say merkur projection? Yeah, it's a merk. All right. Mercur projection. That's what it is. Is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and ctographer Gerardis Merkur in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north is up and south is down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes. But it does distort things that it makes Greenland look bigger than South America. I have looked at other projections, maps use that use other projections and they're weird looking to me. Or sometimes if you want to not have any distortion in sizes of continents, what you have to do is you have to lose oceans and there are those you ever seen the the peeled orange ones? Yes. The ones that look like a peeled orange where it's like there's pieces cut out. Yes. Yeah. But and then and then that's the least amount of distortion because of the least amount of distortion of land mass which is probably what we mostly care about. But you're totally messing up with the with the water, right? Just twothirds of the world is water. But yeah, so like the Atlanteanss would would not like that. No, they wouldn't like it. They would feel being misrepresented. Um also the lost continent of Moo did not know about that. The lost continent of Moo is like Atlantis in the Pacific. Oh, okay. I have never heard of that. Lost continent of Moo. What cultures does that come from? Where does Moo come from? Like what mythology? Mythology? Oh, sorry. Is it an actual All right. All right. It was it was it is it a real sunken continent that Yeah, it's a sunken continent and it's lost. Lost by what? I guess it uh sank. I'm not sure how how Moo was lost. So Moo. No, for Moo is is for real. MU lost continent of Moo. All right. I think you need your to brush up on your time life. I do. Paranois. Atlantis is not real. Atlantis is a myth. Uh, who says that? That's the my brain currently. Moo is a mystical lost continent. Mystical. Mystical is fine. Introduced by Not mythical. No. Introduced by Augustus Lee Plungeon, who used the land of Moo as an alternative name for Atlantis. Oh, now they're saying it's an alter. The same thing. Atlantis. Atlantis is a fictional island. Who says it's fictional? Wikipedia does. So you going would you want to go fix it? Yeah. Are you trying to push us to conspiracy too quickly? Yeah. That's not organic. You know about the wall of biminy? No. You don't know about the wall of biminy? No. And what is the wall of biminy? The wall of biminy is um clearly humanly that was one of her words. humanly humanly carved bonus uh stones that are in on this seafloor in the uh I mean they believe in the Caribbean somewhere in the in the Atlantic and um on the seafloor there are clearly humanly carved hume stones that were sort of uh they were it was clearly part of a wall that toppled or perhaps of a uh large paved roadway, but it's right in the middle of of the sea, and it's evidence of a lost continent. Sea of the the wall of biminy. All right. So, those people who built that wall would also I'm very happy, by the way, that we're talking about this. And I'll tell you why. Why? Tell me why. because I feel like the YouTube bots which are going to be reading the transcription of this video are going to bring us a whole new wave of viewership audience and I frankly I welcome those people. Yeah, welcome. The biminy road sometimes called the biminy wall is an underwater rock formation near North Biminy Island in the Bahamas. Okay. Did I steer you wrong? Well, the the Wikipedia seems to think it's a natural rock formation. The road consists of a8 kilometer long northeast southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular to sub subrectangular limestone blocks. All right, then first question here. People also ask, is the biminy road man-made? In 1968, a diver off the coast of North Biminy Island, Bahamas, discovered a series of stones 18 feet below the surface. The stones appeared man-made and were evenly spaced out in a roadlike in a roadlike line stretching a half mile. So, there you go. You were going to say something about maps before I I The Altera told them that the map There you go. they had of the of the new world was incorrect because it showed the land mass like you know Canada basically going all the way up and never ending. It just doesn't end. He says that's not true. That yeah if you look at the the North Pole there's there's no land mass there. It's water. Why? Because the gum says that the didn't complete the north side of the world. left it incomplete. So that if anyone would ever get up and say, "I'm a god." You say to her, "Okay, no problem. You don't have to create the world. Just finish it. Hashem left the north side of the world incomplete. You go complete it." And then obviously the guy is like, "Well, uh, I left my tools at home." And then you laugh at him and discredit him. Yeah. Um so what so obviously those those maps are not that's not the one that's being used for this globe. We have more modern maps. We have modern maps now. We have uh so they were they were inaccurate according to current. So the alterb told them in the 1790s when he was in jail that their maps that they had then were inaccurate because they didn't show that the North Pole is water. Now why didn't they show the North Pole is water? because no one had been able to get up there to explore it. So, so the assumption was the assumption was that Canada just keeps going and going and going. That is really really interesting. Yeah. What else you want to know about? Well, there's a part of me who really wants to push this towards flat earth and to definitely get you some new viewers, but I would love some new viewers who are willing to think outside of the box. Outside of the sphere. Yes. Yeah. I don't know. I I don't know if I mentioned on here before. I don't think I have that. I was at one time was watching a uh a video of a flat flat earth convention and Oh, you told me about this. Yeah. was the person um a person was prevent presenting he I think he was a singer of some sort and he had some songs some satirical songs about about mocking round earth round earth ascribers and then at the end of it he said he just wanted to make an announcement that he is I'm going to um I forget exactly how he was going to do it what device he was going to use he was going to get out of earth's orbit be able to look down and take pictures and see for himself and be able to report back, right? And finally, once and for all, because up until now, it's only only NASA who are like the gatekeepers of all of this imagery and we can't really get a real honest uh perception. He's going to do it. Everyone cheered and was very excited. And then he went down and the MC came on and said, "I just want to let everyone know that the the spaceacuit helmet that you'll have to wear if you do go outside of Earth Earth's orbit is rounded and will uh get the fishbowl effect." Yeah. It will manipulate the way you perceive the world. And so it might not be completely what you're expecting it to be. Uhhuh. So he's going to have to be my nephewish to take off the helmet. But then he won't be able to tell us. Well, you'll maybe be able to snap a picture. Yeah. By the way, you could snap a picture outside of the helmet. I think the assumption was the camera was going to be inside the helmet with him. Oh, I guess. Or the camera. No, I think camera lenses also are round. That's true. But all camera lenses are round. So everything should eyeball lenses are also round. It's true. Eyeballs are round. That's so really probably everything we think is round is really flat according to that logic. That would that would make sense. Everything we think is spherical is actually