DALIT nf1-176
by Hebrewletters SL
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Title
DALIT nf1-176
Artist
Hebrewletters SL
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Watercolor Paper
Description
DALIT is from the Hebrew, meaning TO DRAW WATER or BOUGH, BRANCH WATER (Kolatch, Alfred J. 1984. The Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names Middle Village: Jonathan David. 308), from the Hebrew root DALIT may be derived from the Hebrew DALA, of the same meaning (Gesenius, William. 1979. Tr. Samuel Tregelles. Gesenius’ Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament.Grand Rapids: Baker Book House. 199b).
Hebrew Bible sources - ‘ The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches [daliot] of it are broken’ (Jeremiah 11: 16).
‘And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches [daliot] turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs’(Ezekiel 17: 6).
‘And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew [dala] water enough for us, and watered the flock’ (Exodus 2: 19).
‘Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water [tidlanu], and filled the troughs to water their father's flock’ (Exodus 2:16).
The Hebrew Letters featured in this painting are Dalet Lamed Yud Tav. Taken together and reading right to left, they spell DALIT.
Each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet has a special meaning and a story to tell. Here a few brief ones about the letters on this painting.
DALET is the 4th letter of the alphabet, has a numerical value of 4, means DOOR and makes a sound like the D in Delight. The Dalet has the shape of an open door.
The letter Dalet consists of two lines, one from right to left on top. And the other straight down on the right side. The first line connects Chochma - Wisdom to Chesed - Love while the second line connects Chochma - Wisdom to Chesed. The vowel associated with Chochma - Wisdom is a Petach, while Segol is associated with Chesed. The word Dalet means DOOR, while the word Petachmeans OPENING. Since Chochma-Wisdom represents our hight perception of the Divine, it is the opening of God that enables Him revealing Himself. Segol is related to the word Segula, a remedy that works for no apparent reason. Segol thus parallels the Sefirah of Chesed, which gives freely, even without reason (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 113).
Talmud -
It has been taught: Symmachus says: Whoever prolongs the word Ehad [one]. has his days and years prolonged. R. Aha b.
Jacob said: [He must dwell] on the Daleth [Because the word does not mean one till he comes to this letter]. R. Ashi said: Provided he does not slur over the Chet Omitting its vowel and so make the word meaningless]. R. Jeremiah was once sitting before R. Hiyya b. Abba, and the latter saw that he was prolonging [the word Ehad] very much (Berachot 13b).
Gimmel Daleth, show kindness to the Poor [Gemol Dallim]. Why is the foot of the Gimmel stretched toward the Daleth? Because it is fitting for the benevolent to run after [seek out] the poor. And why is the roof [foot] of the Daleth stretched out toward the Gimmel? Because he [the poor] must make himself available to him. And why is the face of the Daleth turned away from the Gimmel? Because he must give him [help] in secret, [As though with averted face] lest he be ashamed of him (Shabbat 104a).
The conjunction of the two letters Gimel and Dalet indicates issuing forth Gimel, giving and Dalet receiving (Zohar. 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:244b).
Four is a very important number in Kabbalah. There are four worlds - Asiyah - the World of Action, Yetzirah - the World of Feelings or Emotions, Beriyah - the World of Creation, Atzilut - the World of Emanation; four souls associated with the four worlds - Nephesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechidah; four letters in the name of God - Yud Hey Vav Hey; and four cups of wine at the Passover Seder.
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