We’re going to wrap up the creation of the universe. And we did it in five days! The days of creation are followed with, “And G-d saw that it was good.” Then it says, “It was evening and it was morning, a third day.  … A fourth day…  A fifth day. On the sixth day, […]

Well, by now, I think we all know how many verses the Torah spends on the Creation Story. Thirty one!  (It’s not a bad trivia question to try on your friends!) Here’s a note from a member of our group. “Thirty one verses seems kind of short, considering it is Creation!  It got me thinking: […]

Hope you’re having a great day. We’ve been discussing how the Torah’s account of Creation is not designed to tell us how G-d created the world.  But that He did.  And that in the space of only 31 verses, the Torah makes other important points that we should know. We are told that G-d created […]

Hi, and welcome to our new daily virtual Torah study. I hope you are as excited as I am! Let’s start with a brief introduction to the Torah. What it is and what it’s not. … First, the Torah is not a history book. The history it presents is very incomplete. Sometimes it will go […]