The Torah states that God created light after creating heaven and earth (Gen. 1:1-3). In Psalms, however, the order is reversed: God first created the light, and only afterward the heavens.

(Also, there are mermaids and unicorns.) Like Finck, the God of Let There Be Light is a woman. She’s an artist who creates the world to stem the tide of her immense loneliness. She’s brilliant and ...

When it arose before God to create the world, this infinite light shone and radiated everywhere. God withdrew this primordial (spiritual) light, and there was a space, and then he shined an ...

“let there be light,” and there was light, God saw that it was “very good.” What God created was both the normal light of nature, but, also the supernatural light; the light of God’s ...

There is really a common thread that light represents the divine." Which brings us back to Genesis. It's worth noting, Rabbi Beal says, that God creates light on the first day. He doesn't create ...

night vision — but in order to give people free choice, they have to be able to see what they’re doing. Hal Sirowitz is the author of five books of poetry: “Mother Said,” “My Therapist ...

33:6). In Genesis 1, God creates the stars, along with the sun and the moon, to “serve as signs to mark sacred times” and “to give light on the earth” (vv. 14–15). From the very ...

I need nothing else besides.” We must create this need for God. And when this need occurs, then it is that the Lord comes and blesses us. Guiding Light: One Who Does Not Care For The Feelings ...

The book is All the Light We Cannot See ... “the image of the invisible God,” by whom “all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions ...