Bereishit

"בראשית..."“In the beginning...” (1:1) QUESTION: Why does the Torah start with the letter beit, the second letter of the Hebrew alef-beit, rather than with the first letter, alef? ANSWER: The Torah consists of two parts, the Written Torah and the Oral Tor...

Eve had just one commandment: not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Yet she ate and invited Adam to do the same. The classic commentators discuss why she ever listened to the snake.

It seems that G-d limits man's lifespan to 120 years, yet after this statement the Torah specifies life spans exceeding 120 years, including the life-spans of Noah, Abraham, Sarah, and Aaron.

Question: Is it true that the Torah tells us that the longest a person can live is 120 years? I have always been told that, and would like to have it confirmed. Response: In Genesis 6 we read about the wickedness of Noah’s generation. In verse 3 the Torah...

The Kabbalists describe a hierarchy of being, starting with an Ultimate Source which transcends the whole system of being and not-being, and working down through a systematic, interlinked chain (“evolution”) of multiple universes that terminate at our roc...