Before God Created Man- the Consult with the Zombies
July 26, 2009
R. Yehudah said in the name of Rav: Prior to creating Man, God first created a legion of half-life men, practicing for his master work. He asked them, “Should I create Man, who will be the complete version of all of you?” They responded. “What will he do?” God said, “This and that.” They scoffed, “Then what is this Man that you would think to make him and be mindful of him?” At this, God stretched out his finger and consumed them with fire. With a second group of these half-lifes, God did the same thing. When a third group was asked the same question they said, “Master of the Universe, what good did it do for our former brothers to question you? The whole world is Yours, do whatever you must.” God scooped up these half-life men and impaled them on a fruit-bearing tree in the middle of the garden of Eden– along with the singed corpses of the other zombies. When the generation of the flood arose, most men having turned into Zombies, the half-life men still impaled upon the tree smiled, thinking- “Did we not speak justly that there would be no need for them? As they have become like us.”
Gen. 2:15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and tend it. And the Lord God commanded the man saying, “Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of evil and good, you must not eat from it; for as soon as you eat of it, you shall die.”
