הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ הוּא לְמַעְלָה מֵהַזְּמַן, כַּמּוּבָא. וְזֶה
Above Time
Hashem is above time, a wondrous matter beyond human understanding. Yet time exists only because our minds are small: the greater the mind, the more time shrinks. In a dream seventy years can pass in a quarter of an hour, and on waking we see it was a moment; so to a higher mind our seventy years are a quarter of an hour, and higher still, time vanishes altogether. So after all Mashiach has passed through since creation, Hashem will tell him 'today I have begotten you', for in his great mind all that time will be as nothing. Space too shrinks before great strength, until it is nullified completely.
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הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ הוּא לְמַעְלָה מֵהַזְּמַן, כַּמּוּבָא. וְזֶה הָעִנְיָן הוּא בֶּאֱמֶת דָּבָר נִפְלָא וְנֶעְלָם מְאֹד, וְאִי אֶפְשָׁר לְהָבִין זֹאת בְּשֵׂכֶל אֱנוֹשִׁי.
אַךְ דַּע, שֶׁעִקָּר הַזְּמַן הוּא רַק מֵחֲמַת שֶׁאֵין מְבִינִים, דְּהַיְנוּ מֵחֲמַת שֶׁשִּׂכְלֵנוּ קָטָן, כִּי כָל מַה שֶּׁהַשֵּׂכֶל גָּדוֹל בְּיוֹתֵר, הַזְּמַן נִקְטָן וְנִתְבַּטֵּל בְּיוֹתֵר.
כִּי בַּחֲלוֹם, שֶׁאָז הַשֵּׂכֶל נִסְתַּלֵּק, וְאֵין לוֹ רַק כֹּחַ הַמְדַמֶּה, אֲזַי בְּרֶבַע שָׁעָה יְכוֹלִים לַעֲבֹר כָּל הַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה, כַּאֲשֶׁר נִדְמֶה בַּחֲלוֹם, שֶׁעוֹבֵר וְהוֹלֵךְ כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה זְמַנִּים בְּשָׁעָה מוּעֶטֶת מְאֹד, וְאַחַר־כָּךְ כְּשֶׁנִּתְעוֹרְרִים מֵהַשֵּׁנָה, אֲזַי רוֹאִים, שֶׁכָּל אֵלּוּ הַזְּמַנִּים וְהַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה שֶׁעָבְרוּ בַּחֲלוֹם, הוּא זְמַן מֻעָט מְאֹד בֶּאֱמֶת. וְזֶה מֵחֲמַת שֶׁאַחַר־כָּךְ בְּהָקִיץ אָז חוֹזֵר הַשֵּׂכֶל אֵלָיו, וְאֵצֶל הַשֵּׂכֶל כָּל אֵלּוּ הַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה שֶׁעָבְרוּ בַּחֲלוֹם הֵם רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה אֶצְלוֹ, רַק שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה מַמָּשׁ, הֵם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה גַּם אֵצֶל הַשֵּׂכֶל שֶׁלָּנוּ.
וּבֶאֱמֶת בְּהַשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ לְמַעְלָה מִשִּׂכְלֵנוּ, גַּם מַה שֶּׁנֶּחֱשָׁב אֶצְלֵנוּ לְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה מַמָּשׁ הוּא גַם־כֵּן רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה אוֹ פָּחוֹת. כִּי כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָנוּ רוֹאִין שֶׁיְּכוֹלִין לַעֲבֹר שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה בַּחֲלוֹם, וּבֶאֱמֶת אָנוּ יוֹדְעִין אַחַר־כָּךְ בַּשֵּׂכֶל שֶׁלָּנוּ שֶׁהוּא רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה, כְּמוֹ־כֵן מַמָּשׁ, מַה שֶּׁנֶּחֱשָׁב לְפִי שִׂכְלֵנוּ שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה מַמָּשׁ, הוּא בַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ לְמַעְלָה יוֹתֵר רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה, רַק שֶׁאֵין אָנוּ מְבִינִים זֹאת.
