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Confronting Creation: How Judaism Reads Genesis: An Anthology of Genesis Rabbah is unavailable, but you can change that!

By setting forth the book of Genesis as it is represented in the rabbinic statement Genesis Rabbah, renowned scholar Jacob Neusner demonstrates how Judaism confronted creation and the Genesis story. This event was crucial in the life of Israel and the Jewish people because it helped shape the entire history of Western civilization—the rise of Christianity to the status of the official religion of...

The prophets told humanity what God wants: to do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God. So to be in God’s image is to live life in accord with the image that God had framed for humanity. God’s own profession is to practice deeds of loving kindness. To be like God is to do the deeds God does. VIII:XIII.1.A. Said R. Abbahu, “The Holy One, blessed be he, took the cup of blessing [for the benediction of the marriage of Adam and Eve] and said the blessing
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