Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on September 16, 2022

Ellen Davis wrote about meeting the expectations of the land, she said, agrarians know the land, not as an inert object, but as a fellow creature that can justly expect something from us whose lives depend on it. Important in more than my Hebrew class was the comparison between the Hebrew word for ground or earth (adm) and the Hebrew word for man (dm). Understanding the land from that part of country is important because as Davis puts it, Both words are related to dm, ruddy; in the Levant, [eastern part of the Mediterranean area] brownish red is the skin tone of both the people and the earth. In Genesis 2:15, the writer says that man is put into the garden to till it and keep it. Davis unpacks this by digging into the Hebrew language again saying the verb used could also mean working for the garden soil, serving its needs. This made a huge difference to me when I was reading; it reminded me that we have been created to serve the earth.

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Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground. Granite Falls Advocate Tribune - Granite Falls Advocate Tribune

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