Rabbi Dr Zvi Aviner
Noahidesevencommandments.com
Jan 2022
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IDOLATRY-14/
Seeking The CREATOR in Nature
Like a CEO making a robot,
ELHM turned to the Six Days
To provide for Adam’s body
ELHM said to each Day:
“Let Us Make Adam in Our Form and Our Image.”
Each Day agreed, and ELHM consulted it
Like a Builder consulting his master plan
and made a layer in Adam accordingly.
Each Day providing a dimension in Adam’s body and soul
Thus –
He consulted the First Day and made Adam.
Adam is made of stuff that stars are made of.
He Consulted the Second Day’s Water
and made another layer in Adam.
Our body constitutes mostly of waters.
He Consulted the Third Day’s Vegetation
and made another layer in Adam;
giving our eyes the ability to perform photosynthesis
and to our blood vessels to brunch out like trees.
He Consulted the Fourth Day’s Luminaries
and made another layer in Adam accordingly.
This is why we have in us a biologic clock
that knows days from nights,
something crucial for our nervous system
He Consulted the Fifth Days’ fish, birds and crocodiles
and made another layer in Adam
He Consulted the Sixth Days’ Cattle, Beasts and Crawling creatures
and made another layer in Adam.
Adam is therefore the summary of everything created before him.
1. Is the Story Supported by Science?
You can see the story being played out
in the way the human embryo develops
in the mother’s womb.
We all start as a single cell, that divides and grows
into multi-cellular ball, then evolves into phases that
resemble Fish, Bird, Lizard and so on.
The scientists say:
Onto-genesis repeats Phyllo-genesis.
Hence, Moses’ story is fully supported by our science
Something you can’t say about any of the myths of his time,
Thereby establishing Moses’ credibility.
Now, Moses adds something that Science can’t say:
that Man was born to withstand the IDOLATRY trial
How?
By speaking to the councilors in plural,
ELHM made each councilor a potential idol.
For people would regard it as a Partner with ELHM.
As if ELHM, by the consultation,
rendered each councilor a magical status in Man’s eyes
So much, that Man would be tempted to worship it
2. Predicting the Course
Of IDOLATRY in History
As it turns out, Moses actually predicts here the path
Of IDOLATRY, that Mankind would take in history
Has this prediction come true?
Indeed, Man’s history has followed the path dictated here by Moses
Let’s see How.
After the expulsion from Eden, G-d keeps calling:
“Adam! Where are you? Come to me! “
Adam hears that call, yet G-d is hiding from our eyes
Adam, living in the Sixth Day, hears G-d’s calling,
and he looks for Him in the creatures around him,
Made with him on the Sixth Day: cattle, beast and “snakes”
And they seem to him so powerful, so magical, so fascinating
that he is tempted to worship then, as his CREATOR
He worships holy cow, as the Egyptians did
He worships powerful beasts, as all ancient civilizations did
He worships the snakes and Dragons, as the Greeks and Chinese did
And he worships even Fly, as the Philistines did
But soon Adam becomes wiser and he realizes
that those creatures are in fact not so powerful.
But since he keeps hearing G-d calling him
“Adam, where are you? Come to me!”
he searches for God deeper in Nature,
In creatures made on the Fifth Day
Adam is now impressed by Great Fish, Birds and Crocodiles,
So much, that he worships them as if they are his creator
Indeed, the ancient Egyptians depicted their gods
With faces of fish, birds, and crocodiles;
And so did other ancient civilizations
But soon Man becomes wiser and he realizes
that those creatures are not so powerful.
Yet, hearing God calling him,
“Adam, where are you? Come to me!”
Adam seeks G-d in creatures deeper in Nature,
made on the Forth Day, namely the Luminaries,
the Sun, Moon and Stars, and he worships them
as the Babylonians did when they introduced Astrology
But soon Man discovers the fallacy of these celestial idols
and he looks for G-d deeper in Nature
in creatures made on the Third day,
Vegetation, seeding life and Fertility
And he worships them, as the Canaanites did
who worshiped gods of fertility, the Baal and Ashtoreth,
with sacred prostitution
Other nations looked even deeply in Nature,
into the Waters that covered Earth on the Second Day
worshipping the Sea, like the Greeks who worshipped Poseidon
And nowadays, Man still hears G-d’s call
Adam, where are you? Come to me!
And we look for Him deeper in Nature,
In the most primordial elements of CREATION
Like in the Big Bang, thinking that our origin lies there!
But soon, let’s pray and hope,
That Mankind would recognize
the true CREATOR, who
Created the world
Created the Six Days,
Created Mankind
Hence, since Moses’ account of ELHM consulting the Six Day
To make Adam, is supported by the development
Of each embryo in the uterus,
And since his prediction of the course of IDOLATRY in history
Is supported by observing history,
Hence, he should be also credible
With his moral message that
Man is born to withstand the IDOLATRY Trial.
A note:
Why did ELHM consult the Six Days to make Adam?
By consulting the Six Days
Adam became the summary of everything created before
And a member of Nature. Adam is not an alien here.
Adam can therefore rule over Nature
As a King Who Consults.
For by his consultation, Adam is capable
Of identifying and sympathizing with each creature
and comprehend its needs , and lead it forwards
A King who Consults, says Moses (Deuteronomy)
should be elected only from among
his subjects, as it is said
“From among your brothers, you should elect a king.”
The King can’t be an alien
Now with who else did ELHM consult to make Adam?