Seeing the Sounds: Does Judaism Have a String Theory? - Women's Yisro Class

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

morning. They put it on last night. Uh, it's on high. Yeah. Okay. I hope the Shia could warm you up a little bit. There is a very famous Pak verse in paras describing the revelation at Sinai. at Sinai. And the Torah states, and I quote, And all the people saw the voices and the lid, the torches, the sound of the chaur, the smoking mountain. The people saw and trembled. The unique expression that's employed here, of course, is The entire nation saw the voices. Kylo means voices. They saw the voices and they saw the tortures. The torches, the lidim, the lightning and the sound of the cha. Now we can all see torches. We can all see burning flames. We can see lightning. But the pik says they saw the ky, the But the pik says they saw the ky, the sounds, the voices. The voice, the sound of the and the voices on this. The famous medish the quotes who says at that point they saw what is usually heard and they heard what is usually seen. Usually sounds are heard. Torches Torches are seen. Lightning is seen. The sound of the chaer is heard. The uniqueness of that moment says, is there was a reversal of sorts. They saw what is heard. They saw the sounds. They saw the voices even though voices are usually heard. And the lightning which is usually seen, And the lightning which is usually seen, the torches which are usually seen this they heard. What does this mean? How are we supposed to understand it? How can one see voices? Seeing sounds seem out of the realm of existence. So, one might say, well, just add it to

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1. 0:32morning. They put it on last night. Uh, it's on high. Yeah. Okay. I hope the…
2. 6:17next description in the first summation of the entire experience is they saw the sounds. It…
3. 12:44And then Maya becomes a central feature in the story of creation in its opening verses.…
4. 18:56into images. That's what it would mean to see a sound. What if I can see…
5. 25:14sight provides me or provides you with the ability to perceive any given scene or event…
6. 31:23aid a witness can sit on the court because since he saw it he won't be…
7. 37:31hole. He sees the hole, the general immediately and then he could break it up to…
8. 43:46time for some fun. And the balatanya went to do whatever he was doing. And suddenly…
9. 50:03education created by in 1917 in krakow in Poland was called bas yakov and the reason…
10. 56:12SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME, NOSTALGIA today is not what it used to be like. People knew…

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