Category: Breishit

The Creation of the World and the Status of the Human Being (Hebrew)

by Dr. Yonatan Grossman
Posted on July 20, 2020

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Androgynous Myth The Creation of Adam and Eve in Peshat and the Midrashic Tradition

by Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky
Posted on July 19, 2020

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The Mishkan and the Garden of Eden — Is There Any Way Back?

by Rabbi Jeffrey S. Fox
Posted on July 6, 2017

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Origins and Beginnings: Genesis, Law and the Redemptive Imagination

by Rabbi Dr. Tsvi Blanchard
Posted on November 29, 2016

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Did Hevel Have A Sense of Humor?

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Posted on November 29, 2016

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Of Floods and Fertility: Bereishit 1-11 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context

by Dr. Shalom Holtz
Posted on November 1, 2016

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Who Wants to Hear a Story?

by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on October 31, 2016

“Why,” asks Rashi, in his first comment on the Torah, “did the Torah not start with the verse, ‘This month is for you the first of months,’ (Shemot 12:2), the first mitzvah in the Torah given to the children of Israel?”…

Rambam and Radak on the Creation Narrative

by Rabbi Dr. Yitzhak Berger
Posted on October 26, 2016

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Va-Yaavek Ish Imo: The Tension Between Activism and Appeasement in Genesis 32

by Rabbi Avi Weiss
Posted on October 26, 2016

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Another Look at the Kayin and Hevel Narrative (Hebrew)

by Dr. Yonatan Grossman
Posted on October 21, 2016

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The Evolution of Sin: Bereishit 1-11

by Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom
Posted on October 20, 2016

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Each of Us Has A Godly Spark

by Rabbi Avi Weiss
Posted on May 25, 2016

While some maintain that the human being is only physical form, the Torah, in one of its most important sentences, insists that every person is also created in the image of God – tzelem Elokim (Genesis 1:26,27). On the surface we see each others’ outward appearance, but if we look deeply, we ought to be able to perceive a little bit of God in our fellow human being.…