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Get StartedIntermediate Blessings: Giver of Knowledge (Part 2 of 4)
Shmoneh Esrei
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In this session, Ami and Rabbi Fohrman continue exploring the bracha of Chonen HaDa'at ("Who Grants Knowledge"), and grapple with some of the big questions they raised in the previous segment: Did God plan on granting knowledge to Adam and Eve all along? If so, why weren't they allowed to just eat from the Tree of Knowledge to begin with? How do we understand the early stories of Adam and Eve's descendants through this lens? How do the words of this bracha inform our understanding of those stories, and vice-verse? You don't want to miss this.
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