flat basketball. It's like the opposite of flat land. Oh, well flat land is flat. It is two-dimensional, right? It's not that they're only perceiving two dimensions. I mean they're I guess they're only perceiving two dimensions of reality but everything that exists in flatland there was no implication in that book that uh that the squares were actually cubes then but oh nobody could perceive that it wasn't that there were actually there was a sphere that visited from from ohand that's yeah yeah right the sphere visited from spherland right right but it was a different place but all of the squares and triangles and circles that existed in flat land I believe were flat. I believe they were two dimensional. They weren't three threedimensional objects that were being perceived in two dimensions. Um but yes, we made it to to to conspire. So NASA is conspiring to change our to to limit our perception of the world. Although we just determined that our own eyeballs are also part of that conspiracy. So apparently God's in on it too. Goes all the way to the top. This conspiracy goes all the way all the way to the top. It goes a lot deeper than you realize. No, I know it goes deep. No. Much more God is in on it. Would are there any conspiracies that you would say God is is and we're kind of saying this kind of jokingly, but do you feel there's anything that is a conspiracy? The phenomenological universe, if you can call it a conspiracy. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Hashem created the appearance of a self- sustaining ontologically autonomous reality. And it's it's not. But it really it's not a conspiracy though because nobody is in on it with God. Conspiracy the definition requires multiple people. Right. You're right. It's like collusion. You got to have somebody with you. So it's interesting. A conspiracy theory takes one guy and often often is one brave person. It has to be about but a conspiracy itself an actual conspiracy requires con because that conspiring actually if you conspire getting together with other people. Yeah, that's what it means. Some that's why I don't conspire. I don't like to deal with way too much social interaction. That's why I can't I lie to people all the time but I'm not with friends. Not with them. I don't invite them to lie with me. No, that's anxiety and exhausting. But I, by the way, conspiracies probably are incredibly exhausting because it is it is exhausting enough to lie and then fear getting caught and then to fear that somebody else is going to get you caught, right? Yeah. Um, conspiracies. If you conspire, your friend down the hall confessed everything. What? What's the name of that? You mean that psychological tactic that interrogation technique? I don't know. Yeah, there there is a thing like your friend down the hall confessed everything. He's going to be out tonight, right? Unless you can give us something on him, right? Um if you if you conspire to expose a conspiracy, you need to do that with somebody else. And that would be a conspiracy, right? Anti-conspiracy, counter conspiracy, a counter conspiracy. Um, when the malim in the beginning in braces when Hashem's like, "All right, there." So there's there's two there's make man in our image, right? And I saw the balo. Yeah. So does that constitute conspiracy? And there's mdal bevel. There's a lot of we talk there. So yeah, but I think conspiracy has to be there's people who are in on in on it and specifically people who are not in on it. Like there's a lot of um like hiding you're doing being opaque. You don't want people to know what you're really doing. Yeah. Y, what about Y? Um, was that not a conspiracy with the Sutton? Oh, because Sutton was given permission to test EV. So, is that a conspiracy? A divine conspiracy? Yeah, maybe. Interesting. You're really trying to expand uh the viewership, trying to get a lot of interesting people. And so this may be pushing it too fast. It might not be organic, but how about um hardening P's heart? Is that a conspiracy? Because Hashem told Misha he's going to do it. Yes. And then concealed from Paris his own decision-making process. It's interesting. Oh, that's pes. Yeah, but like I said, maybe maybe I'm pushing it too quick. No, that's good. Is that a conspiracy? And why do we care if it is a conspiracy? Are we blowing the lid off of it? Well, I think the Bible already blows the lid off of it because it's in there. God tells Moses repeatedly that this is happening. And I think the Bible's pretty public record. So, I don't think it's a conspiracy. Maybe at the time you could say, right? Like if if if Parra would be running around being like, "Listen, I have a very strong suspicion that there are powers at work here that are compelling me." And be willing, come on, Par, you when take off the tin foil hat. Right. Right. This is against my will. I want to do it. I'm just feeling inexplicably. Maybe that's what they found with the mummies. That thing is really a tin foil hat. What thing? The par hat. Those pharaoh hats with the with uh with the beards on them. The pharaoh hats that Oh, that's a sarcophagus thing. Has a weird beard on it. But Oh, those the pharaoh hats. Yeah, maybe those are tinfoil. Those are tinfoil hats. Yeah. I I don't know if they had aluminum foil at the time. They had everything. Did they? Ancient Egyptians. They had titanium. Did they? I think so. Want to Google it? Did What do I Google? Did ancient Egyptians have titanium? Yes. I'm really spicing up your YouTube uh Google algorithm, by the way. Thank me later. It's about to change your whole internet experience. I know that Egyptians had a blue dye because we see it all the time in Egyptian stuff, but at a time when other Middle Eastern uh cultures were not really blue was not a part of the vocabulary. Yeah, there is a thing about that. Yeah. Yeah. In the ancient world, blue was not a word. Yes. So apparently just used the word for green for blue and green in in uh Homer in the the Odyssey. Yeah. This apparently there's a point where he describes this the sea is wine red. Yes, he does. Or wine dark or something. Wine dark sea. Wine dark sea because the apparently the way that ancient Greeks Homer is Greek, right? Yeah. Apparently the way the ancient Greeks this thought of color was not by hue. We tend to group colors by hue, right? And they I guess grouped colors by shade, dark and light. And then it would make sense to refer to the sea as as wine and dark because it doesn't matter if it's red or blue. The point is that's how dark it is, right? That's very interesting. Like we have a color our color wheels or like in the Photoshop eyropper or whatever we see this gradient and very often actually have the have the colorbased gradient and then it'll have the lightness and darkness on the side of like from white to black. So you choose your hue and then the secondary thing is like how light but you can flip that whole thing. Yeah. Imagine flipping that, right? Where you just have this this white to black spectrum, right? And then then your little secondary you want it red, you want it blue, you want it green. Yeah. That's fascinating. I I looked into this once. I have a a Safaria source sheet on colors and uh found some interesting things. The Zire says that there's a secret color that you can't see. Is it infrared? There are secret I don't ultraviolet. I don't think so because it says that you can see it if you close your eyes and you and you move your eyeballs around. Now, I don't know if it means No, I know how to do that. I've been doing that since I was a little kid. I don't I think it means if you move it around manually. I see it right now. Right. You see the secret colors? Yeah. It's