1475-1550
Rav Ovadia Seforno (c. 1480-c. 1550) was born in Italy. He was a doctor in Bologna, while being heavily involved in the Jewish community, serving as its dayan. He tried to explain pesukim based on Peshat, while incorporating the words of Chazal, adding in important ideas of mussar.
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Bereishit
Bereishit 1:26
Man is "like" God in that we have choice, but we are unlike God in that we don't always choose correctly
Bereishit
Bereishit 2:9
The tree allows us to choose good despite its downsides, and forgo the bad even if it has some upsides
Bereishit
Bereishit 3:17
In addition to eating what they shouldn't, they also assigned jealousy and lies to Hashem by supplying rationale to the prohibition to eat from the tree
Bereishit
Bereishit 3:21
Hashem dressed Adam and Chava before kicking them out, so they should not think their punishment allowed them to improve the world
Bereishit
Bereishit 4:6
When you make a mistake, more important than feeling regret or remorse is to try and fix it for the future.
Noach
Noach 6:9
Noach followed Hashem's ways by helping others and rebuking them
Noach
Noach 6:13
The land filled with a society that was constantly stealing/cheating each other
Noach
Noach 9:17
Seeing a rainbow should make talmidei chakhamim realize they need to improve and get their generation to improve
Noach
Noach 9:20
Noach's first wrong step of planting a vineyard was the start of a slippery slope
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