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Last week, Parasha Sukkot Chol HaMoed - the Protective Covering of God concluded the Torah portion of the annual cycle with V’Zot HaBerachah (And This is the Blessing), read on Simchat Torah, Monday, October 5th. On this Sabbath, October 10, the regular cycle of Torah readings will begin again.
Welcome to Bereisheet (In the Beginning), this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion), which will be read in synagogues around the world during the Shabbat (Saturday) service.
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BEREISHEET (In the Beginning)
Genesis 1:1–6:8; Isaiah 42:5–43:10; John 1:1–18
“In the beginning [Bereisheet] God [Elohim] created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
Isn’t it wonderful to have a fresh start? To have an opportunity to begin again?
This is the precious gift we are given each year at the completion of the fall feasts with Simchat Torah (Rejoicing in the Torah), when we start our cycle of Parashiot (Torah study portions) all over again — from the beginning.
Weekly Torah portions adopt their names from the first unique Hebrew word that appears in the reading, instead of being given a name or title from a theme in the text.
Both this first Parasha in the yearly cycle of Torah readings and the first book of the Bible take their name from the first unique word in the text — Bereisheet, which means in the beginning.
In English, the book of Bereisheet is called Genesis.
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Separation is the Key to Creation:
A Torah Thought for Parashat Breishit
by Moshe Feiglin
“And the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep” (From this week’s Torah portion, Genesis 1:2)
“And G-d separated between the light and the dark” (ibid 4)
“And G-d said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide…’ (ibid 6)
“ And G-d made the firmament and He divided…” (ibid 7)
“And G-d said: ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night” (ibid 14)
“…and to separate between the light and the dark” (ibid 18)
Before the world was created, before life was poured into its mold, everything was mixed together. It was unformed and void. The secret of the Creation, the secret of life – can be found in one word: Separation. The separation between light and darkness, between the sea and dry land, between animal and plant. When we look through a microscope and see the beginnings of life forming, we see how the cells separate again and again. Life is created through separation .
The state of void and unformed is death. It is the natural state to which all creation is drawn. In order to preserve life we must constantly invest energy – to separate. Without separation, all living organisms would revert to their unformed state. Without investing energy, all substances on earth would mix together once again. Without investing energy, the house will revert to its former, messy state. On the other hand, a tidy home testifies to the presence of its dwellers.
The Creator sees us – humans – as partners in the building and safeguarding of the world. The Creator allowed Man to decide the names of all the animals. As opposed to the animals, Man was graced with creative talent. He is appointed to work and safeguard the land.
This constant investment of energy to safeguard the separation, to safeguard life and the world is the participation of man in the act of creation. But just as nature will always attempt to return to void – to death, so the aspiration to die constantly exists within man.
Imagine a world with no separations, John Lennon sang. No heaven, no hell. No states, no nations, no identity. No national identity, no territorial identity, no familial identity, no gender identity. Even human identity that separates mankind from animals is being rapidly eroded.
Will we be wise enough to preserve the separation? To preserve our identity? To preserve our lives?
Man’s creative talent turns him into a creator; on the surface, just like G-d. Animals form things, as well. A spider spins a web that no man can spin. And a bird’s nest can be amazingly complex. But it is not creation. G-d implanted the nest in the bird’s brain, and that is all that it is capable of doing. It cannot imagine and create a triangular nest, for example. A spider will not suddenly decide to weave a psychedelic web.
And man said, ‘Let there be a fork’ and there was a fork. ‘Let there be a jet-plane’. And there was a jet-plane. ‘Let there be an iphone 7? …
Man creates in a manner similar to G-d. That is why it is so easy for him to forget G-d and to begin to think that he, himself is G-d.
That is why the Creator commanded us to keep the Shabbat. It is one day in the week in which we do not create. We rest from creating, because that is what G-d commanded us to do. We take a break from creating and remember and testify that there is a Creator in the world. We are His witnesses, we are His children.
We have a G-d.
