Time

[lambda]

Does Chabad Chassidus hold that that time is quantized or that time is a continuum?

[Yankel Nosson]

Every hour has its own tziruf oisios.

[Torah613]

Lambda - can you translate that into English?;)

[lambda]

Okay. Does Chabad Chassidus see time as a bunch of discrete "moments" linked together or as a continuous flow?

[Torah613]

Maybe this will help:
Igros of the Rebbe v 2 p 224-5 (printed in LS v 10 p 176-7).

[lambda]

It doesn't answer the question.

[Gevurah]

nu and what does everyone else hold? contemporary and rishonim? :cheesy:

[Torah613]

I don't think there is a Chabad shita (if I am understanding what you are looking for correctly), but I believe the rebbe touches upon it in the following places:
LS v 18 p 109.
LS v 19 p 544.
LS v 20 p 90 in the footnote where he references the Rogatchover.
Hope this helps.

[Gevurah]

Yes the Rogatchover kochs in this in the ganze sefer there and he has a shitta and I know what you are asking.....

but who are you comparing with?

[lambda]

In Nehar Sholom the Rashash says that there are actually only finitely many creations, and that references to worlds "ad ein mispor" are only meant as hyperbole. He says that there are many worlds corresponding to each instant (rega) in the 6000 years the world is to exist, but that this is certainly a finite number (which implies that he views time as discrete). He gives a reason that since the challal is a briah itself, it must be gvuli, and since all other creations exist "inside" of the challal they must be finite in number, or else the challal wouldn't be gvuli. However, Chabad disagrees and says that Hashem created infinitely many worlds (LS 10:178). So does Chabad also disagree and say that time is not discrete?

[Gevurah]

plenty in a full chapter in the Rog there including discusision on a quote from the Tzemach Tzedek Derech Mitzvotecha 57a....

answer is both, depending on what