Parshas Bereishis: Vertlach on the Parsha

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

What is the first thing a Jew has to know? Rebbe Bunim reads Bereishis as teaching that Hashem created the whole world, the person himself included, so both the person and the world have a purpose. The thoughts on the parsha that follow keep coming back to a person's own avodah: finishing himself, reaching eternal life from any matzav, learning with an open mind, and honestly checking why he is upset.

Key points

• The Yismach Moshe hears let us make man as Hashem telling man that together they will make him.
• The Chofetz Chaim sees the central Eitz HaChaim as eternal life reachable from every circumstance.
• The Chiddushei HaRim reads Hashem's question as showing Kayin his upset came from competing with Hevel.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Bereishis and a person's purpose
2. 1:19Let us make man: Hashem and man
3. 2:11The Eitz HaChaim in the garden's middle
4. 3:44Why the Eitz HaDaas was off limits
5. 5:09Kayin's anger and fallen face
6. 7:12Noach finding chen in Hashem's eyes

Topics

• Parshas Bereishis
• Purpose of Creation
• Kinah