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Hi -\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

929 is the number of chapters in the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, formative text of our Jewish heritage. 929 is a project dedicated to creating a global Jewish conversation around issues that unite and divide us, but always anchored in or inspired by Tanakh. 929 invites Jews everywhere to read Tanakh, one chapter a day, together with a website with creative readings and pluralistic interpretations, including audio and video, by a wide range of writers, artists, rabbis, educators, and more. Come join in the conversation!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Each day, from Sunday to Thursday, you will land here on a new chapter, with the text of the chapter, an audio version, and many original materials about the chapter, including short posts with insights and comments, a playlist with podcasts lessons on the chapter, a Hebrew Corner with a word of the day, and a helpful summary of the major points of the chapter.<\/p>\r\n

Since this is the beginning of our second cycle (the first one lasted from July 2018 - Feb 2, 2022) all the material from the all the chapters is available \u2013 just click on the dropdown menu at the upper left. Fridays (\"Weekend\") are for summing up and catching up \u2013 there you can find some of the greatest hits of the week, and use the time to peruse chapters you may have missed during the week. And Shabbat is for what else? Taking a break \u2013 getting ready to start the new week with a new chapter.<\/p>\r\n

Want a video presentation of the project? Just click.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

And if you want a look back at what the first cycle through was like - check out this amazing video collation.<\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":101464,"alt":"","title":"-61fd290df0ef2--61fd290df0ef4gen1 - siyyum video shot.JPG","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG.jpg","width":1357,"height":693,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG-300x153.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":153,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG-768x392.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":392,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG-1024x523.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":523,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG.jpg","1536x1536-width":1357,"1536x1536-height":693,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG.jpg","2048x2048-width":1357,"2048x2048-height":693,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG-1200x613.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":613,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2022\/02\/61fd290df0ef2-61fd290df0ef4gen1-siyyum-video-shot.JPG-822x420.jpg","home_baner-width":822,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Get in on the ground floor...","tile_main_caption":"Join Us!","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"What is this 929 thing? 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As we continue forward through both the Book of Exodus and the 5782 Shmitah year, I am struck by the intensity of the details found within larger Jewish understandings of time, space, and place. <\/span>Parashat Tetzaveh<\/span> starts with a heads-up that rituals are about to be presented that must be done forever and ever. The <\/span>parashah<\/span> then expounds upon the details of what the priests wore in the Mishkan, and the many sacrifices. How Aaron was to give '<\/span>Olah<\/span><\/em> (burnt, whole) offerings, specifics of <\/span>Tenufah<\/span><\/em> (waving) offerings, particulars of Ch<\/em><\/span>ataat<\/span><\/em> (sin) offerings, and a whole description of how Aaron and the other priests were going to purify everything and everyone for seven days. The parasha concludes with a reminder that these rituals are holy to God and they must be continued <\/span>l\u2019dorotechem<\/span><\/em> (\u05dc\u05b0\u05d3\u05b9\u05e8\u05b9\u05ea\u05b5\u05d9\u05db\u05b6\u05dd), for their future generations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This set of instructions feels as technical as those of the shmitah year, Shabbat, and other cyclical practices that we have. The<\/span> ta\u2019aseh<\/em> <\/span>(do\u2019s) and<\/span> lo ta\u2019aseh<\/em> <\/span>(don\u2019t\u2019s) are unpacked, they are multi-sensory experiences, and they are to be done forever. But that\u2019s where things get a little tricky, because the place that these offerings were done was not where Jews continued to live.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Fast forward from Biblical times to the destruction of both <\/span>Batei<\/span> haMikdash<\/span><\/em> (Holy Temples). When this place of sacrifice, connection to God, communal gathering, and simply Jewish meaning-making was destroyed and not rebuilt again, the Jewish people faced the challenge of translating ancient rituals into something they could do in modernity without a central place of Jewish holiness. How would they move forward with these commandments from <\/span>Parashat Tetzaveh<\/span> (literally \u201cyou will command\u201d), when they couldn\u2019t do them in the prescribed place?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Welcome to the Rabbinic Era! A time where teachers became leaders, Jewish law and history were written down and compiled, and the Jewish people became more spread out. Our ancestors taught us with their actions that we can practice Judaism even when it\u2019s not possible exactly how we\u2019re told to do it in the Torah. Even one of the concluding verses of this week\u2019s <\/span>parashah<\/span> tell us the same (Exodus 29:45):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u05d5\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05db\u05b7\u05e0\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05ea\u05d5\u05b9\u05da\u05b0 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e0\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05c2\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d5\u05b0\u05d4\u05b8\u05d9\u05b4\u05d9\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9 \u05dc\u05b8\u05d4\u05b6\u05dd \u05dc\u05b5\u05d0\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd\u05c3\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\r\n

