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The Cherubs' Secret: How To Read The Biblical Creation Story
This lecture, given on October 31, 2015, is the third in a series at the Young Israel of Woodmere about how to read the beginning of the story of creation and the first several chapters of Genesis.
Last week, Rabbi Fohrman asked if we could separate out the human lens of Torah to find out what actually happened in creation. In this lecture, Rabbi Fohrman continues that thought, focusing on shabbat Rabbi Fohrman asks about the connections between God's shabbat, at the end of creation, and our shabbat, when we rest at the end of the week. What do the connections mean? Remember, the rabbis say that we extrapolate the laws of shabbat from the activities we engaged in when we built the Tabernacle - how does shabbat relate to the Tabernacle?
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