{"id":568,"date":"2020-08-05T12:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=568"},"modified":"2020-08-26T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:06:09","slug":"divine-light-and-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/divine-light-and-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Light and Healing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Torah begins with the the famous words “in the beginning [God] created” (\u05d1\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05c1\u05d9\u05ea \u05d1\u05e8\u05d0) which some sages say can be read as “it was created for the head” (\u05d1\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05c1 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d1\u05e8\u05d0), referring first of all to the Messiah who is the head over all (Col. 2:10), but also to the intellect or mind that reflects the image of God. Recall that the first act of creation was that of light: “God said, ‘Let there be light, and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). Now light itself is a mysterious thing – a “wave” or a “substance” depending on how you consider it – a connection between the spiritual and the physical realms.<\/p>\n

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In Hebrew light is called “ohr” (\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8), a word formed from three letters Aleph (\u05d0), Vav (\u05d5), and Resh (\u05e8). The letter Aleph is the \u201cfather\u201d of the Aleph-Bet, whose original pictograph represents an ox, symbolizing strength. It\u2019s numerical value is one and it is a silent letter. Aleph therefore is preeminent in its order and alludes to the ineffable mysteries of the oneness of God. Indeed, the word aluph (derived from the name of this letter) means \u201cMaster\u201d or \u201cLord.\u201d Note that Aleph is formed from the letter Vav with two Yods (\u05d9), one ascending and the other descending. The gematria for these parts add up to 26 (Yod+Yod+Vav), the same number as the sacred Name YHVH (\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4), also indicating a link between the \u201cthree-in-one\u201d Aleph and God Himself. The letter Vav (\u05d5) originally looked like a hook or nail, and in Biblical Hebrew it is used as connective prefix meaning “and.” Symbolically Vav pictures a conduit or connection between heaven and earth. The letter Resh (\u05d5), as mentioned above, represents the head, and by extension, intelligence, the mind (\u05dc\u05b5\u05d1\u05b8\u05d1), comprehension, uncovering (\u1f00\u03bb\u1f75\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1), remembering, and revelation.<\/p>\n

The Torah is called “light\u201d in Prov. 6:23 (\u05ea\u05bc\u05d5\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05d5\u05b9\u05e8), and the Word of God brings light to the heart as it says, “Your word is a light to my path\u201d (Psalm 119:105) that \u201cenlightens my eyes\u201d (Psalm 19:8) and \u201cimparts understanding\u201d (Psalm 119:130). YHVH is called our light and our salvation (Psalm 27:1), just as Yeshua is the creative force of reality (John 1:1-3) who embodies the divine light to the world (John 8:12). Light is God’s means of connecting with us through the heart, and divine healing comes from connecting with God through revelation – the “sun of righteousness (\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05de\u05b6\u05e9\u05c1 \u05e6\u05b0\u05d3\u05b8\u05e7\u05b8\u05d4) that shines with healing in his wings” (Mal. 3:20). Yeshua is the heart and healing center of existence who came to deliver people from darkness.<\/p>\n

Now on the other hand the Hebrew verb chalah (\u05d7\u05b8\u05dc\u05b8\u05d4) means to be sick, from a root that means emptiness (\u05d7\u05dc\u05dc) and profanity (\u05d7\u05b9\u05dc). To be sick can symbolically be understood as profane (\u05d7) thinking (\u05dc) regarding the Spirit of God (\u05d4), which suggests that illness and disease result from obstruction of the divine light. Using the same sort of methodology we see that the Hebrew word for healing (\u05e8\u05e4\u05d0) can suggest that when the mind (\u05e8) directs the mouth (\u05e4) to praise God (\u05d0), the soul will experience shalom (\u05e9\u05c1\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd).<\/p>\n

Since the words that are the “vessels” of Torah are themselves Torah, the same can be said of the letters that form them. That is why the Hebrew word for “word” (\u05d3\u05bc\u05d1\u05e8\u05b5) also can mean “thing” or “matter,” and words are regarded as spiritual substances (or molecules) composed from the more basic ideas expressed by the individual letters. Note further that the Hebrew word for letter is ‘ot (\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea), a word that means \u201csign\u201d or \u201cwonder\u201d and that reveals Yeshua the Messiah as the Aleph and Tav, the beginning and the end, of all reality.<\/p>\n

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