What is the most intelligent question regarding the world’s origin?
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This is like the most inspiring speech I have ever heard. Thak you very much.
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The human "why" asks the question and rightly so, but G-d's "why" is different --so thoroughly in the affirmative and overarching is G-d's "why" that it utterly destroys the premise of the "hows" and the "whens".
Still, it is an indispensable part of the human make-up to ask questions (without them no answer will be given --we are not automatons).
To illustrate the point: People and places are given names as part of G-d's Divine will: Wrds like "Mamre" and "Kadesh"; "Abraham", "Issac" and "Jacob", all these have come to define all other people and places because they are immutable expressions of the Creator's will, of which we and our world form a part.
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Rabbi, you've done a masterful job of explaining the importance of "Why?". And "How" is of little value to our miniscule minds. But what about "science" and "When"?
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If you have to start from "nothing," and it's not reasonable to start from gas and dust because those are too complex, why is it reasonable to start with God? Isn't God more complex than gas and dust?
I'm all for pursuing a "why" to the extent possible, but R. Friedman is muddying the waters here. If you want to start with "nothing," then you have to go back before God. If there is no "before God," then you've got the same problem that the scientists seem to have-- only your problem is much bigger; all they've got is some gas and dust to explain; you've got an omnipotent, omniscient being.
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That has and will always be science's "tafkid" (job).
WHY belongs to philosophy and religion. This applies to every natural or sociological phenomena. Science can explain hurricanes, earth quakes, even wars.
The only advantage of science -a big one I must say- is that can be contested and hence corrected with facts.
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I showed this video to my class of fifth graders. I needed to explain it a little but they loved the question and it was a great conversation for the next few days. it really got them thinking.
PS. my students are not religious.
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One day He made me see thatt He gave us what He didn't have. When we have everything we need to separate what's better and what's useless or worse. That's the begining..........Than we dream and try to create a new way of living, all on our own, but we don't really know what will happen if "our creatures" should have (like us) their own will. At this moment He had loved us as He loved Himself, when He gave us "Will" but we couldn´t understand His World and maybe we didn't even asked about it. Most of us have the same feelings and I think that everyday He is trying to show us WHO is HE.
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...and if I might also say, this is not only the 'most intelligent' question, but it is the 'only' question.
For there is but One Answer.
Most Excellent and Exalted Be He.
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