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5775 Volume XXII Number 4 Beraishis 5775 Volume XXII Number 4 Toras Aish Thoughts From Across the Torah Spectrum to convey moral lessons rather than historical fact. And RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN this certainly leaves the door open to maintain that "one Shabbat Shalom thousand [or one million] years in Your eyes is like one nd G-d completed on the seventh day the day just passed" (Psalms 90:4). Each biblical day in the creative work which He had made; and He Creation story may well represent an epoch of "A rested on the seventh day from all His creative thousands or millions or years. work which He had made." (Genesis 2:2) But then why does the Bible convey the story in On Rosh Hashana we began counting the terms of primordial "week"? 5,775th year since the creation of the world; this In order to understand, I believe we must calculation is predicated upon the primordial first week ponder a question raised by the commentary of Rashi of creation as having consisted of seven 24-hour days on the very first words of the Bible: "Rabbi Yitzhak said during which G-d made everything there is, from light to the Torah ought not have opened with anything other vegetation to animals to the human being. than the first commandment ordained to the Israelites, Now, this biblical notion is in clear opposition to which was to make the month [of the exodus from all accepted scientific data, which claim the earth to be Egypt] the first month of the Hebrew calendar. So why millions of years old Carbon testing of fossils proves does the Torah begin with the Creation story?" this contention, at least from a scientific perspective. Rashi's assumption is that the Torah is first and Is the acceptance of science over the literal foremost a book of G-d's commands, and so it should reading of the biblical text to be considered heretical? have opened with the first commandment. Rashi's A good friend of mine (an upstanding Orthodox rabbi of answer takes the most universal verse of the Bible (all an Orthodox congregation) was recently informed by a other ancient peoples spoke of local deities; only our Haredi rabbi that a conversion he had performed Bible opens with a G-d of the Universe) and transforms several decades ago was to be invalidated unless he into a very particularistic (and prophetic) one: "If the would declare on oath that he believes the world to be nations of the world charge Israel with stealing by no more than 5,775 years old. Is the age of the earth a conquering and occupying the land of the 'seven cardinal article of Jewish faith to which every believing nations'... Israel can respond: All of the earth belongs to Jew must subscribe? the Holy One Blessed be He, who created it..., He has Literal belief in the seven days of creation is not given the Land of Israel to us." included in Maimonides's Thirteen Principles of Jewish Nahmanides provides another answer, based faith or even in Rabbi Yosef Albo's three principles on a different assumption. The Bible teaches theology (Sefer Ha'ikarim). So why does the Bible express itself and historiosophy, not only laws and commands. in terms of six days of creativity culminating in one day It is important for us to know that G-d owns the of Sabbath rest? Why would the Bible utilize the world and owns us, by virtue of the rights of the Creator Hebrew word for "day" (yom) with any meaning other to his creation, and G-d ordains the punishment of exile than a 24-hour period? for transgressions of His Commandments (Adam and The truth is that from the usage of the word Eve from the Garden of Eden, Israel from the Promised "yom" it is possible to conclude the very opposite of the Land). Haredi dogma just cited. The Bible is not interested in My revered teacher Rav Soloveitchik gives a conveying literal and chronological facts in its story of third response: this first verse is a commandment, the Creation. After all, the sun and the moon were not very first commandment of the Torah. It is based upon created until the fourth day, and it is specifically their the principle of Imitatio Dei, that we must walk in G-d's movements which are the determinants for our 24-hour ways: "Just as G-d created a world, so must you day. Beyond any doubt, then, the word "yom" in the humans create worlds. You must re-create the context of the seven days of Creation cannot mean a incomplete, imperfect world which G-d made. You must literal 24-hour day. remove the darkness, leaving only the light; you must Furthermore, Maimonides, in his Guide for the remove the evil, leaving only the good; you must Perplexed, interprets all of the early biblical stories until remove the chaos, leaving only order." (J.B. the advent of Abraham as allegories, whose purpose is Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man of Faith 1, D). This is the 2 Toras Aish that can guarantee our survival and success. TORAS AISH IS A WEEK LY PARSHA There is a great danger in forgetting our past, NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTED VIA EMAIL whether as an individual and certainly as a nation. AND THE WEB AT WWW.AISHDAS.ORG/TA. Without recalling the past we invite ourselves to be FOR MORE INFO EMAIL [email protected] blindsided by unexpected events and the The material presented in this publication was collected from unpredictability of human nature and behavior. Yet email subscriptions, computer archives and various websites. there is a great difference between recalling and It is being presented with the permission of the respective authors. Toras Aish is an independent publication, and does remembering the past and attempting to live in the past. not necessarily reflect the views of any synagogue or Living in the past freezes us and makes us a relic organization. instead of a vibrantly creative society. TO DEDICATE THIS NEWSLETTER PLEASE CALL Nostalgia is part of the human condition but (973) 277-9062 OR EMAIL [email protected] oftentimes serves as a negative brake upon positive future progress. Throughout human history all attempts linkage between Rosh Hashana and Bereishit, our to recreate the past through sentimental or even mission to perfect the world in the Kingship of the imaginary means of fantasy have inevitably met with Divine. ultimate failure, if not even defeat and tragedy. Hence G-d describes His original creation of Inherent in the blessing that Moshe bestows the world as having taken place in one Divine week of upon his beloved people Israel, is his look forward. He six days of creativity and one day of rest; so must we sees the Land of Israel, where he will not now ever model ourselves after Him, with each week of our lives enter, and views the Jewish people settled therein. He being dedicated to six days of proactive change and re- sees all of the challenges that Jewish life in the future creation of the world and one day of rest and will bring to his beloved people while they are living in appreciation of what it is. © 2014 Ohr Torah Institutions & the Land of Israel and for the millennia thereafter, Rabbi S. Riskin scattered throughout the world. RABBI BEREL WEIN But he also sees the last days of the new redemption and the restoration of Israel to its Torah and Wein Online homeland. And his warning, repeated throughout his ery shortly we will conclude the reading of the lifetime, that the Jews should never return to Egypt, Torah cycle for this year. The Torah ends with the takes on new meaning. The Jews should never live Vdescription of the passing of Moshe. The Torah exclusively in the past but always to begin again and pointedly tells us that there never will be another anew, as we do with the Torah reading itself, and build Moshe. We are also taught that there will never be a bright, secure and holy future. © 2014 Rabbi Berel Wein another generation such as the generation of Jews that - Jewish historian, author and international lecturer offers a were redeemed from Egypt and who accepted the complete selection of CDs, audio tapes, video tapes, DVDs, Torah on Mount Sinai. And, we are also taught the and books on Jewish history at www.rabbiwein.com. For more fundamental Jewish belief that there never will be information on these and other products visit www.rabbiwein.com another Torah nor will this one ever be modified or recast. RABBI AVI WEISS As such, there is a true sense of finality to this last chapter of the Torah. It not only details the end of Shabbat Forshpeis an era and the mortality of a life but it serves to teach hy does the Torah begin with the Genesis story? us another important lesson. And that lesson is that the If it is a book of Law, ask the rabbis, why not past cannot be repeated and that every generation, just W start with the first commandment? as every individual, is charged with the challenge of To teach us, Rashi says, that G-d, having creating a new Moshe, so to speak, and a new sense of created the whole world, is its owner and has the right redemption, freedom and a new reacceptance of the therefore to give Israel to the Jewish people. Here. Torah of Sinai. Rashi turns a universalistic story into a nationalistic The fact that Moshe is irreplaceable and that a one.
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