Hi Rabbi Whitman, I have a question maybe you could answer. In Judaism it says The Earth was created 6000 years ago. I was wondering how this could be true if dinosaurs lived millions of years ago?
@rabbimichaelwhitman
28 күн бұрын
This is an excellent question! There are several answers, here is one which is widely accepted. First, the Torah does not intend to teach us history or science, only God's lessons for living. No serious Jewish person accepts the Torah literally. We understand the written word along with the oral explanation and the commentaries of our rabbis. Many scholars understand the first day of creation described in Bereishit as not being days of 24 hours as we know them. Any one of those days could have been millions or billions of our years long. There is no contradiction between Torah and science.
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