0207 - Farbrengen about Flying to the Moon Part 3

00:01 As a continuation to the fabregen of Shabbos Parshas Vayigash Tov Shin Chof Tes in connection to the time when they almost landed on the moon, later on when they actually landed on the moon, that was that same year in three weeks. So Shabbos Parshas Dvorim, which was Shabbos Chazon, the Rebbe spoke about it again. And one of the things the Rebbe said was that he got a question whether there is life on other planets, on the moon. So the Rebbe said even though it's not negiah to Yiddishkeit, so who cares? But the Rebbe said that it's important to know because sometimes you want to put on tefillin with a Yid, and he asks you this question, and if you have an answer, then it'll convince him to put on tefillin or keep Shabbos or kashrus or whatever it is. So maybe let's kedai to know. And the Rebbe said that we find this in the Gemara in Shevuos, in the Gemara in Makkot, concerning the shira of Dvoira. When there was the war between Barak and Sisra, and later they won the war, so later Dvoira said shira. And one of the things she said was that they came to help min haShamayim. And then she said, Oiru meirois, meirois should be cursed. Oiru, orur yeshvei, and its inhabitant should be cursed, ki libo lo azaz Hashem, because they didn't come to help. What is that? What's meirois? So the Gemara brings two pshatim, Rashi and the Sefat also brings two pshatim. One pshat is

01:21 it's first to a person, and a person by the name of Meirois was a strong person. He could have come to help and he didn't. Another one is Meirois is the name of a star. And she was saying that the star should be cursed because the star didn't come to help, and the yeshvei, the inhabitants of the star, did not come to help. So from here it seems we see that there is some kind of life and inhabitants in the, uh, in a star. Now obviously it's not the same way as human beings down here. Human beings down here were given the Torah, et cetera, and there it's not chaychas to it. But nevertheless, it seems from here that there is some life on other stars. And the Rebbe continued, if I remember correctly, the Rebbe repeated some of the things he said in Parshas Vayigash. One thing I think, I'm, uh, not a hundred percent sure that he repeated it, but I think he repeated it again, that how does it fit that some people were tying in, how does it fit to what we say in Kiddush Lavanah, eini yochal in geia boch, I cannot touch you. And the Rebbe even said, if I remember correctly, that there is somebody, a Rav came out and saying that we have to change the girsa, and he quoted that mesay girsa in one of the, in the Tosefta I think, where the girsa is different, and that proves that the girsa is right because, uh,

02:36 we see that it's not true. We could touch the moon. The Rebbe went again through the same thing, saying that we don't say that we can't touch the moon. We say that k'shem she'ani reiki nagdi, just like I'm giving a jump, I can't touch you, so too that no one should be able to touch me. But we're not saying we can't touch and land on the moon. It's by jumping we can't do it. And I think the Rebbe even repeated other things that he said in the fabregen of the Vayigash, which I didn't mention last time when I spoke about Vayigash because everyone could look up the sicha. But I think one nekuda he repeated here where he said not only should it not be mevaval people, the fact that they ended, landed on the moon, the contrary. That should bring people to understand the greatness of Hashem even more. Like we say, marabou massech Hashem, hagodol massech Hashem. When we see the great, the greatness of the world and the kochas that are hidden in the world, and we know that everything came from Hashem, so that shows how great Hashem is. So the more they develop things within the nature of the world, science develops more and shows the greater power, and we know that it all comes from Hashem, all that gives us more understanding in the greatness of Hashem. So not only this should not stop, chas v'shalom, a person from believing in Hashem, but adaraba, it should show the greatness

03:47 of Hashem. Look how great He is that we found another koach in the world, another koach in the world which Hashem created. The greater the koach of the world is, the greater we understand Hashem is. I think all this was also said in this fabregen of Shabbos Parshas Dvorim Tov Shin Chof Tes.