The Big Bang and Judaism | Siddur Shaar Chag Hamatzos #3

so we began last week to learn the mimer of the ball which is a possibility and we began the discussion about what it says in the zohar that matzah is which means bread of faith from this he went on to the second paragraph to discuss why the beginning of the ten commandments hashem introduces himself in the beginning of the series hashem introduces himself as the god who has taken you out of egypt not something which is far greater and grander and more magnificent and frankly more extraordinary and soup more more supernatural creation of heaven and earth this is the famous question of the commentators and many others and from this the bellatanya went on to discuss parishes at length and elaborate on the fact that creation is essentially defined as hashem's words hashem's speech as the passage says in tahil and with hashem nasu the words of hashem are what make heaven over called swam the breath of his mouth all of the legions all over the other creations or as khazal put it the mishna says in the ethics of the fathers chapter 5 that by sarah maris the world was created through ten utterances and so we have many sources when creation is described in torah and by our sages it's usually defined as a speech an utterance if you read parishes beresha's the story of creation it's always god said let there be and there was [Music] ultimately nasa adam every single creation every every day sunday through friday the six days of creation it's always a result a manifestation of which means of course hashem said or hashem spoke or if you wish remember as children they would do abra cadabra could do right so somebody once told me or i read somewhere abracadabra comes from everest i create as i speak my speech creates evereca so creation is the financial speech one of the characteristics of speech is that it captures it represents it comes from the person and it captures a certain energy or a certain thought or emotion or idea whatever you're talking about but nonetheless everybody understands that's a speech a word a letter does not contain in itself does not express and capture the full totality of the essence of the human being in the example that we always give the ray of the sun comes from the sun but nobody's going to say that the ray captures the full solar core it comes from the sun it's an expression of the sun it can be very powerful it can give you a lot of uh it can give you the nutrients you need the vitamin d you need it gives us heat gives us light and it allows for life to be on the that allows us to have life on the planet but nonetheless everybody understands that still a ray of the sun does not capture does not represent does not manifest the full intensity the full heat the full light the full energy the full electricity that exists in the sun itself that's what we say in ashrae goddal hashem um which means hashem is is large great goddess and he's extremely extolled and then we say but his gedula his greatness ain't you can't investigate there's no inquiry that suits it because all inquiry will fail short so the altera brings this pasta care but in another miami which we learned once he poses what seems like a contradiction first you tell me he's very great they say by the way don't talk about it it's like you'll say you know this person is so so kind such a great person so why so sensitive so generous so selfless uh the truth is there's nothing to talk about there's no way of describing it okay so don't describe it don't start describing it starts describing it and it says by the way no description is available is he contradicting himself of course he's not he's talking about two aspects and they're both true godless in the language of siddhis is talking about it's talking about hashem speech it's the greatness that we can observe through our eyes through our nose through our ears through our five senses our hands our mouth and furthermore through our brains through our sensitivity and our discerning and understanding and appreciation of what we see in creation as he puts it he says because he is essence is infinite so the ray of light is also infinite and therefore one can marvel and marvel for uh not just for years but for generations and for millennium for millennia on this on this reality called the world the universe the creation whereas diarizal puts it that the divine energy sustaining creation continues for noon allah from us 50 000 jubilees and each jubilee each year is an ascent is a higher state of consciousness in the previous year and each jubilee is a higher state of consciousness but all of this is within the ray within the speech the speech that's manifested in a revealed way through creation that's god al-hashem um it's excessively great but then he adds the league to los angeles but if you want to talk about the los say if you want to talk about the essence and we can't begin to investigate it or inquire about it or discuss it because we don't have the tools for it we don't have the ability to articulate it and this he continued in the third paragraph is the unique distinction between what we talk about when we speak about appreciating the existence of hashem and the word ammuna in its ultimate sense there is the phenomenon we know as hasidio masala khasirio means good peoples literally the pious ones among the nations of the world and he said what makes it that they appreciate they believe and they discern the kayak i said it's incredible words they discern the divine energy that activates everything in creation and creates the world from and creates something from nothing from a state of absolute nothingness comes somethingness and he says and some of them it's not just an idea it affects them it moves them and furthermore it results in behavior in their moral code in their moral sensitivities not to do something that's wrong not to do something that's bad and immoral this is not a jewish inheritance this is the universal reality this is where ultimately all science is heading towards all physics in us cosmology and biology and astrophysics and astronomy and all the branches of wisdom those who are honestly seeking the truth this