Page 1 … “In the Beginning”
In Talmud, none of the volumes ever have a page 1. This is supposedly to symbolize a sort of humility. It is supposed to teach us that we do not know the beginning, and to claim knowledge of the beginning is pride.
Emeth said she’d hate for my “post #1″ to disappear from my records due to inadvertant deletion, but I briefly considered deleting it on purpose and starting with “post #2″ in that same spirit of humility.
Then I realized that that would be a false humility. After all, we do know the beginning. The Torah, which the Jews claim, tells what that beginning is, and that beginning is reiterated for Christians in the Gospel According to John.
“In the beginning, God…”
“In the beginning was the Word…”
To claim in the face of this revelation that we do not know the beginning—that is pride. And so, I begin with post/page #1, to reflect what is revealed. We do know the beginning, and this blog is my testimony to it.
General | Christopher Kou | 
January 9, 2006 7:07 PM
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Thought provoking beginning!