By Gwen Frangs / Cambridge, UK / February 2021 The word b’reishit is the very first word of the Old Testament. The first letter בְּ is a preposition and can mean ‘in’, ‘when’, ‘with’ or ‘by’. Ancient Jewish scholars would translate it as ‘with’. A Jewish work from antiquity called Genesis Rabbah (1:1) says the following regarding b’reishit: ‘Thus GodContinue reading →