\u00a0I will dwell among the Children of Israel, and I will be God to them<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

God will dwell <\/span>betoch<\/span><\/em> (\u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05ea\u05d5\u05b9\u05da\u05b0) - in the midst of, in the middle of, in, among, between, through - the Israelites. It\u2019s not necessarily that God\u2019s presence only existed in the Mishkan and the Temples, but that God\u2019s presence, essence, and place of immersion is within each and every Jew. So when we think back to ways in which the Torah and other Jewish texts tell us where and how to practice Judaism, we can also be reminded that holiness is inside of us, spills out through our actions, and is part of how we exist in this world. The ways we embrace shmitah - inside and outside of the Land of Israel, inside and outside of the traditional ways of observing it - can be shifted just as we moved from sacrificial offerings to prayer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n


\r\nThis year is the shmita year: Shmita means a sabbatical year for the Earth but also for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Each week we continue to share thoughts on how the weekly parsha can help guide our thinking around shmita themes of work and rest, wealth and debt, responsible land use, fair labor practices, private and public property ownership, and physical and spiritual revitalization.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

See here for more information on the Hazon Shmita project, and its blogs.<\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":81608,"alt":"","title":"shmita","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","width":711,"height":708,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","medium_large-width":711,"medium_large-height":708,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","large-width":711,"large-height":708,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","1536x1536-width":711,"1536x1536-height":708,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","2048x2048-width":711,"2048x2048-height":708,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","post_full_size-width":711,"post_full_size-height":708,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-422x420.jpg","home_baner-width":422,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"A Weekly Series: The \"Shmitah Parasha\" Blog","tile_main_caption":"Mishpatim: Shmita Laws, And Constraints As A Source Of Thriving","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"in conjunction with Hazon.org","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":81608,"alt":"","title":"shmita","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","width":711,"height":708,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","medium_large-width":711,"medium_large-height":708,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","large-width":711,"large-height":708,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","1536x1536-width":711,"1536x1536-height":708,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","2048x2048-width":711,"2048x2048-height":708,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","post_full_size-width":711,"post_full_size-height":708,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-422x420.jpg","home_baner-width":422,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Genesis","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1001"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":4,"id":"101405","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Torah For All Nations ","post_title":"A Torah For All Nations","slug":"a-torah-for-all-nations","old_id":"101405","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":96657,"post_title":"Jeff Jaffe","slug":"jeff-jaffe","old_id":"96657","first_name":"Jeff ","last_name":"Jaffe ","description":"Jeff Jaffe is the CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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The Mishnah in <\/span>Sanhedrin<\/span><\/i> (4:5) teaches that man was created as a single individual to teach the supreme worth of every single person \u2013 a precursor to \u201cAll men are created equal.\u201d Rashi (verse 27) supports this by pointing out that Adam and Eve were originally created as a single conjoined being. Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch comments that this teaches that both genders were equally directed by God and are in equal likeness to God. From this verse we derive contemporary messages of equality for all people, including gender equality.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While verse 26 appears to give mankind dominion over the planet, that is immediately limited by verse 29, which restricts the dominion to only eating certain types of foods. In 2:15, Adam is placed in Eden to <\/span>watch over it<\/span><\/em>. These two facts are echoes of today\u2019s imperative \u2013 that while we control resources of the earth, we must focus on its sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Finally, when God declares (verse 31) that creation was <\/span>very<\/span><\/em> good, commentaries look for what was good beyond what was already listed explicitly. Some (e.g., Ramban) indicate that what was <\/span>very<\/span><\/em> good was the evil inclination and\/or death. This interpretation sends a message to all of humanity to recognize the basic philosophical notions of free will, reward, and punishment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These universal messages to humanity: equality, gender equality, sustainability, free will, and reward and punishment are appropriate to embed in the opening chapter of the Torah. They are applicable to all people, not just the Jewish people.