Kabbalah Group in SF, Week of May 18, 1995.
This week we continued our explorations of Mother letters
shin,
mem and
aleph,
and of the Divine Name
Yud, Heh, Vav, Heh. We talked about the word structure of
Hebrew (and Arabic) language: most words have a three letter root. It is
this root which is most important for Kabbalistic analysis.
We then proceeded to talk about the Names associated with the four
aspects of
Ha-Shem, the Name:
Yud,
also means Hand;
Heh,
Breast;
Vav is
Ba'al or Master. The Name can be arranged on the
Tree of Life thus:
Another arrangement is one in which all the letters are along the
middle, excepting
Da'at, of course. This middle set of Sefirot is called the Middle
Pillar.
We then studied the different temporal properties of the Name.
Fist, there is
Heyehe meaning what was . Then there is
Hoveh, which means the past.
In Hebrew, the future is represented as
Yehoyeh. Related, the Divine proclaimed
Yehe or Let there be , as well as
Veyehe , there was
at the time of the Creation of the World.
We ended this class with the classification of the Hebrew letters according to their alchemical properties, their gender(m/f) and their numerical values (I will not give the values for the letters at end of words):
