The holy Zohar teaches us, the Bible is not a collection of stories, it’s a collection of lessons.

Please join me on a journey, in which we shall discover, how the Divine truth, relates to your life:

1. The first verse of the Bible teaches us many things:

1. It teaches us that before there was everything, there was nothing.

2. As such, it must be that our universe serves a higher purpose.

3. This is hinted to in the first word of the Torah “Bireishis” – in Hebrew that can be divided to, two prime causes.

A. For the sake of the Jewish people

B. For the sake of Judaism

The sages query, is Judaism for the Jews, or are the Jews for Judaism?

They reply, that it is obvious that the Torah was written for the Jews (of-course as you may know, Judaism encompasses the Seven Noahide Laws which are for all Humanity.)

So if we had to say this in other words… the universe is a place in which the Divine will – which is to bestow blessings – and when we wish to bestow, if we are truly Noble, we seek for the other to earn; for that which is just given, is somewhat bland – and therefore, God created a universe, in which there are instinctual pleasures and fears, versus the Divine guidance, and when we choose to obey instead of ignore, then we earn.

2. The world begins in darkness / confusion, which is how any thinking person sees the chaos, and then there is, if you seek, an infinite light.

Now Infinity, is not Limited, and therefore, unlike us that seek our existence, Infinity only does what’s right – in other words, Infinity chooses to bestow, but of-course, will not impose; and therefore to have a relationship with infinity / God, it must come from our deepest, most greatest, desire.

3. After God made man, he blessed them and he said, “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the world;” We must understand two things: first of all God’s blessing to man is the greatest gift, namely the ability to have man! There is no greater blessing, no greater achievement than to be able to have a child, and you propagate the Earth. Without Humanity there is nothing, and secondly, when God blesses us, as the sages say, with every child comes the wherewithal.

4. The Torah further clearly says, that God says to man, “rule the Earth, the food on the earth is for you.”

This is very important to understand, because at the very key of a human being is the way that they value themselves; So much of the stupid, hedonistic, materialistic, secular culture, focusses so much on dumb disproven theories, such as evolution – really at the key, what they do, is say to the person “you are just another walking animal….” So is it any wonder that a generation brought up under such low self-esteem should find their lives meaningless and even worse, valueless!

The Great Master, the Lubavitcher Rebbe said, that he once told his Torah teacher, that he had an argument with someone who believes in evolution, and his teacher said “Mendel, leave him alone; if his desire is that his lineage, should be from an ape, Let It Be.”

4. The story of the creation of man and woman is very very important, for number one, man has to realize that without a woman he is incomplete; but number two, man has to see the woman as being his other half, for then his love for her will be as he loves himself.

5. The story of the snake is the story of Our Lives, because God comes with very simple, very clear instructions, and the snake through great conniving, begins to make you doubt the instructions; He begins to make you think that God is there only as a narcissist, which obviously makes no sense, because He is your father and mother, Your Creator, Your Lover, Your Brother, Your sister, Your Best Friend, who only seeks what’s good for you, and by understanding that his wisdom is advice For you, not against you – you will Embrace God, and ignore the snake in your head.

6. The story of man and woman realizing that they’re naked is very very profound, for Kabbalistickally what occurred, and what the tree of knowledge means – exactly as it says, is the knowledge of evil – Now knowledge in Hebrew dennotes an association with; which is why when it speaks about man loving his wife, it says he “knows her” – When you know someone, you love them, and because Adam peered into the Demonic dungeon, filled with the delusional arrogance, much as we do when we look at people, perhaps that have power and fame, certainly a narcissistic bully, and we become attracted to that “Grandeur”; And once there is an attraction, our entire psyche, which really is attraction based – if you think about it… everything you do, is based on various attractions or fears… becomes quite sick – This is why when Adam developed this, shall we say subconscious narcissism, he became ashamed, for as opposed to previously, when engaged in intimacy, it was like two doves – it now had a tinge of sadism.

7. It’s actually quite funny that Adam hid from God, when he heard God coming; Yet we are exactly the same, because based on science and common-sense, we are no different to any character in a computer game, which means, that we are always simply in God’s consciousness.

8. The conversation that God has with man, which is the first recorded conversation, is very very descriptive, (as anyone who has the gift of the still small voice of God knows) for God totally descends into the human Realm – by first allowing Adam to Simply hear his presence; so he doesn’t get startled, and then asking him “where are you?” as if he doesn’t know; Then asking him, “did you eat of the fruit?” In other words, God, when he communicates with man, like a loving parent, descends completely into our humble simple psyche.

9. It’s also very descriptive to see what man does when accused of a crime, for he immediately blames, as the woman does as well – the obvious lesson is, don’t bother accusing people.

10. It’s also very important to understand that God punishes the snake, now the reason this is important, is because God holds us accountable.

11. The irony is of-course, that this entire story, the fall and sin, as Kabbalah teaches, was already predicted, and orchestrated; for ultimately, the punishment of man, that it will be difficult to make a living, and the punishment of woman, that it will be difficult to have love, to give birth, to raise children, is a blessing, because only that which we earn, do we truly feel grateful for.

12 It’s also instructive that God causes man to die, because he knows evil, and what this really means, is that in essence, the realm of life, is the realm of holiness and joy; but in the realm of narcissism, which is the realm of misery, for the narcissist expects to get his way, and becomes angry when he doesn’t – such stupidity! as all tyrants, Empires, have fallen, will cause any, certainly lesser powerful bully, to one day, as well.

