Tu B’Shvat, the new year for fruit trees, the 15 th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, marks the cutoff point of that year’s ...

The original intention of God in creation is that man, His highest creatures, should function as God in glory. It is because of this ...

Next, we turn to the Tower of Babel, another great Hebrew Bible story with a lesson for humanity: God rules over and slaps us ...

who lived in a perfect land (the Garden of Eden). According to the Book of Genesis they also co-existed with the embodiment of evil in the form of a snake (the devil). As we all know, Adam and Eve ...

We find an allusion to this custom in our Sages’ words: “From the beginning of the world’s creation, God dealt first with planting, as it says, ‘God planted a garden in Eden’ (Genesis 2:8).

Our lives and those of our trees are indivisible. We and they are living beings and share almost half of our DNA. A Talmudic ...

When last we met, the man and the woman were comfortably in Eden, naked and ... I omitted one element from Genesis 2. The sacred author speaks of God planting a garden, whose flora included ...

The Garden of Eden is famed for having botanica of every ... I am drawn to such a tree… The towering two are central to the Genesis narrative: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of ...