Is Reality Real? Here's What The Bible Says

it turns out that the question of whether the universe is real or imaginary is a halachic torah issue and that's the only difference the only reason the question is relevant at all is because the toyota says that you're not allowed to create illusions you know magic uh well but if everything is an illusion you're not allowed to add to the illusion now another thing we need to preface there's a difference between illusion and um incorrect i can say two and two is five is that an illusion no it's just wrong it's not like i imagine that two and two is five no i added it up and it came out five so i must be doing something wrong so if i have a wrong opinion that's not the same as an illusion then there's also the effect of the mind on your emotions on your body on on your perception of the world the role that the brain plays in in our in our understanding of the world that's also not an illusion in a strict sense of the word so for example i'm frightened because i think there's a boogeyman under the bed so i break out in the sweat and i get very nervous and i'm trembling that's an illusion there's an illusion that there's a boogeyman under the bed but but the physical symptoms are not an illusion the mind does that to the body when the mind says there is something to be afraid of the body reacts with terror right so for example and he uses the example here in the in the text the placebo effect i give you a pill it's nothing but sugar and and you feel better say it's an illusion no it's not an illusion you feel better it's not an illusion that you feel better the illusion is that you think i gave you medicine i didn't i just gave you sugar which is better than medicine but so why do you feel better because your brain is saying okay now we're better so the body calms down and feels better but that's the psychosomatic effect it's not an illusion in fact if we could heal ourselves strictly by placebo we would be the healthiest people in the world so if you can convince yourself that you're healthy you will be healthy not an illusion the trick is i gave you what seems to be medicine and that convinced you that you're getting better the story that's supposed to describe silliness and and immaturity some guy walks out of a stettle and he's laughing hysterically and they say what's so funny he says i had the whole town fooled i fooled them all i had them all yeah what did you do i told them my name was yanko it's not it's not he had them all fooled so he created an illusion for all of them it's not an illusion it was just wrong information so the word illusion needs to be understood more more precisely okay let's see if we really want to know whether the world is real versus um imaginary or illusion illusionary the the place to look for an answer of course is hasidis there are answers in in philosophy and jewish philosophy but those answers are philosophical which means it still leaves room for debate whereas when hasidis gives an answer it's an answer it's it's conclusive what do we know about the world so the first thing we know about the world is very similar you have that text i think you might know it by heart veracious if you want to know whether the world is real the titus says in the beginning the ibrisha created the world so if taylor says then it's real so to tell you this saying that debris created a world say he created something the question is what did did he create an illusion that would be a creation who is having this illusion maybe the whole world is an illusion what who's illusion yours you are having an illusion so are you real or are you just an imaginary creature imagining that it's having an imagination it's becoming ridiculous so even if you perceive the world as an illusion you are real because you're the perceiver not the perception and you are real but cannot see reality this is so tortured thinking you know so when the titus says belatius boro eliquim it means that he created a heaven and an earth not the illusion of a heaven and an earth however there are so many places in toyota and particularly hasidas where we are told the opposite atahire salad hashem who alike it is such an important concept in thailand particularly that there is nothing besides hashem meaning that the world is not real so did they wish to create a world a real world or is the world not real this is where we we have a significant discussion it's not that the world is imaginary it's that there is no world that's very different because means there is nothing else not even an illusion because the whole point is that the abrasive is the only well if there's an illusion well that's not him so there is something besides him so if the ibrisha created a world that is an illusion that then yeshua now he goes into a discussion of what is the difference between reality and perception [Applause] what would be a good example of um of an illusion versus reality that is not an illusion no you never know what's going to happen tomorrow it's really scary why is it an illusion it's like it's like you live in california and you're terrified of earthquakes oh okay if you have the illusion that there's going to be an earthquake tomorrow yeah that would be an illusion but if you're worried that there might be you're right okay fine so the illusion that there will be one and now i can't live today because i'm still i'm imagining that there's gonna be an earthquake tomorrow okay and what would be the reality in contrast to that illusion that there's not going to be an earthquake to learn that i'm here today okay so today is more real than tomorrow yeah so any projection would be an illusion yeah any prophecy would be an illusion i guess i guess like imagining that you're famous and actually you're not famous at all like that's like having a completely