This week’s Torah portion is the first torah portion in the whole torah. It’s very exciting. I probably don’t need to summarize that much because you all are likely very familiar with this portion. God take 6 days to create the universe, night and day, earth and all its inhabitants, and man and woman. These miracles of creation begin the Torah with a sense of optimism and curiosity. What will this new planet be like? What will this Adam and Eve do? What does it mean to be fruitful and multiply? Like I said, there is a lot to be curious about. If you read on in the torah, you will see that a lot of different things happen, good and bad, and a lot of them would have been hard to predict just from reading the first section, the one we are focused
