Scientists theorize that the world has existed for millions of years. What does Kabbalah say in respect to this?
Kabbalah does not theorize differently. In my second book, I wrote that the periods of the ice and heat ages on earth are explained; each one of these lasted 30 million years. The main theories of todays science are linked to the creation of the world. Over the course of a long period of time, science looked down upon the view of the Torah, which says that the world was created over a certain period of time and that it is limited in space. Scientists asked mockingly, What would happen if we poked a finger outside (of the space of the universe)? What exists there? And if the universe is not eternal then what existed before and what will come after? For a long time, scientists held a clear opinion that the world is eternal and not limited (in space). Todays science is renewing its views and concluding that the world may not be eternal and that its size may be limited. The Torah states that in the beginning there was light followed by luminaries. Our atheists looked down upon the Torah an
