Day 34
Why Does Judaism Place So Much Emphasis on Marriage?
Dedicated in memory of Leah bat Yehudah Leiv
In the beginning, the very, very, beginning, Hashem created some- one called Adam and he was the very first man . . . er . . . except that he wasn’t.
The Talmud points to the wording in the Torah, “Male and female He created them,” and drops quite a bombshell. The first man was actually the first woman too.
Confused?
The Talmud explains that Adam was originally made both male and female, a hermaphrodite.
The obvious question is: why did Hashem originally make us that way?
To compound the confusion, the Torah then says that having made Adam, Hashem “changes His mind.” He declares, “It is not good, Man’s state of being alone” and takes the female part from Adam leaving only the male, and creates two separate individuals.
You should know, there is only one word that does not occur in the vocabulary of the Almighty and that word is, “Oops!” He doesn’t make mistakes.
But: “it’s not good, man’s state of being alone” and then having to “adjust” the original design, seems to suggest that He did.
