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I did not make Myself known to
them by My name YHWH.
The text makes it clear that the name YHWH—known in scholarship as the
Tetragrammaton (Greek for “four letters”)—is of great significance, marking a new
era in ancient Israelite history, but it offers no explanation for its meaning.
This name of the God of Israel occurs over 6.800 times in the Hebrew Bible.
RAMBAM
Moses Maimonides or Rambam (1138-1204), Judaism’s chief exponent of the
rationalist tradition, holds that all divine names, except the Tetragrammaton,
“correspond to the actions existing in the world, which reflect the different
characteristic the name designates. As he states, they derive from actions. Simply
put, since a fundamental premise of his negative theology is that God possesses no
attributes, the referent of these names is not God but rather phenomena in the
natural word. Since nature is linked to God by virtue of it being His creation, a
particular name or attribute is then semiotically reoriented toward God in His
capacity as the remotest cause in the long chain of natural causation.
For Maimonides, YHWH is the one name of God that signifies pure divine essence
stripped of all attributes.In fact, it is so detached from history and humanity that
Maimonides draws on a midrash which considers God and the name YHWH to
have preceded the creation of the world as an endorsement of this proposition.
KABBALAH
There are many more meanings for this image since our wise Kabbalists do not
stop discovering new mysteries for these four letters that contain a brutal analogy,
one of the last revealed secrets for these four letters tells us that Yud Hey and Vav
Hey separately add the Gematria of Noah's ark above and below, the same
dimensions, in Noah's time the name of God YUD HEY VAV HEY was separated, it
was split in half and that is why the ark served as a bond of union, a necklace,
Rashi is the one who best explains this secret to us, the ark was 15 cubits above
the water (YUD HEY = 15) and 11 cubits submerged in the water (VAV HEY = 11)
and these measurements together make 26, the face is 30 total height cubits, the
remaining 4 cubits are the four letters YUD HEI VAV HEI, in fact it is said that the
highest mountain stood 15 cubits below the ark, with which between the highest
point and the lowest part of the ark there are 4 cubits, "the creator of the universe."
The perfection in the mindo will happen when the two halves of the name are put
together again. Zechariah says it clearly ... "On that day God will be ONE (without
idolatry) and his name will be ONE (YUD HEY VAV HEY united).
YHWH And The Four Worlds
The four worlds correspond to the four letters of the tetragrammaton, the sacred
name for God, YHWH.Each letter corresponds to a world. It represents the process
through which creation occurs. The multi-level dynamics of reality itself and the
individual. In other words, each letter corresponds to a layer of our being, which
corresponds to a layer of reality itself.
Yud, Y, corresponds to the world of atziluth, the archetypal world. According to one
of the ways of seeing this fourfold relationship, it is 'the father.' It is supra-rational
creativity. It is expressive by nature. Creative and intentional, yet transcendental
and infinite.
Hey, H, corresponds to the world of briah, the creative world. The word used for
'creative,' briah, implies creation from nothing. This is the first potential for anything
non-infinite. It is 'the mother.' It is the subconscious. It is the backdrop, the prima
materia, the initial elastic substance which allows for all mental and physical
phenomena.
Vav, W, corresponds to the world of yetzirah, the world of formation. Formation,
yetzirah, implies giving specific shape to something which already exists. This is the
realm of our regular, conscious mind. Our mental tendencies, thoughts, intentions,
all the ways in which we use our minds, correspond to the world of yetzirah, which
corresponds to 'the son.' Creation is like a pulse which flows through Y to H to W to
H, and then heads right back in the other direction. This is a continuous, back and
forth exchange. Thus, to say our use of mind creates reality does not cover the
entirety of the process of how creation works. However, our use of mind does
represent the manner in which the creative pulse returns to its spiritual source from
this physical realm.
This physical realm corresponds to the final Hey,H, which is the world of assiah, the
world of action. This is 'the daughter,' or 'the bride.' Everything physical falls under
the world of assiah.
Again, creation is a pulse flowing back and forth through the name YHWH, through
the four worlds. It is an ongoing process, always occurring. It occurs in the world at
large, and in your world and being. To affect the world of assiah, take control of your
actions. To affect the world of yetzirah, take control of your mind. Then the depths
of the subconscious can be perceived and advantageously utilized. And then the
infinite creative will can be attained to. 'As above, so below.' Our physical actions
are mirrored throughout the four worlds, as are our mental actions. We ourselves
affect the spiritual realms through our thoughts and deeds. And in so doing, the
impulse is returned into our mental and physical realities.
MEDITATION
The visualization of this image that reveals the Godliness of each person, is a form
of prayer, of Jewish meditation:
1-Sit opposite someone and let him/her know you are going to visualize the Yud
Hey Vav Hey in his/her body and field of being while chanting the sacred phrase
above.
2-While chanting this phrase to your partner, begin by seeing a glowing yud upon
her forehead.
3 Then see the light of the yud filling the mind of the person opposite you.
4-Visualize the hey of his/her shoulders, arms, and fingers filling with Shechinah
energy (in Torah, God as the cloud that comes down and fills us with Spirit; in
Kabbalah the energy of the Divine Feminine within self and creation).
4-Now visualize the top part of the vav touching and opening his/her heart and then
filling the spine downwards.
5- Visualize the hey of his/her hips and legs filling with the Shechina energy down
to his/her toes.
6- Continue chanting until s/he is filled in this way a second time.
7- Now have your partner chant this full sequence to you
8- Then simultaneously start to chant to each other
9- This is a way to fulfill the mitzvah found in Deuteromony 6:5, “to love G*d with all
your heart, your soul, and all your resources.” Also a way to "shiviti Shechinah
l'negdi tamid," "to place Shechinah always before me" a visualization of King David
found in Psalm 16:8.
This can also be done alone, imagining someone you are concerned about who is far away, or focusing upon your own body.
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