Bet

The Host. Bet is a house open on exactly one side — she welcomes you in but insists you enter facing forward, into the text. Everything that exists lives inside her hospitality. Warm, practical, slightly bossy about which way the furniture faces.

Bet stepped up and said: create the world with me, for I begin Berakhah — blessing. And the Holy One agreed: "In the beginning" would begin with Bet. The world is a guest in her house to this day.