Parshat Bereshit

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Covers the creation of the world in six days, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the first sin, Cain and Abel, and the generations from Adam to Noah. Genesis 1:1-6:8.

Israel And The Shekhinah In Exile

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Jewish tradition has a powerful way of visualizing that feeling, especially when it comes to exile and redemption. It involves the Shekhinah. The Shekhinah (שְׁכִינָה) is a Hebrew ...

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The Shekhinah At The Wall

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In Jewish tradition, we have a name for that Divine Presence: the Shekhinah. And there's a place where the veil between worlds is said to be especially thin: the Western Wall in Je...

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The Divided World

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Some stories tell us it all started with a division. A grand sorting. According to tradition, when God created the world, it wasn't a uniform, homogenous blob. No, no. It was divid...

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What Causes Earthquakes?

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A reminder of forces far beyond our control. But have you ever wondered, according to Jewish tradition, why they happen? We often look to science for answers, and that's valid. But...

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The Fiery Waves

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Jewish tradition understands that feeling, and even gives it a name: fiery waves. These aren't just any ordinary ocean waves, mind you. These are the ones, we're told in the Talmud...

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Satan's Bargain With God

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Now, we all know the story of Job. It opens with a description so idyllic it almost feels unreal. "There was a man in the land of Uz," the Book of Job tells us. A man named…Job. An...

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The Sun Stood Still

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The kind that make you tilt your head and think, "Wait, did I read that. " One of those moments, right up there with the parting of the Red Sea, is the story of the sun standing st...

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Wisdom Created Man

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But instead of doing it all Himself, He delegates a portion of the task. To whom? To Chokhmah, Wisdom. "Let us make man," He says, as it's written in Genesis 1:26. A seemingly simp...

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God And The Spirits Of The Unborn

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There's a story about that. It's a bittersweet tale, really, about beginnings and forgetting, and it goes something like this... Imagine a circle. Not just any circle, but a celest...

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