Posted on 07/05/2022 6:57:36 AM PDT by Ezekiel
Day One, second day, third day:
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called (named) the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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On day one, day one was not the first in a series of days, it was the one and only:
Each day of creation is numbered. Yet there is discontinuity in the way the days are numbered. The verse says: "There is evening and morning, Day One." But the second day doesn't say "evening and morning, Day Two." Rather, it says "evening and morning, a second day." And the Torah continues with this pattern: "Evening and morning, a third day... a fourth day... a fifth day... the sixth day." Only on the first day does the text use a different form: not "first day," but "Day One" ("Yom Echad").
Many English translations make the mistake of writing "a first day." That's because editors want things to be nice and consistent. But they throw out the cosmic message in the text! Because there is a qualitative difference, as Nachmanides says, between "one" and "first."One is absolute; first is comparative. Nachmanides explains that on Day One, time was created. That's a phenomenal insight. Time was created. You can't grab time. You don't even see it. You can see space, you can see matter, you can feel energy, you can see light energy. I understand a creation there. But the creation of time? Eight hundred years ago, Nachmanides attained this insight from the Torah's use of the phrase, "Day One."
And that's exactly what Einstein taught us in the Laws of Relativity: that there was a creation, not just of space and matter, but of time itself . . . Now if the Torah were seeing time from the days of Moses and Mount Sinai -- long after Adam -- the text would not have written Day One. Because by Sinai, hundreds of thousands of days already passed. There was a lot of time with which to compare Day One. Torah would have said "A First Day." By the second day of Genesis, the Bible says "a second day," because there was already the First Day with which to compare it. You could say on the second day, "what happened on the first day." But as Nahmanides pointed out, you could not say on the first day, "what happened on the first day" because "first" implies comparison -- an existing series. And there was no existing series. Day One was all there was.
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/18878/why-hayom-yom-rishon-not-echad
A related topic is the question (mystery) of what was the first light of the first three days, because the Sun, Moon, and stars didn't appear until the fourth day.
Here is portion of an excellent article on the subject:
The hidden light of Creation
Ohr haganuz - the light that God hid.Ohr Ha-Ganuz
The very first act of Creation, as recorded in the Book of Genesis, was the creation of light. And God said: There shall be light (Gen. 1:3). What kind of light was this?
It cannot be the light that we are familiar with, the light emanating from the sun and the stars. These heavenly bodies were created much later, on the fourth day of Creation. The Sages called this primordial light Ohr Ha-Ganuz, the Hidden Light. Too pure for the current state of the universe, God concealed it for a future, more deserving world.
What is the nature of this special illumination introduced at the beginning of Creation?
The Sages taught (Shemot Rabbah 15:22) that certain topics mentioned cryptically in the Torah were later elucidated by David in the book of Psalms. For example, Psalm 104 speaks poetically of the creation of the heavens:
"[God] wrapped Himself in light like a garment and spread out the heavens like a curtain." (104:3)
And God called the light "DAY"...
On account of the "discontinuity in the way the days are numbered", the last letters of each of these first three days (the days of the "hidden light") are as follows, in red:
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day [יום אחד].
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day [יום שני].
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day [יום שלישי].
dalet [ד] yud [י] yud [י]
דיי
spells the English word "DAY"
Too pure for the current state of the universe, God concealed it for a future, more deserving world.
DAY reverses to YID:
ייד
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Everything about Moshe Rabbeinu indicated a special relationship with the Ohr HaGanuz-the Hidden Light of Creation. As the Talmud points out (Chagigah 12a), this light was not a normal light, a natural light, but an extremely spiritual lighta very powerful light. So powerful was this light, in fact, says Rashi, that G-d actually hid it in the early days of creation, to keep it out of the hands of the evil people of history!
The letter 'yud' has traversed a confused, almost schizophrenic path. It originally indicated the consonantal sound /y/, like our English letter "wye." Three thousand years ago, the ancient Hebrews invented another use for it, adding a vocalic role to the letter. So for most of its history it has also represented the sounds /i/ as in the "ee" of "see," and /ei/ as in the "ay" of the American pronunciation of "day."
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Writing a 'yud' for /i/ caught on, but it became even more widespread than it was supposed to be. For example, the academy didn't want people to use a 'yud' in words like 'michtav', letter, but most people put one after the 'mem' anyway. Israelis therefore came to associate the single 'yud' with the sound /i/, leading to the second problem: they needed another way to write /ei/, particularly in foreign words. Their solution was a double 'yud'. So, for example, the American state of Maine is spelled 'mem-yud-yud-nun'.
For example, the English name David (DAY-vid):
דייוויד
Continued from Zot HaBracha: The Man of God:
However, Moshe, according to the "Tradition," always had access to this light, which is why he was born thirty-six years after the slavery begana number associated with this light (it shone for 36 hours in the Garden of Eden before being hidden). Furthermore, it says:
It is written here, " And she saw that he was good " (Shemos 2:2) and there it is written [regarding the Hidden Light], "G-d saw the light, that it was good" (Bereishis 1:4). (Sotah 12a)
The Talmud seems to equate Moshe and the Light itself.
ויאמר אלהים יהי אור ויהי־אור וירא אלהים את־האור כי־טוב
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was 'tov' [טוב] good " = 1776
וירא אלהים את־האור כי־טוב ויבדל אלהים בין האור ובין החשך׃
" And God saw the light, that it was 'tov' [טוב] good : and God divided the light from the darkness" = 1776
A MIRACLE
EST. 1776
Continued HERE
It is interesting to me that light is both matter AND energy (and we observe in science that matter and energy can go back and forth). Time, however, is vastly different. It is not a thing in and of itself. Time, instead, is a by-product of matter in motion.
