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Orchard of Delights 2 Bereishit
find rest. The Slonimer Rebbe adds that this Shabbat dispensation state of consciousness when they realize that the seeming plurality
figuratively applies to each and every person as well. During the six in the world is really a manifestation of God’s oneness. Thus we must
days of the week, we wander about trying to navigate the obstacles recognize the spiritual equation guiding and infusing creation with
and challenges of the world, but every Shabbat we find rest and peace purpose: “One becomes two in order to become One.”
of mind, as we bask in the holiness of Shabbat.
The creation of the first human being follows this very same
The aforementioned Midrash continues by declaring that when he principle: “And God created Adam in His image, in the image of God
heard this, Adam rapped himself on the head and said: “This is the He created him [Adam]; male and female He created them” (Genesis
power of repentance and I didn’t know it!” Immediately he stood 1:27). Adam, created in God’s image, was one unified being. Indeed,
up and exclaimed: “A Psalm, a song for the day of Shabbat. It is the Sages deduced from this verse that Adam was created as one
good to thank God and to sing praise to Your name” (Psalms 92:1). unified androgynous being – “male and female He created them”
This psalm of individual revelation has been incorporated into our (Bereishit Rabbah 8:1). Later God informed Adam that “it is not good
evening and morning Shabbat prayers. It is a potent reminder of the for man to be alone” and promised to make him a helper (Genesis
power of teshuvah (repentance) and the healing quality of the holy 2:18). Keeping his word, God formed a woman out of Adam’s side,
Shabbat. (This insight was discussed in The Mystical Power of Music, thus turning one androgynous being into two distinct people, a male
pp. 33-34.) and a female. Since the guiding principle of the Divine creative process
stated above predicates the two becoming one again, in the very next
verse we are taught that “Therefore a man shall leave his father and
his mother and cling to his wife and they shall become one flesh”
(Genesis 2:24). Man and woman only become two in order to become
one again through marriage and the birth of a child, born of their
union. Marriage in Judaism is accorded tremendous importance as it
allows human beings to realize their full potential of being made in
God’s image: in marriage, man and woman replicate the very process
and creative dynamic through which God created the world.

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After placing Adam in the Garden of Eden, the Torah recounts that
God paraded all the animals before Adam to see what he would
call them: “and whatever Adam called each creature, that was its
name” (Genesis 2:19). Adam, according to Kabbalah and Chassidut,
assessed the fundamental nature of each animal and identified the
Hebrew letters that best embodied that quintessential essence. This,

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