Rav Zachariash’s weekly blog on the parsha
Don’t be a Wandering Jew
...וַיָּשֶׂם ה׳ לְקַיִן אוֹת... (בְּרֵאשִׁית ד:טו) And G-d placed an “os” on Cain. (Bereishis 4:15) The Medrash Tanchuma gives various possibilities for the meaning of the word “os” (emblem). One of them is that Hashem gave Cain the “os” of Shabbos. This is difficult to understand because Hashem had just cursed Cain that he should [...]