כִּי גַּם בַּחֲלוֹם אִם הָיָה אֶחָד בָּא אֶצְלוֹ בִּשְׁעַת הַחֲלוֹם וְהָיָה אוֹמֵר לוֹ, שֶׁכָּל זֶה שֶׁנִּדְמֶה לוֹ שֶׁעוֹבְרִים יָמִים וְשָׁנִים, שֶׁבֶּאֱמֶת אֵינָם כְּלוּם, וְהַכֹּל הוּא רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה – בְּוַדַּאי לֹא הָיָה מַאֲמִין לוֹ כְּלָל, כִּי לְפִי הַדִּמְיוֹן שֶׁבַּחֲלוֹם נִדְמֶה לוֹ שֶׁעוֹבְרִים יָמִים וְשָׁנִים מַמָּשׁ; כְּמוֹ־כֵן מַמָּשׁ, אַף־עַל־פִּי שֶׁאֶצְלֵנוּ לְפִי שִׂכְלֵנוּ נִדְמֶה שֶׁזֶּהוּ זְמַן שֶׁל שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה, בַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּדוֹל יוֹתֵר הוּא רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה.
וְכֵן לְמַעְלָה מַעְלָה, שֶׁבַּשֵּׂכֶל שֶׁהוּא גָּבוֹהַּ עוֹד יוֹתֵר לְמַעְלָה, גַּם אוֹתוֹ הַזְּמַן שֶׁבַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ מִשִּׂכְלֵנוּ אֵינוֹ נֶחֱשָׁב שָׁם, בַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ עוֹד יוֹתֵר, רַק לִזְמַן מֻעָט וּפָחוּת מְאֹד. וְכֵן לְמַעְלָה מַעְלָה עַד אֲשֶׁר יֵשׁ שֵׂכֶל גָּבוֹהַּ כָּל־כָּךְ, שֶׁשָּׁם כָּל הַזְּמַן כֻּלּוֹ אֵינוֹ נֶחֱשָׁב כְּלָל, כִּי מֵחֲמַת גֹּדֶל הַשֵּׂכֶל מְאֹד, כָּל הַזְּמַן אַיִן וָאֶפֶס לְגַמְרֵי, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאֶצְלֵנוּ הַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה שֶׁעוֹבְרִים בַּחֲלוֹם הֵם רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה בֶּאֱמֶת כַּנַּ"ל, כְּמוֹ־כֵן יֵשׁ שֵׂכֶל לְמַעְלָה מִשֵּׂכֶל, עַד שֶׁהַזְּמַן נִתְבַּטֵּל לְגַמְרֵי:
וְעַל־כֵּן מָשִׁיחַ, שֶׁעָבַר עָלָיו מַה שֶּׁעָבַר מִיּוֹם בְּרִיאַת הָעוֹלָם וְסָבַל מַה שֶּׁסָּבַל, וְאַחַר כָּל זֶה, בַּסּוֹף יֹאמַר לוֹ הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ: בְּנִי אַתָּה, אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ (תהילים ב׳:ז׳).
