[204], Rabbi Tanhuma taught in Rabbi Banayah's name, and Rabbi Berekiah taught in Rabbi Eleazar's name, that God created Adam a shapeless mass, and Adam lay stretching from one end of the world to the other, as Psalm 139:16 says, "Your eyes did see my shapeless mass." ". Rabbi Johanan reported that three of those great thermal fountains remained open after the Flood — the gulf of Gaddor, the hot-springs of Tiberias, and the great well of Biram. Because the Lord was with him. [140], Rav Judah taught that when God created the world, it went on expanding like two unraveling balls of thread, until God rebuked it and brought it to a standstill, as Job 26:21 says, "The pillars of heaven were trembling, but they became astonished at His rebuke." In. But the Gemara raised an objection from a Baraita: Rabbi Meir taught that Adam was a great saint. וַֽיְהִי֙ כִּרְאוֹתָ֔הּ כִּֽי־עָזַ֥ב בִּגְד֖וֹ בְּיָדָ֑הּ וַיָּ֖נָס הַחֽוּצָה: that she called to the people of her house, and she spoke to them, saying, "Look! In, Gerhard Larsson. "Etz Chaim" and "Eve's Lament." אין נא אלא לשון בקשה, הכר נא בוראך ואל תאבד שלש נפשות: Then Judah recognized [them], and he said, "She is right, [it is] from me, because I did not give her to my son Shelah." Enoch passed the principle of intercalation to Noah, who conveyed the tradition to Shem, who conveyed it to Abraham, who conveyed it to Isaac, who conveyed it to Jacob, who conveyed it to Joseph and his brothers. Therefore, he did not suspect her. And he (Judah) named him Perez. The eighth open portion spans the second and third readings. The punishment of the Flood must therefore be meant, as Genesis 7:23 says, "And He blotted out every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle," starting with the people.

The Gemara suggested an explanation to harmonize the two positions: The semen that Adam emitted accidentally caused ghosts and demons to come into being. But as soon as God told Adam in Genesis 3:19, "In the sweat of your brow shall you eat bread," Adam's mind was set at ease. The House of Shammai, in turn, faulted the House of Hillel for believing that a person builds a footstool first, and afterwards builds the throne, as Isaiah 66:1 calls heaven God's throne and the earth God's footstool. [55] Cain brought God an offering from the fruit of the soil, and Abel brought the choicest of the firstlings of his flock. [170], The Tosefta taught that the generation of the Flood acted arrogantly before God on account of the good that God lavished on them, in part in Genesis 2:6.

I say, however, that it was called Chezib because she stopped giving birth; [this is] an expression similar to“You are to me as a failing spring (אַכְזָב)” (. The heretic said that it was a garment. And “one day” teaches that God gave Israel one unique day over which darkness has no influence — the Day of Atonement. [153], Rabbi Johanan taught that the words "and God created the great sea-monsters" in Genesis 1:21 referred to Leviathan the slant serpent and Leviathan the tortuous serpent, also referred to in Isaiah 27:1 Rav Judah taught in the name of Rav that God created all living things in this world male and female, including Leviathan the slant serpent and Leviathan the tortuous serpent.

[36] Then their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked; and they sewed themselves loincloths out of fig leaves.