Posts Tagged: Bereishit
Parshat Bereishit: Taking Responsibility
If leadership is the solution, what is the problem? On this, the Torah could not be more specific. The problem is a failure of responsibility. The...
Parshat Bereishit: The Genesis of Love
In The Lonely Man of Faith, Rabbi Soloveitchik drew our attention to the fact that Bereishit contains two separate accounts of creation. The first is...
The Faith of God Is His Faith in Us
In stately prose, the Torah's opening chapter describes the unfolding of the universe as the effortless creation of a single creative force. Repeatedly we read, “And God said,...
UNESCO, Israel, Cain and Abel
Kol hapossel bemumo possel is an old rabbinic refrain. Roughly translated, it means that those who criticize others are usually criticizing faults they possess themselves. Modern psychology has a word for...
The Genesis of Justice
There are words that change the world, none more so than two sentences that appear in the first chapter of the Torah: Then God said, "Let...
Failure is Not the End
The Bible's first book, Bereishit, ends on a sublime note of reconciliation between Joseph and his brothers. His brothers were afraid that he had not...
