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We know the story: the first murder, a brother turned against brother. But what about Cain's reaction to his punishment? It's more complex than you might think. The Torah tells us ...
We're talking about way back in the beginning, just after the expulsion from Eden. We often skip ahead to the flood, but there's a fascinating, and unsettling, little passage in Ge...
It all begins, of course, with Adam. But did you ever imagine him… colossal? Our sages certainly did. In Bereshit Rabbah, a classic collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Bo...
Our story begins with the verse, "This is the book of the descendants of Adam" (Genesis 5:1). But what does that really mean? Bereshit Rabbah 24 digs into this, offering some truly...
The verse says, "This is the book of the descendants of Adam" (Genesis 5:1). Seems straightforward. But the rabbis of the Midrash – those incredible storytellers who filled in the ...
It’s a breathtaking thought, isn't it? Where do they get this idea? They point to the verse in Isaiah 44:11, “And craftsmen, they are me’adam” — literally, "from Adam." The implica...
Take Noah, for instance. We all know the story: the ark, the flood, the animals two-by-two. But what about Noah before the flood? What kind of person was he? Well, the book of Bere...
This week, we're diving into a passage from Bereshit Rabbah 26, a rich collection of rabbinic interpretations on the Book of Genesis, that wrestles with this very question. The ver...
Ever read something in the Bible that just makes you stop and say, "Wait, what?" I get that feeling every time I stumble upon Genesis 6:4: "The Nefilim were on the earth in those d...
