Breisheit - Learning Torah for the Sake of the World

and it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day

 וַיְהִי עֶרֶב וַיְהִי בֹקֶר יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי

Breisheit 1:31

For each day in the process of creation, the days are noted as 'a day', 'a second day', 'a third day' etc, but for the last day of creation, it is noted as 'the sixth day.' The word six is preceded by the letter 'hey' (ה). Why does this day appear differently, what message is embedded in this?

Breisheit - In the Name of the Woman

And the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.  

וַיִּקְרָא הָאָדָם שֵׁם אִשְׁתּוֹ חַוָּה כִּי הִוא הָיְתָה אֵם כָּל חָי

Breisheit 3:20

The Kli Yakar asks, why did he call her a name now after the sin of tree of knowledge, and that he was supposed to have called her Chaya?

Breisheit - To Work and Protect

Now the Lord God took the man, and He placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it.

Breisheit 2:15

The Or HaChaim Hakodosh  notes an interesting language in the verse, that it says "to work it and to guard it." This commentator raises several questions.

• Why would the Garden of Eden needed to be guarded, after all there were no thieves?
• What is this 'work' that the Garden of Eden needs? If it needed to be worked, then who worked the Garden of Eden all these years since the banishment from there?

Breisheit - Two Depictions of the Creation of Man

In this weeks parshah, the depiction of the creation of man is described in two different accounts. In the first instance, man is created on the sixth day - where man and woman are created together and then given the commandment to be fruitful and multiply.
Later in another account of the creation of man, G-d picks up dust and breathes into it, giving life to a single man. Then G-d sees that it is not good for man to be alone, and an extended narrative describes the creation of man's first companion - woman.