The Letter Link

"for all of the 22 {Hebrew} alphabet are dresses for one another, for the letter Aleph dressed up with the letter Bet, for {the letter} Bet is two Aleph's, {the third Hebrew letter} Gimel is three Aleph's and so forth, as I have heard from my master, his memory blessed to the world to come"

Toldes, Bereishis, 7a



It is an important text as it provides the basis for the whole Beshtian teaching (kanal). It also helps us, to inch closer to the Beshtian experience. If all is one good god, how come all we get to see is many things- only some of them good, while others not so good?

The answer is: Letters.

Just as science confirms today, everything is basically made up of the same building blocks. Both Hitler and the Besht are made up of the same basic atoms. These Atoms are made up of neutrons etc. etc.

These life forms are all one and the same, only that they are different evolutions of god, who is still very much alive in all of them together as one, believed the Besht. Nothing exists in a vacuum; everything is connected and can be traced back in its evolution to the one god, who still is fully there. An Atom, for instance, has its Hebrew letter equivalent that symbolizes, and fills, the atom- acting as its soul. Only, from the Beshtian point of view, 'Atom' is the symbol while it’s Hebrew letter representative is its true essence.

The Besht believed that every soul had a body, just as every body had a soul. In order something (place, person or thing) to exist, it must have a soul sustaining it., "worlds {physical manifestations}, souls and divinity {these are the Besht's own words in the famous letter}." that there is an actual physical {at what point in Alphabetic evolution matter begins to exist in a scale that can actually be observed by the scientist- I do not know} element that is symbolized in that letter, which acts as a cover for its soul and divinity ever present within that live cell.

The letter Aleph, to the Besht, stands for the purest form of god {that we can know}- Beis was the second major phase in evolution, where Aleph {its three levels mentioned} started covering itself up in a Beis, meaning it start to evolve and formulate in ways that it was no longer recognizable {to the outsiders- which include us} as an Aleph. Gimel was a particular dress where three Aleph's dressed up, so to speak, in one Gimel.

{If the besht were to give a science class, he would probabely say that deuterium {3H} consisted of protons dressed up in neutrons and that Tritium {3H}, was one proton dressed up in 2 neutron.} -and so it continues until to the last letter "Tof," which stands for "malchus shb'malchus”, the outer most layer of existence, both spiritually and physically.

see also MDL 16, 71, 160, 253



Revolutionary? Well:

" and they {the Chassidim} to Upper side {l'zad iloeh} speak "this is your god o Israel" "every tree and every stone" and they show {a} face in Torah inappropriately in the verse "blessed be the honor of god from his place" and in the verse "and you enliven all""

-The Gaon z"l in his anti Chassidic letter of 1796- Wilensky I, 188

Le'hoir, the second reference is {in my humble opinion, contrary to Wilensky fn. 21} to Likutim Yekorim {published in 1792, in the new editions its #222}: "Kevoyd Hashem pirush levushoy" - that kevoydoy doesn't mean "his honor", but rather "his clothing" {mani mechabduseh}." u'kanal.

But more on the traditional, Misnagged, view- in the coming days.