Look up bereshit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bereshit or Bereishith (Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית‎ Bərēʾšīṯ) is the first word both of the Jewish...

Bereshit, Bereishit, Bereshis, Bereishis, or B'reshith (בְּרֵאשִׁית‎—Hebrew for "in beginning" or "in the beginning," the first word in the parashah) is...

for the esoteric doctrine of the universe, or for parts of it. Ma'aseh Bereshit (following Genesis 1) comprises the cosmogony of the Talmudic times; Ma'aseh...

Simchat Torah (Hebrew: שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה, lit. 'Torah celebration' Ashkenazi: Simchas Torah), also spelled Simhat Torah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates...

and that the name of the work, "Genesis Rabba", is an abbreviation of "Bereshit derabbi Hoshayah rabbah", is untenable for the reason that in the best...

other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in Bereshit (parashah), known in the Christian tradition as the first chapters of Genesis...

verse of the Genesis creation narrative. It is a part of the Torah portion Bereshit (Genesis 1:1–6:8). Masoretic Text וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ...

Pentateuch (Vayikra Rabbah, Shemot Rabbah, etc.) which were copied, with Bereshit Rabbah, even in (later) manuscripts. This collection eventually came to...

are in secret." It must be studied only by exemplary scholars: "Ma'aseh Bereshit must not be explained before two, nor Ma'aseh Merkabah before one, unless...

אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ‎ Transliterated: Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz. Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית‎): "In [the] beginning [of something]"...

"In the beginning" (bereshit in Biblical Hebrew) is the opening-phrase or incipit used in the Bible in Genesis 1:1. In John 1:1 of the New Testament, the...

Rabbah 23:1 (deceivers); Song of Songs Rabbah 2:4 (tricksters); Zohar, Bereshit 1:136b (wicked); Rashi to Gen. 25:20 (wicked).) Rabbi Isaac thus considered...

couplets.[citation needed] His versification of the Book of Genesis, the Bereshit-nāmah, was composed around 1358; it contains close to 8700 couplets. [citation...

Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ('In the beginning'). Genesis is an account of the creation of the world...

p. 22. ISBN 978-0-415-12771-4. Bible Obadiah 1:21 Bible Genesis 34:30 Bereshit Rabbah 81:5. Morris, Henry M. (1976). The Genesis Record: A Scientific...

Genesis 16:13:1". www.sefaria.org. Retrieved 2022-05-17. "Rabbeinu Bahya, Bereshit 16:13:1". www.sefaria.org. Retrieved 2022-05-17. "Sforno on Genesis 16:13:1"...

Pentateuch or the Five books of Moses Torah (Law) Genesis Genesis Genesis Bereshit Hebrew Exodus Exodus Exodus Shemot Hebrew Leviticus Leviticus Leviticus...

Henten 1999, p. 81. Grossman 2011, p. 51. Yerushalmi Rosh Hashanah 1:2. Bereshit Rabba 48:9. Esler 2017, p. 3. Soll 2000, p. 1110. Barker 2006, p. 123....

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Similarly, the Genesis creation narrative opens with the Hebrew phrase bereshit bara elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz, which can be interpreted in at...

The haftara or (in Ashkenazic pronunciation) haftorah (alt. haftarah, haphtara, Hebrew: הפטרה) "parting," "taking leave" (plural form: haftarot or haftoros)...

Shem (/ʃɛm/; Hebrew: שֵׁם Šēm; Arabic: سَام, romanized: Sām) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5–11 and 1 Chronicles 1:4). The children...

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Genesis describe Eliezer as Abraham's heir. There is an interpretation in Bereshit Rabbah (43:2), cited by Rashi, that Eliezer went alone with Abraham to...

Concealed Mystery". Franck (1926), p. 279. "Zohar". www.sefaria.org. "Zohar, Bereshit 9:110". www.sefaria.org. When the moon was united with the sun, the moon...

Shabbat (UK: /ʃəˈbæt/, US: /ʃəˈbɑːt/, or /ʃəˈbʌt/; Hebrew: שַׁבָּת‎, [ʃa'bat], lit. 'rest' or 'cessation') or the Sabbath (/ˈsæbəθ/), also called Shabbos...

Enoch (/ˈiːnək/ ) is a biblical figure and patriarch prior to Noah's flood, and the son of Jared and father of Methuselah. He was of the Antediluvian period...

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then raised by Potiphar's wife and eventually married Joseph. However, in Bereshit Rabbah 80:11 she is not stated to be Dinah's daughter but rather Dinah's...

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