Shabbat Shalom,
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The Palestinians’ New Intifada
by Barry Shaw, GATESTONE INSTITUTE
Yesterday, a friend, Josh Hasten, was set upon by a crowd of rock-wielding Palestinians, while he was driving to Jerusalem. “I saw a mob of 40 to 50 masked Palestinians on the side of the road. They were holding rocks and cinder blocks,” Hasten said. “As they approached my car, I took out my gun and fired one round in the air. The shot obviously scared them and they ran up the hill away from the road. I have no doubt that I would be dead now if I hadn’t used my gun. They were going to kill me.” In Europe and the West, acts of terrorist violence are relatively rare; in Israel, they occur several times a day — on a regular basis. [...]
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Fresh stabbings and revenge attacks: Violence continues to wash over Israel
by Efrat Forsher, Danny Brenner, Avi Cohen, Yehuda Shlezinger, Shlomi Diaz and Israel Hayom Staff
Within less than one hour, Palestinian stabs Jewish teen in Jerusalem, another stabs policeman in Kiryat Arba • Jewish assailant stabs four Arabs in Dimona, saying, “All Arabs are terrorists” • Jewish mob attempts to lynch three Arabs in Afula. Israeli police detain a Palestinian man suspected of stabbing an Israeli in Jerusalem on Friday. A Palestinian terrorist stabbed a 16-year-old Israeli in Jerusalem on Friday, and within less than an hour another Palestinian stabbed a policeman in Kiryat Arba as the latest wave of terrorist attacks continued to spread throughout the country. The 16-year-old stabbing victim in the capital was stabbed in his upper body and was lightly injured. The victim, who did not immediately realize he had been stabbed, tried to chase his assailant, who fled, only to be apprehended by police who were combing the area. The victim was taken to Hadassah Hospital for treatment. The weapon has not yet been found. Minutes later, police received word of the second attack, in Kiryat Arba. A policeman was lightly wounded when his attacker tried to snatch his service weapon, but was killed before he could succeed. Later Friday, a female terrorist tried to stab a security guard stationed at the entrance to the Afula central bus station. The terrorist was shot and seriously hurt. She was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. [...]
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Putin’s Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
by Edward Luttvak, TABLET
In these grim times, I am afforded light relief by CNN—the only news channel offered by the treadmill of my Tokyo apartment house—as its presenters and pundits gravely debate the motives behind Putin’s investment in Syria. His own version is that he is fighting “extremism,” which oddly enough is the same dark threat that President Barack Obama also recognizes while rigorously avoiding the qualifiers Islamic, Islamist, or Muslim—although he will refer to Isol, prompting the thought that it is impossible to defeat an enemy one is afraid to name. There is no Isol or even Isis anymore, because the good old ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fi’l-?Iraq wa-sh-Sham—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—has long since become the Islamic State of everywhere from Nigeria to Afghanistan, no doubt also including the British Isles and Michigan. Ignoring earnest declarations of its un-Islamic character solemnly issued by non-Muslim presidents, premiers, and prelates, volunteers who recognize the authenticity of the Islamic State keep pouring into its still-expanding borders, easily offsetting the casualties inflicted by the very expensive U.S. bombing campaign, now joined by the British, French, … and Putin, whose air force already claims dozens of air strikes against the common foe. [...]
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Obama Is Using The Threat Of A UN Resolution That Would Divide The Land Of Israel To Blackmail Netanyahu
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Barack Obama has sunk to a new low. He is using the threat of a UN Security Council resolution that would divide the land of Israel and give full UN recognition to a Palestinian state to blackmail Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Many had expected France to submit this resolution to the Security Council for a vote in September, but the French made it very clear that they were not going to go ahead unless they had U.S. approval. So that means that all of the power is in Obama’s hands, and apparently he is not shy about using it as leverage in order to get what he wants. And apparently one thing that Obama wants is for the Israeli government to keep any new settlement construction from happening in “Palestinian areas” of east Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. I have not seen anything about this in the U.S. media, but this is major news over in Israel. The following is an excerpt from an article that appeared in a major Israeli news source http://www.israelnationalnews.
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Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Bereisheet - the Gift of New Beginnings !!!
Bereisheet (In the beginning), the first word of Genesis, is framed by a
Star of David.