is where everything is heading towards this is not just a a jewish gift this is the reality of the entire universe and humanity all of humanity blessed with that unique cognitive ability the cognitive experience the unique cognitive faculties which sets it apart from all other living creatures has that ability to be able to discern it intellectually and to internalize it emotionally and to live with it practically three steps is the munna that relates to the jewish people so the altarp used and employed extremely powerful words he says that if i'm only moved from the hispanicness of yeshmei and from the meditation of somethingness from nothingness you know i always have to make this disclaimer it seems like he's going to minimize it but you could you only minimize it after you appreciate a little bit how grand it is how amazing it is but he says after everything said and done loyalized not for this did the divine soul come down into the world not for this that the divine soul which is a peace of god have to experientially depart from the whole and enter into the reality of our physical universe this is what you call against a good good a good amuner for non-jews but then there is atar salads says there was an experience that you were shown that hashem that's what we call a moon the first level benefit maintains you don't need the word the word mona literally means belief faith he says if you use your eyes you'll perceive it true god can't be perceived with the physical eye or with the physical senses it's not that physical object that i could see with my eye true but as we've said in the past you also can't see your eyes on anybody unless you're looking in the mirror anybody everybody sees everything else but i can't see my own eyes in other words my source of seeing i don't see but nonetheless we don't need real lamuna for this valtteri maintains that somebody who opens himself or herself up with an open mind without bias and therefore without confirmation bias without preconceived notions without deep subjective paradigms that may blur my judgment and eclipse my objectivity when a person really opens themselves up to the reality of the universe there is no choice but to conclude as the navi yashaya says lift up your eyes to heaven and see who created this or as somebody once said i don't have enough faith to be an atheist to be a real atheist you have to have so much faith in the random muzzle that our universe and our planet had i don't have enough faith in mazel in such good luck and the truth is the more we study even one aspect of the universe or of the planet never mind the coherence of the ecosystem and the balance of all of the forces working in perfect symmetry and organization to be able to support life on the planet and to be able to simply support the existence of the universe the word mind staggering is really inappropriate it's far beyond what any mind can even comprehend god hashem this is the first god wherever you look you see the pella the the grandness and the organization and the working together and the cooperation and it's not cooperation of ten forces together it's the cooperation of numbers that are untold and just within one particle of matter itself the cooperation of all of the atoms working together just one one one particle of matter one little piece of matter and within the atom itself organization and then everything together and the planet and the universe and that's just one aspect of it you need sensitivity you need clarity you need to get rid of bias i have to get rid of emotional bias i have to open myself up to truth to the best of my ability now every person has biases and every person has paradigms and every person has a way of grasping reality every person is affected by nature and nurture of course but he says but ultimately at the end of the day this is not what's called faith it's perfectly logical it perfectly makes sense it's the most logical way of understanding creation of understanding the reality called creation this is the famous expression of the javascript traversal is one of the great books of jewish philosophy and jewish ethics muslim it was written in the 11th century by rabbenu his father was they called duties of the heart of us but then lavas really mean meant minds those duties of the mind and duties of the heart so he has a section it's a very philosophical section it's called the famous section the portal of faith of trust of trust that's really the the magnum open living a life of trust but before that is what's called the portal of oneness allah was a great critic of people who can understand the foundations of judaism but they rely on what's called faith and tradition from his opinion when you rely on faith when it comes to that which you understand which you can't understand it's not faith it's intellectual laziness go do the research the example he gives and it's a very interesting example he says you know if you have an understanding in pharmacy if you want to have an understanding entertaining in herbs in medicines in reform medicine generally he says don't rely on the doctor the doctor gives you a prescription research it you're an expert make sure it's good if you have no choice he says if you're an ignoramus and you get a prescription by the time you finish investigating and learning it on your own it may be too late you know the illness may have spread god forbid you listen to the doctor as long as you know that he's a trusted doctor so are you believing the doctor yes you're believing the doctor are you foolish for believing the doctor you're not a fool for believing the doctor if the doctor has helped people for 40 years and comes with a good reputation and you know hundreds of people who really love this doctor and you yourself have been helped by the doctor it makes sense to believe him but it's not understanding it for yourself so the reversal of said if you can understand it you have to believe what's his point this point is you don't need a muna so we call it a moon and not because why do we call it so literally i told you the safer acrim says we call it a muna because these are things that are uh i can't see with my eye i need you