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Ël•oh•im Nât•âh (Stretched-Apart) The Heavens

Cosmic Yom Rish•on (Firstday)

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Our Ta•na"kh begins with the story about how our world and universe, and you and I and everyone else in it, came to exist.

Before the universe existed, there was only the Singularity: é‑‑ä.

As mankind developed, they made up stories around their campfires that the universe was built and inhabited by a race of super beings they called ël•oh•im. They thought that great pharoahs and kings were gods and that when they died they became the stars in the night sky. To them, the stars were their gods and the sun was often their primary god.

But then, about B.C.E. 2100, an Iraqi man figured out that everything in the universe must have come from a single cause: a Singularity. Do you know the name of this Iraqi man?

He was Av•râ•hâm. He was the first man, the only one in his time, who believed in the Singularity. Everyone else, even his family in Iraq, were idolaters who believed in a super-race of gods. So Av•râ•hâm left all of his relatives in Iraq to start a more intelligent — logical and scientific — family tradition based on the recognition of the Singularity as the Creator of the universe and everything in it.

But this new concept of a Singularity replacing the gods was hard to explain to everyone else. No one had ever heard of a Creator-Singularity. So, for a long time, Ta•na"kh speaks of the Singularity in the sense of "I" or "Me," but in the beginning mostly as "we" or "us" — ël•oh•im, so that the rest of the world might relate that what they perceived as "the gods" were, in reality, a Singularity — as our Shᵊm•a teaches:

Shᵊm•a Yi•sᵊr•â•eil:

é‑‑ä is our ël•oh•im;

é‑‑ä is the Singularity!

Because Av•râ•hâm figured out that the universe and everything in it had to come from a Singularity, he became the Patriarch of Yi•sᵊr•â•eil — the people who believe in the Creator-Singularity.

Therefore, we reject the religions of all of the other peoples who worship more than one god, which is idolatry, the worship of idols!

Beside ël•oh•im, there was nothing; nothing at all. But ël•oh•im decided He wanted friends. Only a person with free will, who can decide for himself or herself, can DECIDE to be a true friend. So ël•oh•im decided to create a universe and people with free will. That's why you have free will to decide who you will become, what you will do and not do, who you will love and who you will choose to be your friends.

When people make their own decision, some decide to do good. But there are also others who make evil decisions; caring only about themselves and what they believe, even when they refuse to educate themselves, many still believing in some form of more than one "gods."

Therefore, ël•oh•im shrewdly designed a closed, physical, universe so that those who do evil can never break out of their physical avatar-body and universe to contaminate His non-physical domain, which existed before our universe and still exists beyond our universe, and where there is no evil; only justice and caring love.

Big Stretch-Apart: Expansion (Inflation) of the Universe at an accelerating rate

So, around 14 billion years ago, ël•oh•im applied a pulling-apart Force where there had been nothing.

ël•oh•im pulled, stretched and spread His Force until the Force Itself stretched apart. Where His Force had stretched apart, and there had been nothing, suddenly, in an instant, equal and opposite counter forces interacted to create a physical reaction. This resulted in a great generation of energy — resulting in countless bursts of light occurring simultaneously in vastly distant places, all streaking outward toward His Attractive Force.

universe expansion

Physicists call this the "Big Bang"; but the Bible calls it the "Stretch-Apart" — ël•oh•im nât•âh ("stretched-apart") the universe. All of this light energy would eventually cool into all kinds of particles, energy and mass — everything you see or touch in our universe.

ël•oh•im called this light of the Big Stretch-Apart a cosmic yom.

And He distinguished the light from the darkness, which He called a cosmic lâilâh (night).

This was the first cosmic ërëv (eve) followed by morning: defining the first cosmic yom of our universe – which is why, for Jews, each new day begins at sunset, the eve!

Optional parental preparation: Make the outdoor night a friendly place to your child. Having consulted a star chart for your locale and date, take him or her out and introduce him or her to some of the more visible constellations in the evening sky and explain how ancient mariners used them to navigate and relate some of the silly idolatrous beliefs of ancient Egyptians, Persians and other goy•im.

Questions you might anticipate that your child might raise and be prepared to discuss:

  1. What is the difference between the "eve" of a day and the "evening"?
  2. What is a Singularity?
  3. How can ël•oh•im (plural) be the Singularity?
  4. What is é‑‑ä? (abbreviation for "the ineffable Name")
  5. What is Ta•na"kh (Bible)?
  6. When did Av•râ•hâm live? (B.C.E. 2112; 4,127 years ago)
  7. How big is 14 billion?
  8. What is an avatar in a computer simulation?
  9. What is the Shᵊm•a?
  10. What is free will?
  11. What are goy•im, in contrast to practicers of Tor•âh? And what are ël•oh•im of the goy•im?
  12. What does cosmic mean?
  13. What is a yom according to Tor•âh and when does it begin?
  14. What is lâilâh? (night)
  15. What is an ërëv?
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