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Creation Before Adam

Was there another creation before Adam and our world?

Answer:

According to the simplistic reading of the Bible, there would not seem to have been. However, Midrashic sources (e.g. Koheles Rabba 3:14, among others) speak of the “worlds that were created and destroyed” before the world we know. Most, in particular those commenaries who belong to the kabbalistic tradition, interpret this concept in a spiritual sense (spiritual worlds that preceded our physical world). Some, however, have relied on it to explain fossil discoveries (dinosaurs, and so on; see Tiferes Yisrael, end of Sanhedrin), explaining that there were physical worlds before ours.


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