You wrote that you read in astronomy books that there are stars whose light rays must travel far more than six thousand years until reaching Earth. How, you asked, could that fit with our holy Torah’s position that we are in the year 5716 since Creation?

I studied science on the university level from 1928–1932 in Berlin, and from 1934–1938 in Paris, and I have tried to follow scientific developments in certain areas ever since.

The conclusions as to the age of the universe reached by various fields within science contradict each other. Scientific researchers were forced to contrive all kinds of ad hoc rationales to explain away these contradictions. . .

It isn’t a question of logical proof since the facts, the actual events and occurrences, relay a clear and undeniable testimony. . .

Jewish mysticism teaches that the purpose of the soul’s descent to earth is to reveal the harmony that is inherent in the created world, beginning with the “small world,” namely, man—a creature of Nigleh and Nistar, of a body and a soul.