Rabbi Shim’on rose to his feet and said: ‘Master of the Universe! Open my eyes that I may gaze above through them. I shall enter ‘through them’ (VaM, =42), (Ps. 118:19) with ‘the forty-two letters of the explicit Name’, to know each-and-every letter upon
Be-REiShYT (In-the-beginning) etc. (Gen. 1:2) And the earth was formless and void... and they are: A-V-G Y-T-Tz Q-R-’A S-T-N N-G-D Y-Kh-Sh B-T-R Tz-T-G Ḥ-Q-B T-N-’A Y-G-L P-Z-Q Sh-Q-U Tz-Y-T. ‘Blessed be the Name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever.’viiiLiturgical, from Recital of the Shm’a