Rav also devoted much attention to mystical and transcendental speculations which the rabbis connect with the Biblical account of creation ( Genesis 1, Ma ' aseh Bereshit ), the vision of the mysterious chariot of God ( Ezekiel 1, Ma ' aseh Merkabah ), and the Divine Name.

Bereshit ( Genesis ) treats the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by God.

His translation, made independently of existing Polish translations, includes – Bereshit ( Genesis, 2001 ), Shemot ( Exodus, 2003 ), Vajikra ( Leviticus, 2005 ) and Bemidbar ( Numbers, 2005 ) and Devarim ( Deuteronomium, 2006 ).

In Hebrew the five books are named by the first phrase in the text: Bereshit (" In beginning ," Genesis ), Shemot (" Names ," Exodus ), Vayikra (" He called ", Leviticus ), Bamidbar (" In the desert ," Numbers ) and Devarim (" Words ," Deuteronomy ).

For example, the Hebrew name of the first book, Bereshit, is the first word of Genesis 1: 1:

He is called the Chatan Bereshit ( bridegroom of Genesis ).

" as if the word " rabbah " belonged originally to the name of the amora, 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 manuscripts — and in a very old quotation — the name " Rabbi Hoshayah " stands without the addition " rabbah " in the first preface at the beginning of the midrash.

For instance, the first book ( Genesis ) is called Bereshit (" In the beginning ...") and Lamentations, which begins " How lonely sits the city ..." is called Eykhah (" How ").

Thus, ḥomesh B ' reshit strictly means " the Genesis fifth ", but was misread as ḥumash, B ' reshit and interpreted as meaning " The Pentateuch: Genesis ", as if " ḥumash " was the name of the book and " Bereshit " the name of one of its parts.

It is a part of the Torah portion Bereshit ( Genesis 1: 1-6: 8 ).

" It is part of the Genesis creation narrative within the Torah portion Bereshit.

* Bereshit with commentary in Hebrew

There is an interpretation in Bereshit Rabbah ( 43: 2 ), cited by Rashi, that Eliezer went alone with Abraham to rescue Lot, with the reference to " his initiates " stated to be 318 in number ( Lech-Lecha 14: 14 ) being the numerical value of Eliezer's name in Hebrew, interpreted in tractate Nedarim ( 32a ) as Abraham not wishing to rely on a miracle by taking only one individual.

A. Epstein credits Moses with another pupil, a certain R. Shemaiah, who is quoted sometimes in Bereshit Rabbah Rabbati and in Numbers Rabbah as explaining sayings of Moses ha-Darshan's.

Other branches of the economy include a dairy, in cooperation with Kibbutz Tuval ; a beef herd ; fruit trees ( kiwi, apple, avocado and grapefruit ); Bereshit, a fruit marketing company in cooperation with three other kibbutzim ; and Sasa Tech, a manufacturer of technical and home care products.

* Bereshit ( 1: 1 – 6: 8 )

It is used for special portions of the Torah reading, principally the Ten Commandments but also Chapter 1 of Bereshit ( on Simchat Torah ), the Shirat ha-Yam, the Song of Moses, the concluding sentences of each of the five books and several other smaller portions.

* Byzantine Empire, 10th century: the Jew would wear a girdle of thorns around his loins, stand in water, and swear by " Barase Baraa " ( Bereshit Bara ), so that if he spoke untruth, he would be swallowed by the earth just like Dathan and Abiram in Numbers 16: 1 – 27.

* Yemei Bereshit – Diary of the first year of his leadership, 1950 – 1951.

The subject of homosexuality in Judaism dates back to the Torah, in the books of Bereshit and Vayiqra.

Midrash ( Bereshit Rabbah 9: 7 ) states: " Without the evil inclination, no one would father a child, build a house, or make a career.

" It must be studied only by exemplary scholars: " Ma ' aseh Bereshit must not be explained before two, nor Ma ' aseh Merkabah before one, unless he be wise and understands it by himself ," Further commentary notes that the chapter-headings of Ma ' aseh Merkabah may be taught, as was done by R. Ḥiyya.

Maimonides ' 12th Century work, Guide for the Perplexed is in part intended as an explanation of the passages Ma ' aseh Bereshit and Ma ' aseh Merkabah.

* Jacobs, Joseph and A. Biram Ma ' aseh Bereshit, Ma ' aseh Merkabah at JewishEncyclopedia. com

This was the genesis of the midrashim which are in the nature of running haggadic commentaries to single books of the Bible, as Bereshit Rabbah, Eikah Rabbati, the midrashim to the other Megillot, etc.

