But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.(Micah 5:2)
As in way back, before the beginning. The last word in the Torah is Israel:
Deut 34.12. And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great and awesome deeds which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel:
The first:
Gen 1.1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth:
The last Torah portion is number 54, and is read followed by the first, starting at Gen 1.
54 connects to 1, because it's a circle. 541 = Israel.
"All Israel in the beginning."
Complete round-up, the ruler who can do that (herd cats).