It is so clear and easy here. What we were able to accomplish by this one little portion, one little section of Scripture like that, where we could discuss it and have a Midrash, or whatever you want to call it. Humans. Cosmic battle or crafty animal just doing his thing? I found that to be an interesting concept. No, they're jealous because we're going to get left behind and get all their stuff. The greater reality is the spirit world that has existed and will continue to exist when this material world no longer exists. When was that? Study the daily Chumash with Rashi, Tanya and Rambam with master teacher Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon. Weekly Torah Portion from Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon (of blessed Memory). Keith: I would like to just simply say that by God's grace and His perfect favor and will, it would be nice for people to know that we are going to at least try one of these topics per week. Im sure there were other things which make up Gen1:1 as well. Well, my answer is what you had mentioned - the mature earth creationism, that it's 6,000 literal years. This is the good news folks. The actual reading of the Torah in the Book of Deuteronomy is once every seventh year on Sukkot itself, where the entire nation gathers at the Temple, or in the vicinity of the Temple, and they read the Torah throughout that seven-day period. Is there a higher power? Bereishit Rabbah 45:5 - Sefaria This is the time when I am free and truly am loved and safely I can love. In this first sentence of Genesis, it says, In the beginning, I'll translate it very literally, In the beginning, created Elohim et the Heavens and et the earth. So what they'll do is they'll say, Oh, that et doesn't translate, and whatever, its a whole theory they have, and they say et refers to Yeshua. I think it's really beneficial, and I want to thank you guys for doing this. So putting the Shabbat at the beginning of chapter 2 is very clearly with the intention of disconnecting it from the creation account. However, this could possibly be a problem for those who believe in evolution. I cant turn my back to the fact that there are proofs of the dinosaurs, so I believe they were part of the original/first-part-of creation. Would you fill us in? Keith: Yes. Thats why it says Noah was perfect in his generations. This is the only time in the bible this phrase is used. Watch. Nehemia will you fill us in because my goodness I'm going to explode if I hear it one more time that that is Jesus. Sounds good to me. Now, let's talk about how. Nehemia: Well, you read the first verse. share . She's not quite as crafty as the serpent, but she's pretty crafty. We start anew? And so Nehemia, as you said Jono: it's an expression of free will. of speech ,hypacatastasis .see bullinger ,a person well versed, john w schoenheit ck, it out or not. But in verse 2, I remember him say, And the spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters, and I said, What does that mean, hovered? Somebody say arum. That's what I was looking forward to. Opinions . Keith: Why are you going to throw him that softball? They weren't built for the Feast of Sukkot, that's just how people spend their days because it's so miserably hot there. Thank you. B'reishit | Reform Judaism Please log in again. Humans gained an evil inclination in their hearts, not just outside of them in the form of a snake. "EL MISTERIO DE LA CREACIN Y EL RBOL DE LA VIDA EN LA MSTICA JUDA: UNA INTERPRETACIN DEL MAAS BERESHIT" Coaj Gaia ETF. Nehemia: When I mentioned the thing about Ruach Elohim, it didn't even occur to me that somebody would and of course, I've heard this, but I wasn't thinking in terms of, is that Jesus or Yeshua. Daily Chumash and Rashi properly taught by my. So that Genesis 1:1 actually tells us that In the beginning Created Elohim at the heavens and at the earth. Rabbi Gordon - Bereishit_ 2nd Portion - Chumash James Benson 113 subscribers Subscribe 1.9K views 5 years ago Weekly Torah Portion from Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon (of blessed Memory). I'm fine with that, even though I think it was, but if you want to say that, it's fine. Bereshit: In the Beginning of What? - Reb Jeff You (were) the anointed cherub that covers, and I had put you in the holy height of God, (where) you were. I cant read Hebrew well enough to know if this is all born out in the original text? Jono: Keith, this is why I'm talking so fast because I want to get this all done before you float away. The creation of the lamps on Day 4 (described by an observer on this planet) added a reference point for human observation of days, as well as mechanisms for months and years. If the earth and the oceans are millions or billions of years old, there would be so much salt in the water from minerals washing down for so long, the water would be super-saturated with them such that it would be precipitating out and falling to the bottom. Well, I guess we are assembling here online. Matthew 24:36-37 And it's not just those things, we also have light - light is created on the first day. If you want to translate my sentence, Georgia ate Jesus the cat, or Yeshua the cat, that's your belief, but grammatically you should understand the function. That would, of course, still leave the small problem of how God separated the light from the darkness (first day) and made vegetation grow (third day) before he had created the sun and the . It's