Secrets of Gen 1.1
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SECRETS OF GENESIS 1:1<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
Beth is that through which א Aleph speaks. ב Beth in this sense is like the mouth <strong>of</strong> the unseeen<br />
God. Since God is in essence a God without properties or beyond properties, the only way man<br />
can receive and conceive God is through his Word. This Word is expressed as the breath (the<br />
Aleph) emerges through ב Beth. In this sense the whole creation is the revelation <strong>of</strong> who God is.<br />
The breath is creation, emerging through ב Beth. This is why Beth is the very first letter <strong>of</strong> the<br />
entire Bible; the entire Torah or Tanak begins with ב Beth.<br />
Rav Zutra bar Tobiah a Jewish Amora sage <strong>of</strong> Babylon, <strong>of</strong> the sixth generation <strong>of</strong> the Amora era, a<br />
colleague <strong>of</strong> Amemar and Rav Ashi. who headed the Yeshiva <strong>of</strong> Pumbedita, said that the world<br />
was created with ten things:<br />
(1) wisdom,<br />
(2) understanding,<br />
(3) reason,<br />
(4) strength,<br />
(5) rebuke,<br />
(6) might,<br />
(7) righteousness,<br />
(8) judgment,<br />
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