Questions tagged [adam]
Questions related to Adam, the first man.
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Source that Adam Harishon drank 926 *luggim* of wine
I heard that Adam Harishon drank 926 luggim of wine from the etz hadaat (according to R' Yehuda's opinion in Berachot 40a that it bore grapes).
This seems plausible according to the tradition that ...
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Why did six souls inherit specific marks from Adam?
Shalom,
The Zohar describes six souls who inherited specific traits from Adam.
They are: Samson, Saul, Asael, Absalom, Zedekiah and Josiah.
They inherited strength, neck, speed, hair, eyes and ...
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Do animals have 10 Sefiros
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we say that only humans are creatures in the image of Elokim, and therefore have 10 Sefiros (corresponding to Adam HaElyon, the image that Elokim made for Himself to use to create the ...
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A coherent view of Adam and the Serpent
I was debating with Biblical literalists, and I struggled to present a coherent view of Genesis 3.
It starts with "וְהַנָּחָשׁ הָיָה עָרוּם מִכֹּל חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה" ("And the serpent ...
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How come Adam didn't know he's a different species? [closed]
In Bereishit 2:19–20, Adam names all the animals, and Chazal describe this as a display of his wisdom and insight.
At the same time, Sanhedrin 38b and Bereishit Rabbah 18:4 says that Adam even sought ...
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Importance of Adam naming animals
In Bereishit 2:19–20, Adam names the animals. Rashi (to v. 20) notes that he recognized their essence and named them accordingly.
As a simple answer to a child’s “Why is a cow called a cow?”, one ...
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What did Chava say to Adam?
Gen. 3:17 explicitly says that Hashem punished Adam "because you listened to the voice of your wife" (ולאדם אמר כי-שמעת לקול אשתך). What did she say? It's not there in the text.
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Source for Adam naming the angels
I heard someone say that according to a book whose name I didn't clearly hear, Adam named the seraphim, ophanim and the chayot ha kodesh.
Please forgive me for butchering the name, but the person I ...
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Did Chava eat the fruit before or after Adam?
A simple reading would imply the serpent convinced Chava to eat first, and she did so because she was caught up in his words at the time. Then, she gave it to Adam.
But Rashi says that she gave it to ...
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How did Eve Knew About Childbirth, Adam Know About Bread and Parents before Anyone Was Born or Anything Baked? [closed]
In Genesis 3, God curses Adam and Eve after their sin. But the language of the curses seems to assume a level of worldly understanding that Adam and Eve simply couldn’t have had especially if, as many ...
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Why didn't Hashem forgive Adam and Chava? Problem with Teshuva?
Why didn't Hashem forgive Adam and Chava? Was it because they did not do teshuva? Was their teshuva incomplete or inconvincing? Or maybe teshuva was not an option and they had to be punished? Maybe ...
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Why is the fact that the Shekhina left the world after the Fall of Adam and Hava not mentioned in the Torah?
Shalom all,
I was wondering why the estrangement of the Shekhina is not mentioned in Bereshit after the fall of Adam.
I think this is a very important point worth mentioning in the Torah, and it would ...
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Does anyone suggest three different creations of Man?
The Torah says (Gen 1.27):
1 וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ (And Elohim created the Adam in His image),
2 בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ (in the image of Elohim created him)
3 זָכָר ...
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Shouldn’t God have fenced off the forbidden tree?
Going through the story of the Forbidden Fruit, comes to mind that a person is obligated to erect a fence around a potentially dangerous place (like בור ברשות הרבים).
By creating the mortal danger for ...
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Who should we listen to, the Rav or the Talmid?
God asks Adam (Bereishit 3:11): "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree I commanded you not to eat?" And Adam replies (Bereishit 3:12): "The woman whom You placed ...
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