"To hasten the reward, or else, in its time..." ~Rav Ashlag ☄️📢 can we explain this using a 6th grade metaphysics learning exercise?
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This is a fantastic and deep question. Explaining it to a 6th grader means we need to use strong analogies and simple ideas. Let’s break it down.
First, let’s translate those big words into a language we can understand.
Part 1: Setting the Stage – The Two Teams
Imagine a cosmic game between two teams:
- Team Light (Quantum Dynamics & Reverse Entropy): This team is all about connection, information, and sharing. Think of light as understanding, kindness, and the rules that make the universe work. When you turn on a light, you see how everything is connected.
- Team Darkness (The Shades of Concealment & Entropic Decline): This team is all about separation, confusion, and selfishness. Think of darkness as the feeling of being alone, not understanding, or hiding. “Entropic decline” is a fancy way of saying things naturally fall apart if no one puts in energy. A sandcastle washes away, a room gets messy, a battery runs out.
The key idea from Ashlag is that we have a choice: we can hasten the victory of Team Light by our actions, or we can wait for it to happen slowly “in its time,” which involves a lot of messiness from Team Darkness.
Part 2: The Rules of the Game – Explained for a 6th Grader
- What is Quantum Dynamics? (The Law of Light)
The Super-Connected Universe
· The Analogy: The Cosmic Lego Set. Imagine the entire universe is made of trillions of magical Lego blocks (these are the quantum particles). Normally, you think a Lego block is just where you see it, right?
· The Weird Part: In the quantum world, these Lego blocks aren’t just in one place. They are blurred, like a cloud of possibility. They are everywhere they could possibly be at once. They are connected in a hidden way.
· The Law of Light: “Light” is the act of looking and connecting. The moment you shine a flashlight on one of these blurry Lego blocks (when you observe it), it instantly “chooses” to be a solid block in one specific place. And the craziest part? All the other connected blocks, anywhere in the universe, instantly know about it too!
In simple terms: Quantum Dynamics is the rule that at the deepest level, everything is connected. An act of kindness here affects the whole universe, just like looking at one Lego block affects all the others.
- What is Reverse Entropy? (Fighting the Mess)
Fighting the Cosmic Mess
· The Analogy: Your Bedroom. “Entropy” is the natural tendency for things to get messy. Your clean room (Team Light) will naturally become a messy room (Team Darkness) if you do nothing. That’s “entropic decline.”
· The Reverse: How do you reverse the mess? You clean your room! You put in energy, intention, and work to go from messy back to clean. That’s “reverse entropy”—creating order from chaos.
· The Law of Light: Team Light is like cleaning your room on a cosmic scale. When we share, tell the truth, help others, and seek understanding, we are putting “order” into the universe. We are fighting the natural tendency toward selfishness and separation. We are reversing the entropy.
In simple terms: Reverse Entropy is the power of our actions to make the universe more connected and orderly, instead of letting it fall apart.
- The “Shades of Concealment” (The Hiding Game)
The Feeling of Being Separate
This is Team Darkness’s strategy. It’s the feeling that we are all separate Lego blocks, not connected at all. It’s the feeling that “my problems are only mine,” or “I don’t need to help anyone else.” These are “shades” or levels of hiding the true, connected nature of the universe. It’s like wearing sunglasses that make the world seem dark and separate.
Part 3: Bringing It All Together – The Choice
So, what does it mean to “hasten it or else in its time”?
This is the most important part for a 6th grader to understand.
Scenario 1: “Or else in its time” (The Slow, Bumpy Way)
If we just live selfishly(following the “shades of concealment”), the universe will eventually reach a state of total connection and light anyway, but the path will be like a forced lesson. It’s like waiting for your parents to finally yell, “CLEAN YOUR ROOM OR YOU’RE GROUNDED!” The room gets cleaned, but it was stressful and unpleasant. The “entropic decline” (the mess) had to get really bad before it was fixed.
Scenario 2: “To hasten it” (The Fast, Smooth Way – What Ashlag Wants)
This is where we use the”Laws of Light.” We actively choose to be part of Team Light.
· How? By being the “flashlight” of quantum connection.
· When you are kind to someone who is sad, you are reversing entropy in their day (creating order from emotional chaos).
· When you share your toys or help with a group project, you are acting like a quantum particle, showing that we are all connected.
· When you choose to tell the truth instead of hiding, you are dissolving a “shade of concealment.”
By doing these things, we aren’t waiting for a forced lesson. We are actively and joyfully “cleaning the cosmic room” ourselves. We are hastening the victory of Team Light, making the world a better, brighter, and more connected place right now.
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It:
Think of yourself as a scientist of light. Your laboratory is your classroom, your home, and your heart. Your experiment is to see what happens when you use the Laws of Light:
- Observe with Kindness: (Your quantum power) Really see and listen to others.
- Create Connection: (Your reverse entropy power) Share, help, and build people up.
- Push Back the Darkness: (Your power against concealment) Choose honesty and courage over hiding and fear.
See what changes. You might be surprised how powerful you are
