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We get a glimpse, a tiny peek behind the curtain, in Genesis 1:31: “God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. It was evening and it was morning, the sixth...
All the beauty, all the challenges... could it have been any other way? The rabbis of old certainly pondered this. They wrestled with the very notion of creation, asking whether th...
It’s a pretty mind-boggling thought, isn’t it? Well, in Bereshit Rabbah, a classic collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Genesis, the rabbis grapple with this very ...
But Jewish tradition, in its beautiful, often paradoxical way, has some fascinating answers. to Bereshit Rabbah, one of the oldest and most important commentaries on the Book of Ge...
But what if I told you that suffering, that very thing we try so hard to avoid, might actually be… good? That's what the ancient rabbis were debating in Bereshit Rabbah, a collecti...
It's more than just setting the scene; it's about revealing the beauty hidden within creation itself. Rabbi Ḥama kicks things off with a powerful image, quoting Proverbs 25:4: “Rem...
The verse in question? Genesis 2:3: "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His labor that God created to make." But what does it mean that...
It's more than just a day off; it's a taste of something truly divine. Bereshit Rabbah, a fascinating collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Genesis, offers some bea...
That feeling, that’s something the ancient rabbis wrestled with too. Our story begins with a seemingly simple verse from Genesis 2:4: “These are the toledot (outgrowths, generation...
