The Mystical Letter Aleph - Part 1: Masking G-d's Oneness - 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] we're a Devesh line we're doing the mystical here alphabet series this is the letter olive the shape and meaning of the letter off this is part one in the Hebrew alphabet series we have a code and we believe that this is the only language that is God given the alphabet is God given I teach this class on college campuses and the reason I do is because there's a very large percentage of Jews out there that believe that the tourist man-made mythology and therefore the people in the Torah never really live in the events never took place we believe that God gave part of the Jewish people Mount Sinai and one of the ways to figure that out is to look at the Torah deeply in its original language the tour is not that deep in translation any time you translate the text you distort it but we believe that if you look at the original Hebrew when God gave the Hebrew alphabet he gave it as a coding system every letter has a meaning the shape of the letter has a meaning the mathematical value called the GU mantra of the letter has a meaning and therefore every word at the Torah not only has a dictionary definition but on a deeper level every word of the Torah is the sum total the meanings of its letters in that particular order and there's no other text you can do this with you can't do this with the New Testament you can't do this with the Quran we believe all those

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1. 0:03[Music] we're a Devesh line we're doing the mystical here alphabet series this is the letter…
2. 4:12is the same word as oh if it's oneness lift it up to a higher level…
3. 8:40something called what God wants good because we're gonna come back to that know if pre…
4. 12:56out of the room because when the teacher was stand in front of your desk it…
5. 17:41bob has another definition if you go to a bar if you go into a hardware…
6. 22:03not sort of one not kind of one but infinitely one then by definition there can't…
7. 26:21now along comes a later commentary on the Ariza who lived 500 years ago to spot…
8. 31:05nations don't do that you follow okay so let's take Judaism in science going their separate…
9. 35:19reality the reason why you and I see constant image of each others because we're being…
10. 39:23therefore if we talk in terms of the diversity back in the alphabet so the meaning…

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