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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.
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.
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 or Bereishith (Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית Bərēʾšīṯ) is the first word both of the Jewish Torah, and of the Christian New Testament of John, which alludes to the Torah.
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.
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 ...
Genesis 1:1 forms the basis for the Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo).Some scholars still support this reading, [5] but most agree that on strictly linguistic and exegetical grounds this is not the preferred option, [6] [7] [8] and that the authors of Genesis 1 were concerned not with the origins of matter (the material which God formed into the habitable ...
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 ...