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And finally, on the right side of the tree, the letter kaf represents our kavannahs, ourdevotions and intentions, and by intending love and mercy, we bring the force of life intoour own lives. And as we fill ourselves with love, we reach a point where we must giveaway that love to others, and in so doing we become a blessing in their lives. And thatblessing to others is what is represented by the letter bet, and by giving blessings toothers, a higher spiritual wisdom begins to unfold deep within us.54
It is now time to examine the twelve diagonal paths on the Tree of Life that correspond tothe twelve plain letters mentioned in the Sefer Yetzirah, and as before, the placement ofthe letters will form a meaningful pattern.Imagine yourself situated at the center of the tree (at the sefirah of Tiferet) lookingoutward, and recall that the natural order of these twelve letters in the Hebrew alphabet ishey-vav-zayin-chet-tet-yud-lamed-nun-samach-ayin-tzaddi-kuf. If we begin with the firstthree, hey-vav-zayin, we’ll find these letters near the top of the tree, and the letter hey isin between the letters vav and zayin. More specifically, this triad appears in a pattern thatwe might characterize as center-left-right. This order of this pattern is simply the reverseof the right-left-center pattern that characterized the placement of the seven double letters!Again, the tree appears to be trying to convey the theme of the Sefer Yetzirah that allcreation stems from the interaction of two opposites with a mediating principle betweenthem. Continuing through the alphabet to the next triad of plain letters, chet-tet-yud, weonce again see them placed on the Tree of Life according to this center-left-right pattern.And this same pattern, when viewed from the center of the tree, is continued by the thirdtriad, lamed-nun-samech, as well as the fourth and last triad, ayin-tzaddi-kuf. Thus, itseems clear that the placements of both the double letters and the plain letters on the Treeof Life were meant to send us a message about the core meaning of the Sefer Yetzirah.55
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