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Get StartedPart IV (Part 4 of 4)
The Cherubs' Secret: How To Read The Biblical Creation Story
NOTE: Rabbi Fohrman originally recorded this video on November 7, 2015 as the fourth 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. Due to video streaming issues, Rabbi Fohrman rerecorded this video on Sunday, November 15, 2015.
This week, Rabbi Fohrman makes a subtle argument, that Genesis 1 is offering a conceptual, rather than a chronological, progression of creation. He goes through the three main separations of creation - chaos, darkness, and water, and argues that these terrestrial metaphors represent the basic infrastructure issues that God has solved for us in this world.
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