On Saturday night, Parashat Vayitza, 11 Kislev 5763 (November 15, 2002), a fierce battle took place on the Hebron prayer route when terrorists attacked civilians and fighters in the alley near the main road from Kiryat Arba to the Cave of the Patriarchs.
During the battle, which lasted for many hours, the forces managed to eliminate the three Islamic Jihad terrorists in fierce fighting and stubborn fighting, but it claimed the lives of 12 of our forces: 3 Nahal Brigade fighters, 5 Border Police officers, three platoon members. The standby from Kiryat Arba, and the commander of the spatial brigade, Colonel Dror Weinberg.
IDF forces had difficulty locating the terrorists' locations and sources of fire for many hours, each time with a firefight coming from unknown sources, which damaged our forces. And was not "made accessible" to the fighting forces on the ground and to its commander-in-chief.
The composition of the security officer of Kiryat Arba, the late Yitzhak Buenish, after the battle,
In a world where the amount of information is huge, the synchronization of information together with the accessibility of information in the right place, at the right time and for the right people is of paramount importance.
Information, as important and fascinating as it is, amounts to being the raw form of the data, whereas knowledge is already related to deciphering the information, understanding its content, and the ability to utilize and access it.
In the home computer, for example, there is a lot of information, but the computer itself does not "understand" the meaning of the information, and even the various systems that know how to locate the information and use it to operate the systems, the information was not important or useful.
The same is true of the National Library.
The database of books and information is huge, but in order to decipher the meaning of the information, the presence and activity of human readers is required, or intelligent systems that will connect all the existing information and translate it into accessible knowledge.
In light of the critical need to optimize the process of analyzing and locating information, many software houses have in recent years invested heavily in finding artificial intelligence solutions that will enable computers and technological and digital systems to analyze the meaning of existing information and how to classify, locate and access it. .
The world is becoming smarter, more curious and producing incessant knowledge.
But sometimes the gap between the amount of information available and locating the relevant information, analyzing and accessing it obscures our lives.
This week marks in the Jewish world the events of Lag B'Omer, the day of the departure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
In the Book of Zohar, in which Rashbi's sermons and sayings were quoted, it is stated that in the six hundred years of the sixth millennium (the period in which we are according to the Hebrew calendar) - the gates of wisdom will open up (we were the revelation of Torah internals), Wisdom of Mankind), and thus the world will enter the seventh millennium (Zohar H.A. Keys, a).
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who lived about 1900 years ago, described the period in which we live today as saturated with spirituality and a desire for divine connection, and on the other hand as a period of knowledge and wisdom in all areas of life, which will bring the world progress and better change for humanity.
Indeed, it seems that the constant network and physical information traffic from around the world and the ability to obtain it at any given moment and use it for technological developments, saving lives and enriching knowledge has already taken root with us as a habit and of course.
Praying near the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron, Photo: David Cohen Ginny
In a meeting with a group of students, the Rebbe of Lllovitch once mentioned the well-known saying of the scientist Albert Einstein, who said that when quantity becomes quality, matter becomes energy.
The idea of turning quantity into quality is part of the Jewish concept.
For example, during the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, when the Torah tells us that the people of Israel stood and stood under the mountain and received the Torah, Sages make it clear (Genesis 5: 9, 9) that if Israel were missing even one person, God would not give. The Torah for Israel - that the whole essence of the Torah is a Torah that belongs to all the people of Israel in all its shades and denominations, as well as to public prayer: , Since quantity is required to become quality.
In the days of the counting of the Omer, it is customary in many religious communities to practice a little mourning custom, for the deaths of 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva's students.
Sages say that they were wise students with a stature and brilliant in their understanding, and it seems that their contribution to the world and to humanity was supposed to have a significant effect.
The vast amount of information they produced without peer discourse and without being able to synchronize and access it is worthless and unimportant and without the right to exist.
It seems that the human diversity and unique intelligence of our people is of greater and more significant value when we unite, share information, respect each other and turn information into knowledge, matter into energy and quantity into a unified and cohesive quality.
Rabbi Shraga Natan Dahan is an officer in the Res.
And holds a master's degree in management and technology and is certified as a rabbi and judge.
Serves as a consultant and lecturer in public, security, educational and scientific bodies on Halacha, technology, medicine, science and space.
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