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Who’s Running the Show?

By Shais Taub

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Shais Taub
Rabbi Shais Taub is Creative Director at Jewish.TV. He is the author of G-d of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction. He and his family make their home in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Posted: Jan 5, 2010

Get your own mud / energy

Jason,

You got the joke AND you got the point.

I also appreciate your pointing out that the issue of 4.5 billion vs. 5770 years does not change the basic fact that at SOME point there was this radical leap into "somethingness" that took place and that this radical leap is what we call creation.

Posted By Shais Taub, Milwaukee, WI

Posted: Jan 5, 2010

Re: Creation

Speaking as someone who accepts that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old (I am stating that so you know where I am holding not to create a machlochis we have enough of that) your comment doesn't change the basic idea. So instead of the joke being "get your own mud" it’s "get your own energy". G-D created/is the energy. Same idea. Good shir.

Posted By Jason Goldstein, Baltimore, MD

Posted: Aug 31, 2009

Creation

G-d created Adam's body from the earth, and Eve's body from one of Adam's ribs. Furthermore, He created clothing for Adam and Eve from the skins of animals. Thus G-d's method of creation is from something to something else. Now, 'nothing' is an abstract word to describe the absence of any created thing. Wouldn't it be more logical to follow the scripture that tells us that God spoke things into existence. The act of speaking implies a release of energy which according to Einstein's theory of relativity has the potential of being transformed into matter. Thus isn't it more likely that G-d created the universe from energy?

Posted By Denis Gibbon, Australia

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