Hence, the study of the parasha should be the religious curriculum of our week. I find the opening chapter of the Torah a nugget of biblical monotheism. No words are wasted on God's biography or appearance. In this austere account, as throughout the Bible, God is a verb and not a noun. We come to know God only through His actions.
Creation is effected by the spoken word of a supreme and omnipotent being.
Monotheism denies us the cozy comfort to picture God, whose grandeur defies our ability to image or understand, though we surely feel God's presence and concern. In the spirit of bereshit, our siddur speaks of God essentially in terms of action rather than being. However, the real focus of the creation story is not God, but man. Of such deep concern is this subject that the Torah treats us to two distinct and conflicting versions of Adam's origins. Chapters one and two of Genesis, in their overlapping present us with two different conceptions of human nature.