<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 July 2018 at 04:17, H Lampel via Avodah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class=""><blockquote type="cite">
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The Rambam built he case that accepting Aristotle's version of an
eternal universe would topple the message of the Torah, repeatedly
describing Creation ex nihilo a y'sod of the Torah, denial of which
he declared heretical. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>No, the Rambam said pretty much the opposite, that the theory of an eternal world could fit into yahadus al pi sevara, but as we have the Torah attesting to creation ex nihilo, then that is what happened and that is what we believe.</div></div></div></div>