confused perception perception of you know like dreaming that you live in hollywood when you actually live in crown heights like like this is different so if you're a legend in your own mind because your kids know who you are you think you're a star example of an illusion i have an interesting question where does illusion come from what what creates okay there are of course illusions even if the world is real what what is an illusion and where does it come from and why why do we do that why do we have illusions entertainment memories a bad memory wishful thinking meaning we want to change what we perceive so we create something that makes if i can use the word sense to us or helps us through the day whatever that might be that makes a lot of sense if i imagine that i'm safe because i can't stand being insecure makes perfect sense it's my survival instinct but what about the opposite well everything is secure and and you're in the illu under the illusion that everything is not secure and you're cracking up about it why would you do that to yourself if you do it to yourself our world if we were able to if we can imagine if we have this imagination everything that's going wrong then now i have an opportunity to fix it okay so now tell me what is the difference between imagination and illusion reality and non-reality meaning wait imagination same thing religion has a feeling of falseness to it and imagination and imagination peop it's acceptable like it's sort of in a positive way as an imagination you have a good imagination yeah but if you say you have a good illusion you wouldn't say that and you can make the best movies i think the difference might be imagination means i know i'm imagining illusion means i don't know that i'm alluding such a word like that i'm illusioning in other words in imagination you know it's imagination when you're under an illusion you think it's real so there's this classical which uh maybe be relevant a little further on there's a guy in russia in the bad days he wanted to get out he was desperate to get out of russia and there was no way until he hit on a plan there's a train that goes from moscow to switzerland and it has a refrigerated car which once they close they don't open until it arrives in switzerland because they don't want to they don't want to warm up the car so once they lock it in in moscow they don't open it until they get all the other cars get inspected so he decided that he is going to smuggle himself into the refrigerated car the freezer car and get out of russia he was a scientist so he calculated how long can a person survive in a sealed car because there's no air his calculations told him that he could just about make it it'll be difficult he might die but then again he might make it and it's worth the risk anyway he smuggled himself into the car and when they when they arrived in switzerland they opened the car he was dead but they saw on this on the wall of the car where he kept a record of his condition like short of breath hard to breathe can hardly breathe by the hour he checked it off and then by the time they got there he was dead the really strange thing was that he went into the wrong car it was not sealed the car was not sealed he had air there was air there was air but it wasn't enough nope no his mind was all alive all in his mind how long was it in the car 12 hours this isn't a true story yeah so his brain killed him right is that an illusion that's reality he had an illusion cause his reality i don't know if we could call it an illusion it was a miscalculation given the the assumption that the car is sealed so it wasn't sealed so it's simply a mistake not an illusion so if somebody uh oh i thought i locked the door i didn't oh i'm sorry you had an illusion that you locked the door no you thought you did and you didn't so illusion has to have some element of fantasy or or disconnected from from reality but a mistake in reality not an illusion is it you're imagining things no you miscalculated but then he starts to imagine based on his miscalculation based based on his calculation he followed the logic and died because he logically should die so again it's a psychosomatic effect but the brain is not imaginary the brain is real and it has a real effect on your body that's why misinformation is re is more dangerous than illusion could can be more dangerous so not knowing the reality is more dangerous than having a good imagination because like you said why do we have illusions to protect ourselves from the harshness or the difficulties of life but if you have misinformation you're not protected you're not protecting you're just in trouble because somebody gave you bad information so it's interesting what does it tell you to say about illusion you're not allowed to mislead a person right if somebody asks you which way on the road or which in the fork of the road which road leads to rome and you give them the wrong one that's illusion but it's not allowed which means the world is not an illusion because if it was an illusion then what's the difference which way i misled you no i didn't it's all an illusion so if misleading a person is a sin it means that there is a reality and you misled but if it's all illusions what's the difference you're not allowed to lie what do you mean the whole thing's a lie there's nothing true so what do you mean you can't lie our whole existence is a lie so it's another lie okay so did you repeat that one more time about misleading yeah if it's a sin if naively sit in mitchell when you give wrong information it's and it's a sin but why would it be a sin if everything is an illusion anyway so you distorted the truth there is no truth it's all it's all an imagination so you see there is a truth and if you deny it or or uh or misinform leading people away from the truth