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Sep 12, 2026
Manis FriedmanHOST
The same is true also with those letters that are written large in the Tanakh.
Manis FriedmanHOST
There's an entire Aleph base, a whole set of Aleph through Toph that in various places in Torah are written large.
Manis FriedmanHOST
Like the Dalet of Echad and so on.
Manis FriedmanHOST
They come from a higher level.
Shimon NeubortHOST
The same is true also with those letters that are written large in the Tanakh.
Shimon NeubortHOST
There's an entire Aleph base, a whole set of Aleph through Toph that in various places in Torah are written large.
Shimon NeubortHOST
Like the Dalet of Echad and so on.
Shimon NeubortHOST
They come from a higher level.
YvonneHOST
And each stanza starts with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
YvonneHOST
So, for instance, if you look at the top of Psalm 119 in your Bible, the ESV, it says Aleph.
YvonneHOST
You can't see it in English, but all of these verses start with Aleph.
YvonneHOST
Aleph is like the letter A.
YvonneHOST
And then from 9 through 16, all these start with the letter Beit, which is the second letter, like our letter B.
YvonneHOST
They all start with that.
Michael RydelnikHOST
And then I think, well, how come we have Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which are completely concerned with penitence and repentance from sin? One of the Prayers that we say at this season, a number of prayers are acrostics.
Michael RydelnikHOST
The first line starts with the letter Aleph and has a confession of sin, Alchet, and then it goes on, the next sentence is a confession of a sin with the letter Beit, the second letter in the Hebrew language, and it goes all the way to the end of the Hebrew alphabet.
Michael RydelnikHOST
And the emphasis is not just that it's a confession of sin, but we've committed every sin from A to Z. That's sort of the idea.
Michael RydelnikHOST
So there is a heavy emphasis on penitence.
AvivHOST
Shosh is the root.
AvivHOST
Then comes Pchina Aleph, Bet, Gimel, and Dalet.
AvivHOST
And Pchina Dalet... discovers that it really wants for there to be a created being, and it makes a restriction, meaning that from now on, it cannot directly receive the light.
AvivHOST
But the condition for the reception of the light is having a new kli called masakh, screen and reflected light or in other words it says i want to get to know the giver my root and only if i do and i will know for sure that he wants to give me and that i'm receiving not for myself but for him then i will receive from him and then i'll be able to enjoy by benefiting him, and he will enjoy benefiting
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AvivHOST
asking how is it related, it is the biggest Oviut that you can no longer work with is Dalet.
AvivHOST
The biggest Oviut that you can work with and fills the previous Potsov is Gimel.
AvivHOST
And afterwards, there are different discernments of Izdekhut, Gimel, Beit Aleph, Shoresh, until the emergence of the new thoughts of eventually you're left with Talet Gimel.
AvivHOST
And this is how the next heads calculate the next dotsov.
speaker_0HOST
Thus, he must create a created being, which is the desire to receive, that cascades along with the light that fills it through the four different discernments.
speaker_0HOST
Shosh is the root, then comes Bechina Aleph, Bet, Gimel, and Dalet.
speaker_0HOST
And Bechina Dalet... discovers that it really wants for there to be a created being, and it makes a restriction, meaning that from now on, it cannot directly receive the light, but the condition for the reception of the light is having a new kli called masakh, screen, and reflected light.
speaker_0HOST
Or in other words, it says, I want to get to know the giver, my root.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Sorry, in order, because of course, every verse starts with a letter of the alphabet, but in order.
Mike SchmitzHOST
So, you know, Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Bet is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Actually, that's where we get the term alphabet is from Aleph Bet, the first two letters of the Hebrew.
Mike SchmitzHOST
That style of writing is called an alphabetic acrostic or it's an acrostic, right? So why would Jeremiah confine himself to this acrostic way of writing this? Is it just for the challenge of starting every verse in order of the alphabet? I've heard someone explain it like this.
Mike SchmitzHOST
They said that Jeremiah's suffering, his grief, remember Jeremiah is the weeping prophet.
Shay SchachterHOST
As the Shkiah sets in, it will be Erev Rosh Hashanah.
Shay SchachterHOST
So what are some of the minhagim? What are some of the halachas with regard to Erev Rosh Hashanah in particular? Number one, there is a custom that is quoted in the Shulchan Aruch itself, in Simintaf Kuf Pei Aleph.
Shay SchachterHOST
It is a minhag that is not so well known, but it is very well documented.
Shay SchachterHOST
It is quoted in the tour and in the Shulchan Aruch, where it says that many have the custom that they fast on Erev Rosh Hashanah.
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Shay SchachterHOST
Egos has the same numerical value as Chet, which means sin.
Shay SchachterHOST
Chet is sin.
Shay SchachterHOST
Ches, Tes, Aleph.
Shay SchachterHOST
Egos is Aleph, Gimel, Vav, Zayin.
Yussie ZakutinskyHOST
That's the Shevet God in the Shvat and corresponds to this idea that even in Golos, the Rabban Hashem is still at least taking care of us in a Madrega of Svichon, a Madrega of Gimel Dalet.
Yussie ZakutinskyHOST
Ba God, Chaser Aleph.
Yussie ZakutinskyHOST
That's why the word, the first reference to Shevet God is Ba God, God has come.
Yussie ZakutinskyHOST
That's what Leah said.
Yussie ZakutinskyHOST
God has come, but it's missing an Aleph.
Yussie ZakutinskyHOST
Because that's the mitzias of God is that you don't see the Aleph in that type of Hashba.
Yussie ZakutinskyHOST
Because it's talking about a time of rebelliousness and time of Golos.
Yussie ZakutinskyHOST
But we're missing the Aleph.
Jake GrantHOST
Yeah.
Jake GrantHOST
So in addition to the apocryphal texts being brought back with the Sefer, you've also done some work with restoring the Aleph Tav and the restored names.
Jake GrantHOST
Could you talk a little bit about that? Well, I will say this book
Jeremiah SkibaHOST
is like very heavy and I scared the crap out of my cats with it yesterday.
Stephen PidgeonGUEST
I'll be happy to do that.
Stephen PidgeonGUEST
Yeah.
Stephen PidgeonGUEST
So Jake, the question you've asked about the Aleph Tav is something you and I discussed in North Carolina and you kind of breached the subject and I had a chance to meditate on it.
Stephen PidgeonGUEST
And, and I mean, I'm just going to tell you, the Aleph Tav has always been something special to us because I'll tell you how we discovered it.
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