54. Electricity - Daily Dose of Wisdom

Electricity helps us understand the hidden G‑dly force that sustains the universe.

It cannot be grasped with any of the five senses—we can know it only from its effects and related phenomena. Indeed, we cannot explain it in any other terms.

Yet it permeates all of our experience, and from it we derive great light and power.

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From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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December 21, 2012

Electricity

Shabbat Shalom, I like it, like Chashmal? Imagination is the pathway and the portal. Thanks, Chanoch

Chanoch Brown
Miami Beach

December 20, 2012

Electricity

The electricity is Shin that is related to Binah one of the sefirots because is fire one of the three mother letters...how are they connected to electricity or to the blessed Ein Sof that is above Keter of Atzilut? How is Makiff related to electromagnetism?I think your answer is missing something is not complete....

Richard Dawson
fairfax Virginia USA

December 20, 2012

Some clarification

Hi Richard and Jorge! Electricity is not something we can see or even feel—until it manifests as something else, such as light, heat or friction. Does it permeate all of our experience? Every thought of your mind relies on the electricity passing through the neurotransmitters in your brain. G-dly force is what keeps everything in existence at every moment.

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

December 20, 2012

Blurred mind or blurred analogy?

Interesting analogy between the G-dly force and electricity. Yet, the last phrase is somehow fuzzy because I can't understand what the "it" refers to. "It" is the electricity or "it" is the G-dly force which permeates... and what follows. Or it is that I have to take some English language lessons. Because electricity doesn't permeates all of our experience, do it? The G-dly force, hidden or exposed, doesn't provide us with light or physical power, do it?

Jorge
Qro/Mexico

December 20, 2012

Electricity

Electricity or electromagnetism helps us understand God or both of them?....Because you can see the sparks of electricity or feel an electrical shock if you touched with your hands..... in the case of electromagnetism is different it is completely invisible...

Richard Dawson
Fairfax Virginia USA