Questions tagged [creation]
Questions about the creation of the world.
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Why was the snake jealous and wanted to marry Chava?
As we know from midrash Bereshit Rabba 18:6 and Rashi to 3:1, the snake was the only animal that could talk, and became jealous when it saw Adam and Chava having relations in the garden. The snake ...
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What do the field animals represent in Genesis 2?
Continuing my studies of Genesis, I'm curious what do the field animals represent? Man was placed in the Garden to cultivate and tend it, with the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good &...
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What was the Night in Genesis 1?
A common interpretation is that the Light created on the first day in Genesis is the Wisdom of God personified in Proverbs 8. What then is the Night? And what is the significance of a "Day" ...
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Is the Light God’s Wisdom?
In Proverbs 8, God’s Wisdom is personified as the first of God’s works - present with him from the beginning of creation. The narrative describes Wisdom as present even during the creation of the ...
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Meaning of יוֹצֵר בְּרֵאשִׁית
What is the meaning and kavana for יוֹצֵר בְּרֵאשִׁית - "Maker of Bereshit" - eg. in מודים דרבנן and עלינו לשבח
? Especially, in light of the point made by Ramban in Bereshit 1:1 where the ...
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Creation | Why weren't the blessings declared "good"? [closed]
In Genesis 1 and 2:1-3, there are 10 utterances of creation ("Then God said...") and 3 blessings ("Then God blessed..."). Interestingly, each act of creation is followed by God ...
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Genesis | Why weren't other land creatures blessed on the 6th day?
I've been looking over the creation with an eye towards the 10 utterances of creation ("Then God said...") and other instances where God spoke or blessed something.
In Genesis 1:22, God ...
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Three different things created by Briah: heavens and earth; dinosaurs, water creatures and birds; and humans
What's the reason for those three seemingly very different entities being created through Briah (ברא) as opposed to Asia (עשה) or simply emergence:
Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning, God created ...
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What was the order of events, by hour, for each of the first 5 days of creation?
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There's a maamar chazal (Avos DRebbi Noson 1:8) that tells us the specific order of events on the sixth day by hour.. One hour, Hashem gathered Adam's dust from around the world, another hour ...
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Does G-d experience pain?
I am trying to think through how He could create the universe, filled with pleasure and pain (heaven and hell), and yet not experience all of it together? In His infinite oneness, permeating all of ...
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Was there a "before" to creation from a Kabbalistic perspective?
In briefly reading the Sefir Yetzirah, it has this picture of creation:
It symbolizes the process whereby the infinite engraved, creating a void, which was then filled with possibility in essence, ...
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Why didn't G-d make us resistant to pain or blows?
Why didn't G-d make us resistant to pain or blows? Keep in mind that prior to the creation of human beings, G-d made angels, who do not suffer from pain or the possibility of losing their physical ...
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The Mishkan as a small world
In different sources (Maggid HaRakiah, Inyanei Purim & Megilath Esther by Rav Daniel Glatstein, p. 65, ביני ובין בני ישראל, p. 41), the idea is echoed that the construction of the Mishkan (...
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What is the connection between Hashem's battle with the dragon and creation in Tehilim Chapter 74?
Tehilim 74:13-17 recounts a series of victories of Hashem. The first couplet documents victories in battle against both the tanin and the Leviathan:
אַתָּ֤ה פוֹרַ֣רְתָּ בְעׇזְּךָ�� יָ֑ם שִׁבַּ֖רְתָּ ...
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Do we know if the ancient Jews embraced or refused the fourth century BCE observation of Aristotle that the Earth was a globe?
The Catholic Church fought long and hard for a fixed (stationary) earth, with the sky moving around it (a geocentric "universe"). Did it similarly take a long time for the Jews to accept the ...
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