that's a sin intentionally yeah so what if in your illusion you give the wrong information what what makes it wrong another thing if the world is an illusion then our morality is also an illusion right and wrong how could you do that do what's all an illusion so if the world was an illusion we wouldn't have the right to be morally upset or moral indignation what happened you had the wrong illusion supposed to have that illusion you're supposed to have disillusion there would be no morality right or we wouldn't be able to take it seriously so we would have an illusion of morality that's that's getting crazy nonsense all right so what is that what is our definition of reality that the world does not really exist i didn't yet but it's a good idea to explain it explains that what does it mean created god created the word what does create mean we can do this with every word in the in the dictionary what does create meaning right right there's that's the conflict um create means cause to exist an artist creates a work of art that's not bugger in fact there's a text for it let's take a look i skipped a little puzzle there with the shadows oh it's text seven you have that page fourteen yeah text seven he's quoting from uh from the ramban hakodesh baruch may created the world from absolute nothingness we have no other way to describe creation than to say buddha which means something from nothing so when you say belatia's brother god created you have to add as if it's a commentary created something from nothing but really the word god means something from nothing so what does bharara mean caused to exist because before he caused it to exist it didn't exist it's almost like [Applause] what did god create god created light that's not the real meaning of create gracious and the earth was dark the earth which earth when did hashem say let there be an earth or water where did they wish to say let there be water he said let the water separate but where did he say let there be water so before the abrasive said there was already earth there was darkness there was water when were when were those things created so the madras says the word vivacious is an instruction for earth and water and a and air and darkness to exist so the real creation was before the abrasive so what is he here illuminate what is so you're you're you're already dealing with what is so what's illuminate turn on the light you have a room it's dark you turn on the light it's not coming out of nowhere let the earth give forth vegetation let the water separate you're already dealing with what is the real bulger is shamayim not the details the first day after creation david said let there be light the second day after creation maybe that's why it says bizacious in the beginning not the beginning the beginning was and that came out of nowhere at least in the beginning that was the very beginning and heaven and that's why is that's it the world is now created now on the first day after that debris said here now on the second day he separated the waters and on the third day he made things grow so when was the camera when was that on day one before day one all because of says now let's understand another thing what does it mean he says here a fisa much lettuce absolute nothingness if i say nothing do i have to add absolute is nothing not nothing what part of nothing don't you understand there was nothing i mean nothing okay i got it nothing now so when the title puts an emphasis on something it's not just to be dramatic it was like absolutely no torah doesn't do that there was nothing that's true enough and you don't have to embellish so when it says absolute nothing it's telling you something in addition right so there is for example a chicken has never laid an egg never there are no eggs no egg exists yeah but there's a chicken what is a chicken a chicken is a bird that lays eggs there is no egg but if there's a chicken then in a sense there is an egg just like if there's an egg you know there's a chicken if there's a chicken you know there's an egg he hasn't laid the egg yet but the egg already exists in potential it just hasn't happened in in the physical in the so you can't say there's no such thing as eggs there's only a chicken if there's a chicken there's an egg in the same way you can't say there is no world nothing was created there is a creator right there's only him and him is a creator if there's a creator then there's a creation it hasn't happened yet okay so it hasn't happened yet but there is a creation but the creation has not yet presented itself so it exists in potential so it's not nothing potential is a serious issue so if something exists only in potential it it's real it exists but there is no world yet and even if no world will ever be if there is a creator there's a creation in him it's like you know people say about writers the writer says i have a book in me i just haven't written it yet and it's true right a composer he's got a song in him but otherwise he's not a composer so if you say he's a composer there's got to be a composition somewhere if you're a writer there's got to be a book there somewhere that's why the secret is the abish that is not a creator that is so important when you say en eid milvarde you're saying he is not a creator with a creation waiting to pop out he's not a creator he is the aberdeen to create it's beneath his dignity he's not a carpenter so you can't say the abuse that is a creator who needs to get the creation out like he's carrying around an egg and it's got to be laid but no there is no world in him waiting to come out on the contrary since he is so infinite there can't be a finite world in him somewhere so when you go to like museum of natural history for example they say this rock is 10 million years old so it's possible that maybe the world really is better