RELEASE MY LETTERS ps17ab4

by Hebrewletters SL

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RELEASE MY LETTERS ps17ab4

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Hebrewletters SL

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HAPPY PASSOVER to all who celebrate this holiday!!

RELEASE MY LETTERS

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Hebrew Bible source – ‘And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt’ (Exodus 12:13).

The following passages are teachings of Rabbi Mitchell Chefitz, author of ‘The Seventh Telling, The Thiry-third Hour, The Curse of Blessings’ and ’White Fire.’

We remove HAMETZ to prepare for the holiday of Passover. What is HAMETZ? It is the stuff that puffs up. In the world of action it is grains, bread, foods that puff up. We are not to have even a trace of it in our homes. In the deeper worlds, HAMETZ is PRIDE, that which puffs up our egos. On Pesach we get out of Egypt, a tight place.

The purpose of the Passover Seder is beyond a celebration of freedom. It is a hope for salvation. Look at the Seder Plate. You find greens, a symbol to bring us out of winter; an egg, a symbol of rebirth; the bone, to remind us of the Passover lamb by which we were saved from the tenth plague; ‘haroset’, a sweet mortar-like mixture that reminds us that we were saved out of slavery. And bitter herbs. Bitter herbs!? Do as Hillel did. Place the bitter herbs between two pieces of ‘matza’, and eat it with determination. Even the bitter you can redeem on Passover.

Moshe’s greatness was that he was willing to ‘see’ the burning bush. Tradition teaches us it was there for him to see every day for 40 years, but before h could see the bush that burned and was never consumed, he had to give up his anger. Moshe angry? Consider, he had been a prince in Pharaoh’s palace, and here he was, a shepherd in the desert. When Moses was willing to give up his anger, he could see the bush that burns and is never consumed, and what is that? It is resentment. Resentment burns and is never consumed. To give up anger, and confront resentment, and then to allow that to depart as well, brings one into the presence of God.

Elijah did perfectly good miracles, wonderful miracles, but they weren’t appreciated. Everybody dismissed his miracles by saying that were just this, and just that. So Elijah left vowing he wouldn’t return until such time as people appreciated a good miracle. He called down a fiery chariot, and it took him up to heaven. Everyone saw it, but they said it was just a UFO. On Passover we open the door to invite Elijah into our homes, but if we don’t believe in miracles, do we really expect to see him?


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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April 21st, 2022

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