וְהַדָּבָר תָּמוּהַּ וְנִפְלָא מְאֹד, לִכְאוֹרָה, אַךְ כָּל זֶה מֵחֲמַת גֹּדֶל עֹצֶם שִׂכְלוֹ שֶׁל מָשִׁיחַ, לְפִי גֹּדֶל מַדְרֵגָתוֹ שֶׁיֹּאחַז אָז, וּמֵחֲמַת הַפְלָגַת עֹצֶם מַעֲלַת שִׂכְלוֹ, שֶׁיִּגְדַּל אָז מְאֹד מְאֹד. עַל־כֵּן יִהְיֶה כָּל הַזְּמַן שֶׁעָבַר עָלָיו מִיּוֹם בְּרִיאַת הָעוֹלָם עַד אוֹתוֹ הַזְּמַן, כֻּלּוֹ אַיִן וָאֶפֶס מַמָּשׁ, וְיִהְיֶה מַמָּשׁ כְּאִלּוּ נוֹלָד הַיּוֹם, כִּי יִתְבַּטֵּל כָּל הַזְּמַן בְּשִׂכְלוֹ, שֶׁיִּהְיֶה גָּדוֹל מְאֹד. וְעַל־כֵּן יֹאמַר לוֹ הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ: אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ – הַיּוֹם מַמָּשׁ, כִּי כָל הַזְּמַן שֶׁעָבַר, אַיִן וָאֶפֶס לְגַמְרֵי כַּנַּ"ל:
וְכֵן אָנוּ רוֹאִים בְּמָקוֹם גַם־כֵּן, שֶׁהַבַּעַל־כֹּחַ יָכוֹל לַעֲבֹר מָקוֹם גָּדוֹל בְּשָׁעָה מוּעֶטֶת. נִמְצָא שֶׁאֶצְלוֹ כָּל זֶה הַמָּקוֹם הוּא קָטָן, וְאֵצֶל הַחֲלוּשֵׁי־כֹחַ נֶחֱשָׁב זֶה הַמָּקוֹם גָּדוֹל, וּצְרִיכִים לֵילֵךְ שָׁעָה מְרֻבָּה עַד שֶׁעוֹבְרִים אוֹתוֹ הַמָּקוֹם. וּכְמוֹ־כֵן לְמַעְלָה מַעְלָה, כָּל מַה שֶּׁהַכֹּחַ גָּדוֹל יוֹתֵר, הַמָּקוֹם נִקְטָן אֶצְלוֹ יוֹתֵר,
וְכֵן לְמַעְלָה מַעְלָה, עַד שֶׁהַמָּקוֹם נִתְבַּטֵּל לְגַמְרֵי, רַק שֶׁבְּשִׂכְלֵנוּ אִי אֶפְשָׁר לְהָבִין כָּל זֶה, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאִי אֶפְשָׁר לְהָבִין בַּחֲלוֹם אֶת הָאֱמֶת, שֶׁכָּל אוֹתוֹ הַזְּמַן שֶׁנִּדְמֶה בַּחֲלוֹם אֵינוֹ כְּלוּם בֶּאֱמֶת, כְּמוֹ־כֵן גַּם אָנוּ אִי אֶפְשָׁר לָנוּ לְהָבִין, שֶׁכָּל הַזְּמַן שֶׁלָּנוּ אֵינוֹ כְּלוּם לְמַעְלָה בַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ כַּנַּ"ל:
Hebrew text: Likutei Moharan Tinyana - rabenubook.com via Sefaria (Public Domain) · Sefaria. Names of Hashem are written in the customary form.
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Likutey Moharan Tinyana, Torah sixty one: above time.
Time is there only because our minds are small. The greater the mind, the more time shrinks.
In a dream, seventy years can pass in a quarter of an hour; awake, we see it was a moment.
To a higher mind, our seventy years are a quarter of an hour, and higher still, time is nothing at all.
So Hashem will tell Mashiach: today I have begotten you. In his great mind, all that time will be as nothing.
Our own reflection: the hours that feel endless are small in a greater light. Grow your understanding, and the long night grows short.
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Likutey Moharan Tinyana, Torah sixty one. Hashem is above time. The Rebbe says this is truly wondrous and hidden, beyond human understanding. Yet he gives us a way to glimpse it.
Time, he says, comes only from our not understanding, because our minds are small. The bigger the mind, the more time shrinks and fades away.
Think of a dream. The mind withdraws and only imagination is left, so whole seasons, even seventy years, can seem to pass in a quarter of an hour. When we wake and the mind returns, we see it was a very short time.
In truth, to a mind higher than ours, our real seventy years are also only a quarter of an hour. If someone told the dreamer that his years were nothing, he would never believe it. We are the same.
And so on upwards, mind above mind, until there is a mind so great that all of time is nothing at all.
That is why, after all Mashiach has borne since creation, Hashem will tell him: you are My son, today I have begotten you. His mind will be so great that all that time is as nothing, as if he were born today.
Space is the same. A strong man crosses a great distance quickly; to him it is small. The greater the strength, the smaller the space, until it is nullified completely.
