Bereishit

Parashat Bereishit: The world of water

Water is also the thread that connects the festival of Sukkot, which we recently concluded, with the first Torah portion, Parashat Bereishit, read on the first Shabbat after Sukkot.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
WATER HOLDS a profound place in Judaism,
EVYATAR DAVID arrives at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus after his release from captivity in Gaza. Starved by Hamas into a human skeleton, he can now sit at the dinner table, surrounded by a garden of nourishment and life, state the writers.

Israel’s new beginning: Freed hostages and a new tomorrow - opinion

We do not know what the future may bring, but we can optimistically affirm that the Jewish story has now been reborn and brought back into the light.

|BySABRINA SOFFER, JEREMY DAVIS
Artificial intelligence and humanity.

Darwin, AGI, the Tree of Knowledge: Will artificial intelligence bring us closer to God? - opinion

As we pour our ingenuity into machines and endow them with nearly every human trait, we are reminded of the one gift we can never bestow – our immortal soul.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
ADAM AND Eve getting expelled from the Garden of Eden for sinning.

Is the Garden of Eden story a parable of the 'original sin'?

God tells Adam if he eats of the fruit he will die. He and Eve eat but do not die. Why not?

|ByDAVID WOLPE

Parashat Bereishit: Man and Earth

This Torah portion tells the story of God creating the world and the events that occurred in the beginning of days.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Reading a torah scroll

Kabbalah and the prophecy of the Egyptian exile

Chapter 1 of the essay 'The Kabbalah of Information on Freedom of Choice, Tzimtzum, and the Physics of Spacetime'

DECEMBER 15, 2020ByEDUARD SHYFRIN
Ladislav Šaloun's statue of Judah Loew ben Bezalel (The Maharal) at the New City Hall of Prague in the Czech Republic.