The Truth and Illusion of Time

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

said, "Let there be let there be luminaries in the firmament of the shayim." Now we see these will be the symbols of the difference between day and night and there'll be signs for festivals days. This is really the beginning of what we have time before that we have and but we don't know what that means. What's a thousand years is like one day for you. Now we have the beginning though of a day. We have a day. We have distinction of day. And there all the scientific that are thinking about what do you mean all the billions of years of the creation of the world. You can see that that the Tyra is winking at you and telling you that in the first three days where there's no sun and there's no constellation you can have space for all those billions of years and what a day may be. Now you've moved into days through the constellations. Right? So Rashi says, now this is interesting. Why is the word missing a letter? It's missing the letter V. It's what's called there's ways to write words which is called mole when it's full and there's ways to write words which is called so is not the main creation of these because we're going to learn in a moment that really God made the already on the He just never placed them in the sky. So says Rashi, very important Rashi. We're going to learn that yehe is not a creation, but rather we take something we created and now place them where we want to place them. So says Rashi Misha, they were already created, which is interesting. They were created on the first day, but they weren't telling time yet. >> That's right. So, it's interesting where where were these constellations like

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