Rise Rabbi Shim’on! Hasten yourself with your weapons of battle, let us see your might and power!’
Arose Rabbi Shim’on. He began and said: ‘the cantillation notes zarqa ֘, maqaph ־, shophar holekh ֣, segolta ֒.’ He rose and took three stones which are Yod-Yod-Yod י־י־י, and the higher stone which is in the sling – ‘the crown of the chord’ – making four, which are forty 4 × Yod, and the chord of the moon (sihara) [Var. which surrounds∞saḥra ]] it – which is בּ Beiyt.
And the mystery of the word: Be-REiShYT – Beiyt (Binah) and ReiShYT☉Ḥokhmah – this point,