if it was created even before gracious you're saying it was already created that wouldn't help much because they're saying they find bones that are that old sometimes what about the rocks they can actually like count the layers of rocks and trees and that type of thing i mean just saying that as possible that really the world was already created that long ago i mean i'm not a scientist i don't know how to actually measure it but yeah it's a little bit off the subject but time was also created so when did that happen so yes it could be that the rocks are billions of years old but it only took a minute they're aged could have been created already billions of years is not its age it's the state of its agedness but that could happen in a minute so when we say and we say bellatious border eliquid it's really saying the same thing bro means out of nowhere out of nowhere means there was no potential world waiting to be created because if it did exist in potential then it's not out of nowhere went from potential to actual that's not out of nowhere so when we say god created the world out of nothing yes may i in i in means absolute nothing it's not just that it hasn't happened yet there's no reason for it to happen it doesn't already exist in potential there is nothing question is once god does create the world did that change anything or is it still nothing right that's why it's important to know that the abuse that is not a creator you can say he is the creator because he created the world but he is a creator to create is is uncharacteristic of him so hashem created the potential for the world to be created by us right he created the world in stages first he created the potential out of nothing right and then then from the potential he put it together exactly because create could mean forming shaping putting together that which already exists whereas when you say caused to exist means it did not exist let me give you the punch line before we go through the whole thing god is not a creator and the world did not exist in potential but then he creates the world now you can look at that two ways one is there was no potential the world had no reason to exist it only exists because he decided to create it and therefore it is nothing it's a whim on god's part but to say that the world is real of course not real it's nothing it started off nothing it remains nothing and you even have the explanation that if you cause something that doesn't exist to exist can it now exist on its own the answer is no because what do you mean it but what if you get what if you create a child which came from nothing then because of yourself it came from and then and then they can exist on their own no it didn't come from nothing well once it was never there except in our participation no no no it's not an illusion it's for real so if there's a mother then there's a child potential but but potential is real but it might not ever happen that's right so it will remain in potential so it will continue to exist as a potential so what is the argument if you create something from nothing can it what's it there's no it there's just the creator causing but it it does nothing it was nothing it remains nothing so when you say god caused it to exist it means it doesn't have an existence even maybe god gave it and it gave what because you see what i'm saying in other words there's nothing besides him right so that's the argument that the world is not because if it wasn't to begin with then there is no it say but god gave it god made it able made what abel if you take a stone and you chip at it until you make a form and you've turned it into a little statue okay it is now a statue so god has to be in the world in order to exist yeah the point is we're only here because god's in this world okay so on the one hand when you say god created the world out of nothing it means that the world will always be nothing on the other hand there was nothing nothing and god created the world isn't that something isn't that something so of course the world is not of its own reality but look how real it is if out of nothing god decides to create it so what should we emphasize how invested god is in the world or how meaningless the world is so again the fact that god creates the world out of nothing means that the world is really something or it's nothing both both the world on its own is absolutely nothing but when god creates it it becomes absolutely some a big it becomes god's ultimate purpose you know what that means so it gives the world so much more substance the fact that it came out of nothing no what is the biggest illusion that's that's like philosophy 101 okay very briefly there's a creation so there's a creator you cannot you can't get around that if there's a creation there's a creator your only option your only choice is to describe what the creator might be like but no creator is insane it's just ignorant so what does science say there was this particle that contained everything within it and it exploded and all the potential from that particle came out and created a world that's not a creator that's your creator and the entire scientific world is looking for that creator and they can't find them but they're looking for the creator all we're saying is uh we found him we met him thousands of years ago no no no not that creator ah don't be so picky so really the question is not whether there's a creator the question is whether the creator knows what he's doing or the creator is just a thing that plots but we're both talking about a creator that's not even the issue okay let's let's get to the real there's a little piece here from text eight from samson rifle hirsch i'm not sure we need a quote for this but basically what he's saying is yitzhak was born miraculously why because the point is that the the entire