"If Israel accepts the Torah, you will continue to exist"
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1richardbsmith
This is a Talmudic teaching on the reason the sixth day has the definite article before the number.
The numbers of the previous 5 days lack the article.
Rabbi Resh Lakish offers that the definite article refers to the 6th day of Sivan, when the Torah was given to Israel.
The definite article is "to teach us that the Holy One made a condition with all created things, saying to them, 'If Israel accepts the Torah, you will continue to exist. If not, I shall return you to tohu and bofu."
My question is whether the God of Israel is omniscient and omnipotent, as I think the Christian God is.
The numbers of the previous 5 days lack the article.
Rabbi Resh Lakish offers that the definite article refers to the 6th day of Sivan, when the Torah was given to Israel.
The definite article is "to teach us that the Holy One made a condition with all created things, saying to them, 'If Israel accepts the Torah, you will continue to exist. If not, I shall return you to tohu and bofu."
My question is whether the God of Israel is omniscient and omnipotent, as I think the Christian God is.
3richardbsmith
Yes. It is.
I might have been thinking of tofu. : )
"I will return you to tofu."
I might have been thinking of tofu. : )
"I will return you to tofu."
4MarthaJeanne
I have been learning modern Hebrew, and if this distinction used to be made, it is certainly not being taught to general students of Hebrew today.
