Genesis 4:26
כו וּלְשֵׁת גַּם-הוּא יֻלַּד-בֵּן, וַיִּקְרָא אֶת-שְׁמוֹ אֱנוֹשׁ; אָז הוּחַל, לִקְרֹא בְּשֵׁם יְ-ה-וָ-ה. {ס}
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh; then began men to call upon the name of the LORD. {S}
Not withstanding Exodus 3:14-15, it says here that people began to [...]
Yair Zakovitch in “Lo Kakh Katuv baTanakh” writes about the Taninim created on the fifth day. These are my notes from a Dvar Torah I gave on the subject. There are also Sumerian parallels (book) and Ugaritic.
The basic idea is that the line in Genesis 1:21 about the Taninim/Dragons referred to a well known mythology [...]
Israel: In the Beginning of a Love Affair Between a Land and a People
R’ Daniel Burg writes:
One fact that has been repeatedly denied by Mr. Ahmadinejad, for example, is that the Jewish people have had a relationship with the land of Israel for thousands of years. …Why then, asks Rashi, does the Torah begin with [...]
Genesis 1:1-6:8
The first parashah of the Torah, Genesis, covers from God’s creation of the World, to Noah. Its famous opening, alternatively “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” or “When God began to create the heavens and the earth”, catches some people by surprise. If the Torah, which means teaching in Hebrew, [...]
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