like electricity. Those are the secret colors. You know what it is? It's the color that the whole world turns when in Atari 2600 when you win the game adventure and you get the chalice and you bring it back to the castle. You are seven years older than me so your Atari references are lost on me. I apologize. Atari 2600. There's a game called Adventure and you're a little square and you run around with an arrow which is a sword and you slay dragons and there's the black castle and there's a white castle, there's red castle and a yellow castle I think. Yeah. And in the end you bring the chalice back to the castle I think to the black castle and then the whole world flashes the colors of electrum. It's like this. Yeah. Anyways, that that's the color I see when I um do that. So, the Zire says there's a secret color. Yeah. And that you that it's not revealed to us except for you can see I think it says there's multiple secret colors and you can see one of them when you just move your eyeball. I have a by the way a solution to racism. Close your eyes. I was going to say everyone should be that secret color. Maybe everyone is that secret color. Oh my goodness. So, the solution to racism already exists. Just smush your eyeballs. Do you know when you close your eyes, tell me what color you see without smooshing your eyes. When you close your eyes, what color do you see? Well, you want to say black, but that's not true. It is not true. That's like saying the back of your hand sees black. Okay. There's another reason why that's not true. There's actually because you're saying it's not it's not anything, therefore you can't call it black, right? But what if I if I told you no? You're allowed to call it something. Now, what do you call it? Black. No, I'm not I'm not going to fall for that. I'm not going to call Well, you have a black wall here. Look at your black wall. Yeah, that's black. Yeah. Now, close your eyes and tell me, is that color as dark as that wall? It's much lighter. Yeah. Even Even if you cover your eyes, it's not as dark as that black. Right. So, there's it's gray. There's a name for that color. It's called aen grow. What's it called? Aen growl. Aen grow. Yes. That's like yish. So you know what it means? Yeah. Igrow. No. Self gray. Oh. Aen. Not like oeen but aen. Like the egg in a Oh, like your internal gray. Yeah. But why is it a German word? Does it It doesn't seem suiting to you that that the word for the gray that you see when you close your eyes is German. Yeah. I don't know why it is German, but it seems completely appropriate to me. Aen grow, right? A gray. Yeah. Yeah. Your own internal gray that you produce. And the the reason why you see gray is apparently you need contrast in order to see black since there's no there's no no white in there. There's there's secret colors, but there's no white. So, you can just see the egg and grail. Wow, that's pretty cool. I learned a new word. Aen grab. Do you like that word? Yeah, I like German compound words. Shot and Freud. You know anymore? What? Belton Shong. Zeitgeist. Mhm. You know, is it pretentious to say zitgeist? Because really should be zeitgeist. That is that yeah I mean in site and I believe that's also in German site site is time sitegeist I don't know I don't know how German works yeah well in German a z is a sound um you know any other German compound words I don't I'm not generally a smart person. I just know some weird things. So, I don't know a lot of I think that is a test of like a really like a sophisticated person is how many German compound compound words do you know? I have more seltzer by the way. Don't talk about it. I don't want the robots to to know that I like seltzer. Thank you. I wonder if you're gonna get ads from Miami Caim. I don't think Mayaim advertises. I don't think they need to advertise. I think I think a happy customer is their advertising. I think it would be it would probably be a misplacement of funds for for them to advertise on YouTube. Yeah. Misplacement of their marketing budget. All right. Is there any um I mean we have technically gotten see if any comments have come in. I'm going to see if anybody asking questions about the weird conspiracy stuff we're talking about. [Music] Want to talk about some stuff while I'm looking at comments. Um I believe I have said all the interesting conversation things that I have in my head right now. Oh, someone wrote Tahiti on the bottom just showed up. What's the game? Oh, okay. Oh, the game for those just joining us is that we we began with two words and the word and pesak began with aviator and conspir. We're going to try and get from aviator to conspire, which we already did. We eventually got to I forget what conspiracies we got to. We talked about whether or not it was possible for God to be implicated in conspiracies. And then uh and then we were trying to get to PE. We kind of did. I think it's a cheat. We didn't really I didn't learn anything like see anything differently about P. So we asked if if it's possible that Oh, you want to learn something? I hope would hope that the purpose of these discussions is is that we both leave thinking about things differently than we did before. Okay. Is that not a noble goal? No, it's a good it's a good it's a good goal. If you're not careful, you might learn something before we're done. Okay. What? What's that? All right. I don't understand that. You don't know what that is. No, I don't know what that I'm sorry. Anyone who knows what it is, please. If you're not careful, you might learn some. We might learn something before we're done. Okay. Okay. So, uh, what are the other words that we have to incorporate? No, that was it. That was it. And we had some other some other like second place words, short list words, but the words that we finalized were aviator, conspire, and then get to Pesak. Okay. Do you want to tell me something about Pesak? Are you thinking anything about Pesak these days? Um, I have my certain uh perennial uh pesak favorite subjects that I enjoy. Anything new bouncing around? I haven't I haven't been thinking about Pesak yet. Still thinking about Porm? I was thinking about PM and now um yeah, I haven't really delved into Pesak yet. I've been thinking about about uh Manishana. Yeah, I saw somewhere translation of man. I saw from the I know that you have you know the is Yeah. I know you have issues with with that. I don't have any issues. All right. You told me it was That's an old joke. It's a uh I think it was Yehan and Gordon said it. Um he says that uh Manashtana isn't like how is how is this night different from how would you translate Manashana? How would they translate it? Um I mean I would probably go with the Yiddish the the famous Yiddish. What is different about the night of Passover than all the nights from all the nights of the whole year? Yeah, that's how I would say. So that's actually interesting. Then in that case, who's who's asking that question? Child's asking. All right. And then what comes next? After he asks small amount of No, after he asked just that question, I assume there's a question mark after that. Yeah. And then what comes next? Then he he's me. He specifies what are the things that he's noticing that are different. So different there are different uh hogim according to the so seemingly then then what's the purpose of the first question? The child knows what's different about this night than other nights. We're doing all these weird things that he's about to talk about. What he means is what is different about tonight that would lead to us doing things differently. And here are four things I noticed that we're doing differently. And I would I'm assuming there's something special about