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Why is it important that God created the first pair of tongs?
It says in Pirkei Avot 5:6 that God made the first pair of tongs immediately before creation.
Could not one have made tongs out of bone or wood wrapped in leather or made with a metal, such as gold, ...
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Did God create color in Genesis?
Can I assume that every creation in this world was first manifested in the world during the first six days of the Genesis, which therefore includes color? So was color (the spectrum of hues and ...
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Why does אבות cite Gen. 9, not Gen. 1, for נברא בצלם?
Avos, chapter 3, reads in part:
הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר חָבִיב אָדָם שֶׁנִּבְרָא בְצֶלֶם חִבָּה יְתֵרָה נוֹדַעַת לוֹ שֶׁנִּבְרָא בְצֶלֶם שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר כִּי בְּצֶלֶם א׳ עָשָׂה אֶת הָאָדָם
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Why the wait between God's creation of the tongs to the first metalworker?
It says in Pirkei Avot 5:6 that God made the first pair of tongs immediately before creation.
The first person to make metal tools was Tubal Cain, who lived in the generation before the flood. Why ...