Some reflections of our own, not a quotation. What feels endless now may be a quarter of an hour in a greater light. The more we grow in understanding, the shorter the long night becomes.
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— Part 1: Above Time —
Likutey Moharan Tinyana, Torah sixty one: above time. A shiur in one part: a dream of seventy years, a mind above time, and Mashiach born today.
Gold is Rebbe Nachman's own words, from Likutey Moharan Tinyana, Torah sixty one. Grey is a verse or teaching he quotes. Green is our own explanation. The Hebrew is the public-domain text from Sefaria; the English is our own paraphrase.
Hashem, blessed be He, is above time, as is brought. And this matter is truly very wondrous and hidden; it cannot be grasped with a human mind.
But know: time exists mainly because we do not understand, that is, because our minds are small. For the greater the mind, the more time shrinks and is nullified.
Our explanation. We usually think of time as fixed, the same for everyone. The Rebbe turns this around: time depends on the mind that lives in it. The smaller the mind, the longer time stretches; the greater the mind, the more it shrinks.
For in a dream, when the mind has withdrawn and only the power of imagination is left, seventy years can pass in a quarter of an hour. In a dream it seems that many, many seasons go by in a very short while; and afterwards, on waking from sleep, one sees that all those seasons and the seventy years that passed in the dream were truly a very short time.
This is because afterwards, awake, the mind returns to him; and to the mind, all those seventy years that passed in the dream are only a quarter of an hour. Only a real seventy years is seventy years to our mind as well.
And in truth, to the higher mind above ours, even what we count as a real seventy years is also only a quarter of an hour, or less. Just as we see that seventy years can pass in a dream, and afterwards our mind knows it was only a quarter of an hour, so exactly what our mind counts as a real seventy years is, to the higher mind, only a quarter of an hour. Only we do not understand it.
For in a dream too, if someone came to him while he was dreaming and told him that all these days and years that seem to pass are really nothing, and the whole thing is only a quarter of an hour, he surely would not believe him at all; for in the dream's imagination it seems to him that real days and years are passing. Exactly so: though to our minds it seems a span of seventy years, to the greater mind it is only a quarter of an hour.
Our explanation. The dreamer is not foolish; inside the dream, the years really feel like years. The Rebbe asks us to see ourselves the same way: our seventy years feel solid, yet to a higher mind they are like a quarter of an hour.
And so higher and higher: to a mind higher still, even the time that exists for the mind above ours counts there only as a very short, small time.
And so higher and higher, until there is a mind so lofty that there all of time counts for nothing at all; for because the mind is so very great, all time is utterly nothing. Just as for us the seventy years that pass in a dream are truly only a quarter of an hour, so there is mind above mind, until time is completely nullified.
Our explanation, step by step. In a dream, seventy years feel real. Awake, our mind knows it was a quarter of an hour. To a higher mind, our own seventy years are a quarter of an hour. And higher still, time is nothing at all.
Section two. Therefore Mashiach, who has passed through what he has passed through since the day the world was created, and has suffered what he has suffered, after all this, at the end, Hashem, blessed be He, will say to him: 'You are My son; today I have begotten you.'
At first glance this is very strange and wondrous. But it is all because of the immense greatness of Mashiach's mind, by the great level he will reach then, and because his mind will grow so very, very great. So all the time that has passed over him, from the day the world was created until then, will be utterly nothing, and it will be truly as if he were born today.
For all time will be nullified in his mind, which will be very great. And so Hashem, blessed be He, will say to him: 'today I have begotten you': today, truly, for all the time that has passed is utterly nothing.
Our explanation. The verse sounds strange after so many generations of waiting and suffering. The Rebbe reads it simply: in Mashiach's vast mind, all that time collapses into nothing, so 'today' means exactly today.
Section three. And we see the same with space. A strong person can cross a great distance in a short time; so for him all that space is small, while for the weak the same space is large, and they must walk a long while until they cross it. So too higher and higher: the greater the strength, the smaller the space becomes for him.
And so higher and higher, until space is completely nullified. Only, with our minds we cannot understand all this; just as in a dream one cannot understand the truth, that all the time that seems to pass in the dream is really nothing, so we too cannot understand that all our time is nothing above, in the higher mind.