tonight. Why are why are we doing all these? What are we doing? What's the underlying differentess of this night? If there if there were one thing we were doing differently, maybe I wouldn't think it's the night, but there's four things I've noticed that are different. So, I'm thinking that this is a different night. There's something different about tonight. Right. So translates that first the first part as a statement of of wonder how different this night is from like oh how oh how different like how goodly are your how goodly I use the word goodly a lot in natural conversation. Yeah. So yeah ma can be like by the way the seltzer is very goodly. Yeah. Yeah. So ma could be like an expression of Yeah. Now is I don't know how different this night is. Right. Is that interesting to you? I don't know how interesting that is. How do you It's interesting to me because it's something that like we've read a million times. I and I've read it a lot as the the youngest kid in my family uh and and the youngest kid in my extended cousin's family as well. And uh so like I had to publicly say that that line a lot. Yeah. And uh so it's a lot of significance to you. It does have a lot of significance and but I've always thought about it as this the same way. It's always been why is why is this night different from all other nights? What is different about this night? But I've never thought of it as how different this night is from all other nights. So you you're saying that the first time is not and but yeah and exclamation point. Exclamation point and then a bunch of questions. Oh how unique this evening is and then and then explaining for for instance we're for instance we do this weird stuff. Why why are we do why do we do that? That's very interesting. I thought it was interesting. Yeah. What are the implications? Um I But do you have I don't know. No, I don't know. I don't I mean it doesn't like make any earthshattering differences in how we approach Passover. I mean it does it does answer a question that how many questions are there? Four. How many question marks are there? Five. So the first one is like uh oh by the way I believe I'm not making this up but you know one of my favorite pes is the one about how the rebba explains the mleis of it's actually three-way mus and what about how many mis were the mis dar from from tum but that's really that's not why they say four or five. But uh the idea of every every plague being a four-fold plague or a five-fold plague. So four-fold is connected dalitis the four elements of uh fire, air, water, earth. And then so then that's alazar's opinion. Why does say fivefold? Because he counts the means primordial matter. That's even there was three opinions there, weren't there but he just says one. Okay. And by the way, that's why says that beer can be uh just by tearing it up. You don't have to destroy its substance. You just change the tear. Just change the form. Just tear it up. Throw it in the wind. Right. Right. But um so I believe I'm not making this up that there's a footnote where the Rebis says that this corresponds to the four questions and the fifth question which is a a general like rubric. So the manish before he gets into anything specific whether your first question is about dipping or your first question about matzah you know the says the first question is about why we eat matzah but I shouldn't say but the minad is to say is the first question at any rate but the the first general question is like I think I'm not making that up that's interesting I don't I remember seeing that. Do you know the word Do you know the etmology of the word quintessential? No, I do not. Well, let's think about it. Think it through. I don't quint means five, right? Like quintuplets, right? Right. Right. Remember Octoom? I I very trip. That's a blast from the past. Wild. That's a blast from the past. Remember Subprime Mortgages? That was crazy. Remember that? Oh, yeah. Ought. I remember. A crazy time. He's alive. Anyways, talk to mom and subprime mortgages. Yeah, it was a crazy time to be alive. But you you were coming of age around that time. You're a global teen. You're a millennial. I'm generation X. Charlie bit me. My finger. Yeah. Yeah. I know that. Yeah. It's It's an NFT now. Is it? Yeah. The Charlie Bit Me parents made it into an NFT. They took it down off YouTube, did they? Yeah. They made it an NFT. It's not It's nonfgeible now. Yeah. Yeah. It's nonfgeible. Yeah. Um, so what were you going to tell me? Quintessential. Quint means five. Yeah. So, what quintessential means? Are you going to tell me it's the Yes. Quintessence. What do you think quintessence means? Is that what literally what what what the word means? Yeah, go look it up. Quintessence. The word. I always get confused between ethmology and entomology. I don't know which one is which. Entomology is the study of bugs. Okay. You can remember that because the sound a bug makes is like entomology. Is that how you remember it? Is that your pneummonic? No. Etmology. I thought entomology was a study of roots. Ent. Yeah. Entomology of Antimmans is Olivalam. I believe the founder of the founder of Antimmans passed away recently. It was a big deal for a lot of Jews. Had antimmans at kdish all the time. Um is all you. It's okay to to Yeah, it's all you acknowledge. Yeah, it's fine. We could acknowledge sentiments. Um, but that's not what entomology is. It's not the study of entamins. No, entomology study of bugs. Etmology is a study of words. Ethmologically. Etmologically. Look up the etmology of quintessence. Pull it up. I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised. Quintessential representing the most perfect or typical example of equality or class. He was the quintessential tough guy. Strong, silent, and self-contained. That's the example sentence. The quintessential tough guy. Yeah. Strong, silent, and self-contained is the quintessential tough guy. Like Lee Marvin. I think he's strong, silent, and self-contained. He was a real tough guy. There were some fake tough guys. Lee Marvin was a real tough guy. Google that and you'll find that that's true. They all said from that era, Lee Marvin was the real tough guy. Quintessential tough guy. Yeah. Um, but Google doesn't give me uh the the entomology. The etmology. Entomology. What's the entomology of the word insect? Um, probably insect. Sect is like a section. No, I said what's enmology. Oh, you're wrong. It's like I didn't say Simon says. Uhhuh. All right. Uh, quintessential. And I'm looking for the It doesn't tell me the to look it up on Wikipedia. The quintessential tough guy. It's a philosophers and scientists of the ancient. This is from from Webster. It is also quoted on Emanuel's log, but it's from Miriam Webster. Miam Webster. Yes. Yes. The Jewish wife of Mariam Webster. Who is Mariam, by the way? I know who Webster. Noah Webster is famous. But who's Mariam? It's like Sears and Robok. Who is Robok? Wait, there's two guys. There's Mariam and Oh, it's Noah Webster. Is that who Noah Webster was the guy, right? Who's Mariam? Probably just put up the money. Miam the prophetess. It's Miriam. Um, the philosophers and scientists of the ancient world in the middle ages believed that the world we inhabit was cons was entirely made up of four elements. So, listen, and by the way, they say it that's very condescending. The philosophers of the ancient world believed. Why do they have to say it like that? Well, because they're dead. No. Why do they have to say that that's a belief that was that's like ancient belief, right? There are I believe I'm very much alive. I'm very current and I believe that the world you're blowing the lid off of off of conspiracies and by the way