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CHAPTER 7 UNITY, UNITY, ALL AROUND
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“When” and “where” are used interchangeably by the same word, as though
time and space are bound together in a single time-space coordinate system. How
up-to-date.
If one may wish to regard the above as sheer coincidence, consider another
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word that expresses the same idea about the unity of time and space: olam. The
latter is discussed in section 2.1.1 in one of its senses—namely, “world.” However,
its most common sense in the Bible is “eternity.” For example: “upon the throne of
David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and
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with justice from henceforth for ever [le-olam ] …” “… thy people also shall be
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all righteous, they shall inherit the land for eternity [le-olam ]” (Isa. 9:6, 59:21).
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One word, olam, expresses boundlessness, either in time or in space. No dis-
tinction is made.
Finally, the most sacred name of God in Judaism, Jehovah , expresses, in one
word, the unity of that which exists (“being,” being the root of the name) with
time, future, present and past (refer to chapter 4 for details).
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Vav, an, olam, and “Jehovah ” all express the underlying notion of unity:
that of time and space (geometrical dimensions), or that of time and the universe
(space and all that it includes)—not unlike Einstein’s time-space universe, where
time and the three spatial dimensions are united under a shared framework.

These are all coincidences … maybe.