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Oct 30, 2016 · The clearest description of the infinitesimal smallness of the universe is found in the Nachmanides commentary on the first verse of Genesis: He brought forth from total and absolute nothing a very thin substance devoid of corporeality but having a power of potency, fit to assume form and to proceed from potentiality into reality . . . .
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Jul 2, 2010 · The big bang theory is an example of enormous, abrupt, and rapid changes at the beginning, so why not assume that there were more similar events in the past? Also, there is historic evidence of major catastrophes in the past, such as an abrupt and extreme change in climate (“the ice period”), or a most powerful collision between a huge ...
- Avraham Steinberg
- 2010
Ramban claims that the initial size of the universe was even smaller than a grain of mustard. That turns out to be central to one of the leading theories of our existence. All cosmological evidence indicates that the universe was created as a minuscule point and that since Creation, it has been expanding steadily.
Today, we’re so used to the Big Bang theory that most people think science has always viewed the universe as having a beginning, but what we see here is that within science, this predominant theory of the universe is very new. On the other hand, the Torah has always said the universe had a beginning.
We see from Nachmanides that the verse from Genesis is precisely in line with Big Bang! For the past 700 or more years, we were not able to understand the meaning of Nachmanides in physical terms. It defied human understanding to imagine all the vast mass of the universe compressed into an infinitesimally small speck of matter which could not ...
Biography. Nachmanides was born in Girona in 1194, where he grew up and studied (hence he is also called Mosheh ben Nahman Gerondi, or "Moses son of Nahman the Gironan"), and died in the Land of Israel about 1270. [3] He was a descendant of Isaac ben Reuben of Barcelona and cousin of Jonah Gerondi (Rabbeinu Yonah).
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Moshe ben Nachman (Nachmanides or the Ramban) was the foremost halakhist of his age. Like Maimonides before him, Nachmanides was a Spaniard who was both a physician and a great Torah scholar. However, unlike the rationalist Maimonides, Nachmanides had a strong mystical bent. His biblical commentaries are the first ones to incorporate the ...