The Midrash Bereshit Rabbah Major or Bereshit Rabbah Rabbati, known through quotations by Raymund Martin in his Pugio Fidei, has many haggadot and haggadic ideas which recall very strongly Moses ha-Darshan's teachings ; it is claimed by Zunz that the midrash was actually the work of Moses.

See Anafim on Rabbenu Bachya's Sefer Ikkarim 2: 18 ; Midrash Bereshit Rabbah 9.

One famous medieval commentary proclaims that the days of creation, as outlined in the book of Bereshit, could be seen as representative of the stages of creation and not literal 24 hour periods.

Another name for their region is Pekosim used in Bereshit Rabbah 37.

Midrash she ´ elot u-teshuvot ` al Bereshit u-Shemot le-Filon ha-Aleksandroni.

The Gospel of Matthew begins with the words " The Book of Genealogy Greek, " Genesis " of Jesus Christ ", deliberately echoing the first words of the Old Testament in Greek.

The Priestly theology of sacrifice begins with the Creation, when humankind is not given permission to eat meat ( Genesis 1: 26 – 30 ); after the Flood God gives permission to men to slaughter animals and eat their meat, but the animals are to be offered as sacrifices ( Genesis 9: 3 – 4 ).

Some see an internal contradiction between the mention already in Genesis 10: 5 that " From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with his own language " and the subsequent Babel story, which begins " Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words " ( Genesis 11: 1 ).

In keeping with the age old passion play tradition, “ Tharakayano ” begins with the Creation Story and the Fall of Adam and Eve as depicted in the book of Genesis in the Bible.

The Bible begins with the Book of Genesis, in which God creates the world, including the first human, a man named Adam, in six days.

In the Christian Bible and Hebrew Torah, the antediluvian period begins with the Creation according to Genesis and ends with the destruction of all life on the earth except those saved with Noah in the Ark.

* April 1-The Genesis probe closes and seals its particle collection instrument, and begins to return to Earth.

They propose that Moroni's genealogy of Ether begins where Genesis 10 leaves off.

The chronology of the Flood replicates the chronology of the seven days of Creation: it begins in the second month, equivalent to the second day of Creation, the day on which the firmament was created ; the waters then rise for 150 days ( five months of 30 days each ), until at the end of six months ( equivalent to the six days of creative work in Genesis 1 ) the ark grounds on the highest mountain peak.

Genesis 15 begins, " After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision :" but even the reference to Adam and Eve walking with God in the Garden of Eden is subject to an interpretation which includes the mystical encounter between flesh and blood and God: between God and his spoken word, between God and His wisdom, teachings, Self-revelation, and of His relation to us as His creatures.

The text of the Friday night kiddush begins with a passage from Genesis 2: 1-3, as a testimony to God's creation of the world and cessation of work on the seventh day.

For example, the YLT version of Genesis begins as follows:

He argued that all this showed the direct action of a benevolent Creator, as attested in the Bible-the similarities of species are manifestations of types in the Divine Mind ; he accepted the view of Thomas Chalmers that Genesis begins with an account of geological periods, and does not mean that each of them is a day ; Noah's Flood was a limited subsidence of the Middle East.

A common hypothesis among biblical studies scholars is that the first major comprehensive draft of the Pentateuch ( the series of five books which begins with Genesis and ends with Deuteronomy ) was composed in the late 7th or the 6th century BC ( the Yahwist source ) and that this was later expanded by other authors ( the Priestly source ) into a work very like the one we have today.

A common hypothesis among biblical scholars today is that the first major comprehensive draft of the Pentateuch ( the series of five books which begins with Genesis and ends with Deuteronomy ) was composed in the late 7th or the 6th century BC by the Jahwist source and that this was later expanded by the addition of various narratives and laws by the Priestly source into a work very like the one existing today.

The Yahwist begins with the creation story at Genesis 2: 4 ( the creation story at Genesis 1 is from P ); this is followed by the Garden of Eden story, Cain and Abel, Cain's descendants ( but Adam's descendants are from P ), a Flood story ( P has his own flood story and the two are tightly intertwined ), Noah's descendants and the Tower of Babel.

The list of the Old Testament begins: Genesis, one book ; Exodus, one book: Leviticus, one book ; Numbers, one book ; Deuteronomy, one book ; Jesus Nave, one book ; of Judges, one book ; Ruth, one book ; of Kings, four books < nowiki >, Books of Kings | Third and Fourth Books of Kings < nowiki ></ nowiki >; Paralipomenon, two books ; One Hundred and Fifty Psalms, one book ; of Solomon, three books: Proverbs, one book ; Ecclesiastes, one book ; Canticle of Canticles, one book ; likewise, Wisdom, one book ; Sirach, one book ;

The film begins with a paraphrase of Genesis 3: 24, the Biblical passage that reflects the The Fall of Man.