Some reflections of our own, not a quotation. Days that feel endless are short in a greater light. Don't trust the clock of the dream. And the more we grow in understanding, the shorter the long night becomes.
This has been Likutey Moharan Tinyana, Torah sixty one.
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Hebrew: Likutei Moharan Tinyana (Part II), Torah 61, edition 'Likutei Moharan Tinyana – rabenubook.com', public domain, via Sefaria — https://www.sefaria.org/Likutei_Moharan%2C_Part_II.61
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Verses and teachings of the Sages appear only as Rebbe Nachman quotes them inside this Torah.
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Every on-screen quotation in the full shiur, by part
Part 1 — Above Time
Scene 3 · LM II:61 §1 · paragraph §1.1
הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ הוּא לְמַעְלָה מֵהַזְּמַן, כַּמּוּבָא. וְזֶה הָעִנְיָן הוּא בֶּאֱמֶת דָּבָר נִפְלָא וְנֶעְלָם מְאֹד, וְאִי אֶפְשָׁר לְהָבִין זֹאת בְּשֵׂכֶל אֱנוֹשִׁי.
EN (our paraphrase): Hashem, blessed be He, is above time, as is brought. And this matter is truly very wondrous and hidden; it cannot be grasped with a human mind.
Scene 4 · LM II:61 §1 · paragraph §1.2
אַךְ דַּע, שֶׁעִקָּר הַזְּמַן הוּא רַק מֵחֲמַת שֶׁאֵין מְבִינִים, דְּהַיְנוּ מֵחֲמַת שֶׁשִּׂכְלֵנוּ קָטָן, כִּי כָל מַה שֶּׁהַשֵּׂכֶל גָּדוֹל בְּיוֹתֵר, הַזְּמַן נִקְטָן וְנִתְבַּטֵּל בְּיוֹתֵר.
EN (our paraphrase): But know: time exists mainly because we do not understand, that is, because our minds are small. For the greater the mind, the more time shrinks and is nullified.
Scene 6 · LM II:61 §1 · paragraph §1.3
כִּי בַּחֲלוֹם, שֶׁאָז הַשֵּׂכֶל נִסְתַּלֵּק, וְאֵין לוֹ רַק כֹּחַ הַמְדַמֶּה, אֲזַי בְּרֶבַע שָׁעָה יְכוֹלִים לַעֲבֹר כָּל הַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה, כַּאֲשֶׁר נִדְמֶה בַּחֲלוֹם, שֶׁעוֹבֵר וְהוֹלֵךְ כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה זְמַנִּים בְּשָׁעָה מוּעֶטֶת מְאֹד, וְאַחַר־כָּךְ כְּשֶׁנִּתְעוֹרְרִים מֵהַשֵּׁנָה, אֲזַי רוֹאִים, שֶׁכָּל אֵלּוּ הַזְּמַנִּים וְהַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה שֶׁעָבְרוּ בַּחֲלוֹם, הוּא זְמַן מֻעָט מְאֹד בֶּאֱמֶת.
EN (our paraphrase): For in a dream, when the mind has withdrawn and only the power of imagination is left, seventy years can pass in a quarter of an hour. In a dream it seems that many, many seasons go by in a very short while; and afterwards, on waking from sleep, one sees that all those seasons and the seventy years that passed in the dream were truly a very short time.
Scene 7 · LM II:61 §1 · paragraph §1.3
וְזֶה מֵחֲמַת שֶׁאַחַר־כָּךְ בְּהָקִיץ אָז חוֹזֵר הַשֵּׂכֶל אֵלָיו, וְאֵצֶל הַשֵּׂכֶל כָּל אֵלּוּ הַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה שֶׁעָבְרוּ בַּחֲלוֹם הֵם רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה אֶצְלוֹ, רַק שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה מַמָּשׁ, הֵם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה גַּם אֵצֶל הַשֵּׂכֶל שֶׁלָּנוּ.
EN (our paraphrase): This is because afterwards, awake, the mind returns to him; and to the mind, all those seventy years that passed in the dream are only a quarter of an hour. Only a real seventy years is seventy years to our mind as well.