existence of jewish people is above nature is beyond nature so we can survive anything because our whole existence is supernatural so no matter what nature does or throws at us we're going to survive because we were never subjected to the restrictions of nature in the first place we were born miraculous so here's the point that this course is making you have on page 16 you have figure one and a half b there are four models of reality the first is worldly reality and that is the world is not an illusion simply said if you try to walk through a wall you're going to get hurt but i i imagine there's no wall too bad you can end up in the hospital see but i imagine there was no wall you can imagine all you want but a wall is a wall and you walked into it in fact it's all really interesting if you really imagined that there was a wall when there wasn't and you walked into it would you get bruised real bruised yes or in illusionary real the guy really died if you could really convince yourself there's a wall there and you walk into it you better get bruised otherwise it'll shatter your illusion so the first model is there are laws of nature and you can't escape you throw a stone into the air it's going to fall back to earth despite all your imaginations that's the first model of course the problem with that we already spoke about that means that there can be there can be no morality what things are what they are and there's nothing you can do about it so that's not really acceptable what's the second possibility the second possibility is creation reality the world is real because god created it the nation's buddha so religiously or or from a perspective the world is real because because they created it he created it real then there's the third reality and that is a godly reality that if god created it then its existence is godly let's see what that means so we read uh the the vodacious buddha that he created something from nothing why do we refer to the abuse that has nothing it's a little insulting isn't it obviously the meaning is the abrasive created the world with nothing to work with he had no raw materials so he created the world from scratch we're not referring to him as nothing we're just saying he was working with nothing but if but if you if you read the the words literally the world is not he created the world from nothing the world is a something that came from nothing but it came from him or in different words it came from nothing but him so why are you calling it nothing so the answer the the conventional answer is we're describing him as nothing meaning nothing we can identify he's not a thing so he's a non-thing not that he's nothing we're not dismissing him as non-existent we're saying his existence is not like a thing so it's some thing the world is only a thing but it comes from god who is not a thing like you can say anything finite can be called something anything infinite can't be if he's infinite then what is he is he big or small infinite he's not big he's not small say is he old or young infinite so he's timeless spaceless and therefore not a thing according to this god's involvement in creating the world makes the world insignificant yes he created the world but he is the reality not the world precisely because he is no thing infinite if he is infinite and the world is only finite then then what's the world nothing to talk about it's so insignificant we might as well just talk about god so yes the world is real but only because of him and him is so overwhelming that the world disappears in in in his presence so once we know that something about god all of a sudden the world that he created becomes tiny and and unimportant and insignificant that's called a godly reality so a good example would be the story in the gemara where the girl lit shabbos candles thinking that there was oil in the lamp and it turned out that it was vinegar so she was upset because vinegar doesn't burn so her father said to her misha omaleshem and why do you think oil burns something about the oil no the hebrews that tells oil to burn so today the industry will tell the vinegar to burn and it did a whole shabbos because you know once once you're doing miracles it might as well last the whole day break off an icicle and light it say but that doesn't burn what does burn whatever they wish that says to burn so in other words the reality of the icicle is god from that perspective there's no such thing as a miracle because everything's a miracle when you think oil burns vinegar doesn't a candle will burn an icicle will not now you're seeing the world as a worldly reality the laws of nature but when you're thinking what so so vinegar will burn so the icicle will burn now you're seeing the world from a godly reality it's all him so why can't he make the vinegar burn what would creation reality be huh god said let there be so there is but it is here we're saying it it's nothing it's all him so let's follow the steps again the first thing is the perception that there is a world and it's real so real you can't budget you have to follow the laws of nature because that's real what it would mean in practical life what do you mean keep shabbos my job my my work involves working on shabbos and that's how i make my money so i mean we're going to work on shabbos can't there was a time in the united states if you didn't show up on shabbos you're fired so you can't the world says you can't in fact nature says that the jewish people cannot survive you're a tiny minority everyone is out to get you there's no way you got 10 years most and yet but by nature by the rules of the world you can't so what do scientists or historians do they have a wonderful theory that works there is the rise and ebb of civilizations it follows certain rules yeah but what about the jews don't mention jews because