Here is a short thread from my Covenant & Conversation essay on #Bereishit which you can read in full here: bit.ly/2xXOsFi (Also, remember to download the new accompanying Family Edition here: bit.ly/2Qp7J9w). #ShabbatShalom
Creation begins with the creative word, the idea, the vision, the dream. Language – and with it the ability to remember a distant past and conceptualise a distant future – lies at the heart of our uniqueness as the image of God.
Just as God makes the natural world by words (“And God said…and there was”) so we make the human world by words, which is why Judaism takes words so seriously: “Life and death are in the power of the tongue,” says the book of Proverbs (18:21).
Already at the opening of the Torah, at the very beginning of creation, is foreshadowed the Jewish doctrine of revelation: that God reveals Himself to humanity not in the sun, the stars, the wind or the storm...
...but in and through words – sacred words that make us co-partners with God in the work of redemption.
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