This Week’s Torah Portion: B’reishit – בְּרֵאשִׁית (Genesis 1:1−6:8)
“In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the earth” – God creates the world, God existed before the world was created and God will continue to exist, even if God forbid we destroy the world.
That is the most important innovation the Hebrew Bible brings about God! God is not dependent on laws of nature, God is beyond the world, God has no sexuality, nor family, nor any other human fixtures, God is the total other than us.
Parsha B’reishit – בְּרֵאשִׁית Torah Summary:
God creates the world and everything in it in six days and rests on the seventh. (1:1-2:3)
Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden, where they eat the forbidden fruit and are subsequently exiled. (2:15-3:24)
Adam and Eve have two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain kills his brother, Abel. (4:1-24)
Adam and Eve have another child named Seth. The Torah lists the ten generations from Adam to Noah. (4:25-5:32)
God regrets having created human beings and decides to destroy everything on earth, but Noah finds favor with God. (6:5-6:8)
B’reishit – בְּרֵאשִׁית “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth” – God creates the world, God existed before the world was created and God will continue to exist, even if God forbid we destroy the world.
That is the most important innovation the Hebrew Bible brings about God! God is not dependent on laws of nature, God is beyond the world, God has no sexuality, nor family, nor any other human fixtures, God is the total other than us.
B’reishit – בְּרֵאשִׁית