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He compared this idea to a physicist maintaining that a seemingly solid, motionless table is actually 90 percent empty space, filled with atomic particles whizzing around. The fact that people can't physically feel the particles makes them no less real, he said. Likewise, he said, people have to trust that there is a spiritual reality that they may not be able to perceive. The rabbi implied that this spiritual reality is something people certainly can tap into. He explained Creation as an ongoing process in which all things have a poten- tial to express holiness. People can give things meaning by using them in a spiri- tual context, elevating them to a status of mitzvot (God's commandments), he said. For example, wine can be guzzled by a bum, or can be used for reciting IGdclush on Shabbat. Although people are challenged to understand the mitzvot of the Torah, "if we can't, that's no reason to deprive ourselves of their ben- efit," Rabbi Gottlieb said. 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