Exponential Power · Second Addendum

Rabbi Benyamin Walters Original Class. Machine transcription (Sofer.ai): expect mistakes, especially in Hebrew terms. Topic headings are auto-generated.

The Messiah’s Wellspring Begins as a Tiny Trickles 0:03

כמו מעיין יוצא מבית קדשי הקדשים, תחילתו כקרני חגבים וכולי כהאי גוונא, like it says that a wellspring goes out when משיח comes, that that a wellspring is going to go out from the of the קודש הקדשים.

It's going to start off very thin and narrow like the horns of a grasshopper, and then it will spread out. First it's going to be like a string, and then a thicker string, and then whatever, and eventually it will be as like a rushing river, as wide as a river. It's ממש what we're doing now. It's a little trickle. It starts a little trickle and it really quickly snowballs.

You know snowball effect? That means that like it's exponential. The bigger it gets, the quicker it grows. So it doesn't matter, it starts off tiny, tiny, tiny, but like you know like the thing with where somebody wanted to you know did something and he wanted the king asked him what do you want to reward you? So he said, take a chess set, on the first square put or like for every day of the month or whatever, for a month, different versions, you know, for 30 days whatever, two months, whatever it is.

First day, give me one grain of wheat, the second, two, and then four, and then eight, and every day double it for a month, or for each square on the board, 64. And so the king said, okay, anything to say as long as I'll do that. But he figured out how much it would be, and it came out to be more than all of the grain in the whole country.

And it sounds like what? That's that's but it's it's so small, it was just 1, 2, 4, 8, but it grows very quickly, and it gets to be millions and millions. Yeah, my my שווער was telling me, he's a you know math professor. He's a math professor. We were talking about אין סוף and, you know, infinity and So he was saying that that you know we not only do we not understand infinity, we we really have a very hard time understanding finite numbers, you know, once they get big.

Infinity and Doubling Paper Thickness to Reach the Sun 2:11

He said like if you take a piece of paper and you fold it in half, and then you fold it in half again, and then you fold it in half again, the same idea, you keep it keeps doubling in thickness. If you would do it 50 times, which you can't do, but but let's say you did 50 times, it would be so thick it would be reach past the sun from Earth.

Yeah, it would be like a 100 million miles thick. Piece of paper, 50 times. Yeah. Take out a calculator and figure out how thick a paper figure out No, figure out how thick a piece of paper is, pick a number, it doesn't matter, you know, pick some number, and double it 50 times. What is that? Two to the 50th power? What is that? Yeah, so do that, and see what number you get.