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…o r a spirituality sr' A First Step 0 at In The igliteirection Parshat Bereshit: Genesis 1:1 - 6:8; Isaiah 42:5 - 43:10. W as the creation of the world as described in this week's Torah portion an end in itself or a means to an end? The late midrashic work Pesikta de-rabbati (ninth cen- tury C.E.) suggested the latter: "Everything that was created during the six days of creation requires tikkun [improvement or perfectivizing]." In other ...…

















