know there's something you see with your eyes and then there's uh evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and that evidence could be could be extremely strong i mean if you want to give a simple example you're sitting in a courtroom right and there's a question is if it's raining outside or not raining outside you don't know everybody's indoors one guy comes in he says it's raining do we believe his testimony what are you saying i don't know maybe he's lying why should he lie well maybe he's lying okay maybe he has a reason that one person comes in with an umbrella soaked with an umbrella and then another 10 people come in without umbrellas soaked and then another 100 people all come in with open umbrellas and they're closing it you can assume that it's raining outside yeah it's possible they all made up the story together it's possible but if you see a thousand people with umbrellas 10 20 000 people you can assume it's raining is it possible that it's not raining you haven't seen the grain so is that called the moon i guess on some level you can call it but nobody's going to say you're a fool you're blind you're an idiot you're irrational for believing that it's raining outside or that it's snowing outside you know people come in but decked with with lovely white flakes of snow it's probably snowing outside one person you could say okay i don't know you know he just uh he has a ski slope in his backyard whatever it's like a kite he did gilgal shelling he was rolling in the snow the remnants of the winter but although says really the word of munna is not applicable here the word is not a muna one of the points that javascript brings out and it's very relevant to our times because generally the atheistic view was that the world was always here how did the world come into being it was always here if it was always here so then there's no question who made it the universe always existed but in the 1920s and it's fascinating till the 1920s this was the accepted view of many respected scientists originating already in aristotle the world was always here suddenly 1920 supported by einstein's revolutions in the theory with the theory of relativity scientists began to develop this theory that's today known as the new bank it's the big bang and in the 1960s it was confirmed and today the accepted theory i believe by 90 or 99 of scientists the big bang and what the big bang postulated was that the universe has a beginning there's something called voracious there's something called creation there was a moment in time when existence came into being wow and that right away poses the big question how why and what caused it as the javascript puts it 900 years ago he says when you say something had a beginning if it didn't have a beginning but if something had a beginning you have to ask how did it come into existence what generated this beginning because before that there was no beginning what caused what motivated what um inspired what triggered the beratious the beginning you could say it created itself it brought itself into existence but says if it was not here it could not bring itself into existence because it was not here to bring itself into existence if it was here and therefore it developed itself into a further existence so the question is but what made it here in the first place so you go back to the original source so you have to say oh it didn't propel itself into existence because its existence was not here so something else propelled it into existence so what is that something else so the big bang has tremendous ramifications when you talk about a muna when you talk about existence that literally for more than 5 000 years the view of many was that the universe was always here today in secular science the accepted view by 90 or 99 of scientists and cosmologists is that there is something called voracious that first verse of the terror was validated there is something called a beginning a beginning of heaven and beginning of earth beratious bare elections which includes of course three things there's a beginning there is heaven and there is earth heaven representing space and earth representing matter there's a beginning for space there's a beginning from matter and there's also a beginning for time now you might say that prebiotic soup or challenge if you want to call it that existed pre-big bang that seminal point that then exploded and began to expand and as a result of that expansion of expansion according to this theory the universe developed which by the way is eerily similar to how the ramban 13th century great spanish commentator and philosopher and talmudist and sage and doctor and great debater rabbenu it's eerily similar to how he describes the process of creation in his commentary on the first verse of beratious aleph olive one one it's eerily similar to what the murderer says and in madrid in a few places why god is called shin dalai dude shin might die because he told his world enough because when creation happened the universe was expanding that's what the gemara says it was expanding more and more and more and it would have expanded more it would have all just ex reverted back into you know dust until god said die enough he has to limit and curtail the expansion fascinating idea which is which is exactly part of the theory of the big bang that the moment after the big bang i say moments i'm using the word moments but it's really such fractions of time that it's even hard to describe in words the explosion created the expansion but not too much and from that the universe was formed so now you might say that original point that original seminal point that exploded was always here so there's no question but if it was always here why did it explode suddenly 15 billion years ago if it was always here you're saying there was too much pressure but if it was here and finite him so it was always here infinitely so if it was always here what what happened suddenly 15.3 billion years ago that suddenly created all this pressure that it couldn't contain it anymore and therefore exploded so you say oh because it was a limited amount of time so it wasn't always here so if it wasn't always here