Parsha Perspectives for Today (Bereishis, 5781) - Are Masculinity and Femininity Binary?

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay we begin with as i said say for braces and parishes british as we go back to the beginning the story of creation and it's very significant you know the shabbos is called shabbas borisus we don't have shabbos no because this shabbos gracious represents not only the name of the parasha that we read beresius represents the beginner what we're working on what we're doing the energy the invitation and the opportunity to start again the invitation and the opportunity for new beginnings and for a and for a for new beginnings and for a and for a fresh start the most famous rashi perhaps on the torah is the opening rashi so we're on page two in the article stonehenge british in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth you know teaching our precious gracious is very very difficult many are most years we don't get to do it because of the way simcastora falls and gracious in the pasture class it often never falls boracious is huge and it's filled and packed with so much opportunity and invitation to dissect it to be elevated to apply to dissect it to be elevated to apply its messages to today it's very very hard to be with something to hold back and to choose what to focus on gracious baralo came in the beginning god created or god created the very beginning the very first act of creation was in fact the beginning he created the heaven and the earth and rasheed famously says [Music] if in fact the torah is a legal book and a legal document it is our constitution and our bylaws so start with the very first mitzvah mitzvah number one out of 613 um why do we start with this whole history of the world first god created six days of creation

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1. 1:00okay we begin with as i said say for braces and parishes british as we go…
2. 5:47the land has character unlike every other soil and every other earth and other other portion…
3. 10:54wonderful book of safe voracious and now let's dive in we begin of course with the…
4. 15:58have faith that we're going to yet come to a place of valleji boker we will…
5. 22:06some of which are very politically correct and some may seemingly be politically incorrect in our…
6. 27:11we too rest from our work earlier god had said vikishua go conquer the world go…
7. 32:31my phone and the news and the data and the sports i turn off the politics…
8. 37:36express that creativity that's work work is not a concession work is not a necessary evil…
9. 43:06angels are perfect and they're holy angels have no temptation no desire you're also going to…
10. 48:13contradiction on the one hand the word is the medium of expressing agreement and concurrence of…

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