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In modern languages, words are generally understood
to be spellings of sounds. Definitions are determined by usage,
shifting with times and changing vernaculars. Sometimes the original
meanings survive, and sometimes they don't. This is as true of
modern Hebrew as it is of English.
The ancients, however, had a much richer and
more organic sense of language. Language was acknowledged
to be the gift of HaShem, and words were seen not as spellings
of sounds, but as operations of the interacting principles reflected
in creation itself. It is for this reason that the Paleo-Hebrew
alefbet is known as "the letters of creation." For
comparison of what is offered here with traditional views of
the Hebrew alefbet, I recommend Rabbi Ginsburgh's presentation
at The
Inner-Dimension website.
These pages are dedicated to restoring the
parameters of the original Hebrew, the fountainhead of all Western
languages. This knowledge will prepare us to better understand
sacred texts, and it will also prepare us to take advantage of
the full potential of the Latinate languages. Words are power.
These pages demonstrate why.
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