1) For her role in eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge, Hashem punished Chavah (Rashi 3:16) with the difficulty of raising children and with the pain of pregnancy. Wouldn’t it have been more chronologically precise to reverse the curses, as the suffering of pregnancy precedes that of child-raising?
2) From the Gemara in Kiddushin (35a) it’s clear that the mitzvah of peru urevu is not considered a time bound mitzvah. The question is, according to many Rishonim the five inuyim [afflictions] on Yom Kippur are de’O’raisa and marital relations are forbidden on Yom Kippur, if so, surely it should be considered a time-bound mitzvah? Moreover, when a woman is a niddah she is forbidden to her husband, so why does the Gemara consider the mitzvah of peru urevu not to be a time-bound mitzvah?
3) In this week’s parsha we learn of the tragic incident of Kayin killing Hevel. This was the first murder that took place in the history of the world. The question is, what exactly did Kayin do to kill Hevel? And how did he know that it would work?
4) In Birchas Hamazon on Shabbos we add retzei and we mention:הניח לנו ד' אלקינו שלא תהא צרה ויגון ואנחה ביום מנוחתינו – Grant rest to us Hashem our G-d, that there should not be any distress grief or lament on this day of our rest”. Why do we only daven not to have distress and grief on Shabbos, it seems that in the week we are happy to have distress and grief? Moreover, why don’t we daven not to have distress and grief altogether?
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