there's a letter from the says it's not a contradiction with the with the fact that we observe the atomic elements the periodic chart of elements is a different model the says that the four elements we translate clumsily as the four elements is probably better translated functionally at least as the four states of matter as solid, liquid, gas, plasma. I think we do ourselves a lot of uh disservice by the words we use and getting stuck in that and saying, "Well, there's not four elements. There's a whole entire table elements, right?" Like, okay, so don't call them elements. I I like to confuse people by asking them if a bat is a bird and they say no. And then I say right now read off to me from the list of non-cooser birds. That's right. Bat is we just had it last week. So the Yeah. That's right. And uh is is a is a whale a fish? Well, it depends on the taxonomy. If you're talking if if you're classifying things as mammals versus fish, then no. A whale is a mammal, not a fish. But if is it is it a dog? Yes. Yes. A whale is a dog. But Oh, but it doesn't but but but it What what was what does what's the translation of dog fish and is a whale a fish? No. So I'm very upset and confused. Right. Exactly. So you gota you got to stop. You got to be willing to to understand that sometimes we can use the same word for completely different categories of things. Right. Um All right. So the world we have is entire entirely made up of four elements. Earth. Four elements, air, fire, and water. Right. Aristotle added a fifth element. I was I was wondering about that group Earth, Wind and Fire. Was there a guy who was water and he quit? Earth, Wind, and Fire. Yeah. Yeah. Water quit. What I mean now, now I'm going to have to look that up next to see if I'm a water probably want to get paid too much. Another manager with water. Yeah. So, Aristotle added a fifth element, ether, by which he meant the material that fills the rest of space. Ether, the material that fills the rest of space. Yeah. Mo mostly invisibly, but sometimes taking the form of stars and planets. Okay, fine. I'm not gonna continue reading on. Anyways, but that's not doesn't seem to be what's being described in that sika as that fifth. Yuli, by the way, Yuli is or actually I'm sorry, it's I I I I exposed my own amoras here. The hey is not a hey. It's not a definite article. Huly huli. You could the the the word is huli. And I think it's spelled in Greek. Um I actually learned how to pronounce it once properly and then I forgot how to pronounce it. Um. Um. Oh, here it is. It's spelled H Y L E. in philosophy from ancient Greek refers to matter or stuff. It can be the material cause underlying a change in arisatilian philosophy. Yeah. H y l e. And how do you pronounce it? I just I'm gonna what? You're leaving? I'm not leaving. Okay, fine. I don't want to get on camera. No, it's not nice. Okay. But I'm I'm left here alone. I'm gonna I'm just looking up how to pronounce um this word. Okay. H. No, it's not pronounced hyle. Get out of here. That's what the robot just told you. Not It's not hyle. You better not let my phone hear it saying that or you're going to get some weird YouTube suggestions. It is not hy. My phone thinks weird things of me now. Oh no. Oh no. Going to get the wrong suggestions. Oh my goodness. Yeah. No, it's hule or something. It's pronounced like hule. Okay, whatever. Yeah. Anyways, quintessence is that fifth level which corresponds to the uh the essence of all things which is more basic even than the and the elements themselves. Elements are more basic than the forms of things that we know. But the is even more essential and more basic. That's not the way Emanuel Lewis described it. Yeah. Well, what what did he say when we looked up quintessence? He said all that stuff where he said that the ether fills is what fills up empty space, not filled up by the other four elements. That's what everything that isn't filled up by. That that's but that's Emanuel Lewis and he's no expert on philosophy. He doesn't know. Anyways, that's what quintessence is. The quintessential tough guy. Imagine a tough guy. He's not fire. He's not air. He's not water. He's not earth. So, are you suggesting that that there was a fifth member of that group that also? Yeah. That was their muscle. Yeah. Yeah. Quintessential. What was the drummer one of them? Was drummer the drummer Earth, Winder, Fire? They were all singers, but I really don't know. Right. Cuz because I think the drummer should be faithful. And I think even their band performed on their own under a different under a different name. Yeah. And I think I think that Okay. I don't know. I I I bet Yeah. I bet you if you would like look that up, you find that to be the case. Okay. So, yeah. So, how do we how how do we get to that? Can you I'm sorry. Silence your phone. I apologize. I should have done that before I went on the live YouTube broadcast. Let's see how many people we have. You know, I really feel like a couple of eight-year-olds with like a cassette recorder sitting in the garage recording ourselves right now. Like, this is By the way, speaking of that, you know that I've you know that I've been going through all the old VHS tapes. Yeah. Our parents house. So, I've actually found some of the old video tapes that we made when we were young. There's eight people watching now. I feel Okay. I feel a responsibility to say something interesting. There's eight people watching. Yeah. Okay. Can you believe please be interesting? There's eight people watching. Okay. I I thought we were being interesting. Were we not? Let's take it up a notch. Get be more interesting. Yeah, a little bit more interesting than you've been till now. I mean, I think the Aen growl was good stuff. That was my best stuff. I used I already used up my best stuff. You used your best material right out the gate. Now we got nothing to talk about. I used up Aen grow. You could have built up the aen grow. Could have been a slow simmer. Um, we got nothing else. But we But we're in the middle of talking about the and about the fifth element. Yes, but the fifth element. Ether. That's right. The ether. It's not ether, though. The fifth element is higher than elements. And I don't want to call them elements anymore either. The There's there's four basic states of matter. Um, solid, liquid, gas, plasma. which we refer to as earth, water, air, and fire. But they're not actual earth, water, air, and fire. They are states of matter which are compared to such a thing. At any rate, the fifth element which is not an element which is called which is the essence of all physical existence is according to Rabaka is the level of defilement that tumis the spiritual defilement of the the idol worship of uh of of of Egypt seeped into that level and therefore every maka every plague in mitim had to penetrate to that depth. So whereas Rabbi says the 10 plagues were 10 plagues, Rilez says the 10 plagues were really 40 because each plague was four-fold because it had to break apart everything down to its elemental levels. So when the water for instance turned to blood, it was the first plague. It wasn't just the water in its outward form, but even on an elemental level, the water of the water, the earth of the water, the fire of the water, the air of the water, which we don't think about because it's not um what we observe to the naked eye. But all of that had to be affected by the plague as well. And Ruby Aaka says that the plagues had to strike on an even deeper level past the four elements all the way to the fifth level. And that's why he says that there were actually 50 plagues in Mitzn. Not 10 but 10* 5 50. And that's why he also says in turn that at the yam at the sea