{"id":665,"date":"2011-05-23T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2011-05-23T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:15:52","slug":"zohar-on-the-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/05\/23\/zohar-on-the-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohar on the letters"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an entire discourse on the mystical significance of the Aleph-Bet<\/em> and their place in the Divine names that\u2019s known as Sitrei<\/em> Otiyot<\/em> (\u201cThe Secret of the Letters\u201d) in Zohar<\/em> Chadash<\/em> (1b-10d). But the Zohar offers insights into the over-all importance of the Aleph-Bet<\/em> from its inception when it says that \u201cThe letters (of the Aleph-Bet<\/em>) were in hiding when God formed the world. But two thousand years before He created it He reflected upon the letters\u201d and considered their role in it (1, 2b).<\/p>\n

Here and there it offers a lot about the letters, including the ideas that \u201cman was created by means of the letters\u201d (2, 42b) and that \u201cman (i.e., his makeup) alludes to the letters\u201d (1, 34b; the letters are \u201cfrom the point that emanates from Ein<\/em> Sof<\/em> (Himself)\u201d (Tikkunei<\/em> Zohar<\/em> Chadosh<\/em> 162b); they derive from four (non-material) elements (1, 80a; also see Tikkunei<\/em> Zohar <\/em>8a, 105a); it confirms the role they played in creation (1, 204a); it tells of their lofty and inscrutable nature (3, 73a; also see 2, 179a and the end of Tikkunei<\/em> Zohar Chadash<\/em> to Shir HaShirim<\/em>); it addresses the three Imot<\/em> spoken of in Sefer<\/em> Yetzirah<\/em> (2, 159b; Tikkunei<\/em> Zohar <\/em>104b) as well as the seven Kephulot<\/em> (Tikkunei<\/em> Zohar<\/em> 104a); and it offers much, much more about the importance of the letters per se<\/em> as well as about the unique role each individual letter plays.<\/p>\n

(c) 2011 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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There is an entire discourse on the mystical significance of the Aleph-Bet and their place in the Divine names that\u2019s known as Sitrei Otiyot (\u201cThe Secret of the Letters\u201d) in Zohar Chadash (1b-10d). But the Zohar offers insights into the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}