You remember a few months ago, the Rav kept talking about ‘turning lead into gold’?

Take a look at this, that I tripped over yesterday, even though it’s from last May:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research-frontiers/cern-researchers-briefly-produce-gold-when-lead-nuclei-collide/89290938

Here’s the takeaway:

Physicists at the CERN nuclear research centre in Geneva have turned lead into gold. During the collision of lead nuclei at almost the speed of light, the conversion of lead into gold was measured using a new mechanism, the organisation said.

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Now, let me draw your attention to this article, comments from the Rav, from August last year:

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Snippet:

There are neutrons.

The neutrons enter inside the nucleus and are transformed into protons.

If you want to change [the physical properties of] metal, you need to change the protons, change the number [of protons].

If, let’s say, iron is 26, and this is 29 [or 79], so then you need to add another 50. How do you add another 50? From where do you get another 50? The fifty gates of binah (understanding).

There are 50 yovel (jubilee) years. Yovel is the fiftieth gate.

So, you take neutrons, material that emits neutrons – this costs a billion dollars, to get a machine like this. And it joins with the nucleus.

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The [atomic] nucleus is microscopic. You can’t see it.

The nucleus is one part in a trillion of the volume of an electron.[ All the neutrons that you add to the protons] – the atom transforms from 26 to being 59 [79].

So, lead becomes gold.

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As usual, the Rav was a million miles ahead of the curve with all this.

While I was looking at the older articles here on the site, I came across this one, too:

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The snippet that caught my eye:

Because Bilaam learned all the [black] magic.

Bring the Etz Chaim[2] – he learned everything from his grandpa. His grandpa was Lavan, he learnt all his magic from him.

And he knew how to bring down fire from the heavens, and like that, he burned-up Heshbon. It’s written here, on page 61, that he was the son of Lavan’s son, and that he learned from him all the [black] magic in the whole world.

And he knew how to bring down fire from the sky – he was greater than Moshe Rabbenu.

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“Fire from the sky” – like this, do you think?

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Because nobody knows what this actually was.

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Let’s end with this ‘Purim Shpiel’ headline from yesterday, ho ho ho:

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-860798

Snippet:

Abdollah Ganji, former editor of the IRGC-linked newspaper Javan, told his 150,000 followers on X/Twitter on Wednesday that a “strange phenomenon” had taken place during the 12-day war.