13. In the story of the jealousy of Kayin and Hevel, we have a very important story, for this is the beginning of human relations in the world, and it begins rather ignobly and predictably, that those who are selfish, who don’t have a wider View, become jealous of those who are gifted, quite simply, with insight and humility; this is the real reason why there is sadism; For example, Arabs hating Jews, in fact anyone who hates Jews, who ostensibly are the greatest nicest people, certainly by counting how much charity is given; because those whose myopic visions cause narcissistic selfishness ultimately are miserable, and are jealous of those who have love in their hearts; And of-course, as the story continues, we see the tremendous tyranny, maliciousness, which jealousy causes; Certainly it’s no coincidence, that the only emotion God-forbids in the Ten Commandments is the emotion of jealousy; and as the story progresses, God clearly tells Kayin, which applies to each of us, for we all often get jealous, how to overcome jealousy; Namely, he must accept HE is the problem – for when we are jealous we always subconsciously produce (and as all people have some evil in them, we magnify their evil and we cause in our minds our justification) as ludicrous as the Nazi “super race” hence being allowed to kill others! and so we must understand that in God’s world, those that are humble, automatically will feel good, and if we are not humble, and we wish to feel good, all we need to do, is look at our own evil, and in this way become humble and happy.

14 One of the most instructive verses of the Bible is what God tells to Kayin as Kayin’s face fell, from his being slighted by God not accepting his sacrifice – so to quote, God says, “Why are you angry? and why has your face Fallen? if you repent, you will be accepted, and if you do not; Sin lurks at your door, and it desires to enter; But you can always overpower it.” You see, anger actually is a false demon, for no-one in the world was ever born angry; hence anger is not Who We Are, but when we are angry, that demon lurks, awaiting to inhabit – to temporarily annihilate us, but if a person, as we mentioned, in the last paragraph, repents through realizing that the fault was in ME not in the “other”, then we overcome anger, and we return to our pristine soul.

15. In case we think the jealousy is no big deal, jealousy leads to the murder; jealousy is the reason that there is murder in this world; jealousy is the reason that there is rape; jealousy is the reason that there is abuse; jealousy is the reason behind all the anti-movements, be it anti-white, anti-jewish, and a second lesson that we can take, is, that when God talks to us, and we don’t take it serious, there’s nothing more serious – For God to come, it’s only critical.

16. To continue on the theme of arrogance vs. Humility, we see the tremendous arrogance… that God is speaking to Kayin, and imagine God comes to you and he says “Where is your brother?” and he says, “I don’t know, am I the Watchman of my brother?”!

17. The next verse is very profound, for God says “What have you done? The blood of your brother cries to me from the ground”. Now we must understand, that as God says elsewhere, “Be compassionate, for I am compassionate;” in other words, ‘when Compassionate humble people cry to me for justice, I feel the need to create it.’

18. True to Human Nature, Kayin upon hearing of his punishment, suddenly reverses, the previous words of God, and says, “my sin is too great to carry,” however when God had told him previously to repent, he didn’t realize; as we mentioned before – that when God talks, THAT is the time to listen.

19. Isn’t it interesting, how suddenly Kayin is worried about people coming and killing him… for such Is the nature of hate, that we lose the sensitivity of hurting or murdering another.

20. The story of God regretting creation, ultimately boils down to the same story that happened with Kayin and Hevel; because when things are good – and as we see:, A spirit of narcissistic unbridled licentiousness instead of sensitivity and compassion both towards fellow man and woman had inhabited Humanity, God said “I Will Wait a hundred and twenty years to see if people will transform, repent, change, but such evil cannot be allowed to indefinitely perpetuate.’

21 In the motive of God to destroy the world, which is again mentioned in the beginning Parshas Noach, it’s clearly, that God sought to establish a world of sensitivity – and a world of violence, narcissism, evil, has no place in his heart.

22. God tells Noah to go into the ark and He literally floods and murderers the entire life, from Man, Woman child, bugs, bees, birds and then He has noah leave the ark, and the first thing God does, is it seems, He sort of regrets the destruction, and ironically, using the very same reasoning that led to the destruction, leads to a promise to never destroy; For ultimately, Reason is actually just a Reason for a Reason; In other words, when God’s emotion was disgust and regret over creation; therefore, the fact that men were thinking evil all the time, served as the reason to destroy them; but when God’s emotion was regret and compassion over the destruction, then His decision was to never destroy.

23. Effectively God reiterates, what he told Adam, but much stronger; in other words, He blesses man to propagate and control Earth; In fact all of Earth was created for man, however man is instructed to be compassionate to animals, this is one of the seven noahide laws – “Do not eat an animal while it is living,” which would include the sadistic practice of boiling lobsters alive; And finally God States clearly, that by killing a man, one is in fact attacking God, and therefore God will ensure that the murderer will meet a Bitter End.

24. God then sort of sets up a reminder for Himself, that whenever the rainbow is seen, this is an indication that he shouldn’t destroy Mankind; And of-course a very pragmatic lesson from this is, that unless we set up reminders for ourselves, we forget.

25. We find now an exceptionally bizarre story, that Humanity gathers together to build a city and ironically God condemns this very act of total Unity – So this is bizarre, for previously God destroyed the world that is violent, and now He separates the world by confusing their languages?!? because they are too Unified!; Ultimately violence and a notion that “we all must be the same” are both the same thing – They both come from the ego, for the mind can comprehend that it is okay for someone to be different, and at the same time we can not only be friends, but our differences, create unique qualities, which leads to the grandest of Notions, summed up in the American motto “E Pluribus Unum” that the diversity of our nation, “One Nation, United Under God, with Law, Justice and Liberty” is the greatest whole.