Q&A: Rosh Hashanah
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Rosh Hashanah
Question
How does the Rabbi explain the dispute between Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua regarding the time of the world’s creation—Tishrei or Nisan?
Also, how does he explain the midrash that the world was created on the 25th of Elul and man on Rosh Hashanah? After all, there still were no months when the world was created. Is there an intention here to create consciousness? Thank you.
Answer
Clearly. After all, it is very likely that neither of them had reliable historical information on this subject. So this is a question of how to shape the myth, not of what actually happened.