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- proper noun Anglicized transliteration of
בראשית (b'reishít) the Hebrew word for theGenesis (literally, "In the beginning").
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"In the beginning" (in Hebrew, bereshit) are the first words of the Book of Genesis, known in Hebrew as Bereshit.
'Proust's Way?': An Exchange Davis, Lydia 2006
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That first word Bereshit can be broken down (among other ways, see below) into the two words Bayit - house - and Rosh - head, one inside the other, a head inside a house.
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They also produce "Bereshit" an even easier beginner's magazine (with CD, dictionary lists, etc).
Planet RMFO Blog 2009
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They also produce "Bereshit" an even easier beginner's magazine (with CD, dictionary lists, etc).
Planet RMFO Blog 2009
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The second word, Bara - "Created" (which is already enfolded in the first word Bereshit, as Bara - Shith
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Professor Aciman [ "Far from Proust's Way," NYR, December 15, 2005] might have been right about changing the title of the Book of Genesis if this title had not yet been a bad translation into Greek by the authors of the Septuagint of the original Hebrew title "Bereshit" which means exactly ... "
'Proust's Way?': An Exchange Davis, Lydia 2006
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We are all in the same boat, humans born and still not born, animals born and still not born, the whole of the great Seder Bereshit, the Order of Creation that God declared "very good."
Rabbi Lawrence Troster: Ethical Responsibility And Climate Change: We're All In The Same Boat Rabbi Lawrence Troster 2011
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We are all in the same boat, humans born and still not born, animals born and still not born, the whole of the great Seder Bereshit, the Order of Creation that God declared "very good."
Rabbi Lawrence Troster: Ethical Responsibility And Climate Change: We're All In The Same Boat Rabbi Lawrence Troster 2011
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It is also related that Naamah and Lilith harm infants and abuse people in their sleep (Zohar, Bereshit 4: 7).
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He further told her: “All will be well with this stomach, for it will fill the Garden of Eden with the righteous, and Gehinnom with the wicked” (Tanhuma, Bereshit 31).
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