In this video on Parshat Bereishit, Imu and David show how to read this story as part of that broader narrative. We need to study these early failures in order to appreciate how much of the Torah is focused on teaching us how to redeem them. These stories are placed in the beginning of the Torah because they serve as the prologue to everything that is yet to come. Why does the Torah offer us these two depressing stories one after another? In a series called “The Parsha Experiment,” Imu Shalev and David Block make the case that the Torah is not meant to be read as a series of isolated episodes, but rather as a continuous narrative.
The story of Cain and Abel is a really tragic story about the first murder in the Torah, and it follows right after the tragedy of the Tree of Knowledge and Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. You’re watching our video on the story of Cain and Abel in its broader context. We’ve collected our best material for each story in the Torah in order to uncover the hidden lessons brought to life by the Torah’s narratives. Hi this is Ari Levisohn, Curator at Aleph Beta, and welcome to our section on Biblical stories.
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