The Lonely Man of Faith

by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

1. In the story of the creation of Adam the first, it is told that the latter was created in the image of God, , while nothing is said about how his body was formed. In the account of the creation of Adam the second, it is stated that he was fashioned from the dust of the ground and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. 2. Adam the first received the mandate from the Almighty to fill the earth and subdue it, . Adam the second was charged with the duty to cultivate the garden and to keep it, . 3. In the story of Adam the first, both male and female were created concurrently, while Adam the second emerged alone, with Eve appearing subsequently as his helpmate and complement. 4. Finally, and this is a discrepancy of which Biblical criticism has made so much, while in the first account only the name of E-lohim appears, in the second, Elohim is used in conjunction with the Tetragrammaton.