Scene 8 · LM II:61 §1 · paragraph §1.4
וּבֶאֱמֶת בְּהַשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ לְמַעְלָה מִשִּׂכְלֵנוּ, גַּם מַה שֶּׁנֶּחֱשָׁב אֶצְלֵנוּ לְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה מַמָּשׁ הוּא גַם־כֵּן רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה אוֹ פָּחוֹת. כִּי כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָנוּ רוֹאִין שֶׁיְּכוֹלִין לַעֲבֹר שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה בַּחֲלוֹם, וּבֶאֱמֶת אָנוּ יוֹדְעִין אַחַר־כָּךְ בַּשֵּׂכֶל שֶׁלָּנוּ שֶׁהוּא רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה, כְּמוֹ־כֵן מַמָּשׁ, מַה שֶּׁנֶּחֱשָׁב לְפִי שִׂכְלֵנוּ שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה מַמָּשׁ, הוּא בַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ לְמַעְלָה יוֹתֵר רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה, רַק שֶׁאֵין אָנוּ מְבִינִים זֹאת.
EN (our paraphrase): And in truth, to the higher mind above ours, even what we count as a real seventy years is also only a quarter of an hour, or less. Just as we see that seventy years can pass in a dream, and afterwards our mind knows it was only a quarter of an hour, so exactly what our mind counts as a real seventy years is, to the higher mind, only a quarter of an hour. Only we do not understand it.
Scene 9 · LM II:61 §1 · paragraph §1.5
כִּי גַּם בַּחֲלוֹם אִם הָיָה אֶחָד בָּא אֶצְלוֹ בִּשְׁעַת הַחֲלוֹם וְהָיָה אוֹמֵר לוֹ, שֶׁכָּל זֶה שֶׁנִּדְמֶה לוֹ שֶׁעוֹבְרִים יָמִים וְשָׁנִים, שֶׁבֶּאֱמֶת אֵינָם כְּלוּם, וְהַכֹּל הוּא רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה – בְּוַדַּאי לֹא הָיָה מַאֲמִין לוֹ כְּלָל, כִּי לְפִי הַדִּמְיוֹן שֶׁבַּחֲלוֹם נִדְמֶה לוֹ שֶׁעוֹבְרִים יָמִים וְשָׁנִים מַמָּשׁ; כְּמוֹ־כֵן מַמָּשׁ, אַף־עַל־פִּי שֶׁאֶצְלֵנוּ לְפִי שִׂכְלֵנוּ נִדְמֶה שֶׁזֶּהוּ זְמַן שֶׁל שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה, בַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּדוֹל יוֹתֵר הוּא רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה.
EN (our paraphrase): For in a dream too, if someone came to him while he was dreaming and told him that all these days and years that seem to pass are really nothing, and the whole thing is only a quarter of an hour, he surely would not believe him at all; for in the dream's imagination it seems to him that real days and years are passing. Exactly so: though to our minds it seems a span of seventy years, to the greater mind it is only a quarter of an hour.
Scene 11 · LM II:61 §1 · paragraph §1.6
וְכֵן לְמַעְלָה מַעְלָה, שֶׁבַּשֵּׂכֶל שֶׁהוּא גָּבוֹהַּ עוֹד יוֹתֵר לְמַעְלָה, גַּם אוֹתוֹ הַזְּמַן שֶׁבַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ מִשִּׂכְלֵנוּ אֵינוֹ נֶחֱשָׁב שָׁם, בַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ עוֹד יוֹתֵר, רַק לִזְמַן מֻעָט וּפָחוּת מְאֹד.
EN (our paraphrase): And so higher and higher: to a mind higher still, even the time that exists for the mind above ours counts there only as a very short, small time.