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, the entire first eleven chapters of the Bible are logically associated with <\/span>all<\/span><\/i> people because the Jews have not yet been formed as a people. God must have included this narrative in the Torah for a reason. Given that the Torah is a book of laws, one might conclude that these chapters are for the laws of the nations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That framework shines a different light on these chapters from our usual perspective. For the next eleven chapters, I will post some of these insights. We will see that these conceptual ideas provide the seven Noahide laws with a more complete framework.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In <\/span>Genesis: A Torah for All Nations<\/span> <\/a><\/em>(Gefen Publishing House), I explore the thesis that the first eleven chapters of Genesis play a similar role for non-Jews that the entire Torah plays for the Jewish people. That is, this opening section of the Bible contains laws (the seven Noahide laws), and many vignettes that give life to those laws and provide moral teachings. In the book, we discuss forty-two messages that the Torah provides to humanity, which can be found in its first eleven chapters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The current division of the Tanakh into 929 numbered chapters and verses may seem to be an integral and original component of the sacred scriptural text. However, it turns out that the numerically divided format of our Bible is a medieval Christian innovation, usually attributed to\u00a0 <\/span>Stephen Langton<\/span><\/a>, Archbishop of Canterbury in his 1226 edition of the Latin Vulgate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are, of course, other ways of dividing and citing the scriptural text. Most familiar to Jews are the traditional weekly Torah portions (<\/span>parashot, sidrot<\/span><\/em>) according to which the Torah is read in synagogue<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> This way of reading through the entire Pentateuch according to an<\/span> annual cycle<\/span><\/a> reflects the ancient practice of the Babylonian Jewish community that was eventually accepted in most of the Jewish world until today. However, a so-called<\/span> triennial cycle<\/span><\/a> of Torah readings was practiced in the Land of Israel and Jewish communities under its influence until at least the 12<\/span>th<\/span> century, completing the Torah once every three years. These shorter and more numerous Torah portions, known as<\/span> Sedarim<\/span><\/a>, are marked in the margins of the text with the Hebrew letter <\/span>Samekh<\/em> <\/span>in some Biblical manuscripts and conveniently numbered in the widely accepted Tanakh Koren (Jerusalem 1962).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The earliest surviving manuscripts of Scripture, discovered at Qumran in the Dead Sea Scrolls indicate sense divisions in the Hebrew text by simply leaving spaces. The early Midrash on Leviticus,<\/span> Sifra<\/span><\/a> teaches that the \u201cbreaks\u201d (<\/span>hafsaqot<\/span><\/em>) between the \u201csections\u201d and \u201csubjects\u201d in the Biblical text were to give Moses time for reflection\u00a0 between consecutive parts in the flow of the Scriptural text. According to<\/span> Talmud Nedarim 37b<\/span><\/a>, the division of the Biblical text into readily understandable units goes back to the initial public reading of the Torah in the time of<\/span> Ezra and Nehemiah<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> Menachot 32a<\/span><\/a> mentions briefly the division of the Biblical text into \u201copen and closed\u201d sections to which<\/span> Maimonides<\/span><\/a> devotes an extensive Halakhic discussion. These<\/span> parashiyyot petuhot ve-setumot<\/span><\/a> are preserved in our Torah Scrolls. They are marked by the Hebrew letters <\/span>peh (petuhah) <\/span><\/i>and<\/span> samekh (setumah)<\/span><\/i> in the authoritative<\/span> Masoretic text<\/span><\/a> preserved in vocalized Biblical manuscripts and printed Hebrew Bibles to this day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In addition to the \u201cRabbinic Bible\u201d (<\/span>Mikra\u2019ot Gedolot<\/span><\/a><\/em>), first published by the Christian printer Daniel Bomberg in Venice in 1517, a famous example of a printed Hebrew Bible is the edition published by the Jewish printer<\/span> Joseph Athias<\/span> in Amsterdam in 1661 and 1667, edited by the Christian Professor Johannes Leusden of Leyden. <\/span><\/a>Upon its publication Athias was elected to the Amsterdam printer's guild, an unprecedented honor for a Jew. In 1667, the Dutch government presented Athias with a gold medal and chain, in recognition of his having produced a reliable text of the Hebrew Bible for study by both Jews and Christians.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The 929 Tanakh project provides a contemporary on-going forum for our exploring the Bible together regardless of religious persuasion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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First day<\/strong><\/em>: Do you wish to know how light
\r\nCan find a voice and sing?
\r\nHow light can grow legs and dance?
\r\nThe light emanating from the name
\r\nOf God, hidden and hiding in
\r\nWorlds within words, breaks out to shine.
\r\n
\r\nSecond day<\/strong><\/em>: The upper waters ascend from the shadows to shimmer and shine
\r\nAs they wash and separate heavy black Torah letters from light
\r\nWhite parchment; the lower waters, descending, sing
\r\nHymns as they read the notes of music inscribed in
\r\nMolecules of water, accompanied by soft waves that dance
\r\nAs they separate and divide to spell out the letters of God\u2019s name.<\/p>\r\n