always through this intermediary. I'm not saying this because I believe this. Jono: Right. The seventh day comes right after the sixth. What did he do? Where do you lie with that? Likewise, Ezekiel 28:11-19 Nehemia: Yeah, so my take on it is that I tend to take it pretty literally in this passage. I want them to be brought along in the process. Jono: Amen, I have one question, if I may, and I know we don't have anywhere near enough time to even think about this, but I just want to jump ahead into Bereshit chapter 3, and here we are that is commonly the event known as the fall, the serpent. I read a long time ago that God began to create the heavens and the earth. I don't see this is as a part of a cosmic battle. iTunes | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher| TuneIn. I love what is written in 1:3 Let there be light and He hadnt even created the moon or the sun yet! Water + Particular Sound Frequency = Full Spectrum of Light And so, okay, Im good. Rabbi Gordon - Chayei Sarah: 6th Portion. Pronounced: hahf-TOErah or hahf-TOE-ruh, Origin: Hebrew, a selection from one of the biblical books of the Prophets that is read in synagogue immediately following the Torah reading. You mean is this day where Im left behind? Its bread from Heaven and food for thought. Job38 is part of Gen1:1 before we start on Gen1:2. If I say, What did Georgia eat? Then you would say, et the cat ate Georgia, and et doesn't mean Yeshua in that sentence, it marks a direct object of what the action was done to. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, until iniquity was found in you. Thanks for u all for this leading truth talk show. You want to make a point? search. Hebrew doesn't function that way. Keith: Jono, are you telling me that today's the second day? Everything we see, everything we understand in the universe, He created it. The text seems to mention that, oh by the way, Elohim was the maker of these heavenly bodies also, but it doesnt say when. Nehemia: Well, an hour? Destruction and Fire If the Adam and Eve had lived in a perfect environment without the knowledge of death and pain, how is it that they were frightened by the angels of destruction and fire? GOD completed all his work in 6 days. Like I said, though, I tend to be a literalist there and think it's 6,000 years old, but I'm fine with billions of years too. Darkness is on the face of the deep so that we can get to verse 3 where He can say, Light be. I love, light be.. 2 Comments 26:48. Of course, that part is a tradition. theological belief of referring to Jesus, I think latter one is just Nehemias respect of different view. Parshat Bereshit: Listen Up - YouTube Hopefully, we can find the time to do that. Rabbi Gordon. The theory goes like this: Hebrew letters have special meanings, and when you examine the meanings of the six letters in bereshit ( beyt-resh-aleph-shin-yud-tav) they form a sentence: "The Son of God is destroyed by his own hand on the cross.". Today a lot of times when they read it, for most people, I would say, it's more of a ritual, because if they want to read it, they'll read it at home or they'll read it with their families or by themselves. (notice the term rosh (, "head") appears embedded in the word as its shoresh (root)). Jono: It's doing what it was created to do. Although I say its six literal days, I'm very comfortable admitting that there are things in the Tanakh that are not meant to be literal, and even with these 24 hour periods, the sun wasn't created until the fourth day. Can I just throw something out here? YHWH Elohim alone created the heavens the earth, the seas, and fountains of water, so fear Him, because the hour of His judgment occurs without fail. Its finished for another year. These are the seven pupils: Rabbi Meier, R. Jos, R. Simeon, R. Eleazar ben Chanania, R. Jochanan the Sandal-maker, and R. Eleazar ben Jacob. I remember we sat down, we were in a park on a bench, which looking back now all these years later, I suspect it wouldn't be done that way today, but back then was a more innocent age. Keith: What does merachefet mean? But basically, you have two ways of looking at it, I think for most people, which is what they call Young Earth creationism, that is a literal 6,000 years since creation approximately, give or take, and an Old Earth creationism which is that the world is billions of years old according to modern science. I just see it as a snake. The same word used in Leviticus 23 that describes the appointed times of the Creator, these biblical festivals. October 19, 2022. We count 1 thru 10. Jono: Anyhow, Keith you were going to say? (4:25-5:32) God regrets having created human beings and decides to destroy everything on earth, but Noah finds favor with God. But I think one of the things that we've been inviting people to do is be willing to come together with us on common ground. an angel, wind, the Holy Spirit? Nehemia: What are you talking about? Can you do it in a nutshell? In English the way you indicate a direct object is through word order. I remember this being a really significant thing, but Nehemia, if I ask a question, I want to ask a question to you Jono and I want to ask a question to Nehemia. And the word of YHVH was to me, saying, Son of man, lift up a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him, So says the Lord YHVH: You seal the measure, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. Ruach is both wind and spirit, so it