there were 250 plagues because in mitim the plagues were referred to asim the finger of god at the sea was called yad hashem the yad hashem's great hand a hand is five times more than a finger five fingers on a hand so five time 25 * 10. So you got 250. Why are the hands on a clock called hands when they would more accurately be described as fingers? It's a good question. Good question. Go on. And why is a clock called a face clock and it's got its hands on its face? Well, yeah, that's bad bad co protocol. You mean trying to cover your cuff with your hands? Just putting touching your face with your hands. Touching your face. Yeah. The clock's constantly doing it. Clock's touching clock has its hands on its own face all day long. Yeah. Never takes them off. Well, so maybe that's the ultimate uh caution that it's not touching anything else. Leave it there. Only choose one. Either don't touch your face or only touch your face. Yeah. So, uh on a personal level, these four elements and this quintessence correspond to different uh depths of the soul. You have the nephesh which is the the uh spiritual energy which enliven our physical actions and our and our biological functions. Then you have higher than that you have the ruach which is a spiritual energy which enliven our emotional life. Then you have nishama which is the energy of the of the intellect and then even higher than that the highest level that's uh a normal level and even that is considered a mach it's transcendent it can't be contained within the body like the other three levels we mentioned which are invested within the body and therefore expressed within them typically within the body then you have the level called kaya which is a spiritual energy which animates It's something counter to self-preservation. It's actually misnish and idealism and the ability to sacrifice oneself. So that's called kaya. And then even higher than that, the fifth level which is not at all a level. It's just the essence of all levels and the essence of everything is called which means oneness because it's one with God. So just like there is in the plagues in Mitim. There's Hashem striking four different levels of of Mitim to dislodge the impurity. So too, each person has to experience the exodus on all the levels of their soul. So the nephesh level, the ruach level, the nama level, the kaya level and well that's according to the highest level that you would have to that you would require because says the is is one with hashem and it could never be defective rabaka that's says that rabaka says that even the ya could be in need of a going out of Egypt experience. experience. Okay. Then was that interesting? It was interesting. But then but then now according to our conversation, you said that that the uh you saw somewhere that those five levels also correspond to the to the four questions and to the first general question. I believe in that Sikh itself. It also says this corresponds to the four questions and the and the fifth general question. Yeah, I kind of remember that. So in which case then then then that's yeah it's like the which is also like when you have the fifth prayer right a regular day you have and then on a shabas or y you also have a m which is a fourth prayer service then which is the day of you have a fifth fifth prayer called an that's also so so the question really is can be defiled and require a 10 plagues and exodus experience and alazar would say no that can't happen like you could get messed up on your on your neph and even higher level but you would never get messed up on a level just wouldn't happen. It's it's it's it's impervious to that type of defilement would say no no no it could happen and you would require uh some some way of dealing with it. If we again go back to the four questions and are and are saying that the fifth question corresponds to the to that level that needs some sort of some sort of attention the general catchall question but yeah so on a surf surface level superficial level we can say like oh yeah it's called it it's that fifth level it's a because because it's general and it it contains the rest of the question this is also like the daled and kesser you have four worlds, four planes of reality. Aa from the bottom up you have aa and yira and bria and ailos and then higher than that you have casser which is doesn't doesn't each of those worlds have a casser yeah they have a casser but then there's casser or a which is above the four worlds and then when you have hashem's four-letter name so you have the lower he then you have the vavv and then you have the higher he and then you have the yud but then above the yud even with what's called ky the thorn. The little calligraphy thorn of the yud which points up. That's the the thorn of the yud. Thorn of the yud is I always thought it was a little tail at the bottom of the yud. No, kesh is the thorn which points up because it alludes to that which is you know remember Ronald Reagan had a little kesh a little chop blurus. A little blurus. I told my kids the word blurus recently they were very excited. They didn't know about it. You know it's an is what a blurus is. Could be a chup. It could be a ponytail. I've seen pony both day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I have all girls so they haven't really They don't have a blur. They don't have that. I mean, they have ponytails. So, according Oh, okay. But it's not really It's not a real ponytail. It's more like a man bun. A blurus. Yeah, it is. A blurus is a man bun, I believe. So, yeah, it has because the ADA, they would round off the corners. That means it would shave off where the pay us are and just leave like the top and then they grow it out long and then on then on like a special day they would cut it and be mockerative. Yeah, that's why it's invading the blurus because they would offer their blur. They offer their blurus. They grow up they grow either it was either it was a man bun or a pompador and they would grow out this rocking man bun or pompador. One or the other. Maybe there were people who did both to be and then they would cut it off and then they would offer it as a sacrifice to their deity. That's why it's awesome. That's why in Rambam where where does he talk about the blurus in I thought there was an issue with uh with fillin also that could get in the way. Yeah, that's what the mashpam say that the blurus gets in the the choke gets in the way of the could be. Yeah. No, but the actual real mida issue would why why would that be unique to a blurus? Just having long hair in general could be. Yeah. No. Um what's I want to see if we picked up some since we picked up the level of interesting. You think people call their friends and they're like it's getting good now. Yeah. Well, now we only have six people. So, actually, I think we we lost a couple lost a couple people. I think it was your I think it was your silly blur comment over there. You turned people off with the blurus. They didn't want to hear your blurous jokes. It's not a joke. It's a real concept in hala. It's important. It's important for every Jew to know about the blurus to avoid it. Yeah. You said a yud has a blurus. God, I feel bad now that I said that. It has a kit. a kit. You know what a kites is? Kites is a thorn and we call it kut shel. That's actually the pron correct pronunciation because when you have and it becomes like a one syllable word and becomes two syllables and it becomes a uh a kubut is that a shurik shurik instead of a kum. That's why it's like becomes Yeah. So the kit become little thorn little thorn of the Y pointing up to that which is higher even than the name than the ineffable name. So that's the fifth level which