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The Mysticism of the Hebrew Alphabet Part 2 Rabbi Leiby Burnham 11 9 16

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Rabbi Leiby Burnham

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last week we started talking with the mysticism of the Hebrew alphabet and we talked about the power of the letters R and how the idea that the Jewish letter is a sort of almost like the DNA building blocks of the world if you know how to combine the blocks properly just like if you know how to combine the elements properly you can build all sorts of things whether it be tourists for cancer or nanotubes that will you know fix you know leaks in your car tyre forever and ever without you even knowing about and all kinds of amazing things that are being invented today by things that are being invented today by people putting the right pieces together if you're able to put the right letters the outfit together you can control a lot of phenomenon and that was what we discovered discovered last week and we started with the letter olives so we did one letter last week this week we are going to blow that blow right by that and we're going to hit at least four letters so yeah you better buckle up you better buckle up okay so the first one that we're going to discuss today is a letter best the letter bed is the second letter best the letter bed is the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet the key words for this letter are blessing Rafa creation Bria and the ideas of duality and plurality right because that the numeric equivalents of that is 2 2 is the first number that is a plural number you go from oneness unity godliness which we talked about last week being you know God is being one and being the

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  2. 4:41needed that there being just creatures in the world who would struggle with moral choices and
  3. 9:19saving the lives of all those poor little mates in Russia and I'm providing for a
  4. 14:30in the public sphere and by the way here we go you guys done mental Louis
  5. 19:10always referred to as the heat a certain people who unfortunately just have no understanding of
  6. 24:18maybe five okay I'm just saying if you can name me five IV oppress I don't
  7. 28:54tell you what you tell here's what I would like to do what are men better
  8. 33:29talk about h2 over an hour and we would never get off the base for sure
  9. 39:17there's where you know who you're giving it to so when you see them walking by
  10. 44:26mean he was a name with camel in Hebrew okay um fascinatingly we read a passage

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