Wednesday, January 23, 2013

In the beginning was the Word

The Jewish sages teach that before God created the heaven and the earth (בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ:), He created the Hebrew aleph-bet.
Reading from right to left, we see that it says, "In the beginning (bereshit בְּרֵאשִׁית)....God (Elohim אֱלֹהִים) created (bara בָּרָא) the (et אֵת).
The reason for the bara before the Elohim is because it is translated as, "In the beginning of God's creating.....", but we know it as, "In the beginning God created...".
The point to this is that God created the word first. "In the beginning God created (et אֵת). The aleph (א) and the (ת) the beginning and the end of the aleph-bet and every letter in between.
This gives us even more insight into what John meant by, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Thursday, January 17, 2013

ADAM

Adam consists of three Hebrew letters. The aleph (א), the dalet (ד), and the mem (מ). First of all we see an aleph (א). An aleph numerically the number 1. It is made up of two Hebrew letters, the yud (י) and the vav (ך). There are two yud and a vav. The yud has a numerical value of ten and there are two and one vav with a numerical value of six for a total of 26.
Why 26?
It is the same numerical value of the word
Yud hey vav hey, the name of God. Yud is 10 hey is 5 vav is 6 and hey is 5. 26.
So we know there is only ONE God. (Deut. 6:4), and numerically aleph is one.
Whenever you see an aleph (א) in scripture it has to do with the Divine.
The first word in the Bible that starts with an aleph is Elohim which means God.
An aleph is a silent letter. Now think about that spiritually. It is something you can't get your hands around like the wind.
Writing out the letters of aleph are, (א( (ל) (פ aleph, lamed, pei.
The numerical value of aleph is one.
The numerical value of lamed is 30.
The numerical value of pei is 80.
Add it up and you have 111. One one one.
Everything going back to one.
If you take the three letters of aleph and spell it backwards you get, pei, lamed, aleph (פלא) which is the word wonder.
God is One and He is a Wonder to us.
Now getting back to Adam. We see with the aleph that the Divine is within man.
The second part of man is dam (דמ) which means blood. There is life in the blood.
Blood is the perfect way to describe who we are in a physical sense.
We have to have a blend of spiritual (א) and the physical (דמ), ADAM.