the Torah on the weekly basis of Shabbat offers the opportunity to look at details of the text within that particular week’s Torah portion. Aside from each week’s portion often conveying a theme, each of the Five Books themselves also convey a theme. Take, for example, the book of Genesis, which we just completed. According to Rabbi Daniel Epstein, the central theme of this book could be summed up into one word: separations. Some of the separations in the book of Genesis are healthy and boundary-defining, while others are quite painful. There is the separation between man and G-d in the Garden of Eden. There is the separation within nature found in the days of creation, and the waters, for the world to be created […]
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