In this blog, we are going to look at the letter kaf כ The kaf has the sound “k” as in “king”, and as “ch” as in “Bach”. The difference in pronunciation is visible by a dot in the kaf, which represents the hard “k” כּ sound. This letter has… Read More »UNDERSTANDING THE SYMBOLISM OF THE LETTER KAF AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN JEWISH THOUGHT
In this blog, we are going to look at the letter tet The chet has the sound “t” as in “tank”. The gematria is 9 The letter tet (ט) takes the form of a pot, crafted from tit (טיט) – mud, symbolizing the physical material from which humanity is formed… Read More »THE SYMBOLISM AND WISDOM OF THE LETTER TET
In this blog, we are going to look at the letter chet The chet has the sound “h” as in “Bach”. The gematria is 8 As previously stated, the chet ח has the number value of 8, which represents everything that rises above the physical and is connected to the… Read More »CHET
In this blog, we are going to look at the letter zayin The zayin has the sound “z” as in “Zion”. The gematria is 7 שבע The first association the number seven evokes is often Shabbat שבת. G-d created the world in six days and on the seventh He “rested”… Read More »ZAYIN
Let’s look at the Waw/ Vav ו The waw has the sound “w” as in “way”. The gematria is 6. A first association we can make is with the 6 days of creation. It took 6 days to sheep this physical world. Man was created on the 6th day and… Read More »WAW
Let’s look at the Heh/ hei/ hey ה The Heh has the sound “h” as in “hay”. The gematria is 5. The sound of ה is a mere exhalation of breaht, it requires little effort. It is with this letter that Hashem created this world as we can understand from… Read More »HEH
By now we have learned the letters of Aleph, Bet and Gimel. Now let’s look at the Daled ד The Daled has the sound of “d” as in “day”. . The gematria is 4. Before the Daled is the Gimel ג and after the Daled is the Heh ה, and… Read More »DALED
Last time, we learned the ג of gimel. We already know the lamed ל. This time we are going to look at the mem מם . The letter mem has two forms, the common form מ and the form as it occurs at the end of a word. The mem-sofit… Read More »MEM
From the Aleph-Beis, we learnt the Aleph and the Bet. We now turn to the third letter of the Alepf-Beis: the Gimel ג The Gimel has the sound of “g” as in “dog”. We already recognise the last letter as the Lamed. The middle letter of the word is the… Read More »GIMEL
The last letter (22) of the Aleph-Beis is the letter Tav, which is also the last letter of the letter Bet, about which we learnt about in the blog on the Bet. And the last letter is the wav ו, the letter we saw in the blog about the Yud.… Read More »TAV
