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Of creation. Would love to get into specific meaning of letters of yud reish daled kuf hei. Those are the letters I know so far. Each letter form represents and shows a concept. It’s really cool! I was learning it tonight.
U mean like the א is made up of two י&ו?
The were the bottom yud …?What’s interesting is those letters were not used until Ezra introduced them after galus bavel. Prior to that, everything was written in what is termed paleoHebrew script , which looks totally different. Nobody knows why ttche switch was made to Aramaic block lettering. I judt read somewhere that the Samaritans never switched and their sifrei torah are still written in paleoHebrew ( letds noutt argue about their kashrus
let’s not argue about their kashrus
Seeing as they were written by non-Jews,
there will certainly be no argument.I agree they are not kosher sfarim, but they are written inold Hebrew
LessChumras, yes that’s true. They are written in Ksav Ivri. This is actually a testament to the fact that the Torah has to predate Ezra, and actually Sancheriv’s conquest as well. The Samaritans didn’t accept Ezra and yet the differences are minor and few.
Haleivi, my point was that lumdus like Chabadshlucha’s that is based upon the shape of the letters is meaningless. The alphabet shapes we use today are borrowed from Aramaic,. The Torah was originally written in ancient Hebrew, an alphabet that dates back to Sinai and looks nothing like our current Hebrew
You missed Vav. Vav is hamshacha representing divine light being drawn through seder hishtalshelus.
What’s the source for assigning interpretions to Hebrew letters in this manner?
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