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Psalm 104- Another description of the creation.

If someone had to choose between listening to a symphony, or reading an exhausting (some would even say even boring) description of how G-d created the world, he would probably choose the latter. Psalm 104 represents the symphony. It is without a doubt the most sensual and detailed description of the creation of Planet Earth. As most of the psalms in [...]

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Some thoughts about the stories of creation- part 1

When I was a child, the story of the Garden of Eden was read to me in very simple terms.  G-d created the world in seven days, completely from scratch. He was completely alone and then he put a man in the Garden of Eden, in order to gaurd and cultivate it. Only after the man had been created [...]

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It is important to save the planet!!!

Whenever I need to remember the function that we, as the people of planet earth, need to do, I am reading one of the best midrashim, that is written on the first man. In this midrash, that appears in Koheleth Rabbah it’s been told to us which The Lord took the first man whom he [...]

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The angels were fighting and man has been created!!!

We all know the famous verse from the story of creation, that tell us about the consolation between the Lord and his angels about the creation of the man, as written in Genesis 1:26- “וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ; וְיִרְדּוּ בִדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכָל-הָאָרֶץ, וּבְכָל-הָרֶמֶשׂ, הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ.” “And God said: ‘Let us [...]

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