they don't follow the law so the law is still a good law jews okay they're weird but the law is a good law because you can't you can't include jews in your calculations because they don't follow the law where the jews don't follow laws he meant the laws of nature but by the law of nature we should not exist you can't by the law of nature hasidis can't survive under stalin can't that's true but it did there so then there's a second reality the second reality is god created the world and if he says don't work on shabbos then then that's the reality huh it's his world like the first rashi that says we stole the land of israel god gives it to whoever he wants he takes it away and gives it to somebody else so is it our land it's our land god gave it to us so the second reality is the world is real because god created it so how can it contradict god so if god says i created the world in order for people to keep shabbos how can the world say no you can't keep shabbos not possible so yes you can keep shabbos not miraculously naturally the third stage is the world is real as real as god not it's a real world created by god the world is a godly world so how real is it it's as real as god which then means there's nothing besides god so what is the reality of the world it's creator so that's what he's calling a godly and then there's the fourth stage so let's go back to this yes me ayan there are two perspectives according to siddhas take a look at text nine now now we're actually learning something here we go and this is uh from the chambrzadek god is a god of opinions they ace plural which means that god is com comprises two opinions the first opinion is hadaya and the first perception or the first opinion is that he hashem is the yesh and he created a world which is an ayan something or nothing say he is the something and he created a world that is really nothing the whole and all that is below the israeli as nothing it is merely a shine coming from hashem the nikra in and therefore should be called nothing so what is something from nothing no nothing from something because he is really something and what he creates is just the creation it's nothing commercial kosovo mitzvot of your giant gimbal the perish in aid etc what does mean so there are two expressions in one place it says there is nothing besides him and another possibility says period means there's no one like him ain't means there's nothing more than that aid means also ain't means there isn't even an also it's not like of course there's god and then there's also a world no there's no also there's just him so that's the perspective the way god looks at the world habes the other perspective is what does the world look like to us because we are part of the world so what does the world look like to itself shanid milahim it appears to us the creation the created beings that's substantial that's real the imam shahabriyah yesh mayan and then we say that we who are yesh came mayan came from nothing vireitsa laymar the meaning of it is that god is nothing i'll shame sha name and we're calling him nothing because we don't understand him but the creation that we know we understand and we can see so that's real but what we can't see is not real not that it doesn't exist but it's iron it's it's something but we don't know what so there are two perspectives right what you want to read the english here the first mind is that god is the true reality and all that is here below is regarded as nothing as it is nothing but a reflection of god's reality it is therefore called nothing as was explained in an earlier discourse regarding the meaning of the verse there is none shouldn't say else this is god's mind it is how how it is from god's perspective the second mind is how it appears from the perspective of the creation to them it seems that they are real they are something they describe the creation of the world as something from nothing meaning that godliness is nothing as it is not graspable and the creations are real and something because they are graspable the summary is like this from the perspective of the creation reality we see the world as being created something from nothing the world which is definite and tangible was brought into existence by an infinite and intangible god take a look at the store you don't have the story a mystic and a philosopher we're talking the mystic says to the philosopher do you know the difference between you and me a mystic and a philosopher you know the difference between you and me you're always thinking about god and i'm constantly thinking about myself let's change that a little bit ah [Music] we're talking and the husset said to them you know the difference between me and you you're always thinking about god i'm always thinking about myself that makes sense [Applause] the philosopher miss nagit was flattered by the compliment then the mystic explained the ghost explain you are so certain about yourself and you take yourself for granted i am i'm real i'm here i need i want i did you end up wondering about god does he really exist does he really did did he really create is there really so you're always thinking about god wondering whether he's real you don't have to think about yourself you know you're real as for me the only real is god so i walk around wondering about myself do i really exist am i necessary what's the value of my existence here and the face of god's infinite perfection two perceptions perspectives what do you take for granted and what is news to you from a worldly perspective we take ourselves for granted hey i know i'm real what do i think about god i think god is my opinion i have to think about him and say [Music] yeah i think yeah i think there's a god i can't be 100 sure i mean god is not like me i'm real he's that's like the the classical question the titus