The Mystical Letter Bet - Part 10: The Distance from Aleph - Rabbi Yaakov Marcus

[Music] so now what I want to do in the in the next few minutes is I want to just show you how the connection relationship works alphabetically okay so so I'm gonna bring my I left down here I'm just taking I'm just taking letters of the alphabet and bringing the down lower so I can work with them okay so here's my olive right I'm bringing my letters down down so my olive represents God's oneness then I take bait which is a letter of connection relationship which represents tunas tuna TSA's were a connection relationship again now just follow the grammar here okay because we're gonna learn a principle based on the grammar of the letters if bait is a letter of connection relationship and it happens to be situated in the alphabet next to the goal of what you're trying to connect to which is the olive represented as one this it makes sense that since the letter connection relationship is sitting next to what you're supposed to be connecting and relating to then the definition of a bet when used as a prefix is going to be in or with the preposition inner with because you can't get any more connected to something other than being in it or with it but wouldn't it make sense that that God would use bait as the strongest preposition of connection relationship because the tunas is sitting next to the oneness of what you're here to connect it makes sense ladies okay now let's go halfway down the alphabet to the letter huff and huh is that tunas Huff is 20 miss and 20 miss is ten times further away from the olive because the olive represents God's oneness is what we're here to connect to but I just moved halfway down the alphabet which means since I'm 10 times further away from the goal my ability to connect is weakening because I'm sitting next to what I need to connect it so there 420 miss has to be connection or relationship because it's still a factor of two all tunas is some level have to be connective but since it's ten times further away from where it should be its ability to connect is weaker so grammatically when you take a cup of connection or relationship and put it in front of a noun let's say or let's take an easy word take the word Z which means this if you say cuz that you didn't say in this you did say with this those are just wrong what did you say like this in other words I'm still connecting but I'm only similar to it so if I'm similar to it that's a weaker connection to being in it or with it okay because I moved halfway down the alphabet I'm ten times some other way let's move all the way down the alphabet to the other side to where we get to a race and now I'm at 200 miss so it's still got to be a letter of connection relationship because it's a factor of two still but it's a hundred times further away from the goal of what you're supposed to be connecting to which means there has to be an aspect of connection or relationship built into range but it's going to be extremely subtle because it's at the wrong end of the alphabet from the letter of so the question is where can you see a hint to connectiveness in the letter ratio so range in the Torah races are letters that represent movement or motivation to move or causation to move or will to move in other words Rach is a letter of flow it moves and that's why races have what races are one of the two hardest letters of the Hebrew alphabet to pronounce in other words Ayane is difficult because it's gutturals oh right it's hard for Americans so it's a matter of fact a lot of Israelis just consider it to be a silent letter but it's really a guttural it's hard but the other hard letter is a range because of race trills so it's either race or it's Rach did that work eh like when your palate vibrate it's a letter of boo-booed because your mouth has to create a movement to get that trill right so we Americans have a very difficult time and maybe Canadians do you guys roll yours it's the same problem so you can't it's hard - all right what about you got France French's H it's like it right so therefore how do you see hints to that because there are some words in the Torah that have races in them are very easy to spot that this is a motivational move or it's a flow letter like the word is to toe and get down it's a boundary it's where you influence goes out - and us is to run that zone is your will your motivation but God is hail Barack is lightning so you can find words in the Torah with Rachel's that you say hey I see some movement in this word or I see a motivation those were that so how is that connective how is movement connected well if you learned in high school physics that God created a world of inertia where things of rest stay at rest then if something's moving let's say a ball rolls past my feet while I'm teaching the class one thing's for sure if it's moving there must have been a cause that's a connection flow implies a cause so so there's a connection between what's happening and what caused a tap so therefore ratios represent some sort of flow or movement okay good so now I just want to show you what's happening in the letters of Tunis okay so therefore I love represents God's oneness so look up here for a second when the letter of connection relationship is sitting next to the goal that means that the idea when it flows into this world is having maximum impact because we're right next to where everything is coming from so bate represents that intensity that's coming down to this world and therefore it has as a preposition and ability to be inner width which intensely connects you but what happens when you move halfway down the alphabet so you're not next to the goal so you're not in or with anymore you're only similar to which means when the flow comes down it's weakening it's not a bate it's a cuff and now when you get to the end of the alphabet and all you're doing is flowing to this world but you're not having an impact it's just flow it becomes a race sobayed hop and race are all the same letter but as you move away from the olive the goal you're connecting to the impact is weakening till at the end it's just flowing without any impact whatsoever so these are all three letters of connection a relationship based on the same shape of the bait okay any questions on this okay we'll stop over here and we'll start with another letter next you