The Hebrew word for “letter,” — ot — also means “sign” or “wonder” or
“miracle.” For thousands of years, Jewish sages have taught that the letters of the
Hebrew alphabet, the Aleph Beit, embody wonderful and miraculous powers.
According to the earliest known book on Jewish mysticism, The Sefer
Yetzirah (The Book of Creation), written more than fifteen centuries ago, God
formed the entire universe through speaking aloud the twenty-two letters. With
the vibration of God’s cosmic utterances, out of the nothingness of silence all
things spring to life. “God said, ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light.”
The letters of the Aleph Beit, as the manifestations of God’s voice, are the
energetic and vibrational building blocks of creation. They are analogous to
physical elements. Just as, for example, an atom of oxygen gas unites with two
atoms of hydrogen gas to form a molecule of water, so does one letter combine
with another to create new beings.
- Professor: Dr. Conny Williams