Scene 12 · LM II:61 §1 · paragraph §1.6
וְכֵן לְמַעְלָה מַעְלָה עַד אֲשֶׁר יֵשׁ שֵׂכֶל גָּבוֹהַּ כָּל־כָּךְ, שֶׁשָּׁם כָּל הַזְּמַן כֻּלּוֹ אֵינוֹ נֶחֱשָׁב כְּלָל, כִּי מֵחֲמַת גֹּדֶל הַשֵּׂכֶל מְאֹד, כָּל הַזְּמַן אַיִן וָאֶפֶס לְגַמְרֵי, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאֶצְלֵנוּ הַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה שֶׁעוֹבְרִים בַּחֲלוֹם הֵם רַק רֶבַע שָׁעָה בֶּאֱמֶת כַּנַּ"ל, כְּמוֹ־כֵן יֵשׁ שֵׂכֶל לְמַעְלָה מִשֵּׂכֶל, עַד שֶׁהַזְּמַן נִתְבַּטֵּל לְגַמְרֵי:
EN (our paraphrase): And so higher and higher, until there is a mind so lofty that there all of time counts for nothing at all; for because the mind is so very great, all time is utterly nothing. Just as for us the seventy years that pass in a dream are truly only a quarter of an hour, so there is mind above mind, until time is completely nullified.
Scene 14 · LM II:61 §2, on Tehillim 2:7 · paragraph §2.1
וְעַל־כֵּן מָשִׁיחַ, שֶׁעָבַר עָלָיו מַה שֶּׁעָבַר מִיּוֹם בְּרִיאַת הָעוֹלָם וְסָבַל מַה שֶּׁסָּבַל, וְאַחַר כָּל זֶה, בַּסּוֹף יֹאמַר לוֹ הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ: בְּנִי אַתָּה, אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ.
EN (our paraphrase): Therefore Mashiach, who has passed through what he has passed through since the day the world was created, and has suffered what he has suffered, after all this, at the end, Hashem, blessed be He, will say to him: 'You are My son; today I have begotten you.'
Scene 15 · LM II:61 §2 · paragraph §2.2
וְהַדָּבָר תָּמוּהַּ וְנִפְלָא מְאֹד, לִכְאוֹרָה, אַךְ כָּל זֶה מֵחֲמַת גֹּדֶל עֹצֶם שִׂכְלוֹ שֶׁל מָשִׁיחַ, לְפִי גֹּדֶל מַדְרֵגָתוֹ שֶׁיֹּאחַז אָז, וּמֵחֲמַת הַפְלָגַת עֹצֶם מַעֲלַת שִׂכְלוֹ, שֶׁיִּגְדַּל אָז מְאֹד מְאֹד. עַל־כֵּן יִהְיֶה כָּל הַזְּמַן שֶׁעָבַר עָלָיו מִיּוֹם בְּרִיאַת הָעוֹלָם עַד אוֹתוֹ הַזְּמַן, כֻּלּוֹ אַיִן וָאֶפֶס מַמָּשׁ, וְיִהְיֶה מַמָּשׁ כְּאִלּוּ נוֹלָד הַיּוֹם,
EN (our paraphrase): At first glance this is very strange and wondrous. But it is all because of the immense greatness of Mashiach's mind, by the great level he will reach then, and because his mind will grow so very, very great. So all the time that has passed over him, from the day the world was created until then, will be utterly nothing, and it will be truly as if he were born today.
Scene 16 · LM II:61 §2 · paragraph §2.2
כִּי יִתְבַּטֵּל כָּל הַזְּמַן בְּשִׂכְלוֹ, שֶׁיִּהְיֶה גָּדוֹל מְאֹד. וְעַל־כֵּן יֹאמַר לוֹ הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ: אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ – הַיּוֹם מַמָּשׁ, כִּי כָל הַזְּמַן שֶׁעָבַר, אַיִן וָאֶפֶס לְגַמְרֵי כַּנַּ"ל:
EN (our paraphrase): For all time will be nullified in his mind, which will be very great. And so Hashem, blessed be He, will say to him: 'today I have begotten you': today, truly, for all the time that has passed is utterly nothing.
