Parashat Bereshit: Creation of World
Genesis (“Bereshit”) is the first book of the Torah, Judaism’s foundational text, and the only one consisting almost entirely of stories, with just three explicit laws.
The law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch). The Torah includes the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Genesis (“Bereshit”) is the first book of the Torah, Judaism’s foundational text, and the only one consisting almost entirely of stories, with just three explicit laws.
