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The Torah describes God’s fashioning the firmament (רקיע) on the second day of creation. This piece of the universe, however, doesn’t actually exist—a problem obfuscated in my yeshiva education.

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The Torah describes God’s fashioning the firmament (רקיע) on the second day of creation. This piece of the universe, however, doesn’t actually exist—a problem obfuscated in my yeshiva education.

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The more we mine for meaning, the more likely we are to agree with the words of the Psalmist, who declared the Torah’s words to be enduring, enlightening, and abidingly true

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