When I was fifteen I attended a class with other teenagers led by Rabbi Shlomo. His topic that day was that the stories in Genesis were not what they appeared to be. He stated that they were metaphors.
The story of Adam and Eve being driven out of Eden was really about the human races self-expulsion from the planet Eden, which once was in orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Today there is an asteroid belt in that same place. Rabbi stated that he believed that those asteroids were the remains of the planet Eden, the human races original home in our solar system. The story of Adam and Eve’s expulsion was actually mankinds exodus from Eden, which could no longer suport life. Maybe we blew it up?
“This has happened before, and it will happen again.”
From Eden mankind migrated to Mars,where we lived for many thousands of years. That is until we destroyed the atmosphere, and had to exile to someplace else. The story of Noah and the Ark is the story of the second exodus, and the explanation of how we came to live on Earth.
Rabbi also suggested that the craft that took us from Mars to the Earth is still in orbit around the Earth. It’s a satelite, shaped like a round ball. It’s is covered in dust a debris from it’s having been in orbit for over 5,000 years. Some unique characteristics about it is that only one side faces the Earth ever. It does not rotate on an axis, and the scientists and pilots that flew it here from Mars located it at just the right distance from Earth so that it regulates many things on Earth we take for granted, such as the ocean’s tides, the speed of the planets rotation and perhaps womens periods.
Rabbi was talking about the Moon. He was saying that the Moon is not a naturally occuring satelite, like those around other planets, and indeed the characteristics of the moon are unique, and not shared by any other planetary body in our Solar System.
“This has happened before, and it will happen again.”
Today we are facing the very real spectre of climate change, and like the disasters that happened on Eden and on Mars, we caused it. Only difference is that we have no where else to migrate to.
Lately I have been thinking that Rabbi might not have been too far off. I know SO many people who like myself, suffer from back problems. I don’t think we evolved here on Earth. I think that wherever we evolved, the gravity was a lot less than it is here. Our bodies simply weren’t made to endure it.
Rabbi Shlomo gave this talk fifty-five years ago. Apparently he was ahead of his time.
