CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #218 Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - The Secrets of the Hebrew Alphabet

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

Look at the word kev. You know that's [music] a sad place. It looks like it's an end. You rearrange those letters. [music] It spells bokeare. [snorts] Boare which means in Hebrew morning. Bokeare means warning. Warning. It's not an it's not a goodbye. It's a good morning. So [music] in the word kev we have three two processes. We have the burial and we have a decomposition. But it's leading to [music] a new beginning. It's a boer. >> Hab the next world. to learn more. >> And welcome to Khazak's Torah Talks with special guest. We have with us very dear friend of Kazak, Rabbi Morai Craft from EMTT Barab. Rabbi, >> thank you. >> So good to see you. Thank you very much for joining us. And we're going to be discussing the secret of the Hebrew alphabet. A very exciting topic. But before we get to that exciting topic, we get a little bit background about the rabbi and the great work here in VA. >> Sure. Thank you. First of all, you know, thank you very much for having me and uh >> and and showing me around the Kazak office and I'm enormously impressed what's happening here. what's happening here. >> Honored to have been partners and uh really really just been doing the same work for for so many decades together. >> Strength and strength, continued success. >> Thank you. So just what I'm I'm I'm doing right now, I'm the one of the co-directors of EMTT outreach, which is uh we're on we're on campuses, we're involved in in with young uh young professionals, we're involved with young couples. We're really trying to work with with really the college age and the young professional community and trying to expose them to the beauty of what we have in terra. And I guess the way we do

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1. 0:00Look at the word kev. You know that's [music] a sad place. It looks like it's…
2. 5:08describe and define the essence of the word in many way like DNA. You know if…
3. 9:42compound like taking it apart and bring it back together and you get the true essence…
4. 14:19effective you know I I I mentioned I I've done some lectures over this for a…
5. 18:59which is 26. So again the consistency no sound is composed of three letters which numerically…
6. 23:38is a function of giving to another When one gives the two >> powerful, >> it's…
7. 28:16of all the languages >> so that we have access and possession of this is God's…
8. 32:54morning bokeare means morning it's not it's not a goodbye it's a good morning which why…
9. 37:30sound oneness and combines it with damal which means love and we have the synthesis the…
10. 42:05just to get inside the language and and to share it with others but you know…

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