The Stars Prove The Oral Torah is Divine. (9 minutes)

0:01So anyone that spends a little bit of time researching the Oral Torah, the Gemara, would see that there are things in the Oral Torah that could not come from man, could not come from human beings. One of them is the number of stars. We talked about this a few months ago, and we'll mention it again because we have a lot of new people today. It's worth looking into. The number of stars. Masechet Berachot Resh Lakish is telling the story. Resh Lakish is one of the sages and key figures in the Gemara, who in his past life used to be a gangster. We told a story about him a couple of weeks ago. There's more to learn from that story, but anyway, we'll focus on this point. He says, the congregation of Israel said before the Holy One, blessed be He, "Master of the Universe,"

1:23Ordinarily, if a man marries another wife in addition to his first wife, he recalls the actions of the first. Meaning, he's trying to say that when someone has a second wife, even if he divorced the first wife and went to a different woman, he still remembers the first wife. She was still his wife, even though he's not with her anymore. Although she's not as important as the new one, he still remembers her. However, you have both forsaken me and forgotten me. have both forsaken me and forgotten me. He's saying, you destroyed the Beit HaMikdash. Hashem, you destroyed the Beit HaMikdash. So you punished us. So why did you forget us? Why? Even someone that leaves his wife remembers his old wife. You see that this story, obviously, is not literal. He's trying to teach us something. So the Holy One, blessed be He, responds. My daughter, which He's referring to all of Am Yisrael. Twelve constellations that I created in the firmament. And about each and every constellation, I created thirty army commanders. And about each and every army commander, I created thirty legions. And about each and every legion, I created thirty ra'aton. And about each and every ra'aton, I created thirty ka'aton.

2:49And about each and every karaton, I created 30 gisteras. And about each and every gistera, I suspended in the firmament 365,000 myriads of stars corresponding to the days of the solar year. And all of them I created only for your sake. And you say, you have forsaken me and forgotten me. So what is this? This is Hashem telling us. You're saying that I forgot you. I created a universe, not just the world here that we see, that we live in. I created galaxies. If you spend two minutes on the internet and you go type up anything related to the universe, they'll show you stars and the galaxies, and they'll show you how tiny the globe is in comparison to the universe, in comparison to everything. Tiny. And in this universe, there are many, many stars. A few thousand years ago, people believed that there were only 800 stars in the sky, because that's all they could see with their eyes. Some years later, some people said, no, no, there are more; there's maybe a few thousand stars. A few more years passed, and they said, a little bit more. Around the year 1600, so about 400 years ago, a man by the name of Galileo Galilei came up with an invention called a telescope. He told the world, obviously, you're all wrong. There aren't thousands of stars; there are millions of stars. You just can't see them with the naked eye. But with my tool, with this telescope, you can see these stars. You fast forward another 400 years, and more and more and more technology...

4:16A man by the name of Galileo Galilei came up with an invention called a telescope. He told the world, "Obviously, you're all wrong. There aren't thousands of stars; there are millions of stars. You just can't see them with the naked eye. But with my tool, with this telescope, you can see these stars." You fast forward another 400 years, and with more and more advancing technology, advancements and discoveries unfold as people realize there's a lot more stars than previously thought. In 1996, NASA conducted research by connecting a supercomputer to a telescope to count the number of stars in the entire universe. There was another research conducted by the Australian National University in the year 2003, about seven years later. Advancements and discoveries show that there are a lot more stars. In 1996, NASA conducted research by connecting a supercomputer to a telescope to count the number of stars in the entire universe. There was another research study by the Australian National University in the year 2003, about seven years later. Both of them came up with similar numbers, which is 7 times 10 to the 22nd power. The other one came up with 10 to the 21st power, meaning it's a 1 with 21 zeros. Big number. Infinite.

5:44What we just read, Hashem told us, you think that I forgot you. You think I forgot you. But I created the world, all of these, with 12 parts, like the 12 signs that people have. You know, people ask you what your sign is. Cancer, Libra, and so on. There are 12 signs; there are 12 parts. And each part, I gave 30 parts. sections, and within each section I put another 30 sections, and each section I put another 30 sections. He gives you an exact calculation, a mathematical calculation, and at the end of it he says, and all of these different sections that I have, it's several, 12 times 30 times 30 times 30 times 30 times 30 times 30, and at the end, it says times 365,000. I'll give you the exact calculation at the end. And that is the number of stars that are in the universe. And all of them I created for you. So you say that I forgot you? So, number one, He's teaching us, how could you say I forgot you? I created everything that's in the world that you can see and can't see just for you. And the second thing, He's giving us a little bit of a secret.

7:02Secret of the Torah, not just the written Torah, but the Oral Torah, the Gemara, has to be from G-d, because there's no way for man to ever know such a thing. Why? Because they came up with a number very similar to the scientists, actually a little bit more precise, exactly more precise, which is 1 0 6 4 3 4 0 and then 12 zeros after it. 1, 0, 6, 4, so it's in essence 10 to the 19th power. It gives you the exact number of stars in the universe, close enough to where the scientists, obviously, are at the 20th power, the 21st power, the 19th power. The bottom line is it's close enough that the scientists are coming closer and closer to us than getting farther from us. Because just a few years ago, they thought there were 800 stars, and then 8,000, then a few thousand, then a few million. So when we wrote this Gemara, we didn't have calculators. We didn't have numbers like this. We still, to this day, don't have numbers like this. You don't use a number like this for finance; there's no such number. Nobody has this much money or this much population or this much anything. This is not a number you use in regular life.

8:21So when we said this is the number 2000 years ago, the world laughed at us. They said, "Ah, see, this is your mistake. Your Torah is nonsense. Who has this number? It's crazy. We only see 800 stars. You're saying there's one to the 19th power. How could you know? And you give an exact number. It's not a one with just zeros like NASA came up with. It's one, zero, six, four, three, four, zero, and then a bunch of zeros. It gives you an exact number. So anyone that says... The Gemara is now real; it was compiled by the Rabbis. You should check out Masechet Berachot again. It is just the first masechet of the entire Gemara. On Daf 32, you already have the first proof of why you're mistaken.