Albert-Einstein

Was Einstein a Kabbalist?

By Uncle Zally, Zalman Velvel

 

We know that Einstein was as Jewish as Moses. In 1948, when Albert was asked to be the first President of Israel, he declined, like Moses declined to be God’s messenger during the Burning Bush episode in Exodus. God insisted, Moses relented, but Einstein did not.

 

However, it is not commonly known that Einstein borrowed heavily from Kabbalah when he derived the Theory of Relativity. E= m c 2 

 

Don’t think it’s complicated, because it is not. It is Godlike in its simplicity.
 
It means that everything that exists, things we can see, touch, or feel, in other words, things with MASS, or m, are composed of ENERGY, or E, the power to move things. Mass is just Energy in solid form.
 
How did this energy come about? According to Kabbalah, when God made the world, the first thing He created was light. A huge amount of it. This thing called light was such an ingenious invention, that scientists are still trying to figure it out today.
 
Sometimes it acts like a mass of streaming little balls, called photons, and sometimes it acts like a wave of energy. Light is truly mystical in nature – Kabbalistic.
 
God then did something even more ingenious. He took this light energy, compressed a large amount of it, and made water.
 
When you think about it, water is just as amazing as light. Only someone like God could imagine it, let alone create it. It always has mass, yet you can see through it. It slips through your fingers like light, but it also rolls around and splashes like a wave. It can be   transformed, by evaporating into the air like a gas, or freezing solid like a rock.
 
And all of life contains it.
 
God liked water so much, he made more solid mass, like earth. But after his first and second creations, light and water, it was anticlimactic (except when he discovered life, which we will get to later.) The rest of creation followed logically, like night into day.
 
Now God needed a measuring stick, something constant that He could use to calculate just how much of His light energy would be compressed into each particle of matter, or mass. He chose the speed of light, and then multiplied it times itself, and it called the square. c2
 
It was a logical choice. Where did all this energy, the E , come from in the first place? From the light of creation, which came from God. Each bit of Energy is just a small piece of God.
Kabbalists already knew this. Einstein used the same  concepts from the Zohar, the original book of Kabbalah, and put them into a formula for the rest of the world to remember.
 
It was Cliff Notes of Creation. E= m c 2
 
Now, the application of this Kabbalistic formula did something truly mystical and amazing to one of the basic components of the Universe:
It showed Time was relative, not absolute.
That’s one of the reasons it’s called the Theory of Relativity.
 
What did that mean? It meant that a second was now a different length of time, depending on how fast you were going. The faster you went, the longer a second became. As you got closer and closer to the measuring constant, the speed of light, a second became extraordinarily long.
 
When you understand that time is now a relative measurement, like a true Kabbalist, then you know how old the Universe is. The Bible says 6,000 years, and scientists say billions of years. Who’s right?
 
Well, whenever there is a choice between believing the word of God, or a scientist, you should put your faith in God.
The answer is that time expanded in the beginning so that a year during creation was like millions and billions of years now. That’s because In the beginning, things were going much faster, probably as fast as God could think (which is probably around the speed of light.) Why so fast? So God would see how things played out.
 
As the Talmud says, “God had a desire” to create, but he did not know just what … until  … He arrived at the invention of man … and then woman. Then God slowed things down. Why?
 
So, God could cherish every moment of his love for us, and the wild and crazy things we do back, in the name of love.
 
You can’t use carbon dating devices to estimate the age of the Universe. Carbon dating is based upon a short loving second now, not a long, long, cold second from our prehistoric past.
 
So ipso facto, when Einstein was a young man working as a patent clerk in Germany, he was probably reading the Zohar and the Tanya during his lunch breaks, and farbrenging with Hasids on Shabbos.
 
And if it’s true, then he should have given some credit to Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai with the Nobel Prize Committee.
 
** This blog was inspired by Gil Locks.
 

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