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Science Tests סברא Against Reality 0:05

And what science does is, you know, they take the, they take the סברא and then they test it against physical reality. Right. You say, according to your סברא,

if we take a balloon and keep blowing it up, it should explode. Right. So, let's let's try it out, and we say we keep blowing the balloon up, boom, it explodes, hey! So that is a proof that your סברא could be right, not that it is right, by the way. Right. It could be right. Right. In other words, we didn't disprove it. Right.

If if there's a thing like, let's say, according to your סברא, according to your סברא, we can blow up the balloon and it won't explode, so when it explodes, that disproves your סברא, completely.

Right. And you see that this is basically התבוננות, Right. which is בינה שבבינה, and along with that, along with the scientific method, the way that the scientific method we have today is not just

in the Greek way, it's the American way, Right. which is בינה שבבינה with תבונה שבתבונה. Right. In other words, that then we take these

theories that we come up with that seem to be to have a very high probability of being correct, and again, by the scientist, only a high probability of being correct means that we ran several experiments and we didn't disprove it.

Applying Theory to Create a Second God 1:59

Right. And then we try to apply it to various things. And we apply it to various things in order to come up with the second god, which is, in a way, sometimes it's really the first god, Right.

which is called ממון. Right. You know, but the thing of the thing of this secondary god is basically,

in a way, has become sort of תבונה שבתבונה.

In other words, to apply the בינה שבבינה in order to come up with a better better solutions all the way down to earth. Right.

So that even the sheep will be able to

make use of these theories that they might not even understand, like driving a car or getting on a computer and talking to somebody on the other side of the world Right. and stuff like that. So we see that the basic thing is that the מלך השמיני

is is where we're at now, but the מלך השמיני, in other words, they're saying שורש התיקון דמידת חכמה, but that's really the מלך השמיני after he gets fixed up.

And mostly the the Kabbalistic books don't really tell you that. They sort of take the מלך השמיני as if he's already fixed up, which is יוסף בעל החלומות. Right. You know, but really the מלך השמיני is the eighth king of תוהו. Right. He's not he's not a king of תיקון. Even though he's the שורש of the whole תיקון, but he himself is a king of תוהו. Right.

Not only he's a king of תוהו, he's the מלך השמיני of תוהו, which the שמיני not only includes the whole seven, but is way past the whole seven. It's a whole different level, שלא בערך.

Right. And again, we see that today that from this מלך השמיני it's coming things that are totally שלא בערך. Right. The the the basic point is that we're very obviously right now in the in the kingdom of the eighth king of תוהו.

Living Under the Eighth King of תוהו 4:28

And it's the kingdom of the eighth king of תוהו how he is בעצם, not how he gets fixed up, Right. how he is originally.

Right. So so that not only does it does he include inside of himself all the bad kings things, which you see that he includes all all the bad all the worst things, so that

the lust for money and the lewdness and the the ענין of conquering other nations, and and false דין,

and basically like you see that actually in a way it's much worse. All of the all of the emotional bad kings are are actually now even worse than they were before.

Why? Because the eighth king includes all of them. Right. So like he brought it like, for instance, we see that in terms of the lewdness, the lewdness is worse than it ever was before, was never to this point. Right. You know, the the lewdness and and and also another thing is that the the availability the availability of the lewdness.

All‑Encompassing Chaos and Modern Availability 6:10

Right. And also the the the availability of everything, and it's all it's all part of the of the eighth king of תוהו. Right. You know, not only that, the availability for for terrorism, I mean there was always such a thing, Right. but but now it's getting to a point where the eighth king of תוהו is making available that a that a guy can come up with like what they did with the Twin Towers.

Right. They wouldn't have been able to do this in the old days. The basic thing, we see that we're in the time of the מלך השמיני. However, this same מלך השמיני is also the שורש התיקון, the מה דחכמה. Right. Why? Because when you have התבוננות, like we learned in the in the chapter one and stuff like that, when you have התבוננות,

it will definitely get you to the truth slowly. It might get you first of all to the to the wrong סברות, but as you test the סברות and don't just accept them, that's one thing. Another thing is that this thing of the availability, the availability of

these methods of the eighth king are made available not just to Osama, but to us also. Right. So like, for instance, the basic thing what we are doing even like 20 years ago would have been impossible. We wouldn't have been able to do this.

We would not have been able to basically reach as many people as as we did, but the thing is that right now we are available to the world,

literally. We're available to the world. And why are we available to the world is because of the eighth king of תוהו. Right. That's why we're available to the world. And not only that, the another thing of the eighth king of תוהו is that it it's like a total תוהו of ideas.

And the Nile of the eighth king of תוהו is the internet. Right. They call it the the data flow, the the thing of the the information flow. Right. It's the Nile. That's the lifeblood of the eighth king of תוהו.

And the the the basic thing of the eighth king of תוהו is that he includes inside of himself all the bad stuff. Like, for instance, the Tower of בבל. Right. Tower of בבל, you know, there's a a whole tumult of many tongues Right. and many ideas, Right. a whole בלבול.

