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 ‎, …

1 In the beginning of God's creation of the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was astonishingly empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was …

Genesis (“Bereshit”) is the first book of the Torah, Judaism’s foundational text, and the only one consisting almost entirely of stories, with just three explicit laws.

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the …

Genesis describes creation, the early generations (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the birth of Jacob’s twelve sons and one daughter), and finally the descent of this small family into the spiritual …

The Book of Genesis (i.e., Sefer Bereshit [סֵפֶר בְּרֵאשִׁית]) is concerned with beginnings: the creation of the universe and the origin of humanity. It quickly moves from universal history …

Bereshit Rabbah is a talmudic-era midrash on the book of Genesis. It interprets most of Genesis (with the exception of genealogies and such) with verse-by-verse and often word-by-word …

Journey through Bereishit with 13 enlightening facts. Why Did Eve Listen to the Snake? Eve had just one commandment: not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Yet she ate and invited …

Bereishit takes an upward turn with the birth of Abraham, father of monotheism and the Jewish nation. Over half of Bereishit focuses on the lives of our Patriarchs and Matriarchs, shedding …

In his brilliant analysis of Bereishis, the Alshich uses every available method of understanding the Torah. His unique commentary sheds light on even its most cryptic passages. The Alshich …