Shabbat Shalom
Welcome to Bereisheet
(In the Beginning), this week’s Parasha
(Torah Portion), which will be read in synagogues around the
world during the Shabbat (Saturday) service.
Please read along with us. We know you will be blessed as
the Word of God gives you a fresh start!
BEREISHEET (In the
Beginning)
Genesis 1:1–6:8; Isaiah 42:5–43:10; John 1:1–18
“In the beginning [Bereisheet]
God [Elohim] created the heavens
and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
Isn’t it wonderful to have a fresh start? To
have an opportunity to begin again?
This is the precious
gift we are given each year at the completion of the fall
feasts with Simchat
Torah (Rejoicing
in the Torah), when we start our cycle of Parashiot
(Torah study portions) all over again — from the beginning.
Weekly Torah portions adopt their names from the first
unique Hebrew word that appears in the reading, instead of
being given a name or title from a theme in the text.
Both this first Parasha in the yearly cycle of Torah
readings and the first book of the Bible take their name from
the first unique word in the text — Bereisheet,
which means in the beginning.
In English, the book of Bereisheet is called Genesis.
Rolling the Torah scroll to the beginning.
A Good Creation
Parasha Bereisheet opens with a dramatic,
awe-inspiring narrative of the creation of our world.
In as few as 31 verses and 469 words, Genesis describes
how God takes confusion and
emptiness (tohu v’vohu תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ)
and creates a perfect, delicate balance of order and beauty.
“The earth was unformed and
void [tohu v’vohu], darkness was on the face of the deep,
and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the
water.” (Genesis 1:2)
In this Parasha, the Ruach
Elohim (רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים The Spirit of God)
hovers over the waters (mayim)
as God separates the
light from the darkness and land from the water.
He creates vegetation and creatures — fish of the sea and
birds of the air, as well as land animals.
Sunrise on Israel's Hula Valley in Galilee (Photo:
Go Israel, Itamar Grinberg)
Adonai looks at everything He has made and
declares it good; however, He is not quite finished.
On the sixth and final day of creation, God brings forth
the first human — Adam (אָדָם)
— out of the dust of the earth
(adamah אדמה).
(adamah אדמה).
“Then the LORD God formed
man [Adam] of the dust of the ground [adamah], and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.” (Genesis 2:7)
Notice that it takes the breath of God to transform Adam
into a “living soul” — a being of flesh and blood with
personality, emotions and desires.
Contained within the name of the first “man” on earth is
the Hebrew root word dam
(דָם blood). This is not
a coincidence, since God tells us often that life is in the
blood
(Genesis 9:4; Deuteronomy 12:23; Leviticus 17:11)
(Genesis 9:4; Deuteronomy 12:23; Leviticus 17:11)
Notice as well that
humankind — both male and female — are created in the very
image and likeness of God.
Hebrew uses the word b’tzelmo
(בְּצַלְמוֹ in His image). The Hebrew
root word tzelem
(image) is used in modern
Hebrew to mean taking a
photograph or making a
photocopy, and there is a very definite family
resemblance between us and our Heavenly Abba (Dad).
“And God created man [Adam אָדָם]
in His own image [b'tzelmo],
in the image of God [b'tzelem
Elohim] created He him; male [zachar]
and female [nikeivah]
He created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
An artist at work in Jerusalem (Photo: Go Israel)
In the Image of God:
Creativity
While we don’t necessarily resemble God in our temporary
vessels made out of dust, we do resemble Him in our souls and
spirit.
One of the ways we resemble God is our capacity
for creativity.
Just as God delighted in the creative process of earth and
life, so is there an innate quality within each human being to
also be creative, which can express itself not only as art,
writing, or music but also strategic thinking, engineering,
programming, etc.
But how did God create the universe? The Bible says He
spoke it into existence using words. For that reason, each
act of creation begins with the phrase “And God said ...”.
“And God said: ‘Let there be
light.’ And there was light.”
