Oct 6, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
This morning at Breakfast & Class, we went back to the very beginning—to the first two verses of the Torah. God creates heaven and earth, and yet almost immediately we encounter tohu vavohu…
Perhaps because before the Torah teaches us how the world was created it is teaching us how the world works.
And incredibly, our Chachamim tell us that hidden inside the second Pasuk of the Torah is not merely the story of creation.
Many of us are familiar with Bereshit Rabbah, which brings in extraordinary teaching in the name of Resh Lakish.
He says, Tohu refers to the exile of Bavil, the destruction of the first temple, Nebuchadnezzar.
It's interesting that out of the darkness we have what? The lights of Hanukkah from the Greek.
Perhaps because before the Torah teaches us how the world was created it is teaching us how the world works.
And incredibly, our Chachamim tell us that hidden inside the second Pasuk of the Torah is not merely the story of creation.
Many of us are familiar with Bereshit Rabbah, which brings in extraordinary teaching in the name of Resh Lakish.
He says, Tohu refers to the exile of Bavil, the destruction of the first temple, Nebuchadnezzar.
It's interesting that out of the darkness we have what? The lights of Hanukkah from the Greek.
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