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Whose Land Is It, Anyways?

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 [...]

Bereishit 5770: What is the Torah, Exactly?

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, [...]