Eps 21. Beyond the Mirror: What Hashem Sees

So Sheker Achein, it's false, the lie, which is translated as grace.

So grace is a lie and beauty is Hevel, nothingness.

A woman with Yeras Hashem will be praised.

Okay, so this Pasuk is very full, and there's a lot going on, so we're going to dive in.

So Sheker Achein, we're going to break this up, right? First it's Sheker Achein, then it's Hevel HaYofi, and then it's Yishay Res Hashem.

Okay, so Sheker Achein.

What's the difference between Sheker Achein and Hevel HaYofi? Let's see the differences.

So Sheker is the opposite of MS.

There is only one MS, and there's multiple hundreds and thousands of different cases of Sheker, right? There's only one MS.

MS is Hashem, MS is Torah, and Sheker could be a million other things.

We see that the letters of MS are rooted, Aleph, Mem, Shem.

Saf is rooted, it's grounded on the line.

While Sheker is, they don't have any legs, right? Shin, Kuf, Resh is not as grounded.

That represents what Emes is.

Emes is grounded, Emes is rooted.

Sheker is floating.

And there's so many different variations of Sheker.

While Emes, there's only one.

Now, chin, this actually, this idea of Shekar leads directly into chin because chin can be translated as grace.

And I feel like it's one of those words that are really hard to translate.

So when I feel like a word is hard to translate, what I like doing is going to the first time we saw this word in Tanakh and we see what the definition of the word is there.

We can learn from the essence of the word.

So chin, the first time it was grace.

in the Torah was by Noach.

It says, So chen really means finding favor.