says over and over and over god has limbs his right hand his mouth his eye his head his feet they're all mentioned his finger his tongue his nostrils but come on he doesn't have any of that right god forbid to think that he has an arm but the torah says he has an arm don't take it literally he has no arm then why does the player say he does have an arm it's just a figure of speech if you stop and think about that what exactly is a figure of speech god doesn't have an arm sorry says he has an arm and we just you know he's just saying you're saying what if he doesn't have an arm how does the traitor say he has an arm what's the answer come on you've heard an answer it's a it's a metaphor which means nobody knows what a metaphor it's only a marshall now you see it's an anthropo anthropomorphic expression all right what is anthropomorphic meaning we attribute an arm to him which basically means an illusion or a fantasy he doesn't really have an arm so when the rambam says it's a marshal he's telling you something very different he's saying of course it's true but it's a muscle you're not saying it's not true if status says he has an arm then he has an arm can't say it's not true but it's a muscle what does a marshall mean i'm trying to explain something very important and i'm giving you a muscle to help you understand it so when the traitor says god has an arm and it's only a muscle so what am i understanding it's more important symbolic if you have a muscle there has to be a nimbus right this is an analogy to what to a non-existent arm then it's not a muscle it's a lie let's make believe he has an arm that'll help you understand understand what that he doesn't have an arm it's total confusion well our interpretation our interpretation exactly yes let me tell you a bigger part of the problem he has an arm he doesn't have an arm who cares but this whole concept also applies to his anger when it says he got angry doesn't get angry wow now we're on dangerous ground so he doesn't really get angry so when you do a mitzvah he doesn't really get pleasure so when you say he wants you to keep shabbos he doesn't really want you say he needs the world to become adidas he doesn't really need now all of a sudden we have a true nothing he really is nothing he doesn't want he doesn't need he doesn't care he doesn't get angry he doesn't get pleasure doesn't well what are we left with here it's all emotional physical is a um then also the emotional part of it either you accept everything or nothing right so if the arm is a little too human to attribute to him so isn't anger oh worth yes but a seldom is a marshall no it's an image then we're also then we go back to square one do we exist and like let's start all over again no no no no no hang on hang on if we can't attribute human uh features he knows everything he knows come on that's human god is smart yes can't say he's smart that's human god is kind no kindness is a human trait you can't say he's kind so he's not kind he's not smart he doesn't care he doesn't need he doesn't want what do we have another designer like you know they have eyes that don't see ears that don't hear is that we just did that today what does it mean a muscle the question is who is the muscle and who is the nimsha so we we work like i have an arm you want to understand god imagine he has an arm so he's the muscle the truth is the opposite god has an arm you want to understand what his arm is look at a human being two arms one on the right side one on the left side you see god has a right arm and a left arm you're the muscle he's the nimcha we were created in his image in other words where the poor copy of the real thing so what does it mean it's a muscle we are the muscle so when you say arm or mouth concerning the abrasive you think of your mouth but that's just a marshall a real mouth is quite different than yours but there is some similarity that gives you a little bit of an insight into what his mouth might possibly be like but don't think it's like your mouth well his mouth creaks exactly our mouth also creates we just don't see it like i think yesterday's says you have to be careful what we say because it creates we just don't see the creations not the literal not the yeah but it happens doesn't mean it was created because created means out of nothing whereas this guy tearing the other guy apart so like you said we're like the very minuscule version right right so abused has a real arm literal arm actual arm really a real arm an actual arm you mean like mine no yours is not real don't forget who is the marshal and who is the nimshaw so when the titus says arm and you're told don't take it literally oh be careful don't take it physically don't think his arm is physical why not because a physical arm is not a real arm just like a doll's arm is not a real arm your arm is not any more real it's just a physical thing the abrista's arm is a real arm so why do we have a thing called an arm because we're created in his image and he really has an arm oh ran away is a parable maker he's master of both infinity and finiteness what is a parable a martial when a teacher gives a muscle what is the purpose why do you need a muscle you have a concept that is very deep the student is not going to understand it like for example if you take more than you can handle you'll end up with nothing right it's a profound concept you think you're getting a lot but if it's more than you can handle not only you're going to end up with less you'll end up with nothing let me give you a marshal a fox broke into a vineyard because he was hungry and he and he squeezed through the crack in the wool and got into the vineyard and eight and eight and eight until he wasn't hungry anymore but then he couldn't fit through the crack to get out so he had to sit and fast until he lost all