
← Parsha with Rabbi David Bibi6 oct. · 12 min
BERESHIT — THE LIGHT HIDDEN IN THE DARKNESS
BERESHIT — THE LIGHT HIDDEN IN THE DARKNESS
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:
chaos and emptiness, darkness and an unfathomable abyss. Why would a perfect
Creator begin His world this way? Our Sages reveal something remarkable: hidden
within these words is not only the story of Creation, but the entire story of
Jewish history—our exiles, our darkness, and ultimately our redemption.
BERESHIT — THE LIGHT HIDDEN IN THE
DARKNESS explores the
sparks of holiness concealed within a broken world, the astonishing secret
hidden in the word meraḥefet,