It is possible to hint that the word bereishit is [made up of] the letters, "beareshet yod (by expression of ten)," which hints to (Avot 5:1), "with ten proclamations was the world created." And see what is written in Petach Einayim on the Mishna, "In ten proclamations," with God's help. And I heard from an old God-fearing man that the words, Bereishit bara including the numerical equivalent of two [for these two words] is the numerical equivalent (gematria) of "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One" (Deuteronomy 6:4). Up to here are his words, may His memory be a blessing for life in the world to come. And he gave me pleasure, since in the beginning of the Torah, there is found a hint to His unity, may He be blessed, and [also] all of the kavannot (mystical meditations) that are in the secret of the unification are hinted in these words, as it is stated in the Zohar and in the writings of Ari, of blessed and righteous memory - all of them are hinted in the beginning of our holy Torah. And after much time, I briefly chanced upon the book, Tsvi Kodesh, and I see at the end of page 2, that he wrote this gematria, and added that it is for this reason that our holy Rabbi (Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi) started the [corpus of the] Mishna with the commandment of reading the Shema, see there.