Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom YHWH singled out, face to face, for the various signs and portents that YHWH sent him to display in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his courtiers and his whole country, and for all the great might and awesome power that Moses displayed before all Israel.
Deuteronomy 34:10-12
When God began to create heaven and earth – the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep, and a wind from God sweeping over the water – God said “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good …
Genesis 1:1-5
More on Simchat Torah here – absolutely the holiday on which I experience the most acute “holy envy”
Image: “The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy,” Solomon Alexander Hart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Matters of Interpretation 