Coretan Kehidupan

Ketika bergelut dengan tumpukan buku demi menyelesaikan tesis (yang tenggatnya makin dekat) saya menemukan kutipan midrash (tafsiran atau kotbah rabi Yahudi) mengenai penciptaan Adam. Ketika dibaca, masuk akal, menarik, dan lucunya juga! Jadi, saya mau bagikan kepada para pembaca blog ini! Ada komentar? God created man not until the last day of creation. Why did He not create him on the first day? In order that later on no mouths can be found which spread the rumor that God did not create the world alone; that Adam had helped him. He also created him as the last in order that man not be arrogant. God said to him: “Do not forget that even the least living being, even the worm was created before you!” It would have been within God’s potentiality to create more people at once. Why did he create Adam by himself? If God had created more human beings at once, then the descendants of later generations would have boasted, “my father was nobler than yours.” Therefore God created only one human ...