Hasidut untuk Kejadian 5:1

2. Writers must weigh the words of their books, to see if there is enough in them for a book. For the essence of a book is only the things which have been said with the connection of the souls, in the aspect of: "This is the book of the offspring of man." (Genesis 5:1) And if there is only a small amount from such a binding, then it is insufficient for a book.

God began to shine the words of Torah to man from the very day he was created. This is because the God created the world with the Torah.³²Referring to the famous statement in the Zohar and the Midrash, that “God looked into the Torah, and created the world.” Since man was created through the vehicle of the very letters of the Torah, he was illuminated with the very knowledge with which he was created, and which consitutes the root of his life. Consider the following passages in the Zohar:³³The following passages all relate that from the very creation of Adam, God gave man a book of rules and meditations through which he could live a just life and come to a knowledge of his Creator. And Rabbi Abba said, “We know that a book descended to Adam HaRishon, and through it he knew and understood the supernal wisdom. This book reached the, ‘bnei Elohim,’³⁴See Bereshit, 6:2. who were the sages of the generation, and whoever else was worthy of looking into it. In this way they arrived at the knowledge of supernal wisdom … Similarly, it is taught that Hanokh had a book, and this book was from the place of the book of the Generations of Man.”³⁵See Bereshit, 5:1. (Zohar, Bereshit, 37b): We have already explained that when Adam was in the Garden of Eden God sent him a book through Raziel, the holy angel in charge of the mysteries of the holy supernal ones. Supernal impressions were imprinted in this book, holy wisdom, and seventy-two kinds of wisdom were explained in three hundred and seventy engravings of supernal mysteries. He left this book to his son Shet and all his descendants until it reached Avraham. By means of it, Avraham knew how to gaze upon the Glory of his Master. This has been explained. Similarly, Adam gave a book to his son Hanokh, from which he looked upon the supernal Glory.”(Zohar, Bereshit, 55b) Come and see! From his childhood, Noah saw the actions of man and how they sinned against the Holy One, blessed be He. So he hid himself, and occupied himself with the service of his Master … If you ask, what book did he use to contemplate Divine service? He studied the book of Adam and the book of Hanokh in order to know how to serve his Master. (Zohar, Bereshit, 58b) Rabbi Shimon said, if I had been alive at the time when the Holy One, blessed be He, gave the book to Hanokh and to Adam, I would have made great efforts that they not become accessible to people. (Zohar, Noah, 78b)

7. Through a significant book that comes into the world, barren women conceive. A hint for this (Genesis 5:1): "This is the book of the offspring of man."