Bereshith: The Web

Pared down to three letters, the first word of the Torah is רשת, a network, a web.  There was a scaffolding upon which the world was created, an outline, a starting point  It is a place in which we are all trapped

It struck me this year  that תִּשְׁרֵי is included in the word בְּרֵאשִׁית.  It is the month in which we read the beginning if the Torah.  It is the month in which we outline our plan for the coming year. We dwell in the succah, the barest of dwellings.   תִּשְׁרֵי , also contains the implication that it will all be שְׁרֵי, all right. Everything will be correct(ed)  And then there is the homonymous sharia. 

In a web, everything is connected. An act at one node, at  any point in the network, is transmitted everywhere. The implication of any action is so widespread that the ultimate ramifications can never be fathomed. Imagining the consequences is almost  paralytic. 

But we see action. Doing the forbidden, disappointment and murder, oppression.  The web has been shaking since the beginning. The beat goes on.