You all know my passion
with regard to water.
(For those of you new
to my blog, you can simply use the search at the top of my blog to find other
posts on the subject.)
The premise I’d like
to follow in is post is that the word water in Hebrew shows yet another piece
of Trinitarian philosophy.
Judaism believes
there is much wisdom in each letter of their 22 letter alphabet, hence one of
my favorite books is The Wisdom of the Hebrew Alphabet by Rabbi Michael L. Munk
(I’ll refer to it as WHA in this post.)
The word for water in
Hebrew is mayim, which contains three
Hebrew letters, two mem’s (even
though below they look different) and one yud.
(Here’s the Google piece that I found that shows the letters—remember that
Hebrew goes from right to left.)
Mem can be written
closed or open, representing both the revealed and concealed. Study the picture
included here.
The first mem is open in the word, mayim.
According to WHA, “The open mem points to the obvious, openly revealed glory of
God’s actions.”
Then WHA goes on to
explain, “The closed (final) mem alludes to that part of the Celestial rule
which is concealed from man and to which man submits instinctively and with
perfect, innocent faith. I take this to mean that God is the First Causality
from which all creation flows and that we are not privy to everything related
to how and why He created this reality.
“Taken together, the
open mem and closed mem harmoniously glorify the Kingdom of the Almighty with
the words of King David: Your kingdom is a kingdom spanning all eternities, and
Your dominion is throughout every generation (Psalm 145:13).”
The other letter in
water is the yud. It is the smallest
and most humble letter according to WHA. Also, WHA says, “…is barely larger
than a dot and cannot be divided into component parts. It alludes to Hashem who
is One and Indivisible…” (Hashem meaning “the name” which is to the Jewish
people, the name of God since they do not say the name of God or even write it.)
The yud is smallest letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet as well, representing humility (which Christ humbled himself for us),
but it also represents the metaphysical according WHA. It goes on to say, “In
smallness lies essence…which is devoid of such physical ballast as space, time
or matter…this implies that greatness is achieved through humility.”
Go back
now to the word mayim:
Two of
the same letters with the smallest letter in between. Three letters, great and
small.
Two hydrogen
atoms, one oxygen atom – three atoms all together. Water binds with all other
substances but never forces a bond—like God.
Water came before any other Divine
utterance in Genesis. Why might this be important? How is water important to
us? It sustains life—all life. It washes us. We are made up of 2/3 water. And
these are just a few of the outward symbols. Is God trying to tell us that He
sustains us? Are we even listening?
More to
come next time with atomic numbers of these three atoms that make up water…
