Posts Tagged: Book of Genesis
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...
What Is the Theme of Genesis?
One of the most fundamental questions about the Torah turns out to be one of the hardest to answer. What, from the call of God...
Noah Tops Jacob in Epic Battle of Biblical Patriarchs Baby Names
In an epic battle for the top baby names in America, for the first time in over a decade, Jacob has been dethroned as number one,...
The Moses Legacy
3,400 years ago, the Moses legacy was shaped during the first clash of civilizations (Passover) between faith and responsibility-driven liberty (Moses) on the one...
The Scientific Foreknowledge of the Jewish Sages
There is something tantalizing in the notion that contrary to popular belief, ancient people may have been in possession of a far greater level of...
Deception and Desire: An Overview of Genesis
Based on a series of lectures by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach At the core of the book of Genesis the themes of desire and deception consistently reappear...
