Excerpt of a shiur from Wednesday night, Parshat Eikev, 5785

The woman has an intellect that is a billion times [greater] than the man’s.

Bring Sippurei Ma’asiot. The Rebbe [Rebbe Nachman] says that in a single hour, it’s possible to know all the wisdom that’s in the world – in a single hour!

In one hour, a human being can, in a single hour, know all of the wisdoms. Likutey Moharan – it needs to be learned throughout a person’s whole life. But, in a single hour, you can [grasp] all the wisdoms that are in the world.

You can make silver not from silver, and gold not from gold.

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This is the story in Sippurei Ma’asiot that Rav Berland is referring to, above, from the Third Beggar in the story of The Seven Beggars:

“Once, all the sages sat together, and each one boasted of his wisdom.

One of them boasted that with his wisdom he had invented iron, and another boasted of another type of metal. Another boasted of having invented silver, which is more valuable, and another one boasted about inventing gold.

Another boasted about weapons of war, and another claimed he knew how to make metals through using alchemy. Another boasted of other wisdoms, for inventions such as saltpeter gunpowder came to the world through wisdom. Each one boasted of his wisdom.

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Then one of them spoke up and said, “I am wiser than you, for I am wise like the day.”

They did not understand what he meant by “wise like the day”. He explained, “If all your wisdoms would be gathered together, they will not amount to more than an hour. Even though each wisdom is taken from a different day of the week, according to what was created on that day, all the wisdoms are only mental structures (thus, a wisdom is taken from the day on which the phenomena which were percieved as mental structures were created.)

Even so, it is possible through wisdom to gather all the wisdoms into one hour. But I am as wise as an entire day.”

(All these were the words that the last sage spoke.)

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Then I spoke up, and said to him (that is, the [Third] Beggar with the speech defect said to the last sage): “Like which day?” The last sage answered, “This one is wiser than me, because he asks like which day. All the same, I am as wise as any day you choose.”

Now, it may seem difficult: How could the one who asked the question be wiser, if the last sage was as wise as any day you could choose? For this, there is an entire story.”

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[Skipping some, returning to the Rav’s own words].

The Rebbe said this, that it’s possible with all the metals, to transform one metal into another metal.

He said I know how to transform one metal into another metal. He said this in [1810], 215 years ago [i.e. in 1810], this thing. They still didn’t know that there was such a thing as this at all. I know how to make silver, from ‘not-silver’, and gold from ‘not-gold’.

Now, they discovered that everything occurs according to the [number of] protons, how many protons.

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Iron is 26 protons, and gold is 79. You need 53 protons – this needs to be blown up, to be bombed with neutrons. You take material that emits neutrons, this is from 94 and above, it emits, and then it emits neutrons – billions of them! Trilions!

Everything is transformed into protons.

You need to transform the iron to gold, and hydrogen to helium, because hydrogen is a proton and an electron and a neutron – you take two hydrogen [atoms], warm them up, [explode] them at 150 million degrees, like the sun. This is 50 million, even.

Then, you join the two hydrogen atoms, and this becomes helium, it becomes one electron, one proton, two protons, and afterwards, it becomes two neutrons, three electrons, three protons, three neutrons.

[The Shivivei Or editor puts a note here that it’s possible this last part was not written down correctly.]

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So here, the Rebbe reveals in Sippurey Ma’asiot, the Rebbe reveals what [the scientists] only discovered 100 years ago.

The Rebbe reveals that it’s possible to take all the metals, and to make silver from something that is not silver, and to make gold from something that is not gold.

It’s possible to invent all sorts of metal objects, weapons of war – this is atomic warfare.

Another little while, there will be the Iranians. Here, they said that within months, they will already have a nuke, and they will fire it at Shuvu Banim.

They upset everything for them.

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And this was his boast, that he knew how to make metals.

It’s possible to make metals from different metals, and to transform one metal into another metal by way of wisdom, like for example salitra [gunpowder] and pilwer [some sort of incendiary material] Nuclei.

And he boasted of his wisdom, and I know how to make silver from not-silver, and to make gold from not-gold.

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All the wisdom in the world – it’s possible to learn all the [secular] wisdom in the world in a single hour.

Today, what took a million years to learn – only in 1897 did they find and reveal the electron, and in 1905 they found the proton, and only in 1933, they discovered the neutron.

In another eight years, this will be a hundred years [from 1933]. So, what they only discovered 100 years ago, today you can learn it in a single second.

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Ad kan, from Rebbe Nachman and the Rav.

If you have time over Shabbat, read the story of the Third Beggar – I’m sure you’ll learn a lot, and start to figure out more of the clues as to why the Rav has been talking so much recently about protons, neutrons, and the ‘wisdom’ of turning lead into gold.

Amongst other things.

And if you come across something interesting, feel free to share it in the comments. I would love for this to be more of a ‘give and take’ thing, at least, sometimes.