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On Friday, Psalm 93 ("Hashem has reigned, he had donned grandeur...") is recited, in reference to the sixth day of Creation, on which He completed his work and reigned over his creations. On the Sabbath, Psalm 92 ("A song, a hymn for the Sabbath day") is recited, in reference to the seventh day of Creation, which is a day that is entirely Sabbath.
The word can also sometimes denote more passing or incidental descriptions or discussions on the six days of creation, [7] such as in the brief occurrences that appear in Quranic cosmology. [ 8 ] The Church Fathers wrote many Hexaemeron and a diversity of opinions existed on a broad range of subjects.
Nachmanides (1194–1270) writes: In the first day God created the energy (כח) "matter" (חומר) of all things, and then he was finished with the main creation. After that God created all other things from that energy. [7] Some midrashim state that the "first week" of Creation lasted for extremely long periods of time. [8]
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
Going back to the Scriptural commentary of Nachmanides, the seven days of creation are understood to symbolically refer to the seven emotional revelations of the sefirot, each one called a "day". These Hebrew sayings themselves, are explained in Kabbalah to be the creative channels of the Sephirot in activating Creation.
Ussher further narrowed down the date by using the Jewish calendar to establish the "first day" of creation as falling on a Sunday near the autumnal equinox. [9] The day of the week was a backward calculation from the six days of creation with God resting on the seventh, which in the Jewish calendar is Saturday—hence, Creation began on a Sunday.
The Zohar also maintains that each of the seven days of creation in Genesis chapter one corresponds to one millennium of the existence of natural creation. [13] In this framework Shabbat (the day of rest), corresponds to the seventh millennium, the age of universal 'rest'—the Messianic Era.
So God is eternal and the infinity in time and space is his nature: we cannot think the infinity of causes about the infinity of Universe or Creation because in the first case the infinity of numbers is only possible in theory but God is the Creator and no one can be like God, “the First Cause”: it is impossible thinking about two God ...