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Gil , you said the name for the Creator is HA VAY YAH but isn’t that a rearrangement of YUD HEY VAV HEY. I have noticed this usage from various KABU instructors but I don’t remember ever having heard why the original arrangement of the TETRAGRAMMATON given in the Bible is not used. One other observation which might be totally irrelevant but one of the most common names of God used in Hinduism and one which is used as a mantra is SHIVAYAH which is only one syllable different to HAVAYAH. Is this just an co incidence? Incidentally SHIVAYAH means the God that dwells within in Sanskrit but what does HAVAYAH or for that matter YUD HEY VAV HEY actually mean in Hebrew.
By the way I am really enjoying the course. Many thx, PaulPaul,
You are correct, when referring to the name Yud Hey Vav Hey the kabbalists refer to it as HaVaYaH.
(Others sound it out and come up with something like YaHoVaH. That has nothing to do with what we are engaged in at all.)
When the Creator is in the aspect of dwelling, he is called Shochen and the place where He dwells is called Shechina, but I don’t know much about Hinduism and so I won’t speak about it.Yud Hey Vav Hey is a primordial code that we study in other original source books. All of reality is encoded in this name, similar to our human code is encoded in our DNA.
Seth@KabU
Not sure if this was answered previously, but on the Dalet lesson, why did he say there was only one in the first verse? Isn’t there two, he left out the one in the verb “to know”
Paul,
If you told the waiter that you are thirsty and he says how much water do you want and you say a lot and he opens a giant hose on your face, it is too much.. it’s a lot, but it’s too much.So what does “a lot” mean? Means two tall glasses of cold water, or an ocean full of water?
So a name names what it is naming.
In this case, what is being named is not something that can be held in your hand, like we said, H2O it is some hydrogen and some oxygen, that’s what it is and in Hebrew, a name is the same way, it describes the root of the object that it names.
So we did not speak at all about “holiness”, or what that means to us when we say that word, it means, in short, separate from the regular material existence, so in a sense this word is describing a code that transcends this material existence. But this is beyond the scope of this class.
Seth@KabU
Hi
Everything explained about the forging of the letters it is conceptually based on the distinction of two forces: Light and Reception and their interaction of each other.
From which side do the letters describe this interaction, from the point of view of light or reception? In other words, are the letters formed from the point of view of light when is absorbed by the quality of reception or how this desire feels the light that gives its form?
Thank you.
Gustavo,
The spreading of the light from above… we can say sketches out the contour of the future ten sefirot.
As the light exits, the ten sefirot appear according to the contours outlined by the spreading of the light.
When the light is expelled from the vessel, what remains is the otiot, the letters.
The otiot/letters are the state where there is no light, but a strong desire to receive the light in a designated form.
Seth@KabU
I hope it is ok to share this…
The History of the Hebrew Language – Wow! Amazing & … Well, UpOn reaching the 5:50 timestamp, I sensed what felt like the unveiling of the Origins ~
A living Language ~>Hebrew (unchanging in the Upper (Root) Worlds), especially & interestingly in comparison to the ‘dead’ language of Latin that is now used to name things in this lower state/world (in which [man]is currently & continually changing its descriptive words of the animate, vegetative, etc., in their ever changing thoughts, trying to figure out the creation!)Looking forward…to learning more!!!
Just a question about the 5 Final versions (sofit). You said that they are connectors between the spiritual world of Atzilut and here. They dip below the line (Parsa). However, Mem Sofit is the only final letter that doesn’t do that. So, I am curious about that one. I was taught that when Mem is in the final version it is when we come out of chaos. For instance in Shalom you have a shin (2 teeth, pressure, consume, makes into smaller pieces, etc.), Lamed (Shepherds staff, teach, protect, goad to and from, etc.), Vav (tent peg, add, combine, secure, also pokes a hole into something that wasn’t there before), Mem Sofit (Chaos, water, blood). So, when the pressure is great, the great Shepherd pulls you to his side, where he teaches you, and protects you. In him you will learn from the pressure and how to grow through it. In other words, you cannot find peace until you have first gone through the storm. That letter seems to be a special one in its own way that is different from the other final versions because of that. So, I didn’t know if you had more on that one. Thanks in advance!
Tracy,
Nice insights. You are right. Final Mem doesn’t go below the parsa like you mentioned.
You already feel that the letters are describing our inner processes and transformation. Meaning that as go through our process of growth we reach the qualities of those letters.That square shape of the final Mem is the symbol of the desire to reach a whole state, to feel surrounded and protected by that love.
To use a metaphorical language in the way you asked, our inner process has two parts, the “desert” and the bountiful land. The journey through the desert is 40 (Mem) years, which is Malchut rising to Bina.
Seth@KabU
Great lessons Gil! Todah raba!
My question: In “THE LETTERS OF RABBI HAMNUNA,” (below) אויר has only one ו.
BB’s website uses two different spellings of avir, אויר and אוויר (one ו as well as two וו’s).
We see the “Expanded Name” of ו is וו …(as well as being in the alternative spelling אוויר).
Can you explain the reasoning for this?
There seems to be a hidden nuance that I am not perceiving… maybe the usage of אוויר (two vav’s) is a modern Hebrew/corporeal/science usage, while אויר is Kabbalistic (?) and thus biblical/religious, but I couldn’t even find אויר in Torah. When speaking of “air” (Masoretic text) uses השמים/שמים, which I see the י inside of מים (water-mayim).
From The Letters of Rabbi Hamnuna: “This is designated in the following way: the letter Yod enters the word light (Ohr contains the letters Aleph- Vav- Reish, signifying the Light of Hochma), and forms the word Avir (air, containing the letters Aleph- Vav- Yod- Reish), signifying the Light of Hassadim. If the Partzuf returns to the Gadlut state, the letter Yod exits it, and it is refilled with the Light of Hochma. Consequently, Avir (air) becomes Ohr (Light).””
Todah raba!
Wow that is an amazing answer. Very deep. I see how these courses are going to really get me moving in the higher spiritual realm. As I tell people, I am fine with being weird. Sounds funny but the definition of Weird in our dictionary is spiritually outside of the box. This is going way beyond the box. I am not talking about the box of Mem Sofit, lol.
Hi Jeane,
Yeah good question, and I see how this can be confusing.
In Hebrew words can be written with the vowels (nikkud) or without. When written without the vowel letter are added to make the word easier to read. So אֲוִיר would be used with the vowels (nikkud) or if written without them it would be אוויר.
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