Q&A - Curses, Motivation, Proof - Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb

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And you see the Rambam maybe I can even explain a little bit. His father the the beginning of the whole Hebrew Bible is Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz. So Bereshit. >> Bereshit. >> Now that's often translated as in the beginning. Maimonides says you can't translate it that way because if you say the word beginning, you already have time in your picture and talk about at which point in time this took place. But as a matter of fact time is a created thing. So it's at the best misleading and and almost literally false to say in the beginning of time God created time. That's uh so therefore he would he understands the word reshit there to mean the base is not in but with what the base can be used when you do something with a tool or with a material. >> Okay. >> And he says and reshit refers to a principle God used a principle as the basis of his creation of the world. That's where Maimonides takes it. Now that's not to say reshit can't mean beginning. It can also mean beginning. But in that context it doesn't mean beginning. And that's what his father said about reshit in that context. Could be that the son cuz well he's speaking through him in terms of the terminologies that were familiar to him would would have him say techilah because here he didn't have in mind whatsoever that there's a principle through which this takes place. He meant in the beginning. Techilah certainly means beginning. The

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