Lessons from Jewish Space Travel
Tech Tribe Dispatch #253
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In the early days of the space race, scientists faced a quandary: To send a person to the moon, they would need to launch a ship with a considerable amount of fuel. But the increased fuel would need a large part of the ship to be dedicated to storing it, which would add to the weight of the ship, which would require more fuel, which in turn would need even more place for storage . . .
They turned to the multi-stage rocket. By jettisoning stages when they run out of propellant, the mass of the remaining rocket is decreased. Each successive stage can also be optimized for its specific operating conditions… This staging allows the thrust of the remaining stages to more easily accelerate the rocket to its final speed and height.
There is a lesson we can learn from this:
Small children are often motivated by simple prizes: Stickers, candy and the like. As they grow older, the source of the motivation changes: toys, good grades, success in school . . . and ultimately as adults, we can appreciate the reward of the deed itself: The complex sense of satisfaction through achieving and accomplishing something done with transformative intent.
Each sense of reward is a stage in the trajectory of our launch. As we grow, as we reach new heights, we jettison the old motivation, in favor of the loftier one. Try to motivate an adult with a lollipop, and either it will fail or something else has gone wrong.
So too in terms of our Jewish identities: The early sense of motivation and education we experience as Jews is ideal for those early stages of development. But as we grow, our relationship and appreciation for what we strive to do must grow as well. Basing our Jewish identity on what we learned in Hebrew School or preparation for Bar or Bat Mitzvah is to rely on an earlier stage - when we are already on our way to obtain new heights.
The Rebbe, In private audience with Professor Velvl Greene.
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