BERESCHITH. This is the name, which the Hebrews give the book of Genesis, because it begins with the word Bereschith1, which in Hebrew signifies2, In the Beginning .
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Translators’ note. Solomon Meir, a celebrated Cabbalist, who became a Convert to Christianity, undertaking to ex- plain the motives of his Conversion to David an eminent Jew called Il Duca delli Ebrei, took the first word of Genesis Berefchith for his Text, and in this discovered all the Mysteries of Christianity. Berefchith is likewise the name given to the second Part of the Cabbala, which includes the study and contemplation of this sublunary World; as the first Part called Mercava relates to the knowledge of God’s Perfections, and of heavenly Intelligences. Maimonides More Nevochim, c. xxxix. p. 273. ↩
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בראשיתIn Principio. ↩