Jewish Lessons from a Black Hole
Tech Tribe Dispatch #250
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The Rebbe once remarked to Herman Branover, a Russian Israeli physicist and pioneer in magnetohydrodynamics, about a lesson that could be learned from a black hole.
”What is the unique quality of the sun, which makes everyone consider it a blessing? It is, of course, its capacity to give light to the earth. What would happen if the sun had the same temperature, the same energy, but did not radiate or give heat? Indeed, there are such stars, called black holes, the force of attraction of which is so strong that not even one light ray can depart from them. If the sun were such a star, whom would it benefit then? Of what use would the sun be if it were a black hole? So it is with the Jew whose primary function is to put forth light, to radiate, to better a fellow through the mitzvah of Ahavat Yisrael. Without this, such a person would turn into a black hole, when he or she was created to be a sun.”
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Love this lesson about the sun and black holes!!