In this first episode, (so please cut me some slack, it will get better promise), we read Bereshit (Genesis) verses 1-5.  This is the account of the creation of "a day" which includes "evening and morning."

we learn quickly that G-D creates heaven and earth amidst the bleakest and darkest of circumstances. Vs. 2 reads, "And Earth was without form and void."  It was in the state of Tohu and vVohu. But what exactly does that mean? And how can this strange insight relate to our state of being in any given season of life?

Let's hone in on two words, תוהו ובוהו (tohu and vohu).

Tohu means, "without form."  However, it also implies a state of being as a state of "confusion, emptiness, chaos." This state of being is connected to acts of "vanity and idolatry."  It also implies a place or location of dwelling, "the wilderness, a wasteland; such as a desert."  

Vohu reaches beyond Tohu into a place where there is a "void."  A place of total and utter ruin.  A vacuum where time itself stops. 

It appears that Tohu and Vohu are the opposite of "seder" which means "order."  And to take the earth out of this state of being G-D gets involved with two elements of Himself: His Spirit and His Word.  And everything changed!