A cosmological conversation
4-year-old: Daddy, how did Hashem get made?
Father: Hashem didn't get made, He was always there. He made everything else.
4-year-old: Is Hashem the sun?
Father: No, He is not the sun. He is everywhere, but you can't see him.
4-year-old: No, He is the sun. Mommy told me.
Father: Mommy told you?
4-year-old (muttering as he's walking away): He is hiding behind the clouds. They told me in nursery school.
Father: Hashem didn't get made, He was always there. He made everything else.
4-year-old: Is Hashem the sun?
Father: No, He is not the sun. He is everywhere, but you can't see him.
4-year-old: No, He is the sun. Mommy told me.
Father: Mommy told you?
4-year-old (muttering as he's walking away): He is hiding behind the clouds. They told me in nursery school.
posted by e-kvetcher at 8:22 AM
3 Comments:
My oldest nephew is currently at the stage in which G-d is safely invisible, not unlike his (nephew's, not G-d's) imaginary friends 'The Invisible Kids'.
But he is already into the more complicated questions like 'Is G-d real or is He pretend? How do you know?' and 'Why does G-d make bad things?' and, of course, on Pesach 'Why does G-d make us eat something that tastes so bad?'
So your nephew has already smashed the idols, while my son is still working in his dad's idol shop :)
I don't know; a propensity for muttering in a four year old is a good sign, I think...
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