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Bereishit

By the Numbers
12 Women of the Talmud

Read about the remarkable women who earned the respect of the Sages for their erudition, sharp wit, kindness, modesty, or high standing.
Your Questions
Why Did Eve Listen to the Snake?

Eve had just one commandment: not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Yet she ate and invited Adam to do the same. The classic commentators discuss why she ever listened to the snake.
Freeman Files
Getting Past the Mind

In this swamp of confusion, darkness becomes evil, for it entraps the light. When we tug to fissure their bond, an iron resistance opposes us. In the final release, a burst of energy shakes the cosmos....
Quiz
Take the Eve Quiz

What do you know about her?
Podcast
When Terrorists Shot Her Dad, She Found Her Voice

The daughter of Bondi hero Reuven Morrison, Sheina Gutnick tells about her miraculous birth, how her father lived with joy and faith, and how she's become a fearless warrior against antisemitism and misinformation.
Bereishit: The Sculptor’s Sorrow

A design that defies the designer
Video
What Is Our Right to the Land?

Torah is replete with references about the special connection of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. Yet Rashi, the foremost commentator of Torah, sees it in the very first words of the book of Genesis: “In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the Earth.”
All that is sacred to the nation of the G‑d of Avraham and is fundamental to the house of Israel - establishing and rearing an upright generation, kashrut of food, the sublime pure holiness of Shabbat - was entrusted by G‑d for preservation and development to the Jewish woman.
— Hayom Yom, 26 Adar II
Print Magazine

It all began with an unbounded light
that filled all and left no room for a world to be.

Then that light was withheld
so that the world might be created in the resulting void.

Then the world was created,
with the purpose of returning to that original state of light
—yet to remain a world.

That is something greater ...