Timeline for Age of Universe and Shabbat
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| Oct 23, 2014 at 18:37 | comment | added | Y e z | @DoubleAA see previous comment | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 6:50 | comment | added | TreeKing | @YEZ you seem to understand the intent of my question. How does one come to accept 'day' as metaphorical then take it literally straight after. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 20:33 | history | edited | Y e z | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 20:11 | comment | added | Y e z | @DoubleAA Your understanding of the question is ignoring the last clause. "[T]hus taking that 'day' literally" is qualifying what is bothering the OP, as opposed to "thus not properly commemorating the original Shabbat" which would be what you would like the question to be, but it isn't. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 20:08 | comment | added | Y e z | @DoubleAA My answer is explaining a "how do we understand"! It is answering "how do we understand interpreting this part of the story differently than that one" which is what is being asked. I am not justifying a "particular practice" as you would say I am. I am justifying a way of understanding the verses, which is what was asked. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 20:07 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | There's no "how can" or "how come". It's "how do we understand". | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 20:05 | comment | added | Y e z | @DoubleAA Can you please point to how you see that from the text I quoted? He asked "how can we take this literally while not taking that literally?" He did not ask "how come we do this if we should do that?" I don't understand how you read that sentence. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:59 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | I didn't downvote, but as your latter quote shows clearly the question is one of understanding a discrepancy, not justifying a particular practice. I maintain that this doesn't address the question (unless you are claiming "God said so and don't ask questions"). | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:40 | comment | added | Y e z | @DoubleAA question says "how does one understand keeping Shabbat as the seventh day, thus taking that 'day' literally" - bothered by taking the day literally, not by our lack of a billion year long Sabbath. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:39 | comment | added | Y e z | @DoubleAA I don't see that question being asked. The question asked is "how do we justify taking that day literally and not the rest?" which I answered by saying we know it from other sources. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:38 | comment | added | Y e z | Would the downvoter please let me know how I could improve this post? | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:33 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | @YEZ I don't think he was disputing that Shabbat is 24 Earth hours. The question as I understood it was Hashkafic: how does a 24 hour period commemorate a billion year period? | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:33 | history | edited | Y e z | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:31 | comment | added | Y e z | @IsaacMoses that's the first ! I've ever gotten! While that's true, I'm not sure why that detracts from it's validity as an indication of when Shabbos is. But I just thought of a better verse to add. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 19:16 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | +!, but that's not the episode that's mentioned in Kiddush. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 18:15 | history | answered | Y e z | CC BY-SA 3.0 |