Roslyn Weiss

Sep 30, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Roslyn Weiss |Akiva Schick |Yosef Lindell

In all of God’s Creation, there is but one divinely acknowledged defect: “It is not good for man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18). So God creates woman. But could it be that in rectifying one flaw, God inadvertently introduces another? Might the creation of Eve give rise to a second problem even as it solves the first, a problem that then requires its own solution? Perhaps a fresh reading of Genesis 1–3 will help us answer this question.