Isaac ben Samuel of Acre: Difference between revisions

Isaac's words have been used by some to calculate the age of the universe as being 15,340,500,000 years old.<ref>{{cite book|title=Immortality, resurrection, and the age of the universe: a kabbalistic view |url= https://books.google.com/?id=cajobAjRh3IC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=Sefer+Ha+Temunah+forms+of+Hebrew+letters#v=onepage|publisher= Ktav Publishing House |date=January 1993 |first1= Aryeh |last1= Kaplan |authorlink1= Aryeh Kaplan |page= 9 |isbn= 978-0-88125-345-0}}</ref> Notably, [[Aryeh Kaplan|Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan]] arrived at this conclusion based on one view which held that Issac believed that there were 42,000 years prior to the biblical Adam, based on the idea that we are in the seventh 7,000 year Shmitah cycle, in conjunction with the idea that years prior to Adam should be calculated as "divine years," which, based on a verse from [[Psalms]] stating, "A thousand years in Your sight are but as yesterday" (Psalm 90:4), yields an equivalent of 365,250 solar years. Kaplan then multiplies these figures and arrives at the said number. According to Kaplan, "From calculations based on the expanding universe and other cosmological observations, modern science has concluded that the Big Bang occurred approximately 15 billion years ago. But here we see the same figure presented in a Torah source written over seven hundred years ago!" The scientific estimation places the occurrence of the [[Big Bang]] at 13.799 ± 0.021 billion years ago.<ref name="Planck 2015">{{cite journal|author=Planck Collaboration|year=2016|title=Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters (See Table 4 on page 31 of pfd).|url=|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|volume=594|pages=A13|arxiv=1502.01589|archive-url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/planck-2015-results(491d214e-7255-415e-97b5-96d8ae621eaa).html|archive-date=20 September 2016|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201525830}}</ref>

 

 

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