Third day<\/em><\/strong>: Are you searching for the Shechinah\u2019s<\/em> throne, and the name
\r\nShe gives her kingdom? Find them not only in
\r\nThe praise the light green grass prays, or in the psalms light
\r\nGreen sea-weeds whisper as they sway; but her crown and scepter shine
\r\nIn every living cell, as millions of genes sing
\r\nHer name, as chromosomes dazed by her glory dance.
\r\n
\r\nFourth day<\/em><\/strong>: If the righteous teach the crippled how to dance
\r\nAnd help each nobody find a sacred name;
\r\nIf the moon reflects the sun, the sun reflects our deeds; if in
\r\nBlinded or bruised eyes, the righteous allow light
\r\nTo enter, so that eyes heal and see and shine
\r\nAgain; - if so - the sun can rekindle, the moon glow and sing.
\r\n
\r\nFifth day<\/em><\/strong>: When crocodiles and leviathans rebel; when snakes refuse to sing;
\r\nWhen peacocks mutate into vultures and refuse to shine;
\r\nWhen the King of the universe seems to abdicate His throne, king in name
\r\nOnly; when Torah letters cease to swirl in Hasidic dance,
\r\nFreeze and petrify; when the only light
\r\nIs Job's night; open then the gates of the soul, invite Faith in.
\r\n
\r\nSixth day<\/em><\/strong>: Who is audacious enough to believe: \u201cIn
\r\nThe image of God, God created Man?\u201d The words dance
\r\nAnd teach the crippled to prance, too; the words shine
\r\nAnd teach moons and suns also to blaze; the words sing
\r\nAnd give dust and ashes, fusing with God's name,
\r\nThe audacity and the courage to ignite the light.
\r\n
\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Shabbat<\/em><\/strong>: The Sabbath gives her crown, her name, her dance,
\r\nHer dreams, to all who sing, who yearn to shine
\r\nWith joy, in her palace of 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God sets angels to guard the Tree of Life,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

so we will not eat from it<\/span><\/p>\r\n

as we ate of the Tree of Knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In a different story, a warrior might outwit the angel & live forever.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But not here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Instead, this:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our own choice put the angel there,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

put life beyond us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image: Adam and Eve expelled from Eden by an angel with a flaming sword, engraving by R. 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Yes, in the beginning was the word, and the word was sex. From the first chapters of the Book of Genesis, God's introduction to humanity, it is apparent that here is a theology spanning from the dawn of history that accounts for psychology, sexology, and human passion. The Bible, the story of how men and women first came to know God, and the Talmud the canonized commentary on the Bible, is also the story of how men and women came to know each other\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Eve ate from the tree, gave the fruit to Adam and \"then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked; they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.\" Elie Wiesel writes, \"Without Eve, Adam would have been man but not human\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The tree's full and proper name was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and most of the next fifty chapters of Genesis are devoted to the exploration of the potential of good and evil inherent in human relationships. In fact, throughout Genesis we are introduced to one saintly figure after another and are told almost nothing about them but their \"nakedness,\" their pained relationships, and moments of sexual truth. With every passing biblical generation, the characters become more and more daring and expressive regarding love or its absence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Soon, however, God sent the Great flood to destroy the world because \"all flesh has corrupted his way upon the earth.\" \u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In other words, for want of a good sex therapist, the world was destroyed. And that is not meant to be flip. Every day on our nightly news and in our morning newspapers, we learn how crimes of passion and sexual confusion continue to destroy thousands of individual \"worlds\" 4,000 years after the Great Flood.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(Excerpted and reprinted with permission from the essay \u201cIt Is Not Good For Man To Be Alone,\u201d written with Jonathan Mark, in: <\/span>Reading Genesis Beginnings<\/span><\/a><\/em>, Beth Kissileff, editor, Bloomsbury, 2016, pp. 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Sometimes I think I am the \u2018main parent\u2019 to my children. Yes, I have a loving husband, who is also active in raising our three kids. \u00a0But when it comes down to it, I am really the One. The one to pick them up, drive them around, and handle all of their emotional and physical needs. I am sometimes surprised that my son will say how much he misses his dad when he is away and will want to call to check in with him. <\/span>What? <\/span><\/i>I think to myself, <\/span>Am I not enough for you?<\/span> Is your father\u2019s unique way of being your parent as essential to you as mine?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