is not a level at all. It's all encompassing. That's why it's called Kesser because Kesser surrounds it encompasses. It's not relegated to a particular level. So how again is that first question manila has a how is that it's all encompassing because it's like you say it can get divided up but well maybe if according to as you're saying who's here hey tyel we're live by the way don't walk in front of the camera we're live this is live YouTube tyel uh well because we did it spontaneously but this is live YouTube I'm actually live there's Elite live on YouTube. Yeah, there are six people watching. What? I saw from Texas. Uh, yeah. Yeah, I'm not looking at it. Okay. All right. Okay. We're check checking mail now. This is the portion of the show we like to call Blood Brothers mailbag where we just look at whatever mail family member or loved one happens to hand us. Yeah. Anyway, um so I want what basically I want to ask is there a way in that question we usually think of that question as like a preface as just like it's just like a precursor before we get to the real questions. It's not it's a nonquest. Can I ask you a question? You just did. You just did buddy. That's my favorite joke. Everyone loves it when I say that to them. They think it's so funny when they really have something important they want to know. That's right. And I do that. Yeah. It's one of the funniest jokes. Right. So, is that what we're doing? It's like, God, can I ask you a question? Or, "Father, can I ask you a question?" I guess. Well, no, because in the in the Yiddish, we actually do that first. So, that can't be what it is because we already have that in the Yiddish. Yeah. You say right and then you say so you already did the by the way that's what your one of my pet peeves but is everybody ready for you I hate that because yeah I know that you for I did you threatened for a while that you were when you heard people do that you were just going to say if somebody says are you ready to bench I'll say hashm I will say it because that's what mention is to get people ready. So you say, are you ready to zoom in? Zoom in. Okay. Zoom in. Oh, hold on. So basically, you're saying get ready to get ready. How many layers of this? So get ready to get ready to get ready. So we're going to do that. So then, so then then that since since we do that anyways, we say I'm Hey Tat, I'm going to ask you a question. Then that first question can't should then can't be that and according to this whole this whole model that question [Music] should be the quintessential question. Well, you're saying the says it's not even a question. It's an exclamation of like plea of like right I so I don't know I mean there are different ways maybe that is maybe it's not a bid for information. Maybe it's not an inquiry. Maybe it's an exclamation. Whatever it is, in what way is it? It's an expression of wonderment. But how how is it the aether? It's not a eether. A ether. That's how it's spelled. I know. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, it's not it's not ether. It's quintessence. It's the um you're saying how is that the Because if I could conjecture. Yeah, please do. Yeah. Conject. A question has a specific answer. So sometimes you say man, how is this night different? For instance, I've seen that uh you're dipping uh stuff. I you normally don't dip. You dipped twice. What's up with that? So manag what's up with that? And it's a request for information. Sometimes you could say like how different this night is. I'm not asking for information. It's just the it's a central state of wonderment. It's higher than any seer because if you're asking a specific question, you're limiting how many potential answers there are or you're limiting the reaction the question asks for an answer. But a state of a statement of wonderment is not even asking for a response. It's ironic because I think for a lot of us we do the seder every single year. I mean the love of the seder partially why it's like one of the most popular Jewish things most Jewish people do. Yeah. Is just because it's tradition when everyone does it every year and you got to do it. It's kind of like we all love it, but we're we're used to how much is more popular than than going to Yumkipper. I believe I believe the studies were done both in the United States and in Israel that more Jews have a seder than go to Schulam Kipper. meaning to say even people who do not observe anything else having a Passover seder is like the most universal thing that Jews hold on to. So you're saying you think there's a reason for that? What? Oh, no. I was going to I was going to Well, maybe. What I was saying is despite the fact that it's so popular, we all kind of just like going through doing it by rote like oh, you know, we do this every year. How often do you I won't even I won't ask you if you don't want to answer. But like I for myself, how often do I sp go through the entire seder with a sense of wonderment, right? Well, that's why the kids are there. They're supposed to be the wonderment by proxy. Maybe the kids will be right. But but we're supposed to ask the question if there if there aren't kids there. So, I mean, we're supposed to have that feeling. It feels if if what we're saying is is that that is the the quintessential question is just this not even a question. It's just the the state of wonderment that we are in throughout the seder. Yeah. Just how different this night is from all other nights. I would like to try and keep myself there. I think that's beautiful. I don't know how I'm just getting like sweaty and tired from getting ready for PES and because it's late and I'm wearing a kapata and a hat and you're being rushed. You got to kidish right away. But yeah, imagine if just like every single part of it like this is so cool would be weird, right? Maybe I could. Yeah, maybe it's something to strive for. State of childlike wonder state of to approach people all eight of you or six of you at this point. I beseech you, please approach a state of childlike wonder with a state of childlike wonderment. the entire time, not not a moment without it. That's a that's that's an interesting thing to try. I agree with that. I think that's a wonderful ideal to strive for. Think that's good. Are we done? I think so. You know, there's a gamarra that I think it was a baya or somebody at he was young and he was at a seder and he asked why did why do we move the tables in and out because that's what they would do to move the tables in and out and then who who raised was it like Raba raised a buy or I get all my all them mixed up but whoever it was that that was in charge of leaving the seda the questions now you don't have to ask manana you did your job you just noticed something weird and you asked a question and now we're yates right nobody would ever do that today by the way if a kid would actually ask a real question nobody like oh we could skip the cautious now Right? Because because we have four questions that we have to ask there like in that we have to ask them. But but I would argue to say that there's there is the we should also like yeah fine you can't just do that. It's like nobody says that you shouldn't say the words in the cither. You should only actually feel connection to Hashem when you davin. You should also say the words in the sither, right? But don't go to the other extreme and say, "What do you want from me? I said the words in the sither. I should feel something genuine, too." Right? So like I yeah I think it's worthwhile to try to and and find something that not just like oh this is an intellectually interesting conversation. No that's not childlike wonderment. No it has to be that's intellectual