Rosh ha-Shanah Text Study

“Creation Beyond the Binary” with Ari Witkin: For generations we have recalled our creation story through the emergence of binary elements: light and darkness, heavens and earth, land and water, male and female. Though these dichotomies have animated the human experience in many ways, they paint only a limited picture of the universe we live in. With all we know about the world can we really say that everything in creation is from either column A or column B? In this session we will look to our tradition’s mystical texts, beginning with the Zohar, as we explore a more complex, and maybe more full, Jewish perspective on creation.