how did it happen suddenly so you'll say well it just it just came it came and there was a big bang okay that does that doesn't sound logical so you say well how is god always here who created god right you you say that wasn't here but god was always here but there's really another point and that is according to most scientists time is also time is also a creation which means time also begins with the big bang time did not exist before the big bang in other words there was no b4 before the big bang time itself is created with the big bang now this is very hard for us to understand but this is stephen hawking many physicists even those who consider themselves considered themselves atheists if you will speak about this fact that time is a creation it starts with the big bang so there was no time before so you can what do you mean it always existed there was no such a thing as always time itself as a creation so what causes this emergence from a vacuum of absolute nothingness this emergence of time with space with matter that then explodes and develops into our universe that question has to be addressed by a serious person so people say well science is going to get there we're not there yet we figured out the big bang it took five thousand years give us another five thousand years and we'll figure out the source of it there's all sign go to another source and another source and another source but at the first source the first source that first yesh mayan you have to justify it and you can't justify it through something that has similar properties to that first source because then that itself has to be justified and that's what we mean when we speak about god we have no definition for god but we know that it transcends time space matter and that's what we mean it always existed not it always existed in time it always existed in the sense that it transcends time-space matter and therefore you can't ask how it existed before why did it always exist but when it comes to a point of beginning we have to understand why it exists how it exists i hope i'm making myself clear a little bit this is all when you're describing the first millisecond of creation but then there's something else and that is how it expands the fine-tuning that was necessary in order to get the big bang into the universe as we know it and the planet as we know it is even more mind staggering or at least equally behind staggering so it's not just the first beginning but then having that develop into what we know today with such precision is is half of a fella it's it's a wonder of wonders comes the alta that ben says all of this doesn't require a munna you don't need faith real perceptive eyes can recognize it true he says because the divine soul is manifested in a sackcloth it's enclosed in a thankless that eclipses its vision one needs to constantly meditate one needs to constantly learn about this why because we have this natural blindness that eclipses our vision and we take that which is secondary and we turn it into the primary source of reality and we take that which is primary and we make it subservient if we really had clear vision we would realize the bitter tofu the bitter how the yesh which means the physical matter that we perceive is really an expression and a manifestation of the divine nothingness and i told you many times divine nothingness is really divine no thing-ness we call nothingness that which has no thing-ness it's not defined as a thing so therefore i say it's nothing it's no thing-ness my physical eyes my retina and the way my brain interprets reality i cannot grasp this so i say it's iron because it has no ability to be perceived and defined and articulated by my vision but to reduce all of reality to that is ludicrous i told you once there was a there was a astronomer in france and he said once he said i looked through the telescope he had a grand extraordinary telescope and i looked through all of the galaxies and the stars outer space and i didn't see god must not be here i didn't see so there was a great musician a violinist and he says it's so interesting the other day i took apart my violin i dissected it into small little tiny fragments and pieces and i used a microscope and i viewed every single piece of my violin and i did not find music he used a telescope he used the microscope he didn't find god and he didn't find music he didn't find music in the violin music doesn't exist i guess where would you find music if not on the violin and of course he was describing the sensitivity that's needed the subtlety that's needed you're not going to find music in your violin the violin is an instrument a physical instrument that allows the music to resonate to flow through it it was like i can't see my eyesight i could see everything through my eyesight but my eyesight i can't see that is the source of vision so dalton says if one appreciates the truth one realizes that the gash me is always bottle it's always not just subservient it's always subsumed and connected and aligned to the kayak the key to the divine inner energy that vivifies and animates and makes all creation exist so because we're naturally blurred we need this constant reawakening and he says this is the first aspect of tv the first aspect of tifil where we keep on praising hashem every day seems strange talking all day about every morning hashem is the audience thank you let's finish let's move on with life every day and we repeat it in many different ways with many different meditations and many different mantras and many different ideas and concepts and songs the hopes of december from the beginning of dharvani you finished carbonus which is the early service in the bay samikras you start every verse is meticulous and precise but each verse in one way or another is describing the godless hashem and it develops haidu and ms mercier and ismail aside and then starts the whole section of tale in the last chapters of tell ashrae and the halalukas and each halaluka develops it further and then we get to the story of the covenant with avram and this story of exodus splitting of the red sea and then yeshtabak and then we go into the blessings of krishna where we continue this theme and then we have krishma and then we have shebainasser what's the theme what's the message what's the message just saying again that god created everything and god is great and god is real and god is authentic and hashem has the power and hashem runs the world and he rules the world and he created the world and you see the snow and you see the rain and you see the vapor you see the fire and you see the animals and you see the reptiles and the insects and the mountains and the hills and the mammals and the fish and the birds you should know he created it and they all praise him this is a daily meditation because there is a veil that eclipses our vision doesn't allow us to perceive the nature of reality we look at the physicality and we're intoxicated we're overwhelmed by the external veneer so each day i need to cleanse the doors of my perception i need to open my mind and once again allow myself to be engaged with reality this is the perspective that must be cultivated every morning it's a daily battle for transcendence a daily battle for awareness a daily battle for understanding what type of world you're living in who you are who the person near you is and who the what the universe is including every animal and every plant and every bush and every tree and every drop of rain and every lake and every pond every sea every ocean every heart every creature including every grain of sand and every stone that you encounter what is it it's essentially a manifestation an embodiment of physical articulation of divine no thinkness so why don't i see the divine i don't see the mind because my eye takes reality and defines it in a way that is that is user-friendly for my eyes i don't see atoms either do atoms not exist i don't see electrons you know i don't see viruses i never saw the corona no eyes fc in the corona until the 1890s we did not know that germs existed viruses existed their late 1800s the early 1900s they developed the tools to be able to discover there's something called germ something called viruses bacteria fungi germs impacted humanity very profoundly as did viruses as did bacteria but we didn't have the tools to perceive it i need a munna that is a coronavirus in the world you need a munna you need i never saw it well i'm believing the doctor as well but nobody saying you need a munna you know you don't you need a woman that does atoms you need a moon that has electricity you see the symptoms you see the symptoms and today we have even tools to be able to see that which could not be seen in previous generations so i could say these things don't really exist okay you could say that but their impact is very powerful you could also say about your inner life that it doesn't exist but sometimes that's what you need to realize in order to heal yourself those things that i have no words for that i've never seen with my eyes and we know that the invisible impacts us in ways that are much deeper than the visible the same is true when it comes to the entire story of creation when we speak about godliness we speak about the ayah we're talking about the dna of creation do you have dna did you ever see your genes but your genes impact you right at least somewhat to put it mildly you want to know the truth that which is invisible is usually much more true than that which is visible and has a much greater impact and influence in your life look at the things that are most powerful and yield the greatest impact on your life and you'll see each one of them is invisible now you have to be careful here because a person can invent anything you can say the world sits on the back of a turtle our planet is sustained by the back of a turtle oh it's invisible yeah of course it's more powerful my point is not that not a person should suddenly develop a cultish attitude and therefore you could say anything because it's invisible we don't go to the invisible just because it's not visible just because something is invisible doesn't mean it's true just because somebody says we can't see it doesn't mean it's true it could be a farce a lie my point is that when we dismiss reality by maintaining it's invisible i don't see it therefore it doesn't exist it's quite ludicrous because the things that impact you most and are the most consequential to our lives as people and as creatures of this planet are invisible genes electricity etcetera etcetera atom cells my cells are also invisible what is davening then davening is opening myself up every single morning to this truth what world do i live in who am i i'm not a sack of meat and potatoes who am i as dalton ever puts it the function of davening is at the animal soul which means my biological consciousness can appreciate that the toefl is bottled don't confuse the toefl with don't look at the physical veneer that just seems concrete and dead and not allow yourself to align yourself and to realize how aligned you are that you are really an embodiment an articulation of divine infinity or as some of us like to say you are an ambassador of love light hope healing authenticity and redemption and let's see a few lines inside this is page 832 the second column the paragraph starts with but this is the second column the line starts um um all this that we spoke about is intimated it's it's conveyed in the words of davening in all of the many verses that are quoted and he's going to give a few examples take the entire order of the blessing which begins with light and creates darkness makes peace and creates everything which is of course the first blessing after yeshtaba the first blessing that precedes the recitation of the shema take all this whole system from the words when you dive in these words i hope now that this will help allow you to focus to take a deep breath to ground yourself in this reality and to allow these words to sink into your consciousness over two very much because and if you need an english siddha or russian sinner a french sinner or are you descended to be able to understand the words initially so be it because a person can david in any language they want or they could read their translation even if they want to articulate the words in hebrew until after a