Creating the World in the Language of Blessing

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 2:4

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Another interpretation: Why not [begin] with alef? So as not to give an opening to the heretic to say, "How can the world endure when it was created in the language of cursing?" Rather, the Holy One, blessed be He, said: Behold, I am creating it in the language of blessing. Would that it may endure!

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