<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>T.K. wrote:</div>Rashi says the sun and the moon and everything else were created on the first <br>day and only put in place on their respective days of creation.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Rashi is reflecting the Gemara which says the luminaries, which had been created on the first day, were set</div><div>in place on the fourth (<i>Chagigah </i>12a). Also, according to the Midrash, the original light was of an intense</div><div>spiritual quality (which would not be the sun) and God saw that the r'shoim were unworthy of enjoying it.</div><div>Therefore, He separated it from the rest of the universe and set it aside for the use of the tzadikim in olam haba. (Rashi).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>ri</div></body></html>