תּלמוד אויף איוב 38:38

‘and it was called foundation.’ He taught: Because from it the world was founded. We have learned according to the one who says that the world was created from Tzion. For it is taught, R’ Eliezer says: the world was created from its middle as it says, “When the dust was poured into a mass and the clods cleaved together.” (Iyov 38:38) R’ Yehoshua says: