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Thread #165721   Message #3978841
Posted By: EBarnacle
24-Feb-19 - 08:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: To the Moon Alice!, Er.. I mean, ISRAEL!
Subject: RE: BS: To the Moon Alice!, Er.. I mean, ISRAEL!
I find the name of the lander significant. B'reshis [Ashkenazic pronunciation, as opposed to the "official" Sephardic version]is the first word of the Book of Genesis. It literally translates as [In] the beginning. The entire sentence reads "In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth.