Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.
This week’s Talmud reading began with a historical question that is at the same time a cosmological one. At the beginning of Tractate Rosh Hashanah, we learned that for certain purposes the first day of the year is the first of Nisan, while for others it’s the first of Tishrei, which is when we celebrate Rosh Hashanah. But which of these, the rabbis wonder, is the day on which God created the world? Rabbi Meir believes that it was Nisan, while Rabbi Eliezer opts for Tishrei; and each supports his position by a reading of the Torah’s creation story.
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