She asked when the world was created.
I was asked a question, and I don’t know the answer.
It is explained in the Ramchal through the Name that “God created the world when He ascended in His will.”
The question is, what is meant in this case by “at the time.” After all, God is eternal. And one must ask, why didn’t this occur to him before?
On the other hand, before that there was no concept of time. So it is not divided into “before” and “after.”
Therefore, if one asks “when” did his will arise, the answer will be “there is no such question.”
Although, this seemingly leads to the thought that the will arose immediately with the “beginning” of God’s existence. And this is not appropriate.
Ostensibly, this leads to a kind of Spinoza-like assumption, that the reality of God and the reality of the world are parallel things. And that is also problematic.
As for me, it’s clear to me that this question is generally “what’s forward and what’s backward,” and our minds don’t grasp these things. But the Baal Tshuva I’m treating has a hard time accepting that.
What is the answer? And what should be answered?
I didn’t understand the question.
First, why is the Ramchal relevant here? If he hadn’t written this, then wouldn’t you have understood on your own that God created the world when He willed? And if everything is clear without the Ramchal, then reject the Ramchal’s words and that’s enough. And are his words the halakha of Moses from Sinai?
Second, what is wrong with your claim that before that there was no time? What does this have to do with the beginning of God’s existence?
Third, what is the problem with the fact that God decided in advance to create the world at such and such a moment on the timeline? It is not that it came to His will at that moment. To the same extent, one could say that this was the plan in advance: that when this moment in time arrived, the world would be created. To the same extent, you can ask why He decided to create man specifically on the sixth day and not on the fourth or the first?
1. True. This just means that it wasn't my words that created the problem. 2. Instead of there being no time, from our perspective things happen simultaneously. 3. Although we die, we thought of creating in Nissan, and we were created in Tishrei. 4. Regarding the order of the clear after Genesis, and why man was created at the end, almost, there are explanations.
David, why was the world created, do you know?
What did God do before the world was created, do you know?
There are answers to this in the literature of the Sages and Midrashim.
Did you read it? And do you remember? Which explanation did you connect with?
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