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Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parshat Bereshit with Rabbi David Wolpe

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October 5, 2018

Named one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles in 2016 and again in 2017, Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World by The Jerusalem Post, David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple. Rabbi Wolpe previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA. A columnist for Time.com, he has been published and profiled in The New York TimesLos Angeles TimesWashington Post’s On Faith website, The Huffington Post, and the New York Jewish Week. He has been featured on The Today Show, Face the Nation, ABC This Morning, and CBS This Morning. In addition, Rabbi Wolpe has appeared prominently in series on PBS, A&E, History Channel, and Discovery Channel. Rabbi Wolpe is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times. His new book is titled David, the Divided Heart. It was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, and has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros.

In Parshat Bereshit God creates the world in six days – then adds a Shabbat for rest. HE forms the human body from the dust of the earth, and blows into him a “living soul.” Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden, and commanded not to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.” A serpent persuades Eve to violate the command, and she shares the fruit with Adam. Both are banished by God from the Garden. Eve gives birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain quarrels with Abel and murders him, and becomes a rootless wanderer. A third son, Seth, is born. His eighth-generation descendant, Noah, is the only righteous man in a corrupt world.

 

 

Previous Torah Talks on Bereshit:

Rabbi Jon Jay Tilsen

Rabbi Yehoyada Amir

 

 

 

 

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