Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BERESHIT

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Definitions of BERESHIT

1. Anglicized transliteration of בראשית, the Hebrew word for the Genesis (literally, "In the beginning").

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Examples of Using BERESHIT in a Sentence

• 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).
• The Midrash Bereshit Rabbah Major or Bereshit Rabbati, known through quotations by Raymund Martin in his Pugio Fidei, has many aggadot and aggadic ideas which recall very strongly Moses ha-Darshan's teachings; it is claimed by Zunz that the midrash was actually the work of Moses.
• 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.
• Especially interested in the history of the old homiletical literature, he edited the Midrash Agadat Bereshit with a number of other mostly pseudepigraphic works of similar character (Vilna, 1802), adding valuable notes.
• Jeshua wrote two other Biblical works, an Arabic commentary on the Ten Commandments, which he reproduced in an abridged form, and a philosophical midrash entitled Bereshit Rabbah, in which he discusses, in the spirit of the Mutazilite kalam, creation, the existence and unity of God, the divine attributes, etc.
• Rabbi Zundel composed commentaries on various Midrashic works such as Midrash Rabbah, Midrash Tanchuma, Aggadat Bereshit, Ein Yaakov, and Seder Olam.
• The editor of the midrash drew upon the Mishnah, Tosefta, Mekhilta, Sifre, Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, Avot de-Rabbi Natan, Bereshit Rabbah, Vayikra Rabbah, Ecclesiastes Rabbah, Canticles Rabbah, and the Babylonian Talmud.
• The author has collected these teachings from the Mishnah, Tosefta, Mekhilta, Sifre, Yerushalmi, Bereshit Rabbah, Leviticus Rabbah, Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah, Kohelet Rabbah, Eichah Rabbah, Ruth Rabbah, Midrash Esther, Midrash Tehillim, Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, Pesikta Rabbati, and Tanhuma.
• The writer Eliezer Smoli also immortalized the story of the life of Zaid and his family and the settlement throughout the Land of Israel and in Sheikh Abreik, in a number of books, among them "'Anshei Bereshit" (People of the Early Days), "Hayei Rishonim: miyomenei 'alexander zaid" (The Lives of Early Pioneers: Excerpts from Zaid's Diaries), and "Shomer Beyisra'el" (A Guard in Israel).
• In the fall, Schneerson publicly addressed these issues at the farbrengen of parashat bereshit that year, later published in the rabbi's books of Likkutei Sichos.

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