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Time in Judaism

שו”תCategory: generalTime in Judaism
asked 3 years ago

Hello Rabbi
I was in a Torah class and the rabbi gave a commentary on one of the verses in Ecclesiastes (sorry, I don’t remember the verse) in which he said that King Solomon meant that there really is no time, and that we have nothing to worry about the future because even what hasn’t happened yet in our eyes has actually already happened.
Another article I saw by a certain rabbi writes the following:
Movement, change, causes and effects, are what prove that time is real and exists in reality. But this is still not proof that time moves in stages as we perceive it.
It is possible that in real reality, all changes and all movements already exist in one moment, similar to a movie that consists of millions of images that already exist all on one disc, only that we as limited beings have to watch the images in order, slowly and logically so that we can perceive them. The time of the universe is real, because it is defined as “the sum of all changes in matter,” but this alone does not prove that our “sense” of time is real. It is possible that the past, present, and future exist simultaneously, and we are watching a movie that has already happened. That the sense of time that we feel is just a planned illusion that stems from our very limitations.
Just as our field of vision is limited, and does not allow us to see what is behind us, or what is at the end of the world, so too our sense of reality may be limited only to the present that is in front of us, and not to the past and future. Science does not yet have a clear answer to this question. However, various theories in physics, such as the theory of relativity, raise the theoretical idea of ​​returning to the past or traveling to the future by a spacecraft that will exceed the speed of light. This theory cannot stand the test, because no object can exceed the speed of light, which is the highest speed known in the universe.
Is it possible that at this moment the past is actually taking place, in which God is still bringing the Israelites out of Egypt, and at this moment the future is also actually taking place, in which the Messiah has arrived and redemption has come to the world?
I wanted to know how the Rabbi relates to these things because I remember that the Rabbi claims that time is real and tangible.
Thank you very much.


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מיכי Staff answered 3 years ago
There’s all kinds of chatter like that from people who don’t know how to properly define their thoughts. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s just nonsense.

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