Bereishit: A Much-Needed Reminder of Goodness

Bereishit: A Much-Needed Reminder of Goodness

On October 7, Hamas perpetrated evil on a scale and magnitude of which we have not seen or experienced since the dark days of the Holocaust. To make matters even worse, rather than categorically condemn these atrocities, far too many people around the world have expressed support for them. In the midst of all this moral bankruptcy and evil, perhaps we need to shift our attention instead to the idea of goodness. In doing so, there is no better place to start than the very first parasha in the Torah—Parashat Bereishit—that we read this coming Shabbat