The Creation Code: Part 1

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

okay good evening thank you so much for joining us tonight this is a topic that i'm very excited to share something that i got into a few years back um well i guess start the introduction my name is rabbi hillel shaps i work for i'm a member of the grigor washington community colo which is a organization dedicated to adult jewish education and um particularly i run the lynx division which uh runs programming for the wider jewish community and uh and when uh when things are normal we have a we in the past we've had a weekly wednesday night program in the jcc in rockville and uh since the beginning of the pandemic we've moved to zoom and had a weekly wednesday night class and we've been doing various topics series is hanging out and uh and this is this is our latest it's one of the shorter ones a two week um but it's uh it's something that i worked on a few years back and uh and now had a chance to get back into it so the the topic the creation code the i should just before i begin i want to just give credit to how i came across this topic and how you know i learned a bit about it so i came across it when listening to a class by rabbi jonathan riyadi rabbi ryagi is a popular well-known speaker and educator and um and he mentioned in the course of

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2. 5:51everything and there's a deeper meaning behind the words of the hebrew language and it's very…
3. 12:13something and every word is made up of a group of letters that come together to…
4. 18:34given letter is so there are basically five different ways so number one this is not…
5. 24:52is that a question question i was gonna say i mean an a if you're talking…
6. 31:09heron is 271. now this is actually pointing out already by the midrash what is significant…
7. 36:56but also we can have a stripe a stripe is you have a surface and you…
8. 43:15which is a new letter for us so the letter cuff makes a k sound so…
9. 49:32to opening in a specific direction to open towards a goal pay lamid to open towards…
10. 55:56the letter you're putting off till next week no i'm not putting that one off till…

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