Ok, so basically, I'm going to go through this like we did in class.
The first thing we saw was that in פרק א it kept saying א-לוקים. In פרקים ב-ג, it calls Him ה' אלוקים. We said that adding 'ה to his name adds the trait of mercy and a close personal relationship.
פרק נ פסוקים ב-ה
Plants won't sprout until 2 things happen:
1. 'ה makes it rain
2. אדם appears לעבוד את האדמה
This is saying that the potential is there, but nothing can happen until man and 'ה work together to make the work run smoothly.
פרק ב פסוקים ו-יד:
There is a new word being used for creation: יצר instead of ברא. Creating something from nothing is ברא, but that's not what 'ה is doing here. He is shaping and forming things from what's already there.
There is no order to the creation in פרק ב. Everything is created and mentioned in relation to man.
It mentions גן עדן- the beautiful trees, the עץ החיים, and the עץ הדעת טוב ורע- we don't know yet why they are mentioned here.
פרק ב פסוקים טו-יז:
Man's mission is לעבודה ולשמרה: to work and to guard (the garden)
They get their 1st commandment. They only have one restriction and they can do anything else they want to!
פרק ב פסוקים יח-כה:
Man is given a mate, but it must be from a part of him to show his dominance over the animals.
As Mirel already said, the new creation word in Perek 2 is "יצר". Adam was created from nothing in Perek 1, but Chava was created from a part of Adam in Perek 2. This was to show Man's dominance over the animals. This made me think about the אבינו מלכנו's that we say in Tishrei. We say that "I was raised from the dust to sit with kings". In truth, only the male form of our species came from the dust. The female part came indirectly from the dust, but primarily from man's rib. So when you say this prayer, think about how this saying applies to you. "I was raised from the dust" could be referring to creation and the fact that Hashem takes care of us in our everyday lives. "To sit with kings" refers to the fact that man was created in the image of Hashem and should emulate Him in our lives.
ReplyDeletei would like to post something that we discussed at mishmar with rabbi stein a few weeks ago. we were looking at these pesukim ,and we learned about how some people think that at first G-d was considering man to have another mate. these commentators believe that G-d brought all the animals before man so man could pick a mate for himself. in other words, up until a certain point, man and animal were on the same level, and this relates to the story of cain and hevel because some say cain thought animals were the same as people and so when he saw hevel kill one and G-d liked it, he was mortified. then he though perhaps if he killed his brother He would also like that. so out of confusion and a mix of other emotions he did. anyways, back to adam, since things apparently did not work out so well, he made chava to be man's mate as a replacement.
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