הבריאה באמנות - ארבע דרכים לבריאה

(7) God יהוה formed the Human from the soil’s humus, blowing into his nostrils the breath of life: the Human became a living being.

(19) And God יהוה formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky, and brought them to the Human to see what he would call them; and whatever the Human called each living creature, that would be its name.

(1) In that day GOD will punishWith a great, cruel, mighty swordLeviathan the Elusive Serpent—Leviathan the Twisting Serpent;The Dragon of the sea will be slain.

(4) Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?Speak if you have understanding. (5) Do you know who fixed its dimensionsOr who measured it with a line? (6) Onto what were its bases sunk?Who set its cornerstone (7) When the morning stars sang togetherAnd all the divine beings shouted for joy? (8) Who closed the sea behind doorsWhen it gushed forth out of the womb, (9) When I clothed it in clouds,Swaddled it in dense clouds, (10) When I made breakers My limit for it,And set up its bar and doors, (11) And said, “You may come so far and no farther;Here your surging waves will stop”?

(3) And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy—having ceased on it from all the work of creation that God had done.

(22) “The LORD created me at the beginning of His courseAs the first of His works of old.

(30) I was with Him as a confidant,A source of delight every day,Rejoicing before Him at all times,

(1) Rabbi Hoshaiah Rabbah said (Proverbs 8:30): "I was with him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day." "Master craftsman" means "pedagogue", "covered" means "faithful", "modest" means "subdued", and some say "great pedagogue". "Pedagogue" - how is this so? As it is written (Numbers 11:12): "Did I conceive all these people? Did I give birth to them?" "Faithful" - how is this so? As it is written (Lamentations 4:5): "Those who once ate delicacies are now desolate in the streets." "Subdued" - how is this so? As it is written (Esther 2:7): "Mordecai had raised her, Hadassah, his uncle's daughter, for she had no father or mother." "Great pedagogue" - as it is said (Nahum 3:8): "Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, surrounded by water?" "Another thing I say, O artist: The Torah says, 'I was the tool of His (God's) artistry,' referring to the fact that the King of Flesh and Blood who builds palaces in this world, does not do so from his own knowledge, but from the knowledge of an artist. And the artist himself does not create from his own knowledge, but rather from his tools and implements, in order to know how to make rooms and carve designs. Similarly, God looked into the Torah and created the world. And the Torah says, 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' And there is no beginning except for the Torah. As it says, 'The Lord acquired me at the beginning of His way.'" (Proverbs 8:22)

(12) Who measured the waters with a hand’s hollow,And gauged the skies with a span,And meted earth’s dust with a measure, And weighed the mountains with a scaleAnd the hills with a balance?

(4) Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?Speak if you have understanding. (5) Do you know who fixed its dimensionsOr who measured it with a line? (6) Onto what were its bases sunk?Who set its cornerstone

(8) Who closed the sea behind doorsWhen it gushed forth out of the womb,

(7) God made the expanse, and it separated the water which was below the expanse from the water which was above the expanse. And it was so.

(24) Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh.