On the second page of the Bible, we get a wonderful little story about Adam.

He's the first character in the Bible, and his name in Hebrew, Adam, means humanity.

When it says in the middle line, in the image of God, he created him.

In English, we have to use a masculine singular term to go back to that humanity of the first line.

God created humanity in his image, in the image of God he created him.

But that hymn doesn't mean male human. It's referring to the generic humanity.

Adam is in God's good world. He sees all the other animals have male and female counterparts,

but he realizes he's alone.

So, verse 21, he causes a tired aimah to fall upon the human.

Divine stupor. This is not normal sleep. This kind of sleep happens about half a dozen times in the Hebrew Bible,

and it's always God causing it, and he took one from his sides.

Now, all English translations have the word rib. God took Adam's rib.

It is certainly not what the word means. It's an architectural word that refers to most often.

It's used to describe the side of a building.

So, God took a side of Adam, like a split-em-and-half.

So, it's the human becomes man and woman.

God turns one into two. And then, at the end of the story, the author steps in

and gives us his reflection.

Dear reader, for this reason, I want you to realize this isn't just an interesting story about people in the past.

He's telling this story as an archetypal here.

For this reason, a man in Ish will leave his father and mother, and he will cling to his Isha.

Isha being Hebrew for a woman.

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