18 January, 2025 18:40

The second much longer idea that fell into my head over shabbot was — back to Creation.

There was male and female he created them >day six<, the we have the verses many jews say every Friday night. Annoucing that it is Shabbot.

And the Torah starts a so-called 2nd creation narrative. And tells us about man from mud, and this mud person gets the Breath of God[!]

[– so much for Original sin eh].

, — and then this new person now infused with the Breath of God Itself, gets taken seemingly from the Wild, and put into the Garden on Eden. We seemingly all know the story.

However, has anyone thought about the significance of entering a prepared place?

A place of order [and beauty]. The Torah says that the Tree was pleasant to look at.

This was before the fruit was eaten. How did this God-infused mud-man know what beauty was if it had not eaten from the Tree of Knowledge?

And…and on that day you will die.

I’ve spoken about this before [not that anyone pays attention],

***

Sometimes [often] the Torah exgerrates.

Speaks in large sweeping brushes.

They did not die that on that die.

In fact we learn that Adam lives a REALLY long time. Several hundreds of years.

Why say he’d die on that day when he did not.

**** in Parsha shmot, the Torah has Pharorah say that whole land was full with the hebrews. But a few lines later it says that he was worried that the hebrews might join with another group and fight against him / his power. How could there be room for the other group if the land was full?

, in 2015 – 2025, we have another person who uses such sweeping language to describe situations. In fact he used strikely similar "the land is full", when in fact there is plenty of empty land.

The point of the matter is — use language to drive fear, and with fear, one [or a small group] can control the many.