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Simchat Torah - Bereishit 5762 October 8, 2001

The Power of I

As the Torah tells it, G-d spent six days making a universe, creating physicality and spirituality, time and space, matter and energy, water and earth, stars and trees and animals -- and then created a single human being and said to him: "All this is to serve you."
Parshah
V’Zot HaBerachah Home Page
Moses' blessings to the twelve tribes of Israel, visions and awesome things, daughters of winter and dancing scrolls -- as we conclude the annual Torah reading cycle and immediately begin anew
Bereshit Home Page
The creation of darkness and light, the sundering of matter from spirit, the first human, the first sleep, the first marriage, the first sin, the first suit of clothes, the first childbirth, the first war . . . If it's going to happen in the story of man, there’s a precedent in the first Parshah of the book of Genesis.
Tohu Wars

Jay Schwartz spends his days creating worlds and their creatures in cyberspace, searching for meaning within them.
Parenting
If It's to Be It's Up to Me

Being direct descendents from Adam and Eve, some of us may have inherited this tendency to look for others upon whom we can place the blame.
Story
The Tightrope

Reb Mendel couldn't imagine why a person would waste his time walking on a rope and risk falling on his head, when he could just walk on the ground like everyone else.
And G‑d created Man in His own image, in the image of G‑d He created him; male and female He created them.
— Genesis 1:27
Print Magazine

“The man Moses was more humble than any human being on the face of the earth.” (Numbers 12:3)

Moses didn’t fool himself. He knew how good he was. He knew he stood on a level beyond any other human being. Yet he was humbled before them.

Because he knew that all that he had achieved was only with the capabilities given...

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