Scene 18 · LM II:61 §3 · paragraph §3.1
וְכֵן אָנוּ רוֹאִים בְּמָקוֹם גַם־כֵּן, שֶׁהַבַּעַל־כֹּחַ יָכוֹל לַעֲבֹר מָקוֹם גָּדוֹל בְּשָׁעָה מוּעֶטֶת. נִמְצָא שֶׁאֶצְלוֹ כָּל זֶה הַמָּקוֹם הוּא קָטָן, וְאֵצֶל הַחֲלוּשֵׁי־כֹחַ נֶחֱשָׁב זֶה הַמָּקוֹם גָּדוֹל, וּצְרִיכִים לֵילֵךְ שָׁעָה מְרֻבָּה עַד שֶׁעוֹבְרִים אוֹתוֹ הַמָּקוֹם. וּכְמוֹ־כֵן לְמַעְלָה מַעְלָה, כָּל מַה שֶּׁהַכֹּחַ גָּדוֹל יוֹתֵר, הַמָּקוֹם נִקְטָן אֶצְלוֹ יוֹתֵר,
EN (our paraphrase): And we see the same with space. A strong person can cross a great distance in a short time; so for him all that space is small, while for the weak the same space is large, and they must walk a long while until they cross it. So too higher and higher: the greater the strength, the smaller the space becomes for him.
Scene 19 · LM II:61 §3 · paragraph §3.2
וְכֵן לְמַעְלָה מַעְלָה, עַד שֶׁהַמָּקוֹם נִתְבַּטֵּל לְגַמְרֵי, רַק שֶׁבְּשִׂכְלֵנוּ אִי אֶפְשָׁר לְהָבִין כָּל זֶה, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאִי אֶפְשָׁר לְהָבִין בַּחֲלוֹם אֶת הָאֱמֶת, שֶׁכָּל אוֹתוֹ הַזְּמַן שֶׁנִּדְמֶה בַּחֲלוֹם אֵינוֹ כְּלוּם בֶּאֱמֶת, כְּמוֹ־כֵן גַּם אָנוּ אִי אֶפְשָׁר לָנוּ לְהָבִין, שֶׁכָּל הַזְּמַן שֶׁלָּנוּ אֵינוֹ כְּלוּם לְמַעְלָה בַּשֵּׂכֶל הַגָּבוֹהַּ כַּנַּ"ל:
EN (our paraphrase): And so higher and higher, until space is completely nullified. Only, with our minds we cannot understand all this; just as in a dream one cannot understand the truth, that all the time that seems to pass in the dream is really nothing, so we too cannot understand that all our time is nothing above, in the higher mind.
Hebrew phrases in the Explainer
Scene 2 · §1.2: כִּי כָל מַה שֶּׁהַשֵּׂכֶל גָּדוֹל בְּיוֹתֵר, הַזְּמַן נִקְטָן וְנִתְבַּטֵּל בְּיוֹתֵר.
Scene 3 · §1.3: בְּרֶבַע שָׁעָה יְכוֹלִים לַעֲבֹר כָּל הַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה,
Scene 4 · §1.5: בְּוַדַּאי לֹא הָיָה מַאֲמִין לוֹ כְּלָל,
Scene 5 · §1.6: עַד שֶׁהַזְּמַן נִתְבַּטֵּל לְגַמְרֵי:
Scene 6 · §2.1: בְּנִי אַתָּה, אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ.
Scene 7 · §3.1: כָּל מַה שֶּׁהַכֹּחַ גָּדוֹל יוֹתֵר, הַמָּקוֹם נִקְטָן אֶצְלוֹ יוֹתֵר,
Hebrew phrases in the 1-minute recap
Scene 2 · §1.2: כִּי כָל מַה שֶּׁהַשֵּׂכֶל גָּדוֹל בְּיוֹתֵר, הַזְּמַן נִקְטָן וְנִתְבַּטֵּל בְּיוֹתֵר.
Scene 3 · §1.3: בְּרֶבַע שָׁעָה יְכוֹלִים לַעֲבֹר כָּל הַשִּׁבְעִים שָׁנָה,
Scene 4 · §1.6: עַד שֶׁהַזְּמַן נִתְבַּטֵּל לְגַמְרֵי:
Scene 5 · §2.1: בְּנִי אַתָּה, אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ.