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October 18, 2025 Paid subscribers

The Grace of Being Wrong (and the Poetry of Words)

Apparently Not a Heretic—Just Bad at Hebrew

My recent article, “The Secret Hidden in Genesis 1:1,” sparked more conversation than I expected.

Some readers found it beautiful and inspiring.

Others, well… found it linguistically offensive.

And they were right to correct me.

A kind reader named Arthur, noticed that the Hebrew word in my graphic contained a typo—a tet (ט) instead of a shin (ש)—which, in Hebrew, changes everything. He also reminded me that b’reishit (“in the beginning of…”) isn’t a hidden code about the Cross, but a grammatical construct introducing God’s creative act.

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