Chapter 1 for Kids: How to Win the Heart's "Obstacle Course"?
Hello, Young Engineers! What is this Strange Circle Anyway?
Imagine you are holding a long water hose in the garden, and at the end of it, there is a cool little water wheel. When you turn on the faucet, the water flows through the hose, spins the wheel, and everything works perfectly! The energy of the water did exactly what you wanted it to do.
But what would happen if you placed a big, blocking stone right inside the hose, just before the wheel?
The water would flow, hit the stone, and... fly crazily right back toward your faucet! The hose would swell, water would splash everywhere, and nothing would work.
In the world of electronic devices, phones, and communication (what we call the RF world), energy is not water—it is made of electrical waves. These waves want to flow back and forth inside the wires. But if the wires do not match the component at the end exactly (like an antenna or a speaker), the wave gets "scared," hits an obstacle, and runs backward as a reflected wave. This reflected wave makes a lot of noise, heats up the device, and can even burn it out!
To solve this problem, a smart scientist named Phillip Smith invented a secret circular map called the "Smith Chart." This map looks like a cool, circular spiderweb:
[The Upper Half: The Inductor Zone]
This map helps technicians see where the electrical wave is getting stuck and how much of it is bouncing backward. The goal of the game is to add small components to guide the signal exactly to the center of the circle. At the center, there are no reflected waves at all, and there is "perfect matching"!
Neo, Agent Smith, and the Wave War of the Heart
If you have ever seen movies about digital worlds like "The Matrix," you probably know the hero Neo and his enemy—Agent Smith.
Agent Smith wants everyone to remain locked inside a giant, fake computer program that creates an illusion, and he places blocks and obstacles everywhere so Neo won't discover the
truth.
truth.
It turns out that each of us has a little "Matrix" inside our heart. The masters of Chassidism call this the "Animal Soul." This is the part inside us that thinks only about itself, gets angry, and wants all the toys and candies only for itself. This is our "ego."
Just like in the movie, our ego behaves exactly like Agent Smith—it creates an illusion. When we think only about ourselves, we create "reflected waves" in our lives: we fight with friends, get stressed about everything, and feel stuck at the edges of the circle. Our fix is to act like Neo: to understand that the ego is only an illusion, to listen to our good soul, and to navigate our heart straight to the center of the circle—to the place of sharing, love, and connection to God.
1. What is the Obstacle Made of? The Real Part vs. The Imaginary Part
In electronics, every obstacle in the path of a wave has two parts, and they are incredibly similar to two forces inside our own soul:
A. The Real Part – The Resistor (Resistance)
When the electrical wave passes through a component called a resistor, it does not bounce backward. The resistor simply takes the energy and turns it into heat. This energy disappears from the circuit.
The Torah Connection:
In the books of the Kabbalah masters (like the holy Ari and the Ramchal), it is explained that our world needs rules and boundaries. God could not bring all of His immense light all at once, because the world would explode from the sheer intensity! Therefore, God created "Tzimtzum" (contraction)—He placed screens and barriers in the world (just like the resistor in electronics) so that the light reaches us in an exact measure that we can handle and enjoy.
B. The Imaginary Part – The Reactance (The World of Illusions)
There are other components, like inductors and capacitors. They do not turn energy into heat. Instead, they do something more annoying: they hold onto the energy for a moment, change its direction (the phase), and throw it right back out! This component creates an illusion of a disturbance in the circuit.
The Torah Connection:
This is exactly the ego's world of illusions. In the book "Mesillat Yesharim" (The Path of the Just), it is explained that this world sometimes misleads us, like darkness, making us think bad things are good and good things are bad. When we care only about ourselves, we create a "reactance"—a barrier and a fake obstacle in the heart that blocks God's goodness from entering us, throwing it back out in anger or fear.
2. The Two Halves of the Circle: The Pride of the Inductor vs. The Sadness of the Capacitor
If we look at the spiderweb map of the Smith Chart, we will see that it is divided into two halves: upper and lower. Each half produces a different behavior of the heart:
A. The Upper Half – The Inductor Zone (The Trait of Pride and Anger)
In the upper half, we find the inductors. In electronics, an inductor is a component that loves to "run ahead" and elevate itself above the current.
- In our heart: This is the part of pride and anger (belonging to the element of Fire). A person in the upper half feels that they are the smartest, the strongest, and everyone must listen to them. When they add more "inductors" of ego, they move clockwise upward, distancing themselves from friends and getting angry at everything.
B. The Lower Half – The Capacitor Zone (The Trait of Desire and Sadness)
In the lower half, we find the capacitors. A capacitor is like a small pit in the ground that sucks in electrical charges and keeps them inside.
- In our heart: This is the part of desire, materialism, and sadness (belonging to the elements of Water and Earth). This is the state where a person feels sad, heavy, or just wants to suck more and more things into themselves (more sweets, more screens, more games just for themselves). They move counter-clockwise downward, sinking into the capacitive pit of sadness.
3. The Component Map of the Heart – How Do We Fix the Circuit?
So you can check yourselves every day, here is the map of the electrical circuit of your heart:
- Series Inductor (Moving Upward): The heart fills with pride and anger. We feel stubborn and unwilling to compromise for anyone.
- Series Capacitor (Moving Downward): The heart fills with sadness and heaviness. We feel like we have no energy for anything and just want to sink into bed.
- Shunt Inductor (Short Circuit to Ground): Laziness. We throw all our good energy into the ground and do not invest effort into our studies or good deeds.
- Shunt Capacitor (Social Noise): Chasing after honor. We do things just so everyone will say "wow" to us, constantly looking for approval from others.
Epilogue: The Goal – Reaching the Center!
When technicians connect an electronic device to a Vector Network Analyzer (a special laboratory computer), they see a small dot on the screen moving across the map. If the dot is at the edges, the device screams because there are many "standing waves" and internal wars inside the wires.
The big secret of Chassidism and electronics is to perform impedance matching. We do not run away from the world, and we do not throw away our devices. We simply learn to move the dot using good deeds, helping friends, praying with joy, and letting go of our ego.
Every time we do a good deed, our dot moves inward, toward the exact center. And there, at the center of the chart, the illusion of the Matrix disappears, there are no more reflected waves, and there is peace, silence, and perfect matching with the light of God.
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