He desired to create the world.

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asked 9 years ago

Shalom Rabbi, in one of the lessons, All the Embarrassed of the Generation, the Rabbi raised the question regarding God, why did He decide to create the world at the exact time He decided? And not say before or after?

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מיכי Staff answered 9 years ago

It is difficult to answer such a question. In short, if the timeline began with the bang, the question does not arise at all (because there was no time before). And even if there was a time before, it is possible that there were processes (spiritual, unrelated to the world) that matured only then and therefore it was decided to create the world then. But this of course assumes that there were some processes from time immemorial even before the world was created (or at least since time began). Beyond that, it is possible that it does not matter at what moment, in which case a lottery is made for some moment in time.

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נועם replied 9 years ago

The Rabbi generally presents 2 options for the answer: Either God technically could not create before or He arbitrarily decided to create at a certain time. Both sound difficult. Is this question considered a prohibition of what is written in the celebration, chapter 2, that it is forbidden to think about what existed before the creation of the world?

מיכי Staff replied 9 years ago

Not true. I didn't say he couldn't technically, but he didn't want to because the situation wasn't ripe yet. I don't see what's difficult about either.
As a general rule, I don't accept the possibility of being forbidden from thinking something.