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>> Okay, friends, uh this is the conclusion
of this uh series,
which uh part one,
the series on UFOs, extraterrestrial
beings, and space travel, contemporary
halachic analysis. Part one, we did the
earliest sources of
whether there are life on other planets.
We saw the opinion of Rabbi Yehudah
Barceloni
in his commentary to the Sefer Yetzirah,
who
even acknowledged the possibility that
there is Torah
uh elsewhere on the universe. We saw the
opinion of Rav Hasdai Crescas, who also
acknowledged that opinion, that there
could be life on other planets, even
intelligent life on other planets. The
other view, the other extreme, the
opinion of Rabbi Yosef Albo, who says
that no, it is impossible that there is
any life on any planets. He said, "Yoreh
anokhi she lo yomar she ish el olam
acherem."
There is no There are no other worlds.
There There is no life.
There are no They don't have free
choice. And then we had the in-between
view of the Sefer HaB'rit,
who said, "While there is other life,
other life does not have free choice."
Last week we saw the opinions in part
two of Rav Tuvia
Harofeh, Rav Tuvia Cohen, Rav David
Nieto.
We learned the opinion of Rav Pinchas of
the Pardes Rimmonim.
And this week in part three,
we uh examined the seven contemporary
views.
One thing is for sure,
and the one thing everybody agrees to,
is that there are many, many worlds out
there.
We know Chazal say, "Atidah Hakadosh
Baruch Hu lehanhil lechol tzaddik
vetzaddik she olamot."
>> And
we know that Hashem created many, many
stars, millions of stars, maybe
trillions of stars.
And there's a lot of discussion, what is
the purpose of all of these various
alamot?
What do they exist for?
And if you look in Tikunei Zohar,
Tikunei Zohar teaches
that
the number of stars are without number,
but each star is considered a separate
world by itself. Tikunei Zohar is found
on Yod Dalet Amud Bet. He says on the
pasuk
Ve'alamot ein mispar,
he's going on the
pasuk in Shir Hashirim,
Ve'alamot ein mispar,
says Tikunei Zohar.
Ve'eilain alamot al tikrei alamot, ela
alamot. Don't read it maidens,
but rather
read it worlds.
In fact,
Tikunei Zohar says
that
each one, each tzaddik will be given a
star
and have a world to himself.
So the 18,000 worlds
that we spoke about from the Gemara in
Avodah Zarah,
would be
somehow the number of stars ruled over
that uh by 18,000 tzaddikim that the
pasuk in uh Yechezkel alludes to.
Which may offer us a reason, suggested
by Ari Kaplan, of why Hashem created all
these worlds.
Hashem created all these worlds as a
place for the 18,000 tsadikim. In other
words,
the Earth perhaps does not have enough
space to reward and award all of the
tsadikim.
And the various
endless worlds in the shamayim are areas
of reward for all the great tsadikim.
Now, the question then is,
once we know that the stars and the
planets were created as a some kind of
abode for the tsadikim,
how are the tsadikim going to get there?
How are these tsadikim going to reach
and travel to all these various
worlds? By the way,
the the Midrash says in Pekudei,
lo kol tsadik v'tsadik have a lay olam
b'atzmai.
Lo kol tsadik tsadik olam b'atzma. Each
tsadik is awarded a world unto itself.
So,
there is an amazing Gemara in Sanhedrin,
and we'll end this series with this.
Uh Rabbi Ari Kaplan, in his article,
breakthrough article on the topic of
extraterrestrial life, he concludes with
the following uh thought.
The Gemara tells us
in Maseches Sanhedrin,
v'niskaf Hashem l'vado b'yom hahu, says
the Gemara daf tzadi bet amud bet.
Tsadikim mah in oisin? What will Hashem
do to the righteous?
Hakadosh Baruchu oiseh lahem k'nafayim
k'nasharim. God will make them wings
like the eagles. V'shatin al p'nei
mayim, they'll float on the water,
they'll
hover over the water. Shenemar, al kein
lo yira b'hamer aretz. b'mayd harim
b'layv yamim.
So, the Gemara says, "Well, maybe it
will be painful. How are they going to
hover?"
V'sham
they will grow wings like eagles.
Yarutzu, they will run. V'lo yiga'u,
they won't tire.
Yelchu, they will walk. V'lo yeyafu,
they won't weary.
In other words,
where exactly are these tzaddikim flying
when the world is uninhabited?
So, Rabbi Kaplan understands that these
teachings of Chazal are a prediction of
space travel.
And
this in a way indicates
and alludes to the idea how space travel
is
inevitable as a prelude to the coming of
Mashiach.
And
it also brings a very fascinating topic
whether technology
can be used
and will be used
as the way that the
promises of the Nevi'im will come to
fruition. The Chofetz Chaim seems to
write that in fact that indeed the
technology
is the way with which we should
visualize how
all the promises of the Torah and the
Nevi'im will come true.
But,
if we're living in an age where space
travel is constantly being developed and
taken to the next level,
and Rabbi Kaplan says that all the
trillions of Elamites, which Chazal
understand are realms to reward the
tzaddikim,
that the
technology of space travel at the very
least helps us visualize and imagine how
these will reach there.
Uh
and if not as a martial maybe even more
than that maybe in reality how they will
reach all these various mice.
So, if you walk out into the night time
sky
and you see uh
an unidentified flying saucer
and you use your telescope and inside
you see
living forms teeming around will give
you an opportunity to review the sheet
of the hood of Barcelona and
I press cast
and I will be able and the safer race
and the auto
and to be a wife
and the same sofa
and the opinion of Abraham is going cook
and the opinion of Kaminsky and about
and the way check and the Miller and the
home and Isaacson and I am going to ask
you
and when I know we come
maybe one of the questions you'll ask
Yahoo
he should come he should be my best
the
toy voice voice in the comments and
you'll ask
what's going on in Neptune on Mars
but until that great day so far the best
information that has come to our
attention is that the state department
spent half a million half a billion
dollars blowing up a kid's balloon that
was determined to be an unidentified
flying object. Anyway, have a great day
everyone but I like that guy.
>> [laughter]
>> Thank you. Have a good day.
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