Right. If I ask you, where do you find that nowadays? The internet. Right. A whole big בלבול, and everybody's saying different things. Right. You know, and and basically, all of these things, like the כשוף, כשוף is also on the internet, everything's on the internet. Right. You know, כשוף, lewdness, whatever you want. If you want the big things on it, you go on the internet.

And and דווקא that is what is now giving it a possibility. See, before before the eighth king of תוהו, Right. would not have been able to know what somebody else is saying. Right. But one of the things of the eighth king of תוהו, and this is the basic thing of בינה שבבינה, is that it considers all the opinions. Right. Even the wrong ones. Right. That's the whole thing.

That's the whole ענין of בינה שבבינה, is that you look at all the you come up with all the סברות, A סברא, in order to be a סברא, does not have to be true or correct. Right. It can be anything. Right. Against you can say, "Uh, well, I have a סברא that there's little green people that are walking behind me." Right. Is that a סברא? Yes, a סברא.

It can very easily be disproved. Have somebody else look behind me, and you'll see that they're not there, unless I come up with a new סברא, "Oh, because they're invisible." Right. You know, but it's a סברא. So the thing is that what's happening on the internet, and this is the thing of the eighth king of תוהו, is he he looks at all the סברות,

and he compares them. Right. And anybody is free to compare any סברא. It's not like before. Before wasn't like that. You weren't allowed to think other סברות. Right. You you were you had to go by the regular סברות. You couldn't just come up and say, "Well, what about this other סברא?" "Well, you know, you're not allowed to think that סברא. If you try to think that סברא, we'll kill you."

Right. But now you're allowed to think all the סברות. So, therefore, it's coming to a point that even like forbidden things like קבלה, which was always even even when other things are are allowed, that that was forbidden,

Eighth King as Joseph, the Dream Interpreter 11:56

is now becoming an allowed thing. Right. And that's why this same מלך השמיני, who is the worst of the kings of תוהו, is also הוא בבחינת יוסף פותר החלומות. He is actually יוסף פותר החלומות, that and you say, "Well, how it Is it that the eighth king actually changes into him?" It says, "If you would give him a long time," like they say, you know, "15 billion years, maybe he could change into it."

But the thing is that the eighth king is connected to יוסף פותר החלומות in the fact that he gives an opening to everybody. There's no סברא that he's not willing to entertain. Right. And that's the saving grace of the eighth king of תוהו, by the way. Right. That the saving grace of the eighth king of תוהו is that they're willing to listen to anybody, Right. even to the rabbis.

And people are starting to Because of this, it's it's turning out that the craziest people are starting now to become attracted to rabbinical קבלה.

Also another thing that he lets happen is that like what the Rebbe said, before you couldn't tell about the seven מצוות. Right.

But now you can because it's the eighth king of תוהו. You can tell anybody anything. Right. It's תוהו. It's total, absolute תוהו. That's what the eighth king of תוהו is. And דווקא he is יוסף פותר החלומות.

Why? כי הגלות נמשל לחלום שהוא מעין הרהורי לבא וכולי. And by the way, by the eighth king of תוהו now in in the olden days under the first seven kings, people could fool themselves in the dream to think that it's a reality. Right. To think that it's a normal thing to be like this. Right. Under whichever king of תוהו they were.

But now it's getting to a point that everybody knows that something is wrong. Right. The the חלום is already not from the seven kings, the חלום is now from the eighth king. So, it's It's total תוהו. Right. In other words, it's a total nightmare. It's not just a nice little dream anymore.

From Dreams to Total Nightmare in תוהו 14:19

Right. You know, before you had a nice little dream from this king of תוהו, a nice little dream from that king of תוהו. Now, it's the eighth king of תוהו, and nobody knows what's going on anymore. It's a total nightmare. Nobody knows what's happening next. You know, so it's like total chaos, absolute and total chaos. שהוא בבחינת שינה נקודורמישא הסתלקות המוחין

כולו. ומאיסיית שבדמיון החלום מצרף בהם צירופים טובים ותקונים על פי מוטר עומק החכמה דארך דעקרא דמוחא וכולו. In other words, דוקא according to the to the מקור of the עומק החכמה, which is in the פנימיות א״ק.

In other words, in the in the מוחין דא״ק, which the מוחין דא״ק is according to the מחשבה קדומה, which was the original plan for the whole world.

Right. And that's what יוסף פותר החלומות does. He says, well, all of these things, here's the explanation for them. It's like this. Right. In other words, why why is this happening, and why is that happening, and why is it so crazy like this? He says, well, what do you mean? It's supposed to be, because we're in the It explains it right here. We're in the time of the eighth king of תהו.

What do you expect to happen in the time of the eighth king of תהו? וזהו תופר אותיות.

פותר is the same thing of תופר. Right. אותיות פורת, like it says בן פורת יוסף, הוא פותר. ולכן נקרא אברך. And that's why he's called אברך.