The incredulity is amplified when I feel conflicted about how my husband chooses to manage an issue that arises with one of our kids. <\/span>Does it really matter that their school uniform is stain free?<\/span><\/em> Yes, my husband would say to me. What you wear makes an impression and shows respect. <\/span>They\u2019re just kids, they are messy<\/span><\/em> I might mutter under my breath.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And then I remember the poignant phrase from Genesis 2:18, \u201c<\/span> And the Lord God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet (<\/span>ezer k\u2019negdo<\/span><\/em>) for him'<\/span> (chapter 2:18. In the JPS translation the phrase used is \u201cfitting helper\u201d). \u00a0The concept of \u201chelp meet\u201d (<\/span>ezer k\u2019negdo<\/span><\/em>) offers me an important paradigm to make space for difference in our parenting. God, noticing that the first earthling Adam is lonely and in search of a fitting match for him, sets out to create Eve from Adam\u2019s side. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Beyond the \u2018who came first and therefore who is more important\u2019 feminist lens that we might bring to the story, the framework of <\/span>ezer k\u2019negdo<\/em> <\/span>when observed through a wide lens can become an aspiration for both men and women. It\u2019s powerful exactly because of its strange juxtaposition: help (<\/span>ezer<\/span><\/em>) and against <\/span>(<\/span><\/i>k\u2019negdo<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i>) Rav Soloveitchik suggests that the meaning of <\/span>ezer k\u2019negdo<\/em> <\/span>is that Eve\u2019s <\/span>help<\/span><\/em> to Adam is not just in a pure sense (being helpful) but happens by offering an <\/span>opposing<\/em> <\/span>perspective and even sometimes being <\/span>against<\/em> <\/span>him. The contrast is the thing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We know this concept intuitively. While we may like being around people who agree with every word we say, we know that the most helpful people are the ones who can offer us a perspective different from our own, however uncomfortable the perspective might feel at the moment. \u00a0If we can\u2019t make room for difference, the problem reverberates on a theological level. In his book, <\/span>The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> Rabbi Jonathan Sacks writes, \u201cIf I cannot [make space for difference] then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.\u201d Do I really think that <\/span>my<\/em> <\/span>way of approaching a situation with my children is the <\/span>only<\/em> <\/span>way? 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Human history begins in Genesis 2:5: \u201cNo shrub of the field was yet on earth and no grasses of the field had yet sprouted, because the Lord God had not yet sent rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The story begins with the absence of the human: <\/span>no man <\/span>\u2013 <\/span>Adam ayin<\/span><\/em>. At this stage of <\/span>not-yet man<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>the growth of vegetation is also stalled \u2013 it has \u2018not-yet\u2019 sprouted. What is missing is rain from heaven and a human being to till the earth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The midrash reads this moment of expectation in terms of what the human might contribute to the process of creation. Although God had already commanded on the third day that the earth should bring forth vegetation, the vegetation had stalled just beneath the earth\u2019s surface. In order to break through the surface, that green growth requires what only a human being can offer: a vision of what is held back and a prayer for its emergence. In Andrew Marvell\u2019s words, \u201cA green thought in a green shade.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this reverse history of creation, divinely created lushness awaits human consciousness of what is <\/span>not-yet<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> Prayer expresses imagination and desire. Without it, the divine gift of rain and the birth of the world\u2019s greenery cannot happen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This mythic midrashic reading of creation lingers over a <\/span>not-yet<\/span><\/em> moment of suspended animation. The world hangs in a kind of limbo. What is blocked is <\/span>tzemicha <\/span><\/em>\u2013 <\/span><\/i>growth, sprouting, blooming. A process which is also a revolutionary moment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the biblical account, this essential growth process in fact begins only after Adam has been created. (v.9) At the center of the Garden, a tree of knowledge springs up, which brings death and exile in its wake. Later, however, prophets and sages will speak poetically of <\/span>tzemichat ha-ge\u2019ulah<\/span><\/em>, the growth of redemption, of the end of days, when an entirely new realm of experience, a future order will literally break through, spring up, shine forth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With the help of this metaphor, the arrival of the new and the unimaginable, while it is still <\/span>not-yet<\/span><\/em>, can and perhaps must nevertheless be imagined. The Messiah\u2019s name will be <\/span>Tzemach \u2013 a righteous shoot <\/span><\/em>(<\/span><\/i>Jeremiah<\/span> 23:5). Where there is <\/span>tzemicha<\/span><\/em>, something emerges, rises up erect, drawing energy from its base, its tap-root, and from the heavens above. Upwards and downwards, as in Jacob\u2019s ladder, energy courses. 