Jewish Lessons From Black Holes
Tech Tribe Dispatch 152
💡 Think:
Reading this week about the The Milky Way’s Black Hole Comes to Light, showing us the unseeable black holes at the heart of our galaxy for the first time.
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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If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!
- Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk
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🏛️ THE HOLOCAUST STARTED WITH MY GREAT-UNCLE’S MURDER. Arthur Kahn is believed to be the first Jewish person killed by the Nazis. I’ve known the story of his death as long as I can remember, but I wanted to learn the story of his life.
📹 He Made Yiddish Go Viral. Frankie Light is one of the new breed of “YouTube polyglots.” He taught himself Mandarin, but can he earn a living making small talk with strangers?
📝 Chore apps were meant to make mothers’ lives easier. They often don’t. Rather than reducing the burden of housework, they tend to become yet another thing to worry about
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