while you'll understand the original because the words of davaning are not easy even people who know hebrew often don't understand the words of dharvening for example we say every morning of kardashian what does that mean it's in this section that alter ebb is describing if you go back in beginning with barak sharma which is called such desire the verses of praise it's all but derek said all follows this path this this is the vision this is the perspective what's the opening of sukida zimmer after haidu and according to the ashkenaz text version of this is how you begin before no satisfy this that's why he says this is the beginning of sukhothi zimmer what are you saying you start off baruch blessed is he sha umar who spoke for hayah islam and the world came into existence what are you really saying you're really saying look at the world look at the world and understand that the whole world is a product it's a manifestation it's an articulation of divine infinite energy one deeper one divine deeper is the source of existence the entire consciousness that pervades all of reality all of existence spiritual existence and physical existence spiritual worlds and the physical world entire consciousness that pervades all of reality which is ultimately that which is responsible for every physical phenomenon and reality is essentially the word of hashem it's does that capture the solar core it doesn't capture the solar core but it's still infinite this is something that belongs not only to jews this is something that belongs to non-jews true jews delved into this jews shared this with the world jews fought for this jews live for this but this is not the inheritance of the jewish people this is the inheritance of every single creation jew and non-jew and non-human humans carved in the image of god have the ability to discern to understand to be cognitive of this to be aware of this and to live with it to live with a moral code that is guided by this awareness because if we understand this it means of course what are the ramifications of this in life it means we're all one we come from one source we're all integrated we're all interconnected it means number two there is dignity in every creation it means number three nothing is a mistake nothing is random there's purpose there's meaning in every moment and every experience and every encounter this is not just a jewish ideal he says this is a universal idea and you don't need a moon of it the word of munna doesn't capture this this is an appreciation of kaya kapoor beniful and of course finally it means we not only have rights but we have privileges this idea first of all gives us rights because if not who says that you can't do whatever you want with somebody else if you have the power who said it's all relative morality is subjective so we have rights every person is in the image of god but furthermore we have responsibilities we have duties to the creator and perhaps one of the most important things number five is really appreciating who you are you are spiritual energy not just you have a body and the body has electrical signals that allow it to live no you are spiritual energy having a bodily experience it redefines the paradigm of the universe for this i have to dive in every day but i diamond yesterday it's irrelevant the intuitive experience of life is that i am divorced of divine energy i do not see myself that way i do not see you that way and daily prayer allows me to daily align myself with this truth so what's a munna if this is that's the next piece the gifts of the jews the gift of the jew of judaism to the jew that's a muna all this is the basics i'm calling it the basics not because it's simple because it's the but it's the foundation of everything and it's really simple but of course it's not simple as he said we have a blindness then we come to step two step two we're going to continue tomorrow friday morning 7 30 am baser hashem we'll continue this mind mark please join us we'll continue this nakuda what's step two which will ultimately bring us back to the matzah and the moon let's take some questions question number one the way i understood why god introduces himself as the one who took you out of egypt and not as the one who created the world is because the jewish people witnessed the exodus of egypt they saw the miracles they saw the splitting of the sea so this is something that they can authenticate with their own eyes their own experience but none of them witnessed creation so that connection would not be obvious that's a beautiful insight what you're saying and a very good and practical answer i would just add what the mufashim say according to the rambam this is a mitzvah for generations that a person is to understand to understand that i am god because essentially what is god saying the jews know god exists i mean they grew up within a moon ended in god maestro came to egypt speaking in the name of god when he told the jews let's go to the desert and the jews said what are we doing there he's like hashem said so there was always this relationship with god why are we going into a desert where are we going what are we leaving here what are we doing oh god said i'm going to take you to the promised land so what what is he now saying by the way i'm the guy i'm the guy so according to many commentators and the rambam this is actually the mitzvah it's a mitzvah he's giving the first mitzvah to the jewish people by sinai is that you have to be able to know about hashem if that's the case the first proof is i created heaven and earth you speak about the fact that creation has a beginning the way i understand it is the kabbalah speaks about the simpson god withdrew his infinity and he spoke ten utterances and all creation is something from nothing which means god creates something literally from nothing but man was created from earth which means he's something from something made from dust and already been created from something that existed even though it's an opposite component it's earth the soul is divine and it was blown in all scientists are trying to reverse engineer figure out how this world and all of its components were put together and function