Q&A: 5785
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5785
Question
Is the Rabbi familiar with a source from Rabbi Kook in which he writes that our count, 5785 from the creation of the world, is actually a count from the creation of thinking human beings, Homo sapiens, and that the story of Genesis about the first man refers to that human being?
Answer
I have no idea. I’m not familiar with his writings.
I don’t know about Rabbi Kook, but I do know that Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel raised such a hypothesis in his suppressed book, In the Torah of Rabbi Gedaliah. You can find it online.