<html>
<body>
<font size=3>The following is from the new translation of RSRH's
commentary on the Chumash, Bereishis 2<br><br>
</font><font size=4><b>2 </font><font size=3><i>Then, with the seventh
day, God completed the work that He had made, and with the seventh day He
ceased from all the work that<br>
He had made.<br><br>
</i></b>“Being” and “working” in the whole universe<br>
expresses God’s thought and message. Science investigates the being
and<br>
working of the created things; the truth is that science investigates
God’s<br>
thoughts, which are reflected in the created things and in their
mission.<br>
Man knows something only if he has discerned in the object of his<br>
study the thoughts of God. The scientist who denies God and devotes<br>
his life to investigating the ideas in nature discovers — in every law
he<br>
finds in any force, in every purpose he finds in any pattern —
traces<br>
of the God he denies with his lips. What is more, he denies his
denial<br>
with the very first step that he takes on his journey of inquiry in
the<br>
realm of nature. The goal he seeks presupposes the God he denies,
for<br>
God alone formulated those ideas and realized them in nature. The<br>
truths the scientist yearns to discover, in whose existence he
believes<br>
and in whose discovery he delights, are God’s.<br><br>
<i>Vy'chulu. </i>“Thus the heaven and the earth and all their host
were<br>
brought by God to completion.” The world as a whole and each
individual<br>
part of it were assigned to their post by God. Each part was<br>
endowed by God with energy and form for the sake of its particular<br>
charge.<br>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
Yitzchok Levine </font></body>
</html>