curiosity and that's already a buffer that's already like no no not that I personally care I just it's interesting it's an interesting idea. something that makes us feel makes us ubo and ah makes us say how wonder how different this is wild how strange right how wonderful and strange yeah I want to experience an entire seder like as if I was Jeff Goldblum that's what I want to be I imagine actually Jeff Goldlum probably does have a seder and I wonder he probably is ooing and a lot get yourself invited I want Okay, that's wonderful. That's what I've got. That and a growl. Aen growl and a sense of childlike wonderment which is connected to Aen growl because it's a child who could really just spend hours being fascinated with their own egg and growl. No, because egg and growl ex it's connected because egg and growl exists because there's no contrast in your when you close your eyes. There's no light except for light that's bleeding in. But if you just completely cover it, there's no light coming in. There's then there's no contrast. Therefore, you can't have black, you only have egg and growl. And the questions are all all come from from contrast. Why do we on all other nights we do this and on this night we do that? So um the questions come from being able to perceive the differences not aching grow although right contrast yes why are we doing this not that the question arises it the question itself arises from a conflict or contra a contrast it's not even a question if you're not contrasting it with a norm right right but the wonderment doesn't have to be oh maybe the wonderment is maybe the the colors you see even without that contrast. The secret color from the Zire. Secret color from the Zire. By the way, if you send in $99.95, we will reveal to you the name of the a special nonfgeable token of that color, a JPEG of the secret Zohar color, but you can only we only have 20 of them available. They're nonf fungeible and after that the price is going up. Yeah, they cost a a lot of costs a lot of money to produce them. Fake internet money. Yeah, you can send us uh Ethereum. Is that it? I I think so. You can only, by the way, you can only see it though if you close your eyes. We'll send you an NFT of it, but you have when you look at it, you have to close your eyes. Smooth your eyeballs and you have to hold the NFT on your forehead. All right, are we done? And for another $99.95, we're going to reveal to you the special unhearable sound. What is there an unhearable sound for $99.95? Yeah, we we'll make one. This all just We're joking about uh scammers. Please do not send us $99.95. There's no I was going to say there's no invisible uh secret color. There is a secret color, but I'm sure you can see it just by smooshing your eyes. You don't have to send us money. You don't need to send us money. Hashem gave you eyes. Just smush your eyes. You can see it for free. Please do not send us money for this special secret color which you could create. That's belongs to the people. That's not ours to sell. It's like when um Jonas Sulk invented the polio vaccine. They said, "Do you want to um patent it?" It's interesting you mentioned Jeff Goldblum and now Jonah Sulk because both Jews from Pittsburgh but as as am I as are you. So maybe that's the connection here. And Jonah Sulk said could you patent the sun? So could you patent? You know, according to the the United Nations Outer Space Treaty, all of outer space belongs to all nations of the world equally. Right. That's such they probably thought that was so progressive, right? The minute the aliens see that, all countries equally, the minute the aliens see that, you know what that is? That's like serious trouble. That's like a like a stork. She only does kindness to her own, right? Oh, it's for all humanity. Why only humanity, right? What about the aliens? He said we can't patent the Jenna Song said you shouldn't you can't patent Can you patent the sun? Can you patent the sun? But we apparently human beings own the sun. By the way, it could be. You're just making me think that the manana also could be something very Jewish. It could be exactly it could be somebody was saying to me Con was came over for Shabas and he was talking about that um this this lady who's uh the the nominee Supreme Court nominee so everybody's talking about that uh I'm sure your uh Twitter feed was uh smoking with this stuff but uh that Ted Cruz this is good for the YouTube algorithm. asked her um whatchamacallit though what what's a woman and like the whole thing is like she's hemming and hawing she couldn't answer the question so I I was saying I'm like come on like we we know what it means that there's a question that has context and so the way he said it he was like what am I a microbiologist so like a rhetorical question like like what am I a microbiologist? So I think it's possible sometimes like okay hold on a second you're asking me a specific question like is this a biology question is this a legal question I mean is this a sociological question then if you if your mag if you tell me what the purpose of the question is then I can answer for you like I don't want to get political over here but I I was saying to him an come over and said like isn't that a compout out to say what am I a biologist I said hold on a second so We say this all the time. It depends. And I I'll give you an example from from from not so long ago from uh from the Supreme Court just uh in the in the past couple of decades. What's a person? What's free speech? I don't know you. According to some people, a corporation is a person and money is free speech. Okay. So, I'm not saying yes or no. I'm not getting political. I'm saying there's obvious there are there are obviously contexts within which seemingly simple questions have different answers like in what's I don't know you're asking for shabas you're asking for for right I I have to know what you mean why are you asking okay so what am I a biologist so it could be that the four questions are specific questions questions which elicit a limited set of answers, however large that set is, but there are limited amount of answers to each question. Then there's the rhetorical question that is unlimited because it doesn't it's not a bid for information. It's not asking to be answered. Then that's the first question. Yeah. like that. It's a rhetorical question, not asking you to answer. I've had this before about you get up, you make the mistake in front of an audience that you don't know and be like, what are we doing here tonight? You're giving a speech about the importance of whatever, right? Yeah, I know that. I know. I was like trying to make it. Yeah. No, that's not even a good example because that that really is you maybe you're you're leading into an answer, but it's more like oh like I don't know. I don't want to say a specific nation because then people are going to be like, "Did you say that nation to make fun of them or like so I don't want to people are going to get mad at you either way. They're going to get mad at me." Yeah. I don't want to. The Atlantanss people will get mad at you if you say, "Yeah, people get mad at you for making fun of other people and for not making fun of other people, right? How dare you not make fun of those people, right? What were we going to say about Atlantanss? Atlantanss. Atlantanss, by the way, they're like the Jews. They're like the Jews of the ocean. Yeah. All right. I'm If I'm going to be uh conscientious of your your schedule. I think you've got Yeah, I got something coming up. Okay. Amazing. This was such a delight. I feel a sense of childlike wonderment. Oh, wonderful. You too. 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