Day 8, Bereshit 4

January 20th, 2020

It’s been amazing to listen the last 8 days and catch words that I actually know. How fun is that?! Thank you, Keith and Nehemia for all the faithful work you’ve done to help those who are interested understand the language, history, and context of our Father’s words.

Just some thoughts as I listen and read the Hebrew and read the English.

Maybe other people have caught this before but I just noticed this – the Garden of Eden is not Eden, it was in the eastern part of Eden. And when Adam and Eve got kicked out of the Garden, they didn’t get kicked out of Eden. Apparently Cain was the first of the family to leave Eden.

I have for years wondered about the people who were going to kill Cain and then of course, his wife. Where did they all come from? I have my own theories, but I want to take this opportunity to plug a Hebrew Voices episode because it’s so good and goes into this at a level I can’t.

Hebrew Voices #22 – A Physicist on Creation, Evolution, and the Human Soul (Rebroadcast)

Finally, does anyone else find this disconcerting? I see the Name of our Father in the Hebrew but the reader says “Adonai”. I have a little difficulty getting past that, not that he’s not saying Yehovah, but literally difficulty getting past that because my eyes are trying to find “Adonai” and then I have to catch back up. ?

But the end of today’s reading caused a little emotional pain. The last sentence (in English anyway) says that after Enosh was born, men started to call on the name of Yehovah and yet as I listen to our reader and read the Hebrew, that same Name is replaced with a title. The juxtaposition made me sad.