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CHAPTER 11 LIGHT, DARKNESS, BLACK (HOLES)
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background (CMB) radiation, discovered in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson” (refer
to Singh 2004 for details).
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The Hebrew word for darkness is choshech. This word derives from the root
Ch.S.K, which essentially means “deprivation,” “avoiding of,” and “sparing.” Thus,
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the Bible relates to a father who does not spank his child: “He that spares [chosech ]
his rod hates his son” (Prov. 13:24). A person who has no cure is described in
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Hebrew as chasuch marpae (cureless).
Both the Hebrew root for darkness and how darkness is described in the second
verse of Genesis seem to be consistent with the description of the universe, prior

to the recombination, as “deprived of light”, when it was filled with “darkness”
that looked like fog.
The prophet Joel, by bizarre coincidence, uses similar analogy, when he

describes the final day of judgment: “For the day of the Lord comes, for it is near
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at hand; A day of darkness [choshech ] and of deep darkness [aphela ], a day of
cloud and fog …” (Joel 2:1, 2). Similarly, Moses, reminiscing about the giving
of the Ten Commandments , speaks to the children of Israel: “And you came near

and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of
heaven, darkness cloud and fog” (Deut. 4:11).

11.3 “Black” and Black Holes
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“Black” in Hebrew is shachor. The root of this word is S.Ch.R. That “black” in
Hebrew is associated with this root is strange, since that same root is source for
many other words that convey meanings nearly opposite to that of black . For
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example, sachar means the fi rst rays of light in the morning (or, fi guratively, the
early morning, dawn). The same word also means “sense.” Thus, one may ask:
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“What is the sense [shachar ] in doing that?”
Verbs that originate in this root mean “to seek,” “to ask for,” “to request,” “to
aspire for.” All these verbs apparently relay a sense opposite to that of black .
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One realizes that on the one hand, shachor means lack of light; but on the

other hand, its root implies the clarification (the making of sense) that comes with
the first rays of morning light. In still other words, it embodies seeking a desirable

thing like the first morning rays—desirable because they scatter the darkness of
the night.
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The most bizarre nature of the word shachor (black ), however, is its inclusion
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of the word for hole (chor). In fact, adding one letter to the word for hole would
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yield shachor (black). Furthermore, if that fi rst letter (the letter shin) were used in
its regular sense (when added as prefix to Hebrew words), meaning “because of,”

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shachor would be read, simply, as “because of the hole.”