Reciting the verses of Kiddush according to the science that the world was not created in six days
Hello Rabbi,
In Kiddush we say:
And the heavens and the earth and all their host were consumed:
And God ended on the seventh day his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made:
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work which God created to do.
Likewise, in prayer we say several times that we keep the Sabbath because God rested on it from the creation that lasted six days.
Someone who accepts science and accepts that the world was created through a long evolutionary process, and also believes that the world was created by God who directed the evolutionary process by creating the laws of nature, how should he interpret the above rulings? How should he explain to himself the idea that he is a Sabbath keeper because ‘God rested on the seventh day after the six days of creation of the world’? After all, the idea is simply unacceptable to him.
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In the words of Chazal:
The Torah spoke like the language of humans
(according to what was known at the time)
And not really an accurate description of what was in creation
I was always more bothered by all the descriptions in the blessings of K”S.
“Maariv Arabim”, “Arranges the stars in their places in the sky”, “Turns light from darkness and darkness from light, passes day and brings night”.
On the 9th of Elul 2nd
It should be noted that the description in the Torah that on the first day, independent light was created, and the sun and moon were only created on the fourth day to serve as ’lamps’, was contrary to every existing perception at that time. Everyone saw the sun and moon, the two great celestial bodies, as the most senior in the pantheon of gods, and the Torah demoted them from their greatness, placing them among plants and animals. From the senior gods, the sun and moon became ’lamps’ in a sense.
The ’days’ that the Torah describes are stages. First, the light, which is more spiritual. Then the earth and the water. Then the plants, which have a unique property of growth, then the luminaries, which also have the ability to move, but in a fixed orbit. Next come the animals that have the ability to move freely, and finally – man who is in the image of God and is entrusted with managing the entire system. ‘Days’ According to my proposal, they are ‘stages’
With greetings, Yaron Fish”l Ordner (YPAO”R)
Physicist Prof. Nathan Aviezer (in his book ‘Genesis of the Creation’, emphasized the parallel between the story of creation and the ‘Big Bang’ theory, in both of which the world begins with light. In his opinion, the days are parallel to the periods, and he explains them in light of accepted scientific knowledge.
With greetings, Menashe Barkai Buch-Terger (Mab”T)
To the important rabbis, Rabbi Yaron Fishel Ordner and/or Rabbi Menashe Barkai Buch-Treger Shlita:
I didn't understand, are the stages from the spiritual to the physical or vice versa? Because the spiritual light was created in the first stage, the earth in the second, and man in the sixth.
B”D 9’ Balul F”B
To the happy life of the mountain man – Nero Yair and Yizhar,
Man, who is the pinnacle of creation, combines spirit and matter, and as one of the commentators said, the Creator said to His creatures ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’ each will be given some of his own qualities. He will have the ability to illuminate, the static nature of the earth and the flow of water, the ability to grow and live. And above all, the image of God that will allow him to unite all of creation
With blessings, Av”m
Thus Radak wrote in the name of his father: And what he said, “Let us be made,” in the plural, my father, the late, interpreted because he said in relation to the elements, and as if he said to the elements: Let us be made, I and you, in partnership, because the body will be from the elements and the spirit is above me.
And thus the Ramban wrote: “He said of Adam, “Let us be made,” meaning: I and the mentioned earth will make man, that the earth may bring forth the body from its elements, and He, blessed be He, will give the spirit from the mouth of the Most High, for it will resemble both. It will resemble the form of its body to the earth that I will take from it, and it will resemble the spirit of the Most High.”
With blessings, from the book of Genesis
We became a man
We counted from what was prepared before us (possibly from a monkey?)
By the way, in the Midrash there is a Tanna opinion that man had something like Daniel (a tail?)
And out of respect, his sting was removed
* Something taken
You said today in prayer a word commanded for a thousand generations
From Adam to Noah 10 generations
From Noah to Abraham 10 generations
Yitzchak Jacob Levi Kohath Amram Moses 6 generations
From the giving of the Torah to the present day 3300 years between 99 and 115 generations.
Less than 150 generations.
How 1000 generations?
Apparently there were many generations before what is called the creation of the world
And the authors of the Zohar also put their hearts into the matter and wrote in Leviticus 10
that the Holy One, blessed be He, prophesies ancient sons of Adam before the first Adam (the first one created in the image?)
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