(Genesis 1:3)
(Genesis 1:3)
Although we are not
gods, as some in the New Age movement claim, we have been
given creative power in our words. Even the power of life
and death is in the tongue! (Proverbs
18:21)
Orthodox Jewish men have a discussion at the Western (Wailing) Wall.
We see this principle at work when God tells the
Israelites that He would give them that which they had
declared with their own words. They fostered
unbelief and disobedience and spoke death over themselves.
The result of their faithless words was that the entire
generation perished in the wilderness.
“‘As I live,’ says the Lord,
‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do
to you; your corpses will fall in this wilderness.’” (Numbers
14:28–29)
Keeping this in
mind, let us carefully guard our mouth and watch our words
— for they have the power to create good things in our
lives and the lives of others, or to cause destruction. (Proverbs
15:4)
Moreover, the Word of God spoken in faith is powerful and
effective to create light in the darkness and order out of
confusion and emptiness.
In the beginning, everything in God’s creation worked
perfectly and everything made perfect sense. He had spoken
all into existence in faith, hope, and love.
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Torah scroll.
Six Days of Labor,
One Day of Rest
After six days of actively creating, God
instituted the seventh day Sabbath, a time to cease from
labor and simply rest and be refreshed.
“By
the seventh day God completed His work which He had done,
and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He
had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified
it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had
created and made.” (Genesis 2:2–3)
This holy day of
rest is so important that God included it in the Aseret HaDevarim (Ten Words or Commandments),
chiseling these words onto the stone tablets:
“Remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor
and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of
the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or
your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant
or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
“For
in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea
and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day;
therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it
holy.” (Exodus 20:8–11)
Lighting Shabbat (Sabbath) candles to usher in the
Sabbath on Friday evening is a rabbinically
mandated law.
The Problem of
Loneliness
“And the LORD God said: ‘It
is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a
help meet for him.’” (Genesis 2:18)
When Adonai placed man in Gan
Eden (the Garden of Eden), He
declared that it is not good for a man to be alone.
He saw man’s need for a helper, counterpart, and
companion; therefore, God put Adam into a deep sleep and took
from him a rib to create a suitable partner for him.
“And the LORD God caused a
deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took
one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead
thereof. And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the
man, He made into a woman, and brought her unto the man.” (Genesis
2:21–22)
A second century
Jewish sage, Dosetai ben Yaanai, wrote that it is natural
for a man to woo a woman. Why? Because
he seeks for that which he has lost (his rib).
An Israeli husband and wife relax by the sea.
In Hebrew, a man is
called ish and
a woman, isha, the
feminine form of ish. God uses this term when He woos
Israel and promises a time when Israel will regard Him with
fond affection, rather than stand at arm's length from Him,
viewing Him as a stern authority figure.
“‘It will come about in that day,’ declares the LORD, ‘That you will call Me Ishi (my
Man) and will no
longer call Me Ba'ali (my Master).’” (Hosea
2:16)
God wants Israel to
serve Him out of love — love like that of a woman for her
husband. Likewise, His love for Israel is that of a
devoted, tender husband.
Furthermore, God is utterly concerned with our intimate
relationships — with Him and with one another. He wants our
relationships to be borne of love and devotion, not
relationships ruled through domination, control, manipulation,
and coercion.
And because good relationships and preserving purity are
so highly prized, Judaism has an effective method of finding
mates for singles that is uncommon in the non-Jewish world.
The Jewish system of shidduchim
(matchmaking) attempts to bring Jewish men
and women together for the purpose of marriage. Creating a
successful shidduch (arranged
match) is considered a great mitzvah (good deed)
in Judaism.
An Israeli groom rejoices over his bride. (Photo: Go Israel)
Although the verse describing Chavah (Eve) has often been
translated as "helper" or "helpmate", the word used for the
role of a wife in Genesis 2:18 is ezer kenegdo,
which literally means a helper
against him.
The medieval Torah commentator Rashi comments on this
text, saying: "If he [Adam] is worthy, [she will be] a help
[ezer]. If he is not worthy [she will be] against him
[kenegdo] for strife."
The word ezer
means a protector, a guard, an aid, and a help. So we can understand
from this text that helping a husband doesn't means always
agreeing. A woman was not created to be a yes person. There
are times when she must stand in opposition to her husband
if he is planning something that is ungodly or unwise.
