The Mystical Hebrew Alphabet: Spiritual Transformation through Paleo-Hebrew, Gematria, The Tree of Life, Alchemy, and Numerology

By Solomon Price

Kabbalah is an ancient form of mysticism which studies the connections between God, humanity, and the mysterious Ein Soph 

• Language: English
• Publisher: SP Group Publishing LLC
• Release date: Mar 21, 2024
• ISBN: 9798990318113

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The Mystical Hebrew Alphabet

Part II: The Mystical Kabbalah Series

Solomon Price

SP Group Publishing LLC

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ISBN-13: 979-8-9903181-1-3

Cover design by: Solomon Price

Dedicated to my grandmother, who never stopped believing in me...

Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

A Brief Introduction

The Hebrew Alphabet

Aleph

Bet

Gimel

Daleth

Heh

Vav

Zayin

Chet

Teth

Yod

Kaf

Lamed

Mem

Nun

Samech

Ayin

Peh

Tzadi

Qoph

Resh

Shin

Tav

Hebrew Alphabet Chart

Tree of Life Diagram

REFERENCES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A Brief Introduction

At the center of Kabbalah lies the Hebrew Bible, and the sacred language in which it was written, Biblical Hebrew.  The Hebrew language has enjoyed a long history, and shared affiliations with many of the worlds most ancient Empires.  The Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, all chronicled their interactions with Hebrew speaking nations.  Not only does this provide extensive material for research, it also demonstrates the prominence, and antiquity of the language itself.  

Originally, Hebrew was written using pictographs: small symbols or pictures, representing words, thoughts, or entire sentences.  Pictographs function similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics, Mesoamerican logoglyphs, or modern-day Japanese.  The interesting thing about this style of Hebrew, referred to as Paleo-Hebrew, is that each letter in a word, carries its own meaning, in addition to forming the respective word.  So when a Paleo-Hebrew word is broken into its constituent letters, completely new words and sentences emerge.  What's truly compelling about this however, is the new material not only relates to the original word, but often augments the meaning of the word itself.  This phenomena applies regardless of word length or content.  So essentially every word in Paleo-Hebrew, could be envisioned as a sentence...and every sentence, as a whole paragraph, and so on.

Understanding Paleo-Hebrew is integral to Kabbalah study, because it's the native language of the Hebrew Bible.  The Hebrew Bible in turn serves as the cornerstone for all of the Abrahamic faiths.  In Christianity its known as The Old Testament, and is standard in most versions of the Christian New Testament.  Within Judaism, the Hebrew Bible is called the Tanakh, or Masoretic Text, and to this day, remains the foundational text of the faith.  

Many are unaware however, that when the Hebrew Bible was initially conceived, it was written using Paleo-Hebrew pictographs.  What this means is, the original authors, as well as contemporaries of the time, read the Hebrew Bible from the perspective of Paleo-Hebrew.  So to truly grasp what the authors wished to convey, we must first understand the language in which they communicated.  By doing so, we, as scholars, are introduced to exciting new revelations.  And once furnished with this new information, we can then investigate alternate interpretations of scripture...which in essence, is what Kabbalah study is all about.

The Modern Hebrew Alphabet

As the years passed, new inventions sparked revolutions in the way humans interacted with one another.  One such invention was the use of papyrus (paper) for written communication.  Before the creation of papyrus, scribes carved pictographs directly into stone walls, or clay tablets, using nothing but small, hand held tools.  As you can imagine, this was a strenuous and time consuming affair.  When paper emerged onto the scene however, it markedly simplified the process.  Overnight, reading and writing became more accessible.  As a result, Paleo-Hebrew scribes were able to morph their native pictographic writing, into systems better suited to paper.  Over time this lead to a shortened, more precise version of the language.  

Between the years 600-300 BCE, the exodus from pictographs finally reached its crescendo.  Following the Babylonian captivity, Jewish scholars began adopting the Aramaic alphabet in lieu of its native counterpart.  At the time, Aramaic was the linga franca of the Middle Eastern world, so by incorporating its alphabet, Hebrew texts became more intelligible to the masses.  Many historians believe the Aramaic alphabet was also desirable over pictographs because it employed a practical, yet novel approach to written communication.  You see, the Aramaic script, much like the English alphabet, utilizes a phonetic alphabet.  In phonetic alphabets, each individual symbol, termed a grapheme, expresses a sound, rather than an idea or concept.  So by switching to a phonetic system, Hebrew words more closely matched their actual pronunciations.  

The modern Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 such graphemes, with each letter representing a specific sound, similar to the English alphabet.  Unlike the English alphabet however, every letter of the Hebrew equivalent has retained its original name, and meaning.  To help demonstrate the importance of this distinction, let's focus on first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph.  In the Hebrew language, the word Aleph translates to Ox; whereas the first letter of the English alphabet, is simply called A.  Outside of its pronunciation, the letter A has limited meaning.  It's true, the English language does incorporate the letter A as an article, but in itself, the letter has no deeper connotations, or hidden symbology.  Aleph on the other hand, carries the literal meaning of Ox in Hebrew, as previously stated, but it also inherits the characteristics typically associated with an Ox.  Qualities like strength, endurance, and dependability, are also expressed with the letter Aleph.  In fact, the concepts are so intertwined, that the Paleo-Hebrew pictograph for Aleph actually is an Ox.  To ancient Paleo-Hebrew speakers, they were one in the same.  Not only that, but if a Hebrew word contains the letter Aleph, that word will likely share some of these characteristics.  Especially if the word in question, begins with the letter Aleph.  

Let's drive this point home with quick example.  In Hebrew, the word for father is abba, and is spelled Aleph Bet Aleph.  As you can see, the letter Aleph surrounds the letter Bet.  In order to access the letter Bet, one must first pass by, or at least acknowledge the presence of, the letter Aleph.  Now, the second letter of the word abba, Bet, translates to house in Hebrew.  So to ancient Hebrew speakers, a father was envisaged as an Ox, standing on both sides of a house, or, on either side of the house, depending on the context.  Given our new understanding of pictographs, and how they're commonly interpreted, we can now see how Paleo-Hebrew speakers saw the father figure; As a person with strength, will, and endurance...who protects the home, on all sides.  Pretty amazing isn't it?  How three simple pictures (pictographs) can express such love and devotion.  Feelings that are today as relevant as they were thousands of years ago.  Simply by considering how the ancients interacted with their world, we're able to experience words how they did, as if we were in ancient times.  

Admittedly, thinking along these lines does take some getting used to.  Mainly because in the West, we've been taught to process information differently.  But, like everything in life, with practice it gets easier and easier.  Eventually, interpreting words, verses,