As we come to the end of the first great narrative of Genesis, what is it about? We will explore how to read Biblically: Forward, backward, and, most importantly, to the middle, to draw out what i tells.

For thousands of years, readers of eh BIble sensed that it is a story of falling ann recontruction. But there are 7 ruptures desribed in Genesis. Each was provided a solution nd tehn the solution also failed. We will disucss 3 of them - the best known Fall and how it wsa conceptualized in Jewish and Christian thought, teh role opf Satan and Yetzer Hara (Evil INclincation), but also the rupture of Cain adn QAbel, and Nephilim.

How do we approach the Two Trees of Genesis? What do they mean, or.. what do they tell?

Review and short explanation to 10 approaches to Image of God from Nishmat Chayim of R. Menashe Yisroel, and we close with Pico Della Mirandola and R. Y.B. Soloveitchik for modern man.

On return to Eden:

Yael Ziegler - Return to Eden in the song of songs - https://www.hatanakh.com/en/lessons/paradise-regained-return-gan-eden-shir-hashirim

Yael Ziegler - Israel as the replacement for Eden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dafcwgiUrQ&ab_channel=Israel365

Alex Israel - https://www.alexisrael.org/behukotai---back-to-eden