42 Letter Name Of God
by Hebrewletters SL
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Title
42 Letter Name Of God
Artist
Hebrewletters SL
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Watercolor Paper
Description
42 LETTER NAME OF GOD
‘There was engraved on the staff of Moses, the holy Name radiating in every direction, which was illumined in forty-two different colors’ (Zohar 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:9a).
Talmud -
R. Judah in the name of Rab: The forty-two lettered Name [of God] is entrusted only to the person who is pious, meek, standing in the middle of his days, does not get angry, does not get drunk, and is not insistent on his rights. And the person who knows it, does not use it lightly, observes it in purity, is beloved above and popular below, feared by man, and inherits two worlds, this world and the world to come (Kiddushin 71a).
According to Rabenu Tam the 42 Letters [of the Name of God] consists of the first forty-two letters of Torah, from the Beit of Bereshit through the Beit of bohu (Genesis 1:1); Tosafot, Haggigah 11b, s.v. ein dorshin).
Zohar - From Bereshit [the first word of Torah] on has been inscribed the mystery of the forty-two letters, forty two holy letters of the Holy Name by which heaven and earth were created (Zohar 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino 1984. 2:175b).
In this painting ALL 22 of the Hebrew letters are represented.
The Rabbis of the Talmud regarded the letters as the basic elements of the universe, much as we think of oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon (From the teachings of Rabbi Mitchell Chefitz, author The Seventh Telling , The Thiry-third Hour, The Curse of Blessings and White Fire.
The word Etconsists of the letters aleph and tav, which include between them all the letters, as being the first and last of the alphabet (Zohar. 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:15b). The story of The story of Et:
Rabbi Dov Ber, the ‘Maggid of Mezritch,’ and a follower of the Baal Shem Tov, explains in Or Torah, the secret of the verse ‘Bereshit Bara Eloheim Et’ - IN A BEGINNING GOD CREATED ET. These are the first words of Torah - Genesis 1:1 - in a beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ET is a word that is not translatable into English. It is like a marker that says - "a definite direct object is next." Thus there needs to be an ET before THE heavens and THE earth. If there was no’ the,’ there would not need to be an ET. But Dov Ber points out a deeper meaning. ET is spelled - Aleph Tav. Aleph Tav is an abbreviation for the ALPHA-BET. Aleph is the first letter of the ALPHABET and Tav the last. So in a beginning God created the ALPHA-BET. And God did this before creating the heavens and the earth. God used the letters, the building blocks, to create the world.
R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe of Chabad explains that if the letters were to depart even for an instant, all of creation would become absolute nothingness (Zalman, Shneur. 1981. "Igeret Hateshuvah. Shaar Hayichud.” Tanya. Brooklyn: Kihot. 289).
Some of you may read these words and laugh. Silly stories. But I challenge you to spend 5 minutes a day thinking about the letters. Perhaps you could practice drawing one letter for about a minute and then think about it of 4 minutes. See if you can do this every day for a few weeks. And watch what happens. The letters are ALIVE.
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