It is said that Adam and
Eve were created with the appearance of being 20 years old in the Garden of
Eden. How can this be
so? If Gd created the
universe with the appearance of age, isn’t that deceptive?
The very meaning of
deception is to create something that looks a certain way such that one would
only think that it would be a certain age through analysis. In the answer, there is an unfolding of the very
meaning of age.
The world was made not
with the appearance of age, but with the appearance of perfection, because the
L-rd Gd would only create something perfect, and leave it to us to keep it that
way. And, He promises that
eventually earth will be like it was in Gan Eden. The only requirement is massive amounts of
righteousness. Gd did not make a world
where Adam would look at a tree and think, wow that tree looks old. That was not the intent. Gd’s intent was for Adam to look at a tree and
think, not about its age, but just simply, “Wow!!! That looks perfect!!!”
We know this because the
L-rd Gd is good. His ways are worthy of
emulation. Because Gd is good we
can know that the world was not created to deceive us that the world was old,
and aged. That would be an action
not attributable to a Mighty Deity. The Almighty Gd created the world to look perfect in an ageless
way. We humans often place too much emphasis on the beginning and ending
of things such as life cycles.
Torah does not lead us
to believe that things were created with the appearance of age. However, Torah does lead us to believe that the
world was created in a state of perfection, Gan Eden. Things where not created with the appearance of
age; they were created in their ideal state; something time does not know.
Chances are that we
didn’t grow up in the Garden of Eden. The world we grew up in was imperfect. However, that perfect way that we probably never
knew was outside of age because usually we associate age with death and dying,
but yet the Garden of Eden had neither of these things.
In Judaism, our souls
are eternal, such that birth is merely a state of the soul. As time passes, we gain deeper understanding to
the world at birth, so it is true that birth is an earlier state of life, and
that infants aren’t born with much more than they need to know, and primarily
what they do know revolves around motivating parents or care takers to feed
them and change their dirty diapers, etc., through crying. However, it is such that before we were on earth
we did not know of age, and we came down to earth, and suddenly time became a
very important issue of our lives; in fact for most of us, too important! Our slavery to the clock in fact is one sign
that we live in a fallen and imperfect world. Gan Eden didn’t last long!
So, looking at a
perspective; did the chicken come first or the egg is that chickens were
created before they came into being, before time, as what we would call before
an earthly state, but that the first chicken came to earth at a state of the
universe known as the Garden of Eden where everything was perfect.
It is such that probably
Gd probably started with a flock of chickens some with their eggs ready to
hatch in the Garden of Eden with grandiose splendor.
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