Rashi (2009)
“To look at these commentaries is to get a glimpse of the rabbinic mind, a way of reading and of writing that dominated Jewish creativity for hundred of years. Each word of the Bible is scrutinized, each phrase subject to possible interpretations, and the result is both deeply faithful to sacred text and also the product of wild inventiveness that is both playful and serious, the work of human imagination and yet simultaneously a work of sacred interpretation.
In the beginning God created the he...aven and the earth … What does Rashi say about this first verse of Genesis?
“Amar Rabbi Yitzhak: Rabbi Yitzhak says: the Torah should have started with ‘This month shall be unto you the first of the months’ … since that is the first mitzvah, the first commandment given to Israel. Why did it start with Bereshit or ‘In the beginning’? Because of verse 6, Psalm in: ‘He hath showed his people the power of his work, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.’ If the nations of the world say to Israel, ‘You are thieves, brigands, because you conquered the land of the Seven Peoples,’ they will answer: ‘the whole earth belongs to the Holy One, Blessed be He.MoreLess
In the beginning God created the he...aven and the earth … What does Rashi say about this first verse of Genesis?
“Amar Rabbi Yitzhak: Rabbi Yitzhak says: the Torah should have started with ‘This month shall be unto you the first of the months’ … since that is the first mitzvah, the first commandment given to Israel. Why did it start with Bereshit or ‘In the beginning’? Because of verse 6, Psalm in: ‘He hath showed his people the power of his work, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.’ If the nations of the world say to Israel, ‘You are thieves, brigands, because you conquered the land of the Seven Peoples,’ they will answer: ‘the whole earth belongs to the Holy One, Blessed be He.MoreLess
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