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Bereshith

Bereshith

Bereshith

(, in the beginning), the name given by the Jews to the book of Genesis, because it opens with this word in Hebrew.

Bereshith

is also the second part of the Jewish Cabala, and is so called from the first word which occurs in the book of God.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature