בְּרֹ֥אשׁ הֹמִיּ֗וֹת תִּ֫קְרָ֥א בְּפִתְחֵ֖י שְׁעָרִ֥ים בָּעִ֗יר אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ תֹאמֵֽר׃
훤화하는 길 머리에서 소리를 지르며 성문 어귀와 성중에서 그 소리를 발하여 가로되
Zohar
R. Isaac said: ‘Why is the beth open on one side and closed on the other? To show that when a man comes to attach himself to the Torah, it is open to receive him and to join with him; and when a man closes his eyes to it and walks in the other way, then it turns its closed side to him, according to the saying: “If thou leavest me one day, I will leave thee two days”, until he returns to attach himself to it, never again to abandon it. Therefore the Torah makes the first approaches to men, proclaiming, “Unto you, O men, I call” (Prov. 8, 4); and it is also written of her, “she crieth in the chief places of concourse, at the entering in of the gates” (Ibid. 1, 21).’