that weight and then he could get out through the crack when he got out he realized he had gained nothing because he ate too much now the kids go home from class and the mother says what did you learn in class today uh that foxes uh shouldn't eat too much grapes the mother calls up the principal and says i i'm paying ten thousand dollars for an education from my kid and you told them that a fox shouldn't eat grapes and the teacher says i told them foxes shouldn't eat grapes why were we talking about foxes i'm gonna talk about foxes to the teacher what we're talking about foxes we're talking about we were talking about taking more than you need in others we were talking about a moral concept oh you mean the marshall to him what fox there's no fox wasn't the story about a fox what story to him the marshal didn't conceal anything to the child because he couldn't handle the abstract concept of taking more than you needed so the muscle is supposed to help him understand it how does it help by concealing the profound meaning of the make it sound like simple but this kid missed the whole point the marshal did not work for him he thinks there are foxes that eat too much in the same way god creates the world and the world is a muscle our arm is a muscle for him our speech is a muscle for him the world even a stone is a muscle but sometimes we don't get it we think that's it there's a fox and it eats and grapes and that's it and you shouldn't be too many grapes if you're a fox we missed the whole nimsho but suppose we're smart enough we do get the point but we're getting it in a reduced uh strength diluted a little bit not so abstract it's a fox and yeah you know fox got fat we understand these things have to diet lose weight yeah okay fine we get it but what's the point the point is don't try to have more than you need because you'll end up with nothing so don't be greedy to the teacher the muscle diminish or hide the point of course not that's why he used it as a muscle because in the muscle he sees the whole point so when god creates the world and restricts our view of him because we can't handle the whole picture it gives us a muscle so all we see is the marshall but is that true of him that's why you get two perspectives the ibrisha says here's a marshall he means here's the nimsho we see oh a marshal okay now we have a muscle a good one and we get the point but the point comes out of the muscle so it's limited on the other hand what's a good muscle you sometimes you give an example and it it's the wrong example it distracts from the point instead of leading to the point remember that classical story that two philosophers were arguing about first nature versus second nature what's stronger so they made an experiment they trained the cat to deliver food from the kitchen to the dining room that was second nature and they were really well trained but the other philosopher who believed that first nature is stronger brought a mouse to the experiment and as the cat was bringing the food he released the mouse the cat dropped whatever we've got and chased the mouse so the point was that first nature as strong as second nature so this this professor was delivering this lecture and at the end of the lecture the guy raises his hand and he says so did he catch the mouse the professor said did he catch the mouse huh it was just a muscle but the muscle distracted the students when is it a good muscle not only when the student gets the point in a reduced fashion a good muscle means 20 years from now when you think about that muscle you're going to realize that it contains the entire it's not a reduced version it's like a time release capsule it's all there it's just coming slowly so for a while you think oh okay i get the point don't be greedy but then you say what why did he use a fox as an example oh because the fox is cunning so now what makes you become greedy because you think you're smart you see now more and more of the neutral is coming out from the details of the muscle if it's a proper muscle so there was a magid famous maggot who had a muscle for everything and it was really brilliant and entertaining and and that said that only two out of his hundreds of macholin he got it right the other michelle might just did not you can't just make up a story and say it's a muscle it has to be thoughtful and it has to really contain everything the teacher is trying to say but in time release fashion so if 30 years from now you don't realize the deeper and you don't get more information out of the muscle and it wasn't really a good muscle so the world being created as a muscle is on the one hand a limited version so you can handle it and on the other hand it has the whole abrasive it's all there so in the end this muscle will become the nimshal it won't remain a limited version we will not forever be in the image of god we will become godly because in the marshall there is the entire nem show the oneness of the creator and his creation will be complete the whole world but toyota also comes in a time release capsule so at first we saw only the commandments then we found out a little bit more about the ibristain and as time went on toyota revealed more and more the same title but now we find the madrid in the torah then we found the kabbalah within the trader then we found the hasidis within the titan so the taylor's marshall is unfolding and blossoming as we go along until it will become and the same is true with a marriage a marriage is also a time release capsule at first you're in you're impressed with this with that then you get a little closer to the person who's whose character you're impressed with but you're moving past the character to the person himself and eventually you literally become one

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Published: Sun Aug 01 2021