so judaism starts from the cause and then studies the results science starts with the results and is working towards the course and it seems like they're getting closer every day so the way i understand it is that judaism goes back to the source and starts off with the source which is iron and then discusses how things developed from the iron either created or developed from one nation to another yes judy science doesn't have that tool so it starts with the result and then it goes up backwards yes that's a very powerful point and we'll see that point in the continuation of the mimer in different words i think the way i understand it scientists have it right about the big bang but they're missing two cosmological steps before that god's light filling the entire conceptual expanse of the universe pre-creation and the act of simpson which is the act of god's self withdrawal the withdrawal of the infinite presence the contraction and the condensing of the infinite light creating a space where the universe can exist the big bang is consonant with the beginning of creation the first words of the ten utterances voracious but the two cosmological steps before that scientists are still missing you ask why we pray daily and i see the answer to the question perhaps we can say it's the same question to us why we eat daily we eat even though we ate yesterday because we're satiated and we use the energy from the food consumed to power and energize our daily tasks if we haven't eaten today and we won't eat tomorrow and the next day our body doesn't have the energy to be able to live maybe you could say as it says in madrish that the the carbonus it says entirely the cabanas are god's bread is similar god also needs food his food is the gratitude from his people the mistress we do it satiates him but only for a time and he uses the energy from his food to power and energize and even motivate his daily tasks namely to continue creation so it does say in places that just like food the soul doesn't eat food but the connection of the soul and the body requires food so davening like carbonace is called hashem's food because it connects the soul in the body what does it mean it connects the soul of creation which is divinity with the world with the body next question what's the role of a refrigerator does it have a role outside of cooling the food inside no it's its only purpose the reason for the existence of the refrigerator is to cool the food otherwise it's a huge useless nuisance and box the refrigerator can do its job as long as the flow of electricity continues should the electricity stop the whole raison the etre of the fridge is gone because its whole purpose and and reason for existence is to cool the food and for that it needs the flow of electricity that that is channeled through it should the fridge praise the daily flow of electricity that allows it to fulfill its purpose you bet so of course we should praise the daily flow of electricity because it's what allows us to see who we are and fulfill our purpose right so what you're saying is if i would just put it in different words is we're not just praising and this is i think the point of the mimer we're not just praising god and telling god you're great you're awesome you're amazing which is true but you're also telling yourself who you are you're telling yourself you're awesome you're great you're amazing not because you have a big insecure pompous ego but because you're a manifestation of divinity as much as you're talking about hashem you're talking about yourself you're putting yourself into context you're contextualizing yourself as the conduit for infinite energy that's who you are that's who you really are you are the manifestation of divine electricity as much as you're talking about people think that in davoni they're talking about god they are and because of that they're talking about themselves that's the key because there's the kayak happy or benifil so first of all there's the element of gratitude recognizing who you are being grateful and then there's also the element of really appreciating who you are your identity because the refrigerator doesn't struggle with bittle the refrigerator apparently doesn't perceive itself as autonomous maybe it does and then it's dead and you throw it out but the person can struggle with this hence we have the the daily davening to help us get in sync with this now people have resistance to davening you know people are often bored and they find it meaningless and this which is a normal uh which is a normal uh which is a normal emotion it's part of the human condition because this is this is avoided this takes a void i'm confused what time did the sheer star start i came on 7 33 a.m and the shear started a few minutes later i think the share started like 7 38 or 7 39 or so sorry for the delay but we'll continue tomorrow god willing i wish everybody a beautiful day sunday afternoon 12 o'clock am we're going to have here on the yeshiva.net a special shabbos haggadah drasha shabbas a-gaddle presentation it's that it's addressed to a young israel of century city of musk and shlita but it will also be eared for everybody to hear on the yeshiva.net monday night 10 a.m we're doing our second installment our second live zoom interactive workshop on dating this is for the boys we had the first one for parents you can watch it on the website the yeshiva.net monday evening 10 pm is for young wonderful special young men bachrim about dating with live interactive questions and answers so tomorrow morning we'll have a sheer see you then wishing you if you didn't daven yet a meaningful davening to be able to find the kayak happily somebody wrote this is hilarious i didn't realize that summer time already began in new york he came on an hour later you understand yes yes we changed the clock last massage shabbos so i missed a shirt from manchester okay that's where we have something called replay that's what replay is for but we changed the clock massage shabbos spring forward and we have sprung forward so uh i guess you came on an hour later right okay beautiful so uh everybody have a great day and we'll see you tomorrow morning bye zerusha