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What Existed Before Time? Kabbalah on God, Eternity & Messiah

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Time is running out. Can time run out? Let's get very deep cababalistic. We We'll just explore a little bit. Let's have some Let's have some real fun. Can we run out of time? That is the question. Can we run out of time? The answer is yes. Can time run out? I think no. What's the difference? So, God may have set a time limit to when he wants this world to kind of correct itself. and and in our lives we might set a time limit to where we want to see some type of progress where we will explore a particular idea and if we see it doesn't succeed [music] in a certain amount of time we will end it but time itself I don't see it ending and I'll tell you why so before God created there was no time but once God created he created time together with space and together with the souls of Israel and if base and the souls of people will continue forever and the time by definition will continue with that with them. And so we could correctly say that yes there will come a time and an era that we will live forever, right? The world to come is this forever life. We will live body and soul together forever. Which is interesting because now what we have is the physical world the way we know it where people die and things wither and no nothing lasts forever. So we're talking about a physical world and a physical body that will last forever in time. And so that means time will last forever with it. The concept of time ending would only have an expression when we talk about going back into God before time. Meaning before the concept where God created time from his true level of existence is above and beyond time. We can't apply time to that space. Meaning we can't say that God existed forever by himself above time because forever is forever is a time bound word. So God existed. Time didn't exist. When God created a new thing with the creation of that new thing attached to that new thing is time. And so on a spiritual level, it began with spiritual worlds and the spiritual source of souls and and there was a spiritual process of development which is what what we would call spiritual time. And now we have in our world physical time in the physical world but it's ultimately always connected to the spiritual concept of time which which because it's all really one creation. The spiritual and physical world that God created is really all one. And so it's all connected to that same concept of time which begins when God begins to create. That's when time started because once we have the concept of a process, so we have the beginning of what we would call time. And of course once we have the the the substance to that process, so then we would call that the beginning of space. And once we have the idea of the soul of of human of of human beings particularly the Jewish people. So there we have the beginning of of mankind. And all this begins in its most pristine sublime state is in this famous expression from the liro when it when it came up in God's will in God's divine will to create. So the real language is first he he calls things to emanate from him and emanation is somewhat attached but then ex extending from its source and so the beginning levels of of of existence kind of came from from Hashem himself and then there's different levels of concealment and ultimately we reach more separateness spiritual separateness and then ultimately this physical world which is considered as the most separate as we can can have and this is of course the last and final world. This long introduction is really to help us appreciate that God created three dimensions in in in existence. The ultimate reality is a combination of time, space and and the soul of man. When will time end? Well, in order for time to end, this world would have to end and we would have to end. And since there is a potential for us which we will God willing attain soon to live forever. So time will exist forever. So our time could run out for a particular thing but time itself I don't see ever running out. What we still must address and accept is and and certainly understand is that within God himself, the concept of time not existing still exists because the level of God on on essence before creation is unchanged and unaffected. So God himself as he is onto himself really is above time. So there is this concept of being above time, which means time doesn't exist for God himself. Within creation, time exists. It's for example, let's say we're playing chess. So while we're playing chess, there are many rules that we accept to follow because they're the rules of the game of chess. But outside of the game of chess, those rules don't exist. So within the rules of creation which mandate time, space and the soul of man. So these three things exist. But outside of that they don't exist. As if they never existed. It's hard to fully grasp because once God created something from his essence. So how do you say it's as if it never existed? But this is the the non-logical logic that we must accept and follow from our sages.