Bereishit - Creation of the World by Ten Utterances

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 · Posted in ,


Hashem made ten statements. With each one, a part of Creation emerged. With the tenth statement, the world was completed. What were these statements?

  1. "In the beginning G-d created..." (Bereishit 1:1) Heaven and earth were created by a pronouncement, as is said, "By the word of Hashem the heavens were made" (Tehillim 22:6)
  2. "A wind from G-d hovered over the surface of the waters" (1:2). This wind was a special creation and, therefore, a separate pronouncement. 
  3. "And G-d said, 'Let there be light!'" (1:3)
  4. "And G-d said, 'Let there be a firmament!'" (1:6)
  5. "And G-d said, 'Let the waters gather!'" (1:9)
  6. "And G-d said, 'Let the earth be covered with grass!'" (1:11
  7. "And G-d said, 'Let there be luminaries'" (1:14)
  8. "And G-d said, 'Let the waters swarm abundantly!'" (1:20)
  9. "And G-d said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures!'"
  10. "And G-d said, 'Let us make man!'" (1:26)
According to Kabbalah, the idea of this is that G-d’s utterances are not merely “plans”. His words themselves were acts of creation. G-d’s “statements” are a creative force. At Bereishit they were actual projections of His will — and began a long process of concretizing spiritual intent into physical reality and the universe we know.

Source: Midrash Says; Torah.org

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Bereishit - Torah the Blueprint of the World

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Torah was the first of the seven fundamental concepts. It preceded the creation of the world by two thousand years (Avodah Zarah 9a). Why was this necessary?

The Torah says, "I served as the architect's instrument in building the world!"

By which diagram was the world built?

The Torah says, "I was Hashem's master plan in the construction of the world! Hashem had me in front of Him during the Six Days of Creation. He looked at the verse "In the beginning G-d created heaven and earth" (Bereishit 1:1), and, accordingly, created heaven and earth. He looked at the words, "and G-d said, 'Let there be light' (1:3), and fulfilled these words by creating light.  Thus He followed the words of the Torah step by step throughout creation, fashioning the universe according to the plan of the Torah.

G‑d looked into the Torah and created the world. Man looks into Torah and sustains the world.

- Midrash Says; Zohar


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