Revisiting Creation - Rabbi Morris Panitz

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There are a number of

parallels between the creation of the world and the splitting of Yam Suf,

casting this dramatic moment of the Exodus as a kind of “recreation

story.”  Which makes the appearance of a provocative midrash about an

Israelite woman picking fruit from a tree and feeding it to another that much

more fascinating… and I’d like to suggest, subversive.  What exactly

happened in the Garden of Eden, and what message does it hold for the

generation crossing the sea?

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