Bereshis, a new beginning.

Hashem creates the world, the heaven and earth, man, water, sun, everything.

And we know Hashem really only wants to give us good.

But we see in this week's Parsha, things went off the rails.

Adam had one commandment, not to eat from the Etz Hadaas, yet he does.

Kayin kills Hevel.

This week's parashah, parashat Hazinu, always falls out right around the Yom HaNoram.

This year it's after Rosh Hashanah, but it's always around this time of the year.

We all take resolutions upon ourselves, how to improve, what we need to get better at, and hopefully it'll remain.

Yes, right now we're on a spiritual high.

And we think, whatever we try to do, hopefully we already improve, and we will continue to improve.

Great.

Towards the end of this week's Parsha, we have an interesting case where a dead body is found on the ground and they don't know how it got there and who killed them.

So, the elders of the city go out and they measure the distance between the two nearest cities to see which city should take the blame.

Then the elders go and they make a declaration that we had nothing to do with the killing of this person.

We're not responsible.

They're taking away the blame.

The question really would be, why would anybody think that the elders had anything to do with the killing of this person? So the answer to that is, they have the responsibility of the people in the city.