Rabbi Meshulam Cohen • Everything Follows the Beginning: A Special Message for Parashat Bereshit

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The opening of this shiur, in Musayof Synagogue’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

To the heart Under the sign of the word , we begin the Parashat Bereshit, a new year, a new beginning; everything follows the beginning. You know, in the books of the Tikkunim, there are 70 Tikkunim that explain the word " Bereshit"—wow, what secrets there are ! The commentators, look at the holy Ohr HaChaim, he elaborates to explain what Bereshit is, but the point is to know that everything goes according to the beginning, as the verse says: " Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof." If you saw a good thing in its end, it is a sign that the beginning was good and well-founded. Therefore, we hope and pray that this beginning will truly continue and that we will carry the light of the holidays with us throughout the entire year. With the help of God. The holy Rashi, I wanted to examine the words of Rashi with you a little today. The holy Rashi begins at the start of Parashat Bereshit with the words of Rabbi Yitzhak. Some wanted to say: Who is this Rabbi Yitzhak, the father of Rashi , in truth? In Yalkut Shimoni (Remez 187), the same Midrash that Rashi brought in the name of Rabbi Yitzhak is cited. It implies that, seemingly, it was Rabbi Yitzhak, not his father. There is something similar also in Midrash Rabbah (Chapter 1, letter 3), a kind of Midrash; although not in the name of Rabbi Yitzhak and not exactly in the language of Rabbi Yitzhak, but we see that the matters are already founded on the words of our Sages. This Rabbi Yitzhak said: Founded on the words of our Sages, What does Rabbi Yitzhak say? Look at what is written. " In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." As is known, "

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