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One of the divine attributes of the Torah is that, emerging within the confines of an Iron Age patriarchy, it nonetheless offers explosive, subversive insights that undulate just under the surface. Dominant patriarchy above, life-giving egalitarianism pulsating within, waiting for our attentive read to reveal the divine within the hardened crust.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So it is in Genesis 3. God speaks to Adam and tells him not to eat of the fruit of the tree, lest they die. But God doesn\u2019t speak directly to Eve, so somehow the message gets muddled. The cunning snake takes advantage of her exclusion to tell her that it isn\u2019t true that if they touch the tree they die; the rabbis spin a midrash that the snake shoved her against the tree. When she didn\u2019t die, she assumed (reasonably) that the entire prohibition was Adam\u2019s distortion. The rest, if not history, is world shaping.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Biblical wisdom lures us to wonder: what might have happened if God had included Eve in the conversation? What if ancient patriarchies had been bold enough to see women as sources of resilience, strength, wisdom sufficient to include in leadership? How might this entire story have played out differently! As we have received it, alas, it is a testament to the life changing damage that occurs when women are marginalized and excluded. When God and men decide humanity\u2019s fate, then cunning serpents are given openings to work their mischief, and all people \u2013 women and men \u2013 suffer as a result. The seeds of patriarchy\u2019s undoing are contained within patriarchy itself. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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What are we to do with God\u2019s pronouncement to woman: \u201cto your husband is your desire and he shall rule over you\u201d? Some 21<\/span>st<\/span> century readers respond with disgusted dismissal; others, with fundamentalist apologetics. I prefer a third path: carefully rereading God\u2019s words in Genesis 3, while considering their place within their immediate context and within the context of the larger creation story. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When humanity is first created in Genesis 1, man and woman share a name, \u201cHa-adam<\/em>,\u201d along with all the characteristics invested in that name. Both woman and man are created in God\u2019s image, unique and infinitely valuable; both confront the world as subjects, not objects. God blesses both equally and charges both to fill the earth and conquer it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How different are God\u2019s words in Genesis 3, in which rulership (the Hebrew root <\/span>m-sh-l<\/span><\/em>) replaces equality. Woman is now object to man\u2019s subject; she yearns for him as he controls her.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How can this dramatic descent in woman\u2019s status be explained? Context is key. In Genesis 3, humanity has rebelled against God, and as a result, many essential relationships are negatively affected: between men and the earth, between women and animals, between women and their offspring, between men and women. Viewed in context, we may reasonably conclude that the disintegration of male-female equality is neither natural nor desirable. As with all the other relationships fractured at this moment, it is the unfortunate consequence of humanity\u2019s disobedience.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moreover, as we read on in the book of Genesis, it becomes evident that God\u2019s pronouncements in Genesis 3 were never meant as permanent mandates. Although God proclaims that man will eat bread by the sweat of his brow, we find that most male protagonists in Genesis are shepherds, not farmers. Logic dictates that man\u2019s subjugation of woman is intended to be no less reversible than his choice of livelihood. While Genesis 3 describes much of what will characterize behaviors and relationships throughout much of human history, at the same time its words challenge readers to seek to repair these fractured relationships. Repair includes overturning gender hierarchy and returning to the state of equality presented in the original creation story.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is worth noting that in Genesis 1, in which all of creation is deemed by God to be \u201cgood,\u201d the only rulership (<\/span>m-sh-l<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i> mentioned is that of the sun and the moon, created to illuminate the earth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this age of \u201cme too\u201d exposures, these biblical messages resound. Rulership in interpersonal relationships\u2014denying the divine image and infinite value of the other, treating the other as object, not subject-- is a sign of the collapse of God\u2019s wishes for equality among human beings. It signals a move away from the luminous sunlight of Genesis 1 and a return to the darkness that preceded God\u2019s creation. In God\u2019s ideal world, the only license to \u201crule\u201d is granted to heavenly objects, charged with shedding light on humanity, perhaps toward a better, more equal, future. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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An ark, of scarlet
\r\n<\/span>Round, not square
\r\n<\/span>Two or three segments within
\r\n<\/span>Like the seal of a ring, fitted, fair<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Before the time of the flood, before Noah,
\r\n<\/span>Created and by the hand of God
\r\n<\/span>She appears like the sun and then is found hiding
\r\n<\/span>Rises for a moment and then sets<\/span><\/p>\r\n

