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 Heaven and Earth
For the Mind, Body, and Soul
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| There is Only One Infinite A tourist was standing in the Old City square turning his map around and around. He was trying to figure out where he was. He looked frustrated. The Torah tells us that it is a mitzvah to return a lost item. Then how much more so must it be a mitzvah to return a lost person. I asked if he needed directions. At first he did not want to admit that he was lost, but then he decided to take advantage of my offer. After showing him where he was, I asked him what he did. I like to ask people about their specialties. Perhaps I can glean some important information. He gave me his card. He was a PhD, professor of mathematics at Harvard. Pretty impressive. As often happens around here, we got onto the subject of G-d. “What is G-d?” he asked. Not openly denying, but obviously putting it back on me to prove that G-d exists. “G-d is infinite,” I replied. “But there are many infinites,” he shot back. “No there isn’t. There is only one infinite,” I said, in a tone that let him know that I thought that his comment was silly. He looked at me as if, perhaps, I might be a religious scholar, but certainly no genius when it came to science. He put on his professor’s voice and said, “For instance, numbers are infinite. “ “Numbers are not infinite,” I objected. “Of course they are,” he insisted. “They go on forever.” Now it was his turn to let me know that he thought that my statement was silly. I said, “Numbers are not infinite because they only go in two directions. Up and down. The infinite has to go in all directions.” He was shocked. He had never thought about it that way. In order for something to be truly infinite, it has to be everywhere. It has to go in every direction at all times, and, in fact, it even has to be all that ever was, is, or will be. And only G-d does that.
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