could be either. We've got Nehemia, we've got myself, and it's somehow that the Ruach, the spirit of Elohim, would hover over this and would bring light to the folks who are literally in darkness because they don't know. Daily Chumash and Rashi properly taught by my mentor and one i believe to be the grea. Keith, what's yours? Exactly how, we don't know. You guys got to forgive me because my eyes are getting old, and it says, And the ruach of Elohim was hovering over the face of this deep, and this idea that there's the hand, the covering, it's like, I'm watching over this chaos, I'm watching over this darkness, I'm over it, and at any time I could simply say, Enough is enough of the chaos. What do you think of the YLTs translation of Genesis 4:26? Nehemia: The real answer is that the person who created the chapters was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton in the beginning of the 13th century, and he had an agenda. And the earth being without form and empty, and darkness on the face of the deep. Then that became a ritual when people no longer spoke Aramaic. By Yehoshua B. Gordon. I actually believe the opposite. Hard job? In Greek, it's kind of ambiguous, and I think this is the problem when you translate into other languages, you get this ambiguity. Secondly, the rings of Saturn are falling onto the planet at such a rate that it is very unlikely that they are millions of years old. And the answer is in verse 2, that the water and earth are intermixed. Bereishit Rabbah 3 - Sefaria La idea central de esta tesis doctoral es plantear la importancia que ha tenido en el desarrollo del misticismo judo, la simbologa del rbol de la Vida (Etz Ha-Jaim), a partir de un estudio profundo del Maas . What I don't like, to be honest with you, is to use terms that are still not exhaustive. Rabbi Gordon studies one chapter a day from Maimonides' classic legal work of Mishneh Torah. parshat bamidbar " Making it Count: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value in Jewish Thought"; Sarah Pincus, 2023/5783 "Counting the Diamonds"; Nomi Kalt mann, 2020/5780 "Individual or Community: When Identity is More Than a Number"; Rabbi Phoebe Ana Rabinowitsch ('22), 2019/5779 "It's On Us: Living the Jewish Calling at Har Sinai, in the Desert, and in Davening"; Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn ('16 . So that's why I'm looking forward to doing this. There were actually some Jews in the eighth century AD, who said that the spirit of God hovering upon the face of the waters, referred to a spirit that God sent, an angel, and that angel then created the universe, and that God used that angel as an intermediary, and of course, all the other Jews jumped down his throat and said, No. So I just wanted to bring that up. This, of course, is the first one, I'm so happy to be able to do this with you guys, and so once again I thank you for coming on. We begin in the first verse. Keith: Here's what I thought he was going to say Jono. These classes teach the day's section of the weekly Torah portion. I was speaking in - I don't even remember where it was - and we were talking about chapter 2. It makes absolutely no difference to my faith, either way. Will you ever do a redo of Bereshit that covers the entire section? Remember, like all documents of this type, it is opinions of Spiritual matters expressed in Physical reality concerns. Bereishit 5774, 5781. Well, maybe he was jealous. I just like to study Torah with other people who like to study Torah. But there were actually two traditions. Any scientists out there? NASB Now, we're all in trouble, but I just want to throw in one more thing before we move on. Well, Id like to explore this statement more deeply with you, but Im not sure it is on topic in this forum. Rabbi Gordon - Bereishit: 3rd Portion - Chabad.org Rabbi Gordon - Bereishit: 2nd Portion Listen Download 6 Comments. Chapter 2, verse 4 through the end of chapter 3 is really not about creation, it's about the Garden of Eden. Now, we've got an hour. I mean werent the Elohim there too? It says, And they were, the two of them, they were arumim - they were naked the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed. And then there's this wordplay, Ve-hanachash hayah arum. So he was crafty, or more crafty. Cain kills his brother, Abel. No, no, I thought he was going to say, And in first grade, even then I knew, I was going to be at the Hebrew University.. Thus far did Rabbi Judan interpret. In other words, heaven and earth were created on day one, but in kit form, with some assembly required. I mean Nehemia, are you going to answer this question? 3. Study the daily Chumash with Rashi, Tanya and Rambam with master teacher Rabbi . vacat There I saw the spirit of a dead man complaining and his moaning rising to heaven and crying and complaining, Jude 1:6 Thanks Nehemia for the two times you had him on the hebrew voices series. The text in Gen.1:2 could be rendered the earth had been created perfect and then it became without form, and void.. I'm not a fan personally, I'm not a fan of going back through the Tanakh and finding little bits and pieces and then trying to find some sort of parallel by which we can then declare, Well, there's Jesus. Now, let me give you an example while we're here, et. If it appears to be billions of years old, I'm fine with that because, as you said, when God created Adam, he probably looked like a 30-year-old man or maybe a 14-year-old