Yesh #8

Yesh is made from 2 Hebrew letters and means there is.... more

by Sandrine Kespi

Title

Yesh #8

Artist

Sandrine Kespi

Medium

Digital Art - Mixed Digital And Hand Made Creation

Description

"Yesh" is made from 2 Hebrew letters and means "there is".

Every letter in the Hebrew alphabet caries many special meanings. I have used the tenth one , called Yod, and i have built the twenty -first one, the Shin.

The Hebrew alphabet contains twenty-two letters or Autioth.
The Hebrew language came directly from God. It contains secrets that were preserved by the initiated.
Each letter (or auth) is a crystallization of one of the aspects of manifestation of the divine word. Each letter corresponds to a number which places it in a numerical hierarchy, a hieroglyph as a visual representation in form, and a symbol that makes it connect to other letters.

The Letter Yod is used both as a point of origin and as an alphabetical letter. Yod, the smallest letter. Yod as the point of origin is more like a primal vibration than a clear spoken letter in human language. It is a vibration that can be heard (like the Om of the Buddhists), a primal vibration ever present. Yod as a simple letter is a reflection of the original Yod. The simple letter Yod is the center of individual existence which provokes an eternal becoming of the individuality.
It represents the abnegation of the Lord who has accepted to reduce Himself in order to allow the world existence. The Yod is a part of all the other letters.

The twenty-first letter of the alef-beis is the shin.

The shin comprises three vertical lines representing three columns. The letter itself looks like a crown.(...Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin,www.chabad.org)

The three lines of the shin may be interpreted as three gen­eral dimensions of a human being: Kesser (will and pleasure), the intellect, and the emotions. The rays are the specific dimensions of this crown. If the Shin is representative of will and pleasure, the right one is kindness; the left line is justice and the center­line, mercy. When the shin is representative of the intellectual dimension, the three lines stand for the three intellectual faculties of the Sefiros: the right line being Chochmah, the flash of an idea; the left line being Binah, understanding; and the centerline Daas, application of knowledge. Finally, there is the dimension of the emotions, or middos. Here the shin’s right line represents Chessed, kindness; the left line represents Gevurah, severity or discipline; and the center­line represents Tiferes, mercy or compassion.

Furthermore, the three lines of the shin can signify the three pillars upon which the world stands: the study of Torah, prayer and good deeds.....

You can go on studying the symbolisme of the Hebrew letters with your Rabbi, it's a wonderful world....

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January 10th, 2017