PatrickG
05-14-2008, 05:00 PM
Okay...
So there's this old rabbinical gem that was once relayed to me by a staff writer at the New Yorker, talking about fiction and how there's room for anything fictional in a realistic world. (He explained that he couldn't do fiction because in his mind, for example, NYC is overcrowded enough as is and there's no room for fictional places, people or addresses.)
Anyway, the old story goes that a Rabbi was asked: if God is omnipresent and the universe is infinite, how did God have room to create the universe?
The rabbi paused for a moment and replied, "He breathed in."
Surely there has to be a Rabbi who this quote is attributed to, right?
So there's this old rabbinical gem that was once relayed to me by a staff writer at the New Yorker, talking about fiction and how there's room for anything fictional in a realistic world. (He explained that he couldn't do fiction because in his mind, for example, NYC is overcrowded enough as is and there's no room for fictional places, people or addresses.)
Anyway, the old story goes that a Rabbi was asked: if God is omnipresent and the universe is infinite, how did God have room to create the universe?
The rabbi paused for a moment and replied, "He breathed in."
Surely there has to be a Rabbi who this quote is attributed to, right?