The final three letters of the Hebrew Aleph-Beit represent Beginning, Middle, End.  Resh, the head, is both the head of a person and the head of an event.  The same Hebrew spelling with different vowel sounds can be found in Rosh Hashanah, the "Head of the Year", the Jewish New Year.  Resh appears in the first two words of Genesis, בְּרֵאשִׁית and ( Read more... )

The 19th letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Beit is Quph, which literally means in Aramaic "eye of the needle", and in Hebrew "monkey" or "to surround or touch".  The mystical meaning is omnipresence and the redemption of the Sparks.  The form of Quph is two letters: a Resh a little above the line on the right, and a Zayin dropping below the line on the ( Read more... )