The Mystical Letter Hei - Part 1: Integrating the Spiritual & Physical - Rabbi Yaakov Marcus

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] when we write a hey in Hebrew we write it as a big race that's this letter down here with a little hood that's the tenth letter over here so that's how we write haze in Hebrew but if you look at the alphabet chart I gave you that in the kosher column which is the middle column of the chart the way letters have to be printed in a Torah book and a Torah scroll or in a mezuzah you'll see that's a non kosher hey as a matter of fact if a scribe writes a Torah scroll and he ever creates a hey as a big race with a little hood the Torah scroll can never be read from again because it's a non kosher letter there's no ratio combination in Hebrew and once you have a non kosher leaven the Torah the whole Torah cannot be read from unless it's corrected so hey is really a dollar which is the letter we've been focused on for the last few classes with the little you'd tucked inside so that that's a fascinating combination because I got the letter of physicality and tucked inside as the UN and we said before when we do the letter Allah you would represent spirituality because it's the least physical of all the letters the alphabet which means it's the tiniest drop of ink of any letter plus it's the only letter in Hebrew that floats in the air right I love bate gimel dalet hey Bob they all siblings consider online you it is a

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1. 0:03[Music] when we write a hey in Hebrew we write it as a big race that's…
2. 2:15together somehow they're fitting together here and you can't complete yourself unless you can figure out…
3. 4:32spiritual together and she becomes Sarah with the hey that integrates the physical and the spiritual…
4. 6:40so here's an easy example of a letter that's being contracted in the Torah and that's…
5. 8:54explanation as well hey is the fifth letter of the alphabet whenever you see fives of…
6. 11:37animal there's a million watts of something spiritual that makes them unique when you take identical…
7. 13:48because that was the easy part it's gonna get more complicated yeah yeah okay onward so…
8. 16:06about day huh well I'm gonna go through it all I'm just controlling it right now…
9. 18:16I will interact with your world so when you see me acting like X call me…
10. 20:31is there a love why don't we just use yours and haze why is there above…

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