Bereshit: In the Beginning
Bereshit means "beginnings." The first Torah scroll is known as Bereshit. In English, this is referred to as Genesis. Bereshit begins with the creation of the world. There are two creation stories in this reading ` one in which man and woman are created at the same time, and the other in which Eve is made from Adam.
The creation of the world does not end following the creation of man and woman, but rather, with the creation of the Shabbat, or Day of Rest.
Adam and Eve were given only one rule ~ not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. When they disobeyed, they were not only expelled from the Garden of Eden, but given moral responsibility for their actions. Additionally, they were faced with their own mortality. Soon the meaning of mortality became apparent wen Cain killed his brother, Abel. The first murder. As a result, Cain was doomed to wander the earth.
The parsha ends with a recording of the genealogy of Adam to Noah.
In the year 2011, Bereshit falls on October 22.
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