Letters of Light
The Meaning of the Hebrew Alphabet
As a carpenter employs tools to build a home, so G‑d utilized the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, the alef-beis, to form heaven and earth. These letters are the metaphorical wood, stone and nails, cornerposts and crossbeams of our earthly and spiritual existence.
In Letters of Light Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin explores the essence of these holy letters, illustrating how they continue to be a source of creation, reflection, prayer and inspiration in our everyday lives.
Aleph The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Bet (Vet) The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Gimmel The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Dalet The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Heh The fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Vav The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Zayin The seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Chet The eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Tet The ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Yud The tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Kaf (Chaf) The eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Lamed The twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Mem The thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Nun The fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Samech The fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Ayin The sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Peh (Feh) The seventeenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Tzadik The eighteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Kuf The nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Resh The twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Shin (Sin) The twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Tav The twenty-second letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Appendix 2: The Letter Vav Is the Letter of Emes [Truth] From the Rebbe's Reshimos, No. 169
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Good Morning,
Would also appreciate an audio for 5 minutes on the same.
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Can some one write the number 3320 in hebrew? Is there a meaning of the word/number?
Look up (stick to purely practicing Jewish GEMETRIA sources. At least first, till you get a grounded feel for basics). And it's art, or skill of seaking truths from the individual words and letters.
Don't get fooled by trying to gain meaningful gemetria results by applying it from Latin/English words, or other language characters. The all consists of completely different forms of systemizing themselves, even where there can be spoken lingual similarities and roots in common. Hebrew is UNIQUE.
on I got: ''שלושת אלפים / שלוש מאות / עשרים'' (remember to read that from right to left, and the slashes I added so you know where each numerical phrase/word/group of words is.
All I did was check what the phrase which was representative for each arithmatic 'column' of the number '3302'' (3000, 300, 20), and gave the phrase for each broken by those back slashes I added.
Meaning? I don't know, apart from their likely being the Hebrew words for the numbers. Take it from there?
Gematria
Add a comment...Could someone please translate this word for me?
going left to right as I view the word.....
hey, hey, vav, bet, aleph, het, yod yod, vav .
I have added up the numerical value and arrived at 57... is this correct please?
Does 57 have a meaning also?
Thank you I hope you can help me, it is obvious I need to learn Hebrew.
Fran Henson
Mandurah
Western Australia
It doesn’t add up, pls check letters and numbers again
Hey I don't know Hebrew (at all), but thought i'd give your comment a shot.
heh heh vav bet aleph het yud yud vav
5 5 6 2 1 8 10 10 6 = 53
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if you reduce the 10's to 1's is 35..
BOTH reduce to 8 or (C)HET
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LIFE
Now, I put the letters into Google Translate "וייחאבאהה" and got the Translation as:
"Vayha came the" or THE VAYHA CAME"...
Looking up Vayha.. and assuming that Hebrew and Eastern cultures were intermingling,
Vayha is related to Vimana or a Vehicle; A MOBILE BED... or (IMO) possibly a ancient technology we have yet to replicate.
In Spanish however Vaya is Great, or an exclamation of "WOW".. so, could be THE GREAT ONE CAME.
A possible Transliteration I came up with was:
Behold Behold (The) Word (of the) Teacher (of) Life (the) Hand (and) Nail.
Thanks for the mental exercise. How did you come up with 57 please?
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Letter of life to my life Thank you so very much for your teaching on what make up the word of G-d. May G-d richly blessed you for your work.
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Much Blessings!
Letters of light was a beautiful and inspirational article. Thank you.
Were you taught, or have you any conjecture, about the reason for the order of the 22 letters?
It's of divine origin. secondly each letter has a number alef is 1 bais is 2, gimel 3. so the order is based on the numerical system.
Also, alef, the first letter, is the first in importance; it represents the one, God.
The final letter tav represents one who has completed his life and service to G-d, etc. Read the book for more clues and insights