txt/Midrash/Aggadah/Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer/English/Rabbi Dr. David Mevorach Seidenberg, from Kabbalah and Ecology.txt

Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
פרקי דרבי אליעזר
Rabbi Dr. David Mevorach Seidenberg, from "Kabbalah and Ecology"
http://www.amazon.com/Kabbalah-Ecology-Image-More-Than-Human-World/dp/1107081335 

Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer



Chapter 1



Chapter 2



Chapter 3



Chapter 4



Chapter 5



Chapter 6



Chapter 7



Chapter 8



Chapter 9



Chapter 10



Chapter 11

... Adam looked to above and below . . . and he saw the creatures/b’riyot that the Holy One had created and he began to glorify the name of his Creator and he said, “How diverse are Your works Hashem” [Ps 104:24]. He stood on his feet and was described/proportioned/m’to’ar in the likeness of Elohim. The creatures saw him and they were afraid of him, as they thought that he created them, and all of them came to bow down to him. He said to them: “You’ve come to bow down to me? Come, I and you, and we will go and clothe in majesty and strength and make rule over us . . . the one who created us . . . Adam went and made Him rule over himself first and all the creatures after him and they said: “Hashem ruled, clothed in majesty” [Ps 93:1].

Chapter 12



Chapter 13



Chapter 14



Chapter 15



Chapter 16



Chapter 17



Chapter 18



Chapter 19



Chapter 20



Chapter 21

... Adam and his partner / `ozro came and cried [over Hevel (Abel)], and they did not know what to do . . . One raven whose companion died said: I will teach Adam this is what to do. He set down his friend and dug in the earth before their eyes and buried him. Adam said: Like the raven, this is what we will do.

Chapter 22



Chapter 23



Chapter 24



Chapter 25



Chapter 26



Chapter 27



Chapter 28



Chapter 29

... Said the Holy One [to Avram]: Up until now you have not been whole before me, but circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ‘and be whole/tamim’ [Gn 17:1].