Bereishis “In the beginning, Hashem created the heavens and the earth” (Bereishis, 1;1). The first Rashi in the torah explains that the torah began with the creation of the world to show the other nations that the land of Israel belongs to the jews (since Hashem created the world, everything belongs to Him, and He gave it to us). Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk comments that the torah mentions the…