(1) When God began to create heaven and earth—

(27) And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

(1) The foundation of foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know that there is a First Being, that He caused all beings to be, and that all beings from heaven and earth, and from between them, could not be save for the truth of His Own Being.

(1) Judah ben Tema says: "Be as strong as a panther, as light as an eagle, running like a gazelle and mighty as a lion to perform the will of your Father in heaven." (Avot 5:20)... Thus a person needs strengthen himself as a lion to stand in the morning for the service of his Creator, even if his evil impulse taunts him in winter, saying ‘How can you get up in the morning when the cold is so great?’ or taunts him in summer, saying ‘How can you get up from your bed when you have not had enough sleep?’ he should strengthen himself to rise, for you should awaken the dawn, but it should not awaken you, as David, peace be on him, stated “Awake, O my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will wake the dawn” (Ps 57:9) ‘I awaken the dawn, but the dawn does not awaken me.’

Rava said: After departing from this world, when a person is brought to judgment for the life he lived in this world, they say to him: Did you conduct business faithfully? Did you designate times for Torah study? Did you engage in procreation? Did you await salvation? Did you engage in the dialectics of wisdom or understand one matter from another? And, nevertheless, beyond all these, if the fear of the Lord is his treasure, yes, he is worthy, and if not, no, none of these accomplishments have any value.

(1) A man takes a wife and possesses her. She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house;

(1) (Devarim 24:1) "If a man take a woman": We are hereby taught that a woman is acquired (as a wife) by money. For (without this verse) it would follow otherwise, viz.: If a Hebrew handmaid, who is not acquired by cohabitation is acquired by money, then a woman, who is acquired by cohabitation, how much more so should she be acquired by money! — (No,) this is refuted by the instance of a yevamah (leviratess), who is acquired by cohabitation, but is not acquired by money. Do not wonder, then, if a woman, who, though she is acquired by cohabitation were not to be acquired by money. It must, therefore, be written "If a man take a woman," to teach that a woman is acquired by money.

(2) "and he cohabit with her." We are hereby taught that a woman is acquired by cohabitation. For (without this verse) it would follow otherwise, viz.: If a yevamah, who is not acquired by money, is acquired by cohabitation, then a woman, who is acquired by money, how much more so should she be acquired by cohabitation! — (No,) this is refuted by the instance of a Hebrew handmaid, who is acquired by money, but is not acquired by cohabitation. Do not wonder, then, if a woman, who, though she is acquired by money, were not to be acquired by cohabitation. It must, therefore, be written "and he cohabit with her," to teach that a woman is acquired by cohabitation.

(3) And whence is it derived that she is also acquired by a writ (shtar)? It follows, viz.: If money, which does not release (a woman from marriage), acquires, then shtar (a writ [of divorce]), which does release a woman, how much more so should it acquire! (No,) this may be true of money, which acquires hekdesh (consecrated property) and second tithe, but not with shtar, which does not acquire hekdesh and second tithe. It must, therefore, be written (Ibid.) "then he shall write for her a scroll of divorce, and he shall place it into her hand, and he shall send her from his house. This one's coming in (to marriage) is compared to her going out (viz. Ibid. 2). Just as her going out is with a shtar (i.e., a get), so, her coming in.

(13) and spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, “If only you would hear me out! Let me pay the price of the land; accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”

(8) when I passed by you [again] and saw that your time for love had arrived. So I spread My robe over you and covered your nakedness, and I entered into a covenant with you by oath—declares the Lord GOD; thus you became Mine.