Almost everything in the world is relative. It depends on your perspective. Based on this principle, modern science proposes that there are no laws in the universe, only probabilities. When you throw a stone into the air, there's a percentage chance it will fall after losing its momentum (the force applied against gravity), and there's also a probability it won't fall at all.

From the Torah's perspective, this is true. However, the Torah proposes adding something to the system that is absolute, that is not subject to probabilities, and this is called God.

In other words, from both a scientific and a Torah perspective, time and space are relative. The Torah goes a step further and clarifies that there is something absolute, and that is God.

Nu? And what does that have to do with us? The ideas a person forms in their head about different matters depend on the information they have. Looking at it from a La Plata perspective, who understands what Shabbat is? A small group of old-fashioned people who still insist on meeting to recite certain Hebrew words from a book called the Siddur and to "take out" the Torah to read it (without anyone understanding what's written!).

That's the relative perspective. However, when one broadens their horizons and adopts the broader perspective (for example, when one travels to another city to spend Shabbat in a community that observes Shabbat), one sees something else entirely: young people, young married couples, older people, men and women, all enjoying being together in a restful and relaxing atmosphere. Everyone takes advantage of the opportunity to recharge their physical and spiritual energy for the week ahead, seeks moments of meditation and communion with God, reconnects with their roots, and so on.

The Theory of Relativity is right. We'll see who dares to look up, to open their eyes, to increase the quantity and quality of information on which they base their ideas and conceptions of the world, and to connect with the absolute perspective of what is relative to us.

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