Meditations on Shin...
The 21st letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Beit is Shin, the Tooth. Mystically, Shin means Change. It is a symbol of three flames, one meaning changeless, one meaning potential for change, and one meaning change. The tooth represents nourishment and food. This is it's form. It has three heads in the traditional version. The first is a Zayin, and the other two are Vevs, each connecting to a point at the bottom. The first, Zayin, is the dark light at the wick on a candle. The first Vev is the white flame around it. The second, final Vev is the aura of that flame. Shin is the marker for the tefilin. On one side, it has three heads, on the other, four. It signifies this world on one side and the next world on the other. Shin is the Fire of Torah, which burns away everything that isn't of the Torah, isn't of G-d. When Shin is used as a prefix, it means who, that, or which. Shin designates an object of person, making them the focus. Likewise, Shin signifies G-d, asking him the focus.
Shin has the value of 300, and the ordinal value of 21. 300 also is the value for the words for "Light in Extension", "to form", "Seperation", and "Spirit of God". Shin is the extension of G-d's light, shining on us. Shin represents both the forming of creation, and the Abyss, separation Kether, the Crown, Binah, Understanding, and Chokmah, Wisdom from the rest of the Tree. Shin is also the Fire of Shekhinah, the Spirit of G-d. 21 also means "deep meditation", "purity", and "innocence". Shin, through deep meditation, burns away all that isn't pure, isn't innocent, bringing us back to innocence. Both 300 and 21 reduce to 3, Gimel, and relate Shin and Ginel to 30, Lamed. Gimel, the rich man running after the poor man to give to him, represents Shin as the giver. Shin gives us both Fire to warm and purify, and change. Lamed is the Moshiach (Messiah), the Bridegroom of the Bride, Shekhinah, the Holy Fire. On both the Ari's and the Gra's Tree, Shin connects Chokmah to Binah, Wisdom to Understanding. It is the Fire that changes Understanding into Wisdom. On Kircher's Tree, Shin connect Hod, Glory, with Malkuth, Kingdom. Here, it represents the feminine aspects of G-d, Shekhinah, resting on Malkuth, the manefest presence of G-d.
When we first come to Shin, we find Judgement. This is absolution, Fire burning away the past, leaving us with a new start. Judgement has us deal with the past, then burn is away, leaving innocence.
The Fool finds a natural place in Shin. Aleph and Shin are where you most often find him. Shin is the mature Fool, after he has journeyed through most of the letters, he is tried and purified in the Fire of Shin. What comes out is what he's learned in his journey that truly matters. He's ready to embrace the World.
After the Fool has come to Shin, we find the World here. The World sees outward, taking in all of Creation. As Shin, this includes the Shin of this world and that of the next. The World is all that can't be changed, all that can be changed, and all that is being changed.
Shin, the Fire of Change, can't contact us without changing us. What needs to be changed in your life? It's time to change. What impure or non-innocent things are in your life? Let the Fire of Shin burn them away. G-d is changeless, but we have the potiental for change, as all of creation does. With his power through Shin, change comes. Let it.
~Muninn's Kiss
Shin has the value of 300, and the ordinal value of 21. 300 also is the value for the words for "Light in Extension", "to form", "Seperation", and "Spirit of God". Shin is the extension of G-d's light, shining on us. Shin represents both the forming of creation, and the Abyss, separation Kether, the Crown, Binah, Understanding, and Chokmah, Wisdom from the rest of the Tree. Shin is also the Fire of Shekhinah, the Spirit of G-d. 21 also means "deep meditation", "purity", and "innocence". Shin, through deep meditation, burns away all that isn't pure, isn't innocent, bringing us back to innocence. Both 300 and 21 reduce to 3, Gimel, and relate Shin and Ginel to 30, Lamed. Gimel, the rich man running after the poor man to give to him, represents Shin as the giver. Shin gives us both Fire to warm and purify, and change. Lamed is the Moshiach (Messiah), the Bridegroom of the Bride, Shekhinah, the Holy Fire. On both the Ari's and the Gra's Tree, Shin connects Chokmah to Binah, Wisdom to Understanding. It is the Fire that changes Understanding into Wisdom. On Kircher's Tree, Shin connect Hod, Glory, with Malkuth, Kingdom. Here, it represents the feminine aspects of G-d, Shekhinah, resting on Malkuth, the manefest presence of G-d.
When we first come to Shin, we find Judgement. This is absolution, Fire burning away the past, leaving us with a new start. Judgement has us deal with the past, then burn is away, leaving innocence.
The Fool finds a natural place in Shin. Aleph and Shin are where you most often find him. Shin is the mature Fool, after he has journeyed through most of the letters, he is tried and purified in the Fire of Shin. What comes out is what he's learned in his journey that truly matters. He's ready to embrace the World.
After the Fool has come to Shin, we find the World here. The World sees outward, taking in all of Creation. As Shin, this includes the Shin of this world and that of the next. The World is all that can't be changed, all that can be changed, and all that is being changed.
Shin, the Fire of Change, can't contact us without changing us. What needs to be changed in your life? It's time to change. What impure or non-innocent things are in your life? Let the Fire of Shin burn them away. G-d is changeless, but we have the potiental for change, as all of creation does. With his power through Shin, change comes. Let it.
~Muninn's Kiss