She blossoms like an iris
\r\n<\/span>Dividing herself in four<\/span><\/p>\r\n

She raises her head
\r\n<\/span>And when full
\r\n<\/span>Lowers herself to the ground<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Her inhabitants are naked
\r\n<\/span>But they are not filled
\r\n<\/span>With the shame of knowledge<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They embrace desiring body
\r\n<\/span>to body, to touch, to enjoy<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Colored like coral
\r\n<\/span>Without scarlet or dye<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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My first protest, seven years old, Tel Aviv\u2019s main square, mid 1970\u2019s, holding up a poster demanding the release of Soviet Jews, with a spin on the oldest human question: <\/span>I Am My Brother\u2019s Keeper.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

Solidarity, I learnt that day, is sacred. But also selective. Which brother do I fight for? Which one do I ignore and leave behind?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Cain\u2019s question, labeled by Heschel as \u201camong the great fundamental evil maxims of the world\u201d still echoes today, too many campaigns and protests later, still demanding our moral response. \u00a0But the only honest answer, tragically, is no: No, Cain, you were not, and I am not my brother\u2019s keeper.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I wish we were.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Can any of us claim to be the keepers of human dignity and life with so much suffering and bloodshed in the world? Cain\u2019s killing legacy of his own kin lives on, kills on, and we who do not do enough to stop the blood are implicated, careless keepers. With global privilege comes more responsibility but can we truly care for all our human siblings to the same degree?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps this \"no\" is the honest response but it is one that leaves us with no hope and absolves us of responsibility. We can and must do better.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And so I say to you, my older brother Cain, so bewildered by your own wounded rage, by your longing for love, that yes, you are, we are, each other\u2019s keepers. Not just our kin and tribe, not just the bloodline. We are here to try harder, to keep growing, trying to expand our care beyond the ones we know and love. Your question echoes, and demands that each of us aspires to more, past our pains and tribes to truly love the other, brother, sister, other, all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"We are not our brother\u2019s keeper,\u201d<\/b> wrote Maya Angelou<\/span>, <\/span>\u201cwe are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.\" \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Yes, you do know, Cain, and so do we. The only way to carry on, our foreheads marked with your reminder, is to walk this talk with you, and keep on walking, hand in hand.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Reviled for eternity, conceived from Satan\u2019s lust; at the end of the day, Cain never had a chance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He was set up to fail.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who would not be wounded by God\u2019s arbitrary rejection and then (as the midrash suggests) sorely tempted by the beauty of a brother\u2019s wife?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, the lure of sexuality does sit persistently at the door of humankind\u2019s consciousness, without which we would have no future. \u00a0Was that his fault?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Did God provide an alternative route for him to curry Divine favor other than try harder\u2026? \u00a0Tough love seemed his only option.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Cain\u2019s murderous rage erupted in a vacuum. \u00a0Only the third person to exist, no one had taught him the rigors of self-control.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Could it be that Cain was crafted by Divine plan to teach mankind a harsh lesson before the grace of Mitzvot could guide any of us? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, perhaps Cain was the foil to make God\u2019s commandments so very necessary.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For our education, he was the fall guy, the genesis of tragedy itself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For as much as Abel\u2019s blood cries from his innocent grave, even more does Cain\u2019s bitter life weep as the first human reviled by man and God alike.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As a great American pop band once sang, \u201cWhere is the love?\u201d Ask your average biblical semi-literate to name the children of Adam and Eve, and you\u2019ll reliably get, \u201cCain and Abel.\u201d Then ask who the next child was, and you\u2019ll get \u2026 crickets. Why should this be, given that, by the end of Genesis 4, God has already given Adam and Eve a son \u201cin place of Abel,\u201d a son named Seth?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Genesis 5, we get the full import of Seth, quiet Seth, modest Seth, who feuds with nobody and manages, in his 912 years, to beget Enosh, who begets Kenan, and so forth, until after a lot of begets we meet a sixth-great-grandson by the name of Noah. That\u2019s Noah, <\/span>the forefather of every last one of us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

