In the beginning was the Word

The Jewish sages teach that before God created the heaven and the earth (בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ:), He created the Hebrew aleph-bet.
Reading from right to left, we see that it says, "In the beginning (bereshit בְּרֵאשִׁית)....God (Elohim אֱלֹהִים) created (bara בָּרָא) the (et אֵת).
The reason for the bara before the Elohim is because it is translated as, "In the beginning of God's creating.....", but we know it as, "In the beginning God created...".
The point to this is that God created the word first. "In the beginning God created (et אֵת). The aleph (א) and the (ת) the beginning and the end of the aleph-bet and every letter in between.
This gives us even more insight into what John meant by, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."