<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Maaseh Bereishis is incomprehensible. The "only" things we're going to<br>
pull out of this part of chumash are meshalim for our own lives. Meshalim<br>
are intentionally enigmatic, as they hint at more and more to analyze,<br>
more comparisons to learn from.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is exactly what I mean when I say that the early chapters of Bereshit are myths. I know you don't like that expression, and it's indeed problematic because one has to immediately add disclaimers: "not in the sense that they are false but in the sense of narratives which convey deep messages central to a culture beneath the surface" etc. etc. etc, but it's what I believe: HKBH chose to reveal the beginning of the world as myths.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>