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The theory of the Big Bang serves as the scientific creation
story of our culture. What does it have to do with God? Can it help us discover
a spiritual dimension in our lives? In answering these questions, Dr Matt draws on the
insights of Kabbalah (the Jewish mystical tradition) as well as contemporary
cosmology. He suggest several parallels, e.g., between what physicists call
"broken symmetry" and what Kabbalah calls "the breaking of the vessels."
He emphasizes that his purpose is not to demonstrate that medieval kabbalists
knew what cosmologists are now discovering. Rather, in juxtaposing these two
distinct approaches - scientific and spiritual - he experiments with seeing each in light of
the other.
Spirituality and science are two tools of understanding that
should not be confused; each is valid in its domain. Occasionally, though,
scientific and spiritual insights resonate. By sensing these resonances, our
understanding deepens.
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