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Jan 28 2005

Rav Dessler’s Approach to Creation

Posted by: micha in Creation, Science and Torah
See also Different Approaches to Creation, a survey that just touches on a variety of opinions, as well as Divine Timelessness.I think that in order to understand Rav Dessler’s position about the nature of time during ma’aseh bereishis one needs to start with MmE vol II pp 150-154, aptly titled “Yemei Bereishis veYemai Olam”. Comments of my own that I feel can’t wait for the end of the maamar are in square brackets.Rav Dessler opens by defining the nature of time-as-we-know-it. In the first two paragraph he establishes the connection between time and free will. The flow of past to future is that of desire to fulfillment.In the section “Havchanas haZeman”, Rav Dessler points out that time passes a