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Bereshit, Bereishit, Bereshis, Bereishis, or B'reshith (בְּרֵאשִׁית —Hebrew for "in beginning" or "in the beginning," the first word in the parashah) is the first weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Each Torah portion consists of two to six chapters to be read during the week. There are 54 weekly portions or parashot.Torah reading mostly follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years.
Bereshit (parashah) (8 C, 47 P) Pages in category "Weekly Torah readings in Tishrei" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Click to see the full original Hebrew text of Bereshit as it would appear on a Torah scroll in the original Hebrew script and transliteration and translation into English. Note 1: This category contains subjects included in the Weekly Torah portion and Torah reading of Bereshit (Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 6:8) from a Torah scroll during Jewish ...
This article deals with the first, formal meaning of the word. In the Masoretic Text, parashah sections are designated by various types of spacing between them, as found in Torah scrolls, scrolls of the books of Nevi'im or Ketuvim (especially the Megillot), masoretic codices from the Middle Ages and printed editions of the masoretic text.
Bereshit (parashah), the first weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading; Beresheet and Beresheet 2, both lunar landers by SpaceIL "Bereishit", a song by Blue Fringe "Berashith", a 1902 essay by Aleister Crowley
It is a part of the Torah portion known as Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8). "Let there be light" (like "in the beginning" in Genesis 1:1) has entered into common usage as a phrase. It is the motto (sometimes in its Latin form, fiat lux) for many educational institutions (using light as a metaphor for knowledge). The University of California is one ...
The first chapter of Bereshit, or Genesis, written on an egg, in the Jerusalem museum "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 word Archē is translated into English with the same phrase.