Parshat Bereshit: Kabbalistic Questions about Creation
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Genesis 1:1-6:8
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner asks some mystical questions about the creation of the world in the year's first Torah portion! Take a trippy voyage through Kabbalah and Torah with a Star Wars-tinged style.
Mystic, author and Rabbi Lawrence Kushner’s G-dcast encourages viewers to view the Creation story in a more complex way than perhaps they previously did, especially when it comes to the topic of light.
The narrator suggests that the light created on the first day was the light of consciousness. What else can light symbolize?
Each week, a different storyteller - some musical, some poetic, some just straight-up, tell the story of the current Torah portion...and then we animate it! For a source sheet and lesson guide for this animated short please visit http://www.g-dcast.com/weekly-parsha/