How great are Your works, O LORD, how very subtle Your designs!
Rabbi Shimon ben Pazi said that Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said in the name of bar Kappara: Anyone who knows how to calculate astronomical seasons and the movement of constellations and does not do so, the verse says about him: “They do not take notice of the work of God, and they do not see His handiwork” (Isaiah 5:12). And Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥmani said that Rabbi Yoḥanan said: From where is it derived that there is a mitzva incumbent upon a person to calculate astronomical seasons and the movement of constellations? As it was stated: “And you shall guard and perform, for it is your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations” (Deuteronomy 4:6). What wisdom and understanding is there in the Torah that is in the eyes of the nations, i.e., appreciated and recognized by all? You must say: This is the calculation of astronomical seasons and the movement of constellations, as the calculation of experts is witnessed by all.
"Herein lies the counterintuitive reality of science and scientific knowledge: Judaism makes us want to know the universe, and science is how Jews get to know it. God’s paintbrush is science. God creates through science. God destroys through science. God uses the laws of nature and the universe to enact miracles."
-Adam Bellows | 5778 | Rabbinical Thesis: “Eyes on the Horizon: Halakhic and Theological Challenges for the First Jewish Settlers on the Moon, Mars, and Beyond”
The Big Bang Theory was created by Georges Lemaître in 1927. This contradicts the story of creation in the torah, written over 3000 years ago. Rabbis and commentators as early as the 1500’s, before the Big Bang theory was created, worked to explain how science, and later the Big Bang theory fits into the torah. In order to answer this question, we have to understand what was created, when it was created, and how we can understand the discrepancies between the age of the universe in the torah and science.
The first part of the Big Bang theory where we find a discrepancy between it and the torah is what was the first thing that was created. The torah says it was light and the Big Bang Theory says it was Quarks (matter) which eventually formed atoms.