It is said that Adam and Eve were created with the
appearance of being 20 years old in the Garden of Eden. How can this be so? If Gd created the universe with the
appearance of age, isn’t that deceptive?
The very meaning of deception is to create something that
looks a certain way such that one would only think that it would be a certain
age through analysis. In the answer,
there is an unfolding of the very meaning of age.
The world was made not with the appearance of age, but with
the appearance of perfection, because the L-rd Gd would only create something
perfect, and leave it to us to keep it that way. And, He promises that eventually earth will
be like it was in Gan Eden. The only
requirement is massive amounts of righteousness. Gd did not make a world where Adam would look
at a tree and think, wow that tree looks old.
That was not the intent. Gd’s
intent was for Adam to look at a tree and think, not about its age, but just
simply, “Wow!!! That looks perfect!!!”
We know this because the L-rd Gd is good. His ways are worthy of emulation. Because Gd is good we can know that the world
was not created to deceive us that the world was old, and aged. That would be an action not attributable to a
Mighty Deity. The Almighty Gd created
the world to look perfect in an ageless way. We humans often place too much emphasis on the beginning and ending of things such as life cycles.
Torah does not lead us to believe that things were created
with the appearance of age. However,
Torah does lead us to believe that the world was created in a state of
perfection, Gan Eden. Things where not
created with the appearance of age; they were created in their ideal state;
something time does not know.
Chances are that we didn’t grow up in the Garden of
Eden. The world we grew up in was
imperfect. However, that perfect way
that we probably never knew was outside of age because usually we associate age
with death and dying, but yet the Garden of Eden had neither of these things.
In Judaism, our souls are eternal, such that birth is merely
a state of the soul. As time passes, we
gain deeper understanding to the world at birth, so it is true that birth is an
earlier state of life, and that infants aren’t born with much more than they
need to know, and primarily what they do know revolves around motivating
parents or care takers to feed them and change their dirty diapers, etc.,
through crying. However, it is such that
before we were on earth we did not know of age, and we came down to earth, and
suddenly time became a very important issue of our lives; in fact for most of
us, too important! Our slavery to the
clock in fact is one sign that we live in a fallen and imperfect world. Gan Eden didn’t last long!
So, looking at a perspective; did the chicken come first or
the egg is that chickens were created before they came into being, before time,
as what we would call before an earthly state, but that the first chicken came
to earth at a state of the universe known as the Garden of Eden where
everything was perfect.
It is such that probably Gd probably started with a flock of
chickens some with their eggs ready to hatch in the Garden of Eden with
grandiose splendor.
