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Mysteries of Creation
Biblical Faith – with Sam Peak
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Moshe said (Korach, BaMidbar 16:30), “If HaShem creates a new creation,” meaning, If Gehinom already exists, that will serve; if not HaShem will create it.” That can’t be! Moshe could not have been unsure whether Gehinom already existed, for we learn, “Seven things were created before the earth: 1) Torah, 2) T’shuva, 3) Gan Ayden, 4) Gehinom, 5) the Kisay haKovod, 6) the Bat haMikdosh, 7) the name of the Moshiach.” Moshe meant, then, “If Gehinom already has an opening on the surface of the earth, that will serve; if not, HaShem will create one.” That, too can’t be! Scripture (Kohelles 1:9) tells us, “There is nothing new under the sun.” Rather, Moshe announced, “If an opening to Gehinom is already located here, that will serve; if not, HaShem will bring one to this spot.”
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 218–223.
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When Adom haRishon was expelled from Gan Ayden he settled at Mt. Moria (the site of the Bat haMakdosh) because the gates of Gan Ayden are adjacent to Mt Moria.
The Sages (Ta’anis 10A) relates the size: Mitzraim is four hundred parsot (parsa is about 2.7 miles) by four hundred parsot. Mitzraim is one-sixtieth the size of Cush. Cush is one-sixtieth the size of the world. The world is one-sixtieth of the Garden. The Garden is one-sixtieth the size of Ayden.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 214–218.
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Rabbi bar Abuha found Eliyohu standing in a gentile cemetery and asked him, “Are you not a cohen? What are you doing in a cemetery?” Eliyohu countered, “Did you not study Taharot? There we learn, ‘Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai asserts that gentile graves do not defile.'” Responded Rabbi, “I did not know that. I can’t keep up with the four orders of Mishna that are generally applicable today. I certainly can’t study all six.” “Why don’t you devote more time to studying?” “Because of my poverty; I must spend considerable time earning a living.” Eliyohu took Rabbi into Gan Ayden and told him, “Fill your cloak with the leaves laying on the ground.” He did so. As he was leaving he heard a voice, “Who is so foolish as to consume his destiny in Olam haZe as Rabbi bar Abuha is doing?” He instanly dropped the leaves. Nevertheless his cloak so absorbed in aroma that he later sold it as perfume for $30,000. He refused to use the money on himself, however, and divided it among his sons-in-law. (G’morroh–Bova Metzia 114A, B)
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 209–214.
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Gan Ayden (Garden of Eden) exist in this world in a specific place. Four rivers flow from it, one of which flows past Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel), just as the Torah explicitly tells us. These verses are not allegorical at all but literal facts… From the works of the Sages this is so clear that it hardly bears mentioning that Gan Ayden is an actual garden and a physical site.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 208.
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The various interpretations do not conflict with each other. They are all true. The evaluation of the felicities of the future are retrogressive, to the character of the times of the first Beit haMikdos, then to the times of Shlomoh, to the times of Moshe, to the times of Noach, to the times of Abel, to the times of Adam haRishon. Not merely to the time of Adam haRishon which overlaps that of Abel, but to the period before that; before the primeval sin.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 204.
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All these things show us clearly that the Sages describe Olam haBah as a material world. Undoubtedly, as Ramban says, a more refined and spiritual material world, but material nonetheless. When the time arrives in which (Isaiah 11:9) “The earth is full of the knowledge of HaShem as the waters cover the seas,” the world will be fit for t’chais hamaysim (resurrection of the dead), when it will return to the state before the chet of Adam haRishon, in which there was no death. T’chais hamaysim, as Ramban shows so compellingly, inaugurates Olam haBah.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 201.
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All these things show us clearly that the Sages describe Olom haBa as a material world. Undoubtedly, as Ramban says, a more refined and spiritual material world, but material nonetheless.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 197.
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