Can Rats Read? | Rabbi Moshe Taub

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[music] >> I'm going to share with you a study that you're not going to believe is real. >> [music] >> One night, probably between semesters, a researcher of a lab, they have rats, they test it, you know, give one rat group some caffeine, the other rat group some [music] water at to see who gets through the maze quicker. At least that's how they study various chemicals. [music] And he decided to try something. He took out Post-it notes, and for one of the rat cages, he put on the Post-it notes, "You're beautiful. Everybody loves [music] you. You're a genius. We all look up to you. All the other rats in the world look up to you." in the world look up to you." >> [music] >> On the other cage, he put, "Nobody likes you. You're ugly as sin. Everybody laughs at you behind your back." Amazingly, [music] when he picked up the rats in the positive messaging cage, they got through the maze in let's say 2 [music] minutes. When he picked up the rats with the negative messaging, they got through the maze in about 3 minutes. >> [music] >> His students came back from break, they tried it, an amazing study. What does it mean? Who knows? Let's publish it. They sent it to a peer-review journal, and they looked at it, and they said, "We don't believe this study. Unless your rats read English, speak English,

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1. 0:03[music] >> I'm going to share with you a study that you're not going to believe…
2. 0:34in the world look up to you." >> [music] >> On the other cage, he put,…
3. 1:04rats read English, speak English, understand English, this is impossible." While they laughed at him, he…
4. 1:34speak English or Farsi or French, wherever they did the study. But you know who does?…
5. 2:05taste it. My wife works in Manhattan. They don't know [music] that she's married to a…
6. 2:36believe. If we believe it, we'll have a hashpa'ah on everybody around us and [music] bring…

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