The flaming sword

The first portion of the Torah, Bereshit, has 146 verses, corresponding to the numerical value of the word, Olam, world.  At the 80th verse, we encounter the revolving flaming sword that G-d uses to block Adam’s (Man’s) reentry into the Garden of Eden,...

The primordial aleph

As per our article on the 70 verses (V’dber Moshe) of the Torah and the location of Da’at (knowledge), the two primordial letters that existed before the Torah and invisibly precede the Bet of Bereshit are the Aleph and the Mem.  The Mem combines with the...