אברך, I mean, there's various things. One is

one thing of אברך is to bring down, ברכיים, which that's the whole thing in יתגדל ויתקדש שמיה רבא. Right. And what is, you say ברוך השם מן העולם ועד העולם, means to bring down. Right. And that's what you say, אמן, יהא שמיה רבא מבורך. It says that שמיה רבא is the מחשבה קדומה. The מחשבה קדומה should be מבורך. So maybe that's why it says אברך. The other thing, אב רך means אב, and רך is king.

Right. He's the father of the king. כמו שמבואר במקום אחר. והיינו אחר הבירורים דרפ״ח ניצוצין. That means that, really, he he So what do you mean? He's He's He's יוסף פותר החלומות.

He's the eighth king of תהו? So yeah, that's before the בירורים. But after the בירורים דרפ״ח ניצוצין שנפלו, גם כן מפירוד ופיזור האותיות, once you take these letters and put them back together again, then he's יוסף פותר החלומות.

Right. האותיות כענין תהו כנ״ל, בשכל המצומצם בעץ הנפרד.

Why? Because they you they couldn't fit the big אורות into the שכל המצומצם, and therefore it broke up into all these crazy ideas of עבודה זרה.

And all these משוגענע ideas are all these משוגענע ideas are from the פירוד that they couldn't hold it. I mean, you see that all these people are trying to arrive at the truth, but they they can't fit it into their brain. Right. So they're coming up with some kind of a crazy משוגעת.

But nonetheless, you see that that it's the age of the eighth king of תהו, that they're trying to figure out what's going on. That's the whole thing of בינה שבבינה. Like we talked about before, that בינה שבבינה wants to know the truth. That's the whole ענין of בינה שבבינה, right? Right. And that's the whole ענין of science. This ענין of science, the whole thing of science is you want to know דוקא the truth.

Right. That's the real thing. If you ask what's, I mean, a pure scientist, not a not an applied scientist, not תבונה שבתבונה, what is pure science, that you want to know the truth.

By the seven kings, it's לאו דוקא like that. You don't care to know the truth, you just care to steal money. Right. You don't care what the truth is, it's just the opposite, you'll lie to them. You don't care what the truth is, as long as you get all the money, you don't care what the truth is. Right. But over here, the whole thing is to get at the truth.

But since it's a שכל מצומצם בעץ בעץ הנפרד, so therefore it's it covers up on the truth and it's it's with an ע. But then when יוסף יוסף פותר החלומות comes and tells them how it all fits together, so then people say, oh, that's right!

Coverings of Light and the Concept of חשמל 19:41

ואז נקרא כותנות אור באלף. And then the the the coverings become coverings of light.

וביאור הדברים ידוע, להיות כותנות אור המלביש נקרא חשמל. And that's what's going on. You can see the חשמל running around the world. All these demons that are running around with these crazy ideas are basically חשמל'ס. And what's a חשמל? Like we said, the חשמל comes from the חיצוניות בינה, and it covers up on the מידות, it keeps the מידה going.

In other words, it's the idea without the brains now, in letters. So that like, for instance, the like the terrorists are running around, they want to do this and do that, right? Right. They're not sitting around thinking, "Hey, wait a minute, is is this business correct?" Right. There's no there's no עיון there. They they just accepted a חשמל and the חשמל is running their life. It's a demon that possesses them, basically, right?

Exactly. They're a demon possessing them. Same thing like with the missionaries that are trying to convert the Jews. If they would think about it, but they don't think about it. They're going with the חשמל. Right. הרי הוא בא בבחינת הקדמה דווקא, כמו ענין המשל והנמשל.

In other words, the thing is the idea has to come into הקדמה, and then when it comes into הקדמה, then what happens is that you take the משל for the נמשל, and therefore the משל covers up on the נמשל instead of revealing the נמשל.

Right. And כתנות אור means that the משל reveals the נמשל. כי ענין הקדמת השכל בבחינת רוב ההסתר עד שתינוק קטן ישיגו כולו, like this was all talked about earlier, והוא בבחינת נוגה, and that's what נוגה is. In other words, this is the קליפה. The the the thing of the קליפה comes from the חשמל.

כמו אור המאיר באפילה, שהאור ניכר שם יותר עד שנראה אור מבהיק ביותר מאור המאיר במקום אורה, כמו שאמרו: "שרגא בטיהרא מאי מהני?" A candle in the at noon time, what's what's it good for?

אבל אור שרגא באישון חושך ואפילה אורו מבהיק ביותר. But in the middle of the night, when it's totally black, then a candle is very bright.

You can see everything with it. והיינו לפי שהוא מאיר את החושך והאפילה דווקא. And that's basically like also like what what we are, that the thing the thing if we would have stood in some of the older generations, we would have been nothing.

Right. Because a a little candle in at noon time, but you know, if we would have been in the days of שלמה המלך,

I mean, nobody would have noticed us. I don't think we I don't think we'd even reach the level of the Three Stooges in those days, you know. Right. But in our days, we're like the only light around.

Because it's such a dark thing that the minute that somebody sees our light, they say, "Wow, look, there's a light over there."

And then it lights up the whole darkness. Right. Not only that, it looks like a fantastically big light, and it's very ניכר. Right.