“Time, instead, is a by-product of matter in motion.”
Well, that’s one of the old ways of thinking about time, that it was just kind of an after effect of measuring motion in matter, and noticing that motions could be cyclical so we could derive units of time from those cycles.
But Einstein showed that in fact almost the opposite is true. For matter experiences time only because our motion in space is so small. Energy, on the other hand, which can move through space at the speed of light, experiences no time at all. So it may be that time is actually the byproduct of a deficiency of motion, and not motion itself.
Interesting. But I will stay with my long-held observation.
It is interesting to me that light is both matter AND energy (and we observe in science that matter and energy can go back and forth).
There is a kabbalistic concept that the "let there be light" (yehi ohr) part of Genesis 1:3 is the direct light (represented by the letter vav), the "yasher ohr". The "and there was light" (veyehi ohr) is the returning light, the light of the bride, represented by the letter zayin.
You can get an idea of this in the explanation of the letter zayin, HERE. Also that this relates to the traditional form of the letter chet (as a vav + zayin) as the man and woman standing under the wedding canopy. HERE.
It (this running and returning of light) further pulls in the concept of one (echad), unity, as the sum is 6 + 7 = 13 = echad (one, as in Day One) and also love (ahavah).
Which draws in the 6 connected to 7 as "67", which = "a Jewish heart" (lev Yehudi). The same letters rearrange to "the 4th of July". I'm just tossing this stuff out there as it comes to mind. If per chance anyone wants further clarification I can get to it later on if requested.
Time, however, is vastly different. It is not a thing in and of itself. Time, instead, is a by-product of matter in motion.
Time reverses to:
Emit Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com emit
Emit means to release or discharge something, such as gas, liquid, heat, sound, light, or radiation. The process of emitting is called emission.
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A lot of people see the word "kabbalah" and think mystical gibberish and/or Madonna, but it's actually a simple representational system like circuit diagrams or building blueprints.
Those sages were way ahead of their time. :)
Just directing you to post 5 as I didn’t see your comment until after I posted it.
Wonderful reading.
I feel like I need to ‘reset’ my brain to read some of the information.
It is indeed wonderful to read.
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For the skeptics......Here we have a major discrepancy in the bible, there is light on the first day, but the source of light, sun and moon and stars, are made on the fourth day.
You are assuming there can be no light without the Sun, or Moon, or other physical cause.
The LORD God is LIGHT.
Could it be that the first light was God’s “Work Light”?
Also, could not the observation of the sun, moon, and stars have been withheld from observation from the earth’s perspective? IOW, they were “there” but could not be seen from the earth due to clouds. Of course no one was on the earth to see them yet but God.
Excerpt from: The Last Question by Isaac Asimov © 1956
Man said, “AC, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more? Can that not be done?”
AC said, “THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
Man’s last mind fused and only AC existed — and that in hyperspace.
Matter and energy had ended and with it, space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man.
All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.
All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.
But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.
A timeless interval was spent in doing that.
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.
But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer — by demonstration — would take care of that, too.
For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.
The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.
And AC said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”
And there was light——
What you posted is really cool. Thank you
Yes, God is light, but “darkness was upon the face of the deep” until He created light, then three days later He created the source of light.
No, because He did not yet create them they were not hidden - they didn’t exist.
Thank You!
.... The LORD God is LIGHT.
Not light caused by something HE created.
HE is LIGHT.
The darkness and then the light created by the Sun and the Moon are only for our specific needs the HE knew would be needed.
Time is also affected by gravity. This was proven by an experiment where two atomic clocks were synchronized exactly the same, one was put aboard a satellite and orbited around the Earth.
The orbiting clock, over a period of time, was actually ahead of the Earth-bound clock.
I’m relating this from memory, and it’s been a lot of years since I read about this, so feel free to correct me if needed.
Yes, God is light, but “darkness was upon the face of the deep” until He created light, then three days later He created the source of light.
In beginning God created the heaven and the earth and the earth was (became) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
In the beginning God’s creation was perfect but something happened to make the earth become without form and void and darkness; the first rebellion in heaven when Lucifer and a third of the angels were cast out. Then God began to restore order in the universe. Many ancient religions believed that there was a period of chaos before order was restored.
Time and space were created in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago. The universe was a superheated plasma (waters of the deep). 380,000 years after the Big Bang the universe became transparent to light (let there be light) because electrons could bind with protons to form hydrogen (the great recombination). ~100 million years later the first stars formed, super massive blue giants that quickly exploded and seeded the universe with life giving elements.
Galaxies formed later with super massive black holes at their centers (formed through direct collapse). Quasars to Seyferts to spirals to ellipticals. Stars began to become more metal rich from supernovae and neutron star mergers. Our solar system was the result of fine tuned developments in the universe. The earth was placed at the precise location so that life would proliferate. The earth’s magnetic field protected life from harmful solar and cosmic rays. The moon, which came out of the earth, keeps the earth’s tilt at a constant 23.5 degrees. Solar radiance peaks in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, precisely where water is most transparent to light (an inherent property of water). Thousands of planets have been discovered orbiting host stars but none are exactly like earth. The fine tuning in nature is obvious to me.
And God said “let there be light.”
Yes, because time is affected by acceleration, and gravity causes acceleration. So the deeper into a “gravity well” you go, the slower time passes.
This connection is one of the things that led Einstein to develop General Relativity, because he realized that if you were in a spaceship accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2, then if you dropped an object, it’s trajectory would be the same as if you dropped an object while standing on earth’s surface. So if you could not determine the difference between being in a gravity well, or on an accelerating spaceship, then he surmised that all the laws of physics should apply the same in both situations, and started looking for a solution in which that would be true.
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