'Everything Everywhere All At Once': Judaism and the multiverse

Insights from the Academy-award winning film.

There are a lot of ways to explain the multiverse — a concept or theory that our universe is one of many different universes, possibly each containing a different version of ourselves or our world — but the movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” simplifies it: Every decision in a person’s life is like a fracture point, creating alternate universes where the ramifications of those decisions ripple forward, like the proverbial hurricane blowing after a butterfly flaps its wings.

The movie builds this concept into a beautiful web of maximalist film...