72 letter name of God
by Hebrewletters SL
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72 letter name of God
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Hebrewletters SL
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Painting - Oil On Canvas
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72 LETTER NAME OF GOD
Name of the 72 is derived from the following three verses in Exodus 14:19-21, each containing 72 letters.
19. And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
20. And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
21. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
“The Name” has been known since ancient times and is discussed in both the The Bahir and the Zohar.
“The Name” is constructed by taking the letters of the first verse in direct order, those of the second in reverse order, and those of the third verse in direct order (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1982. Meditation and Kabbalah York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 93).
The Explicit name containing 72 letters and Explicit name containing 12 letters was given over by the Blessed Holy One [haKadosh barochu] to [the Angel], who stands before the Curtain. He gave it to Elijah on Mount Carmel, and with them he ascended and did not taste death (2 Kings 2:11; 1 Kings 18:20;) Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir. York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 43, 219. #107; (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir. York Beach: Samuel Weiser. #107, #111. 42-3, 219. location BS1158.H4 X34 D63).
The process of constructing the 72 letter name of God is outlined in the Bahir. One takes the letters of the first verse in direct order, those of the second in reverse order, and those of the third verse in direct order. Thus, one begins with the first letter of the first verse which is a Vav. Then one takes the last letter of the middle verse, which is a Hey, and finally the first letter of the third verse which is a Vav. Combining these, on obtains the first triplet VHV:
In this painting most 22 of the Hebrew letters are represented.
The story of ET.
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 Mitchell Chefitz, author The Seventh Telling. , The Thiry-third Hour, The Curse of Blessings, White Fire and Blood Covenant).
The word ‘Et’ consists 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. 11:15b).
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 think about it of 4 minutes. See if you can do this every day for a few weeks. And watch what happens. They letters are ALIVE!!!!
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