• November 15, 2026
  • 5 5787, Kislev
  • פרשת ויצא

The first missteps: the generations of Sheyt and Enosh

We are moving on to the two generations that followed Adam HaRishon. We will learn how they were seen, by the sages in the Talmudic period midrashim, to be different from the descendants of Adam HaRishon of subsequent generations. And we will encounter the way that the midrashim understand — based on a few unclear words in the Torah — what changed in the generation of Enosh. We will see how the Rambam later describes in detail this change, which constituted the first step on the road to idolatry.

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