This creation story teaches us much about God and ourselves. So the world and people are an expression of his love. Why? God is love and love is best expressed towards something or someone else. God did not need to create, he chose to create the universe. To say this " just happened"requires more faith than to believe God is behind these amazing statistics. Not to mention there are over one billion other galaxies just like ours in the universe. Yet the vast galaxy we live in spins at 490,000 mph even at this speed, our galaxy still needs 200 million years to make one rotation. The most challenging concepts is that God created the heavens and the earth it the concept confronts the modern mind. So, in the end, I guess the answer to the question depends on what precisely is meant by parallel universes. At times the effect is concrete and tangible at times it is more subtle, and can be discerned only by a finer, more spiritual eye. A person’s every act, word, and even thought has an effect. Suddenly, the disciples cried out in fright: they saw the angry man actually ripping his fellow apart, just as he had threatened! The Baal Shem Tov himself closed the circle by placing his holy hands upon the shoulders of the two disciples who stood nearest to him. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, who was in the synagogue at the time, told his disciples to form a circle, each taking the hand of his neighbor, and to close their eyes. Once, while they were angrily having it out in the local synagogue, one shouted at the other, “I will tear you apart like a fish!” We are told the story of two Mezhibuzh citizens who were involved in a bitter dispute. To see more about these other worlds, see Where Are All the “Worlds”?.įurthermore, while we have precluded the possibility of other universes spinning off from ours based on alternative possible choices, in a certain sense even when we have not done an action but merely said we would do one, the action has already been taken in the World of Speech. Rather, they exist right here together with us, but in another plane of reality.Įach of these worlds is really about the degree of G‑dliness that is revealed on each plane. Although they are referred to as worlds, in reality these aren’t separate planets or galaxies. However, if the question is whether there other worlds or realities, then the answer is yes.Īccording to Kabbalah, all of existence can be divided into four worlds, known as Atzilut (World of Emanation), Beriah (World of Creation), Yetzirah (World of Formation) and Asiyah (World of Action-our world).
For in order for this theory to work, these separate worlds have to spin off into their own respective timelines, with their very own free will decisionmaking process.
Since we have already precluded the possibility of other intelligent lifeforms with capacity for free will to exist in any other place besides for our own world, we are forced to say that this type of parallel universe does not exist. If we analyze this theory, it leads to the possibility of one meeting their other self from some other dimension. This theory and variations of it have been greatly popularized in science fiction. One of the more popular concepts is the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI), in which there is a large number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened has occurred in some other universe or universes.
That said, we can now turn to the question of parallel universes.ĭifferent people mean different things when they talk about parallel universes. Before we venture out of our own universe in search for life, we should perhaps begin our discussion with life on other planets in our own world.Īs is explained in Are human beings the only conscious beings in the universe, while there may very well be life on other planets, these lifeforms would not be able to have free will, since free will is possible only where there is Torah, whereby the Creator offers His creatures more than one possibility and asks that they make the appropriate choice.