Every Christian knows the words of Yeshua: “Whoever builds on sand will fall. Whoever builds on the Rock will stand.”
But which Rock? The Torah declares again and again: “He is the Rock, His work is perfect… The Rock that bore you… Their Rock is not like our Rock” (Deuteronomy 32:4, 18, 31)
Only the Torah stood in Gan Eden. Only the Torah saw Adam before the sin. The Torah has guarded the true answer for 3,327 years. It did so with the living chain of Jewish tradition. This happened before a single page of the New Testament existed.
Let the Rock speak.
1. Adam Was Formed from the Temple Mount Itself
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground (adamah)” (Genesis 2:7)
The Midrash (Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer 12, Zohar I:34b) teaches: Hashem took that dust from the exact location. It was from the future Altar of Atonement. It is the Foundation Stone (Even ha-Shetiyyah) on Mount Moriah. That is the same stone David bought from Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24). It is also the stone on which the Holy of Holies was built.
Adam was literally created from the Rock.
2. Adam Was Originally Male and Female in One Body
“Male and female He created them… and He called their name Adam” (Genesis 5:2)
Talmud (Berachot 61a, Eruvin 18a) and Zohar explain: The first human being was androgynous. It was one creature with two faces, joined back-to-back. Only later did Hashem cast a deep sleep upon Adam and separate Chavah (Eve) from his side (tzela).
The original Adam perfectly reflected the absolute Unity of the One God who has no division.
3. Adam Was Clothed in Primordial Light – Not Skin
Before the sin the Torah uses the word אוֹר (Ohr = Light). After the sin it writes עוֹר (ʿOr = skin) with an ʿayin (Genesis 3:21).
This is the open teaching of:
- Zohar
- Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
- The Vilna Gaon
- Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
- Rabbi Akiva Tatz
- Rabbi Efraim Palvanov (see timestamp 1:14 in his Jerusalem lecture)
Adam’s “garments” were pure Ohr Ein Sof – Infinite Divine Light. His body was translucent, radiant, glowing with the Shechinah itself. The Talmud states his heel alone outshone the sun (Chullin 60b). His stature reached from earth to the heavens (Chagigah 12a).
That is what Adam really looked like.
4. Our Eternal Mission: Turn Skin Back into Light
Hashem placed Adam in the Garden “to work it and to guard it” (l’ovdah u’l’shomrah – Genesis 2:15). Those exact words are used only one other place in the entire Torah. They describe the service of the Kohanim and Levi’im in the Mishkan and Temple (Numbers 3:7-8, 8:26, 18:5-6).
Adam was creation’s first High Priest. Every mitzvah we perform adds another thread of light. Every Shabbat we keep does the same. Every act of kindness contributes even more. Eventually, the entire world becomes the Garden once again.
A Loving Challenge to My Christian Friends
You say you build your house on the Rock. Then why do you ignore the Rock’s own description of Adam? Why do you accept 300–400 “fulfilled prophecies” that collapse the moment you read the Hebrew context?
We have the receipts:
- Isaiah 7:14 – almah = young woman, not virgin; prophecy given to King Ahaz in his lifetime
- Isaiah 53 – the suffering servant is explicitly named “Israel” and “Jacob” in the surrounding chapters
- Psalm 22 – David’s own words about his persecution
- Zechariah 12:10 – mourning for the fallen of Megiddo, not a crucifixion
The Torah never speaks of a divine man-God, never abolishes itself, never transfers the eternal covenants.
The Rock has never moved.
Come Home to the Real Adam
Leave the shifting sand of later interpretations. Come stand with the Jewish people on the Rock that bore Adam from its very dust.
Together – Jews keeping 613, righteous Gentiles keeping the 7 Noahide laws – we will clothe this dark world in light again, until:
“The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Hashem as the waters cover the sea.” (Habakkuk 2:14)
May we merit to see the day. Every human being will shine with the same primordial light. This light once clothed Adam.
With boundless love from a Jew still guarding the same Torah his fathers received at Sinai,
Chazzan Gavriel ben David