Reply To: Dvar Torah Bereishis — Not Without Its Limits.

Your English is using an absolute past tense, which doesn’t exist in Hebrew. Hebrew only has two tenses (the “present” is a gerund pretending to be a present tense). With two tenses, the past continues to the present (e.g. Ha-Shem created the world, and is still creating it), and the future begins now (e.g. Meshiach will come, and he is already coming). The Aryan-speakers probably consider the limited tenses in Hebrew (and other Semitic languages) to be a flaw, but it is a feature and indicates views of what is time that can’t be expressed in Aryan languages.