The Rush Before the Rest

The possibility arises that the Sabbath was a pre-established law. And God, far from finishing his creation in six days, had only begun. As the Sabbath was approaching, God was rushing around in a panic trying to finish creating the world. God was so scared he wasn’t going to finish in time for candle lighting, which is why he didn’t come up with a new image in which to create human beings, but simply created them in his own image. For is it not more difficult for an artist to produce something not in his image than something based on himself?

For ages, the sages have wondered how Adam and Eve could be held accountable for disobeying God, since before eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil they had no knowledge that what they were doing was wrong.

But now it becomes clear that they already had knowledge of good and evil before eating from the tree. Since, having been created in a hurry, in God’s image, they already possessed much of the knowledge that God already had.

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life possessed no powers that Adam and Eve didn’t already have. God could not have been worried that Adam and Eve would be like him, since he made them already in his image. Rather, God was worried that if they ate from the trees, they would know that the universe was incomplete and that God’s glorious work had been interrupted by the setting of the sun.

Thus, God banished them, leaving us to think, up until now, that God had intended to create the world in six days, as if a sheer six days would ever be enough time to create a complete world.