We can look at the example of Haman’s wife in the book of
Esther who tried to warn her husband that his attempts to
destroy Mordechai would never succeed because he was of Jewish
origin.
To his detriment, the anti-Semite Haman did not listen to
his ezer kenegdo.
As well, being a wife does not mean that the woman is less
important or inferior to her husband. After all, the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy
Spirit) is
also called The Helper.
And while being the helper in Scripture connotes superiority,
the addition of kenegdo to the word ezer reveals that the
position of wife is a position of equality.
A Jewish woman comes to the Western (Wailing) Wall to pray.
The Fall in the
Garden
Sadly, due to a crafty serpent’s trickery, Eve sinned and
Adam sinned soon after her; humankind went from grace
to disgrace in a single day!
Adam blamed Eve, and
Eve blamed the serpent, and men and women have been
pointing the finger at one another ever since.
There, in the Garden, for the first time in human history,
we see the emergence of shame. With shame came forth a fear
of God’s wrath. In his utter humiliation, Adam hid among the
trees, having become aware that he was naked.
From their utopian, sheltered, and innocent existence in
the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were thrust into a cruel and
unforgiving world of hardship and pain.
Being cast out of the Garden prevented them from eating
from the Tree of Life in their fallen state. Doing so would
have turned their temporary fallen state into an eternal
fallen state.
The barred door of the Garden actually opened the
door for redemption in the fullness of time.
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How quickly the order and beauty of God’s creation
deteriorated into moral degeneracy, even to the point of
brother murdering brother (Cain and Abel).
With humankind spiritually separated from God and
deciding for themselves what was good and what was evil,
only six chapters into the book of Bereisheet, mankind
descended to such depths of evil, depravity and violence
that God’s heart is broken, and He regrets ever
creating mankind.
The good news, however, is that none of this came as a
surprise to God. Even before the
foundations of the earth were laid, God had a plan for
redemption. God sent His one and only Son, Yeshua, to pay the
penalty for all of our sins.
“All inhabitants of the
earth will worship the beast — all whose names have not been
written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain
from the creation of the world.” (Revelation 13:8)
A New Beginning
“By the word [davar]
of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the
breath of His mouth.” (Psalm 33:6)
The New Covenant book of Yochanan (John) echoes the
Creation story. The very first word of this book is the very
same first word found in this Torah portion: Bereisheet (In
the Beginning):
“In the beginning [Bereisheet]
was the Word (HaDavar),
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in
the beginning with God. All things were made through Him,
and without Him nothing was made that was made… And the
Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” (John 1:1–3, 14)
Yeshua was there at the beginning, and Yochanan describes
Him as the agent of creative power, the power that
made everything through the spoken word (davar).
It is also through Yeshua, who is called HaDavar (the Word),
that we enter into a relationship with God and our true
conversation with God begins.
When we accept
Yeshua, HaDavar has a home in our hearts. This means we
are born again and given a new beginning
as a child of the Heavenly Father, the God of the Universe.
In these troubled last days, you can help give every
Jewish person a new beginning by supporting our efforts to
bring the Good News of Yeshua to Israel and the nations.
"You will again have
compassion on us; You will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea."
(Micah 7:19)
"Hear the word of
the LORD, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands:
'He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch
over His flock like a shepherd.'" (Jeremiah 31:10)
“‘Bring the whole
tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My
house. Test Me in this,' says the Lord Almighty, 'and see
if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour
out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to
store it.’”
(Malachi 3:10)
(Malachi 3:10)
Prayer Alert for the next
19 days: Please pray
for Hadas, that
she would have a visitation / encounter with the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and be immersed in the Living
Waters of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit).
We believe that Hadas will be a future spiritual leader,
including leading Hebrew worship here in Israel, instrumental
in bringing thousands into a relationship with Adonai.
Please pray for these others here in Israel who need the
same holy encounter with the Messiah as Hadas: Jacky,
Miriam, Haya, Talia, Shmuel & Anav.
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