Gênesis 1 Comentário: Rashi, Divrei David, Abarbanel & Avi Ezer

בראשית IN THE BEGINNING — Rabbi Isaac said: The Torah which is the Law book of Israel should have commenced with the verse (Exodus 12:2) “This month shall be unto you the first of the months” which is the first commandment given to Israel. What is the reason, then, that it commences with the account of the Creation? Because of the thought expressed in the text (Psalms 111:6) “He declared to His people the strength of His works (i.e. He gave an account of the work of Creation), in order that He might give them the heritage of the nations.” For should the peoples of the world say to Israel, “You are robbers, because you took by force the lands of the seven nations of Canaan”, Israel may reply to them, “All the earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it and gave it to whom He pleased. When He willed He gave it to them, and when He willed He took it from them and gave it to us” (Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 187).

Rashi explained: "Rabbi Isaac said, etc." I remember clearly when I was a child, I saw a very old, ancient manuscript of Rashi's commentary in which it was written that this statement in the name of Rabbi Isaac that Rashi brings is not mentioned in any midrash or Talmud. Rather, what he said "Why does it begin with Bereishit, etc." this is from a midrash and not the words of Rabbi Isaac. But this Rabbi Isaac was Rashi's father, and he was not a great scholar, and Rashi wished to honor his father and mention him at the beginning of his work. So he said to him: Ask some question and I will write it in your name. And he asked him simply: Why did the Torah begin with Bereishit, etc. Therefore, it is not difficult why he asked in duplicate, because the first question is only for the sake of honoring his father. So I saw written there. However, what he wrote that Rabbi Isaac, Rashi's father, was not a great scholar this is not so, for in the last chapter of Avodah Zarah (75a) Rashi brings an interpretation on the Gemara and these are the words: "The language of my father, my teacher, may his rest be honored, and it seems, etc." End quote. "That you conquered the land of seven nations" the commentators asked: Why would they be called robbers? Behold, Canaan was a slave of Shem, as it is written "And Canaan shall be a slave to them," and what a slave acquires, his master acquires, etc. It seems to me that this is not a difficulty, for if someone gave a slave a gift on condition that his master has no rights in it, the master does not acquire it. And so here, the Holy One Blessed be He apportioned to Canaan specific countries, and to his brother Shem other countries, as is explained in the verses. Therefore, this one has nothing in that of his fellow, and it is like a gift explicitly on condition that neither has anything over the other.

..."In the beginning G-d created" until "The first day" I see in these verses the following questions to raise