John D. Brey
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The Jewish sages tell us that this world was created with a heh ה while the next world, the world-to-come, is created with a yod י. So it’s ironic that the heh ה is a yod י covered up by a dalet ד. And it’s more ironic that when Ha-adam is transformed from a woman to a man, the letter representing a man in Ha-adam’s belly, the yod א–י–ש is moved from Ha-adam’s belly, or rib, and hidden under the dalet of Eve אשה. The seed of Ha-adam becomes the seed of the woman (Eve) once Ha-adam is transformed into a man (Gen. 2:21).
In Daniel Matt's translation of the Zohar (Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1, p. 9), Matt quotes the Zohar: "Then the letter ה (he) departs and י (yod) enters, and She adorns Herself in masculine clothing in the presence of every male in Israel." --- Matt's note on the passage states, "The letter ה (he) signifies the feminine; the letter י (yod) , the masculine. When the masculine powers of the sefirot reach Shekhinah, She is transformed from feminine to masculine . . .."
In the same sense that the letter heh ה signifies the feminine, so too the yod י signifies the masculine. Which is significant in the sense that the heh ה is thus emblematic of the female form being the temple, or outer man-ifestation of masculinity: the female is the house of the male; his home or temple. The heh ה is a picture of androgyny, or or better, the gynandros, since the letter itself is female, but is made up of a veil, the dalet ד, hiding the letter representing the male, i.e., the yod י.
When ha-adam is transformed from a female to a male (Gen. 2:21), the male inside ha-adam is removed such that Eve's body is cloned around the male seed removed from ha-adam just prior to ha-adam's labial flesh being sutured to form the chimera of masculinity, the phallus.
Ironically this is pictured in the sacred pictograms, or glyphs, the hieroglyphs, of the sacred Hebrew text, when ha-adam is called איש (a yod י hidden inside the word for fire אש) while Eve is called אשה, whereby the yod י in איש is removed from איש and placed under a dalet ד to form the letter heh ה at the end of the word for Eve אשה.
The noting of the fact that אש is the word for "fire" such that the yod of God, the yad of God, the lad of God, or the yid of God, is hidden in a fiery bush, gains its significance when we understand that God tells Moses (Exodus 23:2) that his name is in the fiery angel sent to guard Israel in their exodus. We're thus keyed in to the fact that this fiery angel is the "burning bush" where Moses himself first spied the outer garment of God as a burning bush in the middle of which is the tree of life, the right hand/yad of God.
Just as ha-adam removes the yad from the middle of his garden such that it's thereafter found as the seed of the woman, Eve, so too, the yad of God in the burning bush is removed from the burning bush and place inside Israel for safe keeping. Israel is a latter-day (corporate) version of Eve.
As Eve's first conception was in truth Abel, such that Cain is a usurper, like Perez, so too Israel's first conception was Christ, such that the AntiChrist, given the keys to the throne by Israel, is, like Cain, a usurper. Adam and Eve favored the second born (Cain) over the true firstborn (Abel) as Israel will favor the AntiChrist over Christ.
27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins [were] in her womb.
28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that [the one] put out [his] hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
Genesis 38.
28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that [the one] put out [his] hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
Genesis 38.
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