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Hubris leads to Beresheet.
by iratewizard 8y ago
Hubris leads to Beresheet.
- ip26 8y agoPride cometh before the Beresheet
- officemonkey 8y agoI Beresheet the bed.
- reissbaker 8y agoBeresheet means "genesis," and if we know anything about the genesis of the universe it's that there's a big explosion.
- MagicPropmaker 8y agoIt means "In the beginning" (בראשית) (The prefix "ב" meaning "in", the root "ראש" meaning "head" --used both for the part of the body, and to mean "starting" or "principal"--and the suffux "ית" being the a type of feminine suffix)
- geofft 8y agoThat said, it is the Hebrew name of the book of scripture commonly called "Genesis" in English, because it's the first word (incipit) of that book. So people who translate it as "genesis" are not totally making it up, and arguably it's a more poetic translation since the name of the book is (presumably) why they chose that name for the craft.