Talmud do Rodzaju 3:15

⁷⁶Babli 8a. Rav said, Adam, the first man, instituted Calendas. When he saw that the night was getting longer, he said, woe to me, maybe this is what is written for, he shall smite your head, you will sneak to his heel⁷⁷Gen.3:15., maybe it will come to bite me. I said, but darkness will smite me⁷⁸Ps.139.11. Psalm 139, ascribed in the book of Psalms to David, is in aggadic tradition at least partially ascribed to Adam (cf. Midrash Tehillim, Ps. 139, the suthor’s The Scholar’s Haggadah p. 220).. When he saw that days were getting longer, he said calendas, καλόνdies⁷⁹“A beautiful day,” mixed Greek (καλόν “beautiful”, accusative) and Latin (dies“day”, nominative) perhaps to indicate the popular language of the unlettered.. This follows him who said that the world was created in Tishre⁸⁰This is the opinion of R. Eliezer. R. Joshua holds that the world was created on the 15th of Nisan. Cf. Babli Roš Haššanah27a and the author’s Seder Olam(Northvale NJ 1998) pp. 47–48 (Note 3).. But following him who said that the world was created in Nisan, he would have known. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun said, who thinks that the world was created in Tishre? Rav! As we have stated in the composition for shofar blowing from the House of Rav⁸¹Rav’s composition for the extended musaf prayer on New Year’s Day. The sentence is found in the middle section.: “This is the day of the beginning of Your works, a remembrance of the first day.” This implies that the world was created on New Year’s Day.

R. Levi in the name of Bar Nazira¹²⁶Name from the parallel in the Midrash. The text here has ר׳ בזירה, an otherwise unknown person.: Thirty-six hours did Man enjoy the light that was created on the First Day of Creation¹²⁷The vanished light of the Creation is reserved for the just in the future world (Babli Ḥagigah 12a). Psalm 139 is ascribed to David in the Book of Psalms, but in all of talmudic literature it is taken to describe the experiences of Adam., twelve on Friday, twelve in the night of Sabbath, and twelve during the day of Sabbath; in this light Adam saw from one end of the world to the other. In this unending light, the entire Creation started singing God’s praise as it is said (Job 37:2), “All under the heavens sing to Him, His light is on the corners of the world.” When the Sabbath ended, darkness came. Adam was afraid that this was what was said (Gen. 3:15): “You will crush its head and it will crush your heel;” certainly it will crush me, so he said (Ps.139:11), “But the darkness will crush me.” R. Levi said: At this moment the Holy One, praised be He, let him find two flintstones that he knocked against each other¹²⁸In the Babli (Pesaḥim 54a), the discovery of man-made fire is called “a heavenly inspiration.” and made fire; that is what is said (Ps. 139:11), “Now the night is light for me,” and he praised the Creator of the illuminating fire. Samuel says: Therefore we give praise for the [man-made] fire at the end of Sabbath because that was the time of its first production.