Q:
Hashem is above time whereas we are limited to the present, but is it possible that Hashem would send us into different time periods that exist simultaneously beforehand in order to test us and to give us perfection? And in pointed fact, maybe Moshiach already…
A:
Now this question I must beg off and I’ll tell you why. I can only deal with things of reality. With suppositions, imaginary situations it’s impossible for me to talk.
Not only it’s impossible, I don’t think it’s worth doing because to say that there are realms of time outside of our realm, I don’t even agree there is such a thing. We don’t find it anyplace in the Torah. We only find realms of existence outside of ours. There is a spiritual world outside of the physical world, but to say there are different time periods, that ours is just seeming to us as certain times, and there are other kinds of times – this is getting lost in words, and you’ll have to forgive me for not being able to go along with you in that.
We’re going to stick to things which permit us to keep our feet on the ground and to talk in common sense parlance. Although you might find somebody who ventures into those areas, but I am sorry that I’m not able to do it.
(December 1982)
