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Things and Ideas
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What is the difference between the tangible and the abstract? What does it mean to inhabit a world of things as opposed to a world of ideas? Rabbi Shais Taub discusses "Things and Ideas." For more inspiring Torah videos, visit SoulWords.org.
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so there are things and there are ideas
things are tangible material ideas are
spiritual by definition ideas are
spiritual what do I mean ideas are
spiritual imagine I have a dollar you
have a dollar and you give me your
seller and I give you my dollar how many
dollars do I have on how many how many
dollars you have it's not a trick
question yeah we both have one yeah the
same is what we started imagine if I
have an idea you have an idea I tell you
my idea you tell me you're right
how many ideas do I have how many ideas
do you have yeah - how did that happen
okay
a physical object a thing I mean I don't
know a lot of us physics but one of the
things I know is that a physical object
cannot be in two places at one time
that's the nature physical things right
and that's why it pedagogic basically
says our body separate us now ideas I am
an idea you have an idea
I tell you mind you you tell me your
idea now we both have two ideas those
ideas are spiritual ideas can inhabit
two spaces at one time the way that most
of the world today is trained is an
abandonment of abstract thinking and an
absolute one-track mind obsession on
physicality in fact what's even happened
is the thing if occation of ideas what
is the thinking fication of ideas it
means that even when people sound like
they're discussing ideas they're not
because they have thing defied the idea
what I mean by that someone who's a true
intellectual who's really discussing an
idea can discuss it from two sides a
good debater can debate the opposite
side ideas are fluids okay things can
only be they're static they can be in
one place at a time okay so they think
of fide the ideas what does that mean
not that anyone should be on social
media but if you ever hung out there and
you ever saw a political discussion tell
me if you ever saw a political
discussion on Facebook ever end with
somebody saying Wow
you really got me thinking I never saw
that issue that way before I agree did
it happened once in the history of
Facebook it didn't happen yet because
they're not discussing ideas to discuss
an idea would be to really explore the
pros and cons of it to look at it from
different sides when an idea is
signified what it means is words are
buzzwords they already have preset
emotional reactions political
affiliation today is basically about as
developed as a choice as which sports
team to root for
so once I've decided I'm loyal to this
team
so you mentioned the player from the
other team Aaron I don't like that right
so once I've decided this is my loyalty
then you mentioned a word that all of a
sudden I have a reaction we're not
talking about ideas anymore we've
signified the idea the idea just it's
not an idea it's just that it's it's a
cue it's a trigger some like being
triggered everyone's tripping it's a
trigger to have this preset emotional
reaction to this thing it's like a
little inkling to walk out and you see a
snake ah
snake it's a visceral reaction
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