Jewish%20thought for Menachot 58:10

כשהוא אומר (בראשית ב, ד) אלה תולדות השמים והארץ בהבראם אל תקרי בהבראם אלא בה"י בראם [הוי אומר העולם הזה בה"י והעולם הבא ביו"ד]

[Yah, he said,] refers to the two worlds which the Holy One, blessed be He, created, one with the letter he and the other with the letter yod. Yet I do not know whether the future world was created with the yod and this world with the he or this world with the yod and the future world with the he; but since it is written, These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. II, 4. otrcvc');">¹⁴</span> read not be-hibare'am,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' . otrc hvc');">¹⁵</span>

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