<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> In the first verse of Bereishis there are seven words, corresponding to the seven days of the week, the seven years of the shemittah cycle, the seven shemittah cycles of a yovel cycle, the seven heavens, the seven lands, the seven seas , the seven servants. Corresponding to these, Dovid hamelech said: <i>"Sheva bayom hilalticha al mish'p'tay tzidkecha."</i> (Tehillim 119:164)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">And because of this correspondence, the chachomim ordained that the refrain in the Kaddish, "Y'hei sh'mei rabba..." - contains seven words, and is recited seven times each day. Moreover, in the first verse of the Torah there are twenty-eight letters, as there are in the refrain “Y’hei shm’mei rabba…." </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">As a parallel, Shlomo hamelech composed seven verses - beginning with <i>"Ays laledes"</i> and ending with <i>"v'ays shalom"</i> (Koheles 3:2-8) - that speak of twenty-eight "times" [which correspond to the twenty-eight different time periods each week]. For there are four "times" in each 24 hour period: From dawn to noon is one time; from noon to dusk is a second time; from dusk to midnight is a third time; and from midnight to dawn is a fourth time. [And so in seven days there are twenty-eight "times or watches”].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Similarly, seven words and twenty-eight are also contained in the verse <i>"Vay'dabeir Elokim ays kol had'vorim ha-eyleh leimor." </i>(Shemos 20:1), [which introduces the Aseres hadibros]. This correspondence of letters and words between the refrain of the Kaddish and the "Bereishis bara..." and the Aseres hadibros, alludes to the statement of the chachomim: "Whoever answers...<i>Amein, Y'hei sh'mei</i>..." with all of his strength (<i>koach -</i> gematria also 28) becomes a partner with the Holy One, Blessed be He, in the work of Creation." <i>Baal HaTurim</i></span></p></body></html>