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The Adam Factor


By Tzvi Freeman
The Hebrew language has no word for "things", "objects" or "stuff". In Hebrew, all things are dvarim, "words": articulations of the soul, crystallized thoughts

Reader Comments
Posted: Apr 14, 2005
So if Adam accomplished man's mission, then moshiach should have come!!
Posted By Avivah

Posted: Apr 14, 2005
So if Adam accomplished man's mission, then moshiach should have come!!
Posted By Avivah

Posted: Sep 18, 2006
LIFE-giving BREATH**
"The LORD spoke and the world came into being." Our purpose is to speak and bring things into being. Our purpose is to create with our words, like the Creator did--to bring life into everything we see and those around us. There's enough death in the world to go around for all... We are fulfilling our purpose if we are 'breathing' life into all the world.
Posted By ANDREA YAMAMOTO, ???, ???

Posted: Sep 10, 2007
We do not own G-d, or need to, or could
If His (or Her) Sovreignity rules over all, then G-d is no longer only the G-d of Israel, and there is no need to claim G-dself as such... the closer we get to His unity, the less need to maintain the mind made distinctions of Jews and the nations, good and evil, light and darkness, and all the other bifurcations that split a single reality into kevyachol separate parts...
Posted By Immanuel Suttner, JHB, South Africa

Posted: Apr 28, 2008
four men
Last millenia, chabad.org had an article that ascribed characteristics to four Hebrew words translated "man." Could someone someone help me find the characteristics given to "Adam"?
Posted By john shoemaker

Posted: Apr 28, 2008
Re: four men
Could it be this one?
Posted By Tzvi Freeman, Chabad.org

Posted: Sep 29, 2008
Adam(naming animals)
Where does it say, "Adam was a prophet because he predicted the names of the animals"? Is it in the Talmud?
Posted By Eugene Feldman, Van Nuys, CA
via chabadso.com

Posted: Oct 1, 2008
Re: Adam naming animals
Genesis tells us that he named the animals. The story of how he won the competition against the angels can be found in Midrash Rabba 17:4. Also see The Adam Files.
Posted By Tzvi Freeman, Thornhill, Ontario

Posted: Sep 4, 2009
it is the truth
It was especially perplexing when he could not get a dolphin to not see him as God. When he finally succeeded the dolphin leapt from the water in praise to God. There are many other ways in which animals praise God.
Posted By I am sent me., windsor, ontario,canada

Posted: June 6, 2010
Adam...father of all men.
Is it true that all men on earth have the DNA of Adam as their father? We all have the same beginning.
Posted By Buddy Moore, Port, or

 


By Tzvi Freeman
Meditations on Purpose
How Sin Started
Words of Song
A Dwelling Below
Hi-tech Connectivity
At-onement
Chanah's Prayer
The Adam Factor
Meditations on Time
Nigun
Learning the Child
Broken and Whole
Our Daily Bread
Talking to Himself
How to Criticize and Other Thoughts On Love
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