boy, but he didn't look like a baby, presumably. We are nearing the end of the sixth thousandth year period one more thousand to go! Finally found my confirmation. Mind-blowing insights. The Quran confirms this (latter) matter, in agreement with the Tanakh. What I was talking about with the angel is that there is this concept in Jewish philosophy that they say, Well, if God is infinite and the universe is finite, then the infinite has no way of interacting with the finite, and so there has to be an intermediary. And so they created this in the 8th century they called it the Creating Angel. There are still enough lumps of rock in the solar system to continue to do damage, but not enough to match an evolutionary time scale. You Can Run But You Can't Hide. So here, we got this image of darkness over the face of the deep, and then all the Father has to do is speak, and when He speaks, light, you know, darkness has to flee. I mean we havent a clue of a greater reality even existing do we? I'm not sure theyre going to get a better opportunity to interact with Scripture than being able to have a person like Nehemia, who lives in Jerusalem, the Hebrew Bible is his text; it's the text that he attempts to live by. The Bereshit (Jesus in Genesis) Argument Has No Merit I have been taught that 7 is the number of Spiritual Perfection and 10 represents completion. That is not what Scripture teaches. But my question is, Nehemia, when this portion is unrolled, I mean people would say, Okay, we're going to do this. What would they actually do? He may have made the universe in an instant but then why take six days, six light and dark periods, to form life on the planet? Rabbi Yossi Gordon(1) Matisyahu Goren(1) Mrs. Frumma Gottlieb(11) Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray(1) Yehuda Green(8) Rabbi Akiva Greenberg(11) Rabbi Sholom Greenberg . PS I'm sure now they will make some assumptions about you. UKJ, you might appreciate Gerald Schroeders take on the days of creation, genesis and the big bang. The earth came into being in rough form, then was brought to habitable condition. Thank you for the answer. That is what Genesis focus on, the establishing Gods order on Earth, and then with the crown of creation, the human being. When they burned themselves or felt pain, they finally had fear. Nicholas Mansfield EX-SQUEEZE ME, dear! I understand that Christians Keith: I'd like to give the Methodist interpretation here. Thanks. So my question is this - so when folks are doing the Torah portion, I just want to ask more because I obviously, having a Methodist background, our Torah portion is Sunday morning based on the Lectionary. For as they were in the days before the flood: eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark and they did not know until the flood came and took all away so also will be the coming of the Son of man. #1a Bereshit - Advanced Illustrated teaching starting the Torah cycle anew with Deeper Understanding Assembly of Called-Out Believers 45.1K subscribers Subscribe 1.5K 52K views 1 year ago. Jono: Hey, look, as long as you don't ask me to read anything else, I'll sound really smart. And so, darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering on the face of the waters. This suggests to me, Nehemia, that darkness is on the face of the surface under the water, and the Spirit of God is on the surface of the water, is this what I'm? I know for a lot of people it does, which I think goes back to this whole Christian idea of you have to believe these exact things or you're going to burn in hellfire forever with the Jews. I think they're just jealous because they want to be down there with us. I highly recommend all of these products. And what I love about this one verse, one statement, in chapter 3 verse 1, From all the animals whom Yehovah made. So He made the serpent arum, crafty, and so we expect him to be crafty. Rabbi Gordon - Bereishit: 7th Portion. http://www.jehowa-biblioteka.com/. Nehemia: It's really a matter of opinion which it is. The time period, the era. I tend to think that it was actually six literal days that God created it and look, He could have done it in a split second if He wanted to, so He didn't even need billions of years. His agenda was that there would be a portion to read every week in his church, and so his main agenda was, of course, length. Bereshit (Genesis) - Chapter 1. Bereshit, the Book of Genesis, is arguably the most studied text ever published. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? According to Rabbi Akiva, it hints to the special . GOD is light / GOD dwells in Unapproachable Light. (6:5-6:8) Podcast On B'reishit. I think the seven creation days were both single days and thousand year periods. You dont have to read the whole thing, but let's just each of us read a verse. On the light issue, I read this more along the lines of drawing back a curtain. But in some instances, he didn't let the content stop him in where he put the beginning or end of the chapter. A lot of people will read chapter 2 as the creation account - just chapter 2 by itself - and it sounds like, Here's another story of creation, and instead of it being in six days and resting on the seventh, in verse 4, it says, In the day that God, Yehovah Elohim created the heavens and the earth, and that makes it sound like it's one day, and actually, day, of course, can just mean time in Hebrew.
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