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Torah Portion
Our Uniting Bond:
The Fellowship Of Man
How the world is suffering for the
neglect of this precious Bible teaching.
"Not sufficient emphasis has been
laid on the bonds which connect the
various nations — the bond of blood,
the bond of a common humanity."
There are so many artificial distinc-
tions which divide us: nationality, reli-
fter the dramatic creation sto-
aion color, wealth, social status, inter-
ries of the first paragraphs in
ests. The modern world analyzes and
our Torah, stories which we
categorizes each of us, assigning us num-
are now privileged to study
bers and roles, classes and arbitrary
once again in this new year, one might
groups.
easily skip over the fifth chapter of
Instead of stressing those features
which
consists
almost
entirely
Bereshit,
of life which unite us, we
of a list of names of people
allow ourselves to be seg-
and the years they lived.
mented, broken down and
It provides the genealogical
parted.
link between Adam and Noah
Whatever theories or
— 10 generations, as a matter
hypotheses
science may devel-
of fact. But the rabbis saw in
op
for
the
origins
of the uni-
this section of our parsha a
verse
or
of
Homo
sapiens,
it
profound lesson, a value which
cannot discredit the moral
distinguishes out Torah's per-
strength of this one lesson
spective on life from the cre-
from the Torah: We are all
ation accounts of all other
one family, descended from
peoples in ancient civilization.
RABBI
the same parents, the same
The words state simply,
NORMAN T.
flesh and blood, created in
"This is the record of Adam's
ROMAN
the divine image. Dr. Cohen
line." It is a sentence so sig-
Special to the
taught, "Whoever we are,
nificant that the sage Ben
Jewish News
whatever we are — rich or
Azzai describes it as "zeh klal
poor, noble or common, edu-
gadol baTorah — this is one
cated
or
illiterate,
Jew or gentile — we
of the great principles of Torah." Rabbi
are
all
brothers
and
sisters, kith and kin ))
Akiva compares it to what many call
and
related
through
common ancestry
the golden rule of the Torah, "Love
A
beautiful
midrash
describes God
your neighbor as yourself." Our sages
creating Adam from-the dust of the
saw something remarkable in "This is
earth, collecting particles and specks and
the record of Adam's line."
bringing them together from the four
Leave the questions about evolution
corners of the globe. Adam (and each of
for the academic arena, our tradition
us) is created the same, however scat-
insists. It's not that those discussions are
tered the human race may be. We are
irrelevant or wrong; it's just that there is
part
of one humanity, one unity.
a spiritual truth in this story which must
The
Shabbat is zeicher lemnaasei
not be overlooked; there is a critical
bereshit — a reminder of the act of cre-
message addressed to all of us in these
ating. May we remember this lesson of
words, a message of vital importance:
our creation that we are "the record of
The entire human race is one vast fami-
Adam's
line." Thus it will be a Shabbat
ly. The Torah teaches that every man
shalom,
a Sabbath of complete peace. El
and woman is from one father, Adam.
The acceptance of that belief is far more
significant than attempting to reconcile
evolution and creation theories.
"This is the record of Adam's line."
How do you understand the story
Even through today, we are the record
and the story of Adam's descendants.
of creation? (Rabbi Baric of
Humanity as a universal family is the
Zmedzibozh, a grandson of the
Ba'al Shem Tov, gives legitimacy to
greatest lesson we have been taught
many different interpretations by
and is the highest value we can place
linking the last words of
before us.
England's Dr. Abraham Cohen com-
Deuteronomy with the first words
mented more than 60 years ago, "The
of Genesis, According to the eyes
Bible insists that [mankind] are brothers,
of each of Israel [is] In the begin-
ning ...") What can we do to tear
children of the one father. Is this not a
down the walls of artificial distinc-
sublime and ennobling conception?
tions between people?
Norman T. Roman is rabbi of Temple
Shabbat Bereshit:
Genesis 1:1-6.8;
I Samuel 20:18-42.
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