[Avodah] why stars?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:43:55AM -0500, Sholom Simon via Avodah wrote:
> In a recent daf, we learn that all that gazillion stars were created for
> us.  This came right after a 15-year old yeshiva student asked me: why did
> H' create all those stars.  I told him I didn't know, but I knew a good
> place to ask ;-)

Well, if you don't take Bereishis 1 as history, or you believe in
Omphalism ("the universe was created old, as though it all happened"
-- RMMS, for example), then you need all those nuclear reactors to make
heavy elements.

The universe's size also is an effect of the kind of Inflation and Big
Bang we had, or H' made a universe as thought we had. The same thing
that set up many other things in physics, and is subject to our laws
of physics. Which in turn would mean that to have the physics we do,
we would need a universe of a certain size. (Or a universe that was
obviously created in a "puff" of neis.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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