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Did the Torah want us to live without meat? What has changed since the Garden of Eden to Noah?
What does the vegan model of Genesis 1:29-30 teach about the ideal of human-animal relations? What happens to the model in the rest of biblical
God says to Cain, “If you do well, will you not be lifted?” – and he immediately goes and kills Abel. Doesn’t that make it even more tragic?
A sharp and painful question. Yes – it is even more tragic. Precisely because God speaks to Cain, warns him, opens the door for correction
‘Surely if you do good, you will be uplifted; and if you do not do good, sin crouches at the door’ – can you explain it to a rabbi and also to a 10-year-old child?
“Surely if you do good, you will be uplifted, and if you do not do good, sin crouches at the door” – can you explain
Why Was the Tree of Life Not Destroyed? On the Cherubim, the Flame, and the Way That Was Barred
If God wished to prevent humanity from gaining eternal life while in a state of sin, why not simply eliminate the Tree of Life instead
The axis of separations: light-darkness, waters-waters, sea-dry land, day-night. Why does creation advance mainly through boundaries rather than through the making of isolated things?
The recurring pattern in Genesis 1 shows that the world is built first by setting boundaries and only afterward by filling what lies within those
The word “bara” appears only in select places in the Bereshit (Genesis) story. What is the deep difference between bara, asah, and yatzar across the narrative?
In Genesis 1–2 the three verbs bara, asah, and yatzar are not synonyms. They mark three layers of making: essential innovation, implementation and ordering, and
