FOUNDATION COURSE KABBALAH

aleph. – The letter א
. י ו י as א There is a lot of information in this letter. Information is light as well. We can see
The diagonal line is vav. Above and below the vav are the two yuds. Actually from the first
letter we can derive all the laws of the universe in potential. The first yud, above the vav, are
the altruistic kelim, such as in man, to give. The vav represents the parsa and the second yud,
below the vav, are the egoistic kelim. Together this is yud, yud, vav = 10 + 10 + 6 = 26. This
is also the number of the name of the merciful God, יהוה . This is already interwoven in the
‏.א letter
dalet. – The letter ד
Dalet for instance can be seen as two vavs. Like two lines. Horizontal and vertical. Vav + vav
= 6 + 6 = 12. The upper vav begins with a point which can be seen as a yud. A yud that is
latently present. Everything is interwoven. The yud you find in all the letters of the alphabet.
Because yud is Chochmah, wisdom. Everything is interwoven in the different letters. When
we add the yud – 10 the total is 22. So dalet - ד contains all 22 letters of the alphabet.
Everything is interwoven.
hey. – The letter ה
The letter hey can be seen as the letter vav, another vav and another vav. Three vavs. ו ו ו . So
from vav you can see the instrument of three lines. Right line, left line and the center line.
mem. – The letter מ
This is a curved vav and the letter כ - chaf. Chaf, = כּ 20 and vav - = וּ 6 and together that is
26. Everywhere you find the Creator also indirectly in every kli. Mercy is everywhere. Even
in every louse you find an expression of mercy. That is how you should see the world. Then
you are the closest to the truth. Everything is up to you. Do it every day. Even in the smallest
louse you can see it, the mercy.
kuf. – The letter ק
When you take the letter hey and you extend it, it becomes the letter tt. The extension
downwards tells us that kuf is also a letter that shows impure strengths. All 22 letters of the
alphabet are of course sacred, they indicate light but they also display impure strengths. For
‏.ן – nun and י - yud , ק - Kuf instance Kaïn.
After the 22 letters there are five more and they are called final letters, or in Hebrew sofit.
They appear at the end of a word. It involves the letters chaf - ‏,ך mem - ‏,ם nun - ן , pe - ף and
zadi - ‏.ץ Nun as in Kaïn is a nun sofit, a final letter. The alphabet is from 1 to 400.
ת - tav is 10 to 90 and from kuf to צּ - יּ is 1 to 9, from yud to tzadi טּ - אּ From aleph to tet
is 100 to 400 and with the five final letters (chaf sofit - = ך 500, mem sofit - = ם 600, nun sofit
900) we have again 9 letters. The five final = ץ - sofit = 800 and tzadi ף - sofit 700, pe = ן -
letters correspond to their five normal letters but are written somewhat different. They are
strengths of the Malchut. The final letters are strengths of the Malchut.
Just to give you an example of how Torah plays with these things or gives allusions whereby
ק צ – ketz we can receive a lot of information and light of what Torah is. There is also a word
and it means end. At the time of the generation of the flood and of Sodom and Gomorra (we
call that Sodom and Amorra and not Gomorra) the Creator said: I put an end to the human
race. End means ketz. Also when the slavery in Egypt was terminated there had been a ketz.
Jews went to Egypt to stay there for tav years, 400 years. Why? To generate all the creating
strengths of the alphabet in themselves. To generate all those strengths and wishes in
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