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The Illusion Your Eyes Create #illusion #energy #divineenergy #hidabroot #yyjacobson #judaism

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

An analogy on perception and reality inspired by Heisenberg and Jewish mysticism.

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There was a very famous physicist, his [music] name was Heisenberg. And he gave a brilliant, brilliant metaphor. He said there was a fisherman who decided that he wants to determine how many fish are there in the Pacific Ocean. [music] So, he built this grand net and he put it down into the Pacific Ocean for a few weeks and then lifted [music] it up and he had all these millions of fish. And he said there's no fish that's smaller than 10 in. [music] And he became the laughing stock of humanity cuz in your own living room, you have fish that [music] are smaller than 10 in. And then they realized he actually wasn't lying. The holes in the net were 10 in. So, there were no fish smaller [music] than 10 in. It's It's the tools that we use

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  1. 0:00There was a very famous physicist, his [music] name was Heisenberg. And he gave a brilliant,…
  2. 0:32to define reality that will determine the nature of reality that we are [music] going to…
  3. 1:02[music] trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. But it's so tiny the eye can't see…

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