וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִי־א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר
Above are the most consequential Hebrew words ever said. They translate to:
‘And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”
The Apostle John wrote in his book, “In the beginning was the Word.” Sure enough, In Bereshit the word was Bereshit.
| Ancient pictograph of Bet |
The first Hebrew letter in the word Bereshit is the letter Bet בְּ. The letter Bet is pictured as a house. The Hebrew word for “house” is בַּיִת (pronounced bayit), So it said that the first thing Elohim spoke into existence was a house, a place for all of existence.
In Jewish mystical and midrashic interpretation, the Torah’s first letter Bet—shaped and named as a bayit, a house—suggests that when God began to create, He was, in effect, speaking a house into existence: His dwelling.”
The very next letter in the word Bereshit is Resh (רֵ). Rosh (רֹאשׁ) is Hebrew for “head” or the “authority.” One midrashic/kabbalistic reading sees in bereshit the components (bayit/house) plus rosh (head), suggesting “the Head dwelling in the house,” i.e., God choosing to dwell in His created house.
After the letters בַּר-Bar (Son) there is the letter Aleph (א). Aleph is the first letter in Elohim (אלהים) God. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew aleph-bet, symbolizing divine oneness and beginning. It is a silent consonant with a numerical value of 1. Aleph represents God as creator and leader. It is historically derived from a pictograph of an ox’s head. Aleph signifies strength, power, and unity.
Bereshit 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
The Apostle John put it together this way:
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
I put this together in order:
We have the word, Bereshit.
We start with the letter Bet, a house for God and his creation to be together.
There we discover the Bar, Son.
Son is together with Aleph, God.
Bar with Aleph create the heavens and the earth.
Then God brought His Light into the world when He said “Let there be Light.”
The “Light” was Good, unlike the Darkeness.
So Elohim seperated (Nazir) the Light from the Darkness in the world.
God didn’t eliminate the Darkness. Therefore, our Day contains light and darkness.
CONCLUSION:
We better remember who turned on the Light. Since God seperated the Light from the Darkness, He can let the darkness hover back over the face of earth.
