Questions tagged [maaseh-bereishis]
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What does "seeing from one end of the world to the other" mean?
The gemara in Chagigah 12a describes the primordial light of creation and says that with it, Adam could see from one end of the world to the other:
אמר רבי אלעזר: אור שברא הקדוש ברוך הוא ביום ראשון, ...
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Did G-d foresee the sin of knowledge?
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I heard that if a person sinned, then all of his sins were Hashgacha pratit, after the fact, although before the fact, if there is something bad that a person knows, he shouldn't do it.
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Why was the snake jealous and wanted to marry Chava?
As we know from midrash Bereshit Rabba 18:6 and Rashi to 3:1, the snake was the only animal that could talk, and became jealous when it saw Adam and Chava having relations in the garden. The snake ...
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Why wait? Shabbos and the Tree of Knowledge
In Bereishis 1:29 we read:
And G-d said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, on which is the fruit yielding seed; to you it shall ...
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What is included in Torah
By Torah I refer to material that should one study one would be fulfilling the mitzvah of talmud torah and would require a birchas hatorah.
Tanach and all that explain and expound upon it—in the ...
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