So, nu, what is the multiverse?
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
Mathematical Physicist, Dr. Spiros Michalakis: That is exactly how the universe works. Space and time are one single, singular construct. There’s not like you have space and then time; it’s space x time. Moreover, quantum space time is a superposition: a quantum superposition of an infinite number of space times, all happening at the same time. This illusion — basic physical reality — is the fact that human beings have very specific points of view, ways of observing the superposition.
Unlike the space-minded man to whom time is unvaried, iterative, homogeneous, to whom all hours are alike, quality-less, empty shells, the Bible senses the diversified character of time. There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
(ד) אֵ֚לֶּה מוֹעֲדֵ֣י יְהֹוָ֔ה מִקְרָאֵ֖י קֹ֑דֶשׁ אֲשֶׁר־תִּקְרְא֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם בְּמוֹעֲדָֽם׃
(2) Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: These are My fixed times, the fixed times of God, which you shall proclaim as sacred occasions. (3) On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a sabbath of complete rest, a sacred occasion. You shall do no work; it shall be a sabbath of God throughout your settlements. (4) These are the set times of God, the sacred occasions, which you shall celebrate each at its appointed time:
For answers let's look into the Torah itself. Does the Torah move in chronological order?
Rav Menashiya bar Taḥlifa said in the name of Rav: That is to say that there is no earlier and later, i.e., there is no absolute chronological order, in the Torah, as events that occurred later in time can appear earlier in the Torah.
32. Many portions of the Bible refer to an earlier period than do the sections which precede them, and vice versa.
On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, God spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting.
(God spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, on the first new moon of the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt.
[AND THE LORD SPOKE UNTO MOSES] IN THE FIRST MONTH — The section which appears at the commencement of this Book was not spoken before Eyar (the second month; cf. Numbers 1:1): you learn, therefore, that there is no “earlier” or “later” (no chronological order) in the Torah. But why, indeed, did not Scripture open the Book with this section? Because it implies something disparaging to Israel (Sifrei Bamidbar 64:1) — that during all the forty years they were in the wilderness they offered only this single Passover sacrifice (Tosafot on Kiddushin 38b s. v. הואיל)
בחדש הראשון, “in the first month;” The Torah writes here: במדבר סיני, “in the desert of Sinai,” and it did so also in Numbers 1,1, when that date was in the second year of the Israelites’ wanderings. This teaches that what was communicated to the Israelites on both occasions was told to them on the first day of the month. Here Rashi comments that the communication recorded there was not communicated to them until the beginning of the second month. This was to teach us that the author of the Torah did not feel obligated to order Moses to write things down in chronological order. Why did the Torah (Moses) not write this chapter at the beginning of the Book of Numbers? He did not want to commence this Book with recording matters which reflected negatively on the Jewish people.
(You stand this day, all of you, before your God —your tribal heads, your elders, and your officials, every householder in Israel, (10) your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer— to enter into the covenant of your God יהוה, which your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions; in order to establish you this day as God’s people and in order to be your God, as promised you and as sworn to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone, but both with those who are standing here with us this day before our God and with those who are not with us here this day.
(ו) דָּבָר אַחֵר, וַיְדַבֵּר אֱלֹהִים אֵת כָּל הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה לֵאמֹר, אָמַר רַבִּי יִצְחָק, מַה שֶּׁהַנְּבִיאִים עֲתִידִים לְהִתְנַבְּאוֹת בְּכָל דּוֹר וָדוֹר קִבְּלוּ מֵהַר סִינַי, שֶׁכֵּן משֶׁה אוֹמֵר לָהֶם לְיִשְׂרָאֵל (דברים כט, יד): כִּי אֶת אֲשֶׁר יֶשְׁנוֹ פֹּה עִמָּנוּ עֹמֵד הַיּוֹם וְאֵת אֲשֶׁר אֵינֶנּוּ פֹּה עִמָּנוּ הַיּוֹם, עִמָּנוּ עוֹמֵד הַיּוֹם, אֵין כְּתִיב כָּאן, אֶלָּא עִמָּנוּ הַיּוֹם, אֵלּוּ הַנְּשָׁמוֹת הָעֲתִידוֹת לְהִבָּרְאוֹת שֶׁאֵין בָּהֶם מַמָּשׁ, שֶׁלֹא נֶאֶמְרָה בָּהֶם עֲמִידָה, שֶׁאַף עַל פִּי שֶׁלֹא הָיוּ בְּאוֹתָהּ שָׁעָה, כָּל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד קִבֵּל אֶת שֶׁלּוֹ.
(6) Another explanation: "And God said all of these things, saying" - Rabbi Yitzchak said, What the prophets were to prophesy in the future in each generation, they received from Mount Sinai. As Moshe said to Israel (Deuteronomy 29:14), "But with those here with us standing today and with those not here with us today." It does not say [at the end of the verse], "with us standing today," but rather, "with us today"; these are the souls that will be created in the future, who do not have substance, about whom "standing" is not mentioned. For even though they did not exist at that time, each one received that which was his.
My brother and I were at Sinai
He kept a journal
of what he saw,
of what he heard,
of what it all meant to him.
I wish I had such a record
of what happened to me there
It seems like every time I want to write
I can't —
I'm always holding a baby,
one of my own,
or one for a friend,
always holding a baby
so my hands are never free
to write things down.
And then
as time passes,
the particulars,
the hard data,
the who what when where why,
slip away from me,
and all I'm left with is the feeling.
But feelings are just sounds
the vowel barking of a mute.
My brother is so sure of what heard —
after all he's got a record of it —
consonant after consonant after consonant.
If we remembered it together
we could recreate holy time
sparks flying.