This week’s podcast is sponsored by Simonne Abadee in celebration of the beginning of our creation, the new year, and a new reading of our Torah, offering the chance to engage anew in our learning. Ten years ago, Simonne came…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit
Dedicated to the healing of those who were injured, to the memory of those who lost their lives, and with hopes and prayers for the rescue of all those who are being held hostage. Including an opening message from Pardes…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit
Bereishit takes us from Creation to God’s decision to destroy the world. From “Tov” – a world filled with good – to “Ra” – a world in which evil prevails. How do we get there? In this podcast, Alex Israel…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit
In this podcast, we will look at a series of midrashim that reflect on the irrationality of God’s desire to create human beings and the enormous potential for connection and engagement with the Divine that exists inside of this very…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit
There are many points of connection between the story of creation and the story of the flood, and at least one significant difference. The permission given to Noach and his descendants to eat meat is the opening of a new…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit, Noach
Bereishit opens with the hope of a new world. But ends with God’s decision to destroy his world. What happened. This shiur offers two readings of the final verses of Bereishit, verses that depict the moral descent towards the Deluge.…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit
There are many similarities between the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Cain’s murder of Abel. With Adam and Eve, God confronts Adam with “Where are you? – Ayeka?” God asks Cain a similar question:…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit, Educator Resources, Meaning-making
The story of creation starts with repeated ‘good’ but seems to go ‘bad’ quite quickly. In this podcast, Rav Mike Feuer (host of the Jewish Story) explores a different understanding of the meanings of these simple terms in which good…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit
“One of the first things that the first humans do is make mistakes, which means getting things wrong is a part of who we are. No human being has lived and not made some sort of mistake. It may be…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit, Educator Resources, Meaning-making
In this podcast for parshat Bereishit, Yiscah Smith discusses a teaching from the Netivot Shalom, Rabbi Sholom Noach Berezovsky, the Slonimer Rebbe, d. 2000, Jerusalem. The podcast explores the spiritual and deeper meanings of the phrase “V’yehi Ohr – Let There Be Light” and how this…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit
Levi explores different explanations for when God asks Adam “Ayeka, where are you?” in Genesis 3:9, offering a hasidic tale with contemporary meaning. Click here to listen to more episodes in this series.
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne
Celebrating the publication of his book Genesis: From Creation to Covenant, Rabbi Dr. Zvi Grumet hosted two lectures at Pardes. In this lecture, he discusses the The Legacy of Cain: Meaningfulness and Mortality. Click here for the second lecture The Covenant of…
Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis), Bereishit, Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series
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