Chapter 27 page 1 – This took divine drawing skills
“Wow, Erin, this is the best art of any BICP page you’ve ever posted.”
Miranda: In the beginning, there was . . .
Bianca: Ooh, I know this one! “The Word.”
Miranda: No, no, this is before words. This is before the concept of words. Before the possibility of the concept of words.
In the beginning was the
אין סוף
— the Ein Sof — the thing that cannot properly be named, because it precedes the existence of names — the endless, incomprehensible, divine light.
Nothing distinct could be created or separated from this undifferentiated infinity of everythingness. Until the Ein Sof withdrew part of itself from a space — and, in that action, created the concept of “space.”
All the rest of creation — molecules, proteins, laws of physics, bad ideas, comfortable shoes, and so on — was able to follow, now that there was somewhere to put it.
Sparrow: This is when we get the possibility of the concept of words.
Miranda: Yes, Sparrow.
What follows is the entirety of the “history of the entire world, i guess” video.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs if you haven’t seen it)
I had not! Thank you.
Me struggling to read hebrew without vowels
So if this is the hitory of everything, when do we get to a viking funeral and Hitler on Ice?
Or as my summer camp counselors put it, G-d sucked in his stomach to make room for the world, as we too should be considerate enough to make space for others to exist.
I love this. :)
Look at that fancy “everything” :)
When I got to “bad ideas, comfortable shoes”, I suddenly started hearing the words in the voice of the book from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Don’t Panic, and cue up “Journey of the Sorcerer”.