Given that Cain and Abel make a mess of the sibling relationship, and that all of Adam and Eve\u2019s other sons and daughters go unnamed, Seth is the one to whom we owe everything, not just our biological lineage, but our example of how to live a long, happy, blameless life. And for that, what has he gotten? He is ignored and unheralded, his name obscure. Go ahead\u2014try to name a famous Seth. If, as Martin Amis wrote, tennis star Tim Henman was \u201cthe first human being called Tim to achieve anything at all,\u201d who is the second Seth to achieve anything? In 2017, Seth was the 322<\/span>nd<\/span> most popular name for newborn boys in the United States. Let\u2019s hope those few Seths are funny, because today Seth makes it big only by getting laughed at: Rogen, Macfarlane, Green, Meyers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there was nothing funny about the original Seth, the Seth of Genesis 5. He not only gave humanity back its dignity\u2014he gave us our future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u05d1\u05e8\u05da, \u05d1\u05e8\u05db\u05d4 - barech, berachah<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"And when they were created, He <\/span>blessed<\/span><\/i> them...(5:2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The root \u05d1-\u05e8-\u05db, <\/span>b-r-ch<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> \"bless, blessing\" is one you will meet in many corners of Jewish life. Like many positive Jewish words (such as Shalom, peace, Chaim, life, Yaffa, beautiful, and Tova, goodness) Baruch is also a name: it was the philosopher Spinoza's first name, Latinized as Benedictus, and the last name of the famous financier and statesman, Bernard Baruch (the pronunciation Anglicized to \"baroosh\").<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Berachot<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>blessings, are acknowledged in all areas of life. Have a drink of water? Say a blessing. See a rainbow? Say a blessing. Finish eating that meal? Say a really long blessing, <\/span>birkat hamazon<\/span><\/em>, \"the blessing of the food,\" the grace after meals, (known to generations of Jewish summer campers simply as \"the birkat\").<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the blessings are occasioned by the use of the objects involved, what is being \"blessed,\" or sanctified, is not the object \u2013 there's no such thing as holy wine or holy bread in Judaism \u2013 but God: <\/span>baruch ata<\/span><\/em>, \"blessed are You, God.\" There lies a theological issue, since what does it mean for us to be blessing God? Thanks perhaps \u2013 but blessing? Traditionally, God is <\/span>the<\/span><\/i> source<\/span><\/i> of blessing, not an object of one. \u00a0Indeed, some prefer translating one traditional epithet of God, <\/span>hakadosh baruch hu<\/span><\/em>, not as \"The Holy One, Blessed be He,\" but rather as \"the Holy One of Blessing\" or even \"the Holy Blessing One\" (which also solves the gender issue).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Blessing also has pride of place in the formal liturgy, as in the Jewish \"call to prayer\" which uses the root twice: <\/span>barchu et adonai hamevorach<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> literally, \"blessed is the Lord, who is [to be] blessed.\" This formulation should also be familiar to anyone who has had the honor of being called up to the Torah. It is the minimum that one learns as a bar or bat mitzvah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This root, however, doesn't just appear in liturgical contexts. A common religious response to the simple question of \"how are you?\" might be simply, <\/span>baruch hashem<\/span><\/em>, \"blessed be the Name,\" i.e., \"thank God\" \u2013 the implication being \"A-OK.\" Though here too lies a theological issue. If we bless or thank God when all is well, what are we meant to do when things go awry? The Biblical Job provides the supreme example of an unwavering faith, and also provides a lovely rhymed couplet that summarizes his philosophy: <\/span>adonai natan, adonai lakach, yehi shem adonai mevorach<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> \"The Lord has given, the Lord has taken, blessed be the name of the Lord.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The standard Hebrew welcome, in traditional as well as modern Hebrew is: <\/span>beruchim habaim<\/span><\/em>, \"welcome.\" Literally it means \"blessed are they who come\" and can be idiomatically and elegantly met with a phrase that has no parallel in English: <\/span>beruchim hanimtzaim<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>\"blessed are they who are already here.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\r\nTo remove from Google Calendar: Pass over the folder \"929\" in the list of calendars. Choose either \"hide\" or \"remove from list.\"
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