The Mystical Letter Bet - Part 1: Connection & Relationship - Rabbi Yaakov Marcus

[Music] a word innovator shall I in college and we're studying the mystical Libre alphabet this is the series all the shapes and meanings the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and now we're on the letter Beit and we did before that aaalac represents God's oneness and now we have to figure out what is bait what is the second letter of the alphabet so let's put our olive here and our bait here so what the question is what is the idea of tunas if olive represents oneness right oneness just is what's the idea of tunas so philosophically speaking what would you say it means to be two or two-ish what does the idea of Jewishness anybody and do you have a philosophical idea behind - well if I have one of something it just says if I bring along another thing I have to why it was if I clear everything out of the classroom and I leave a chair and a pencil let's say the chairs made of plastic that's made of wood I have to but what makes them - it chairs not a pencil you can't say it's a couple you know what what makes the chair in the pencil - what would you say a chair and a pencil okay maybe but if I take the pencil and put it in the hallway and just leave the chair do I have to anymore know why because Tunis is the idea of connection or relationship and what made the chair in the pencil - was there connection or relationship to being the only things in the room in other words it was almost like the room made them - and that's why when I moved the pencil in the hall I lost my Tunis and now I have one and I have one because they don't have a connection relationship anymore so oneness just is Tunis is where connection or relationship begins and that's why Beit is the letter connection relationship now if you're familiar at all with Hebrew you'll see that that he in other languages I was tell my students this and other languages grammars designed to punish high school students there's no in Torah Hebrew grammar teaches philosophy so you have to look at how God uses a letter to see the philosophical idea behind it so when you take a bait of connection or relationship and you put it as a prefix okay here's the bait it's a B sound and we're gonna put it as a prefix behind a common Hebrew now let's take the word by it the word by it means house but what happens if I put a bait of connection or relationship in front of the word by it I say bye-bye it what is buh-bye it means in the house right so bait becomes the preposition for in or with and and that's the most connective preposition there is you can't be more connected to house unless you become a brick right the best way to be connect this to be in it so in and with or intensely connected prepositions and bait is the letter of connection relationship so it's used grammatically to connect okay so interesting that the tour doesn't start with an olive because the tour record started with an olive would be hinting that it's a book about God really the start of the tour starts with a bait actually an extra-large baby the first word in the tour is Bray she it begins with a bait so what is that a hint the tour must be a book about how to connect to God that's exactly right throws a book of connection and that's why it starts with the letter Beit okay so now we have the letter of connection or relationship bait and connections or relationships can be positive or negative right two things could be connected positively or they could be disconnected but this connective is still defining a relationship that makes sense connection relationship don't have to be positive so for example if I say this is the person I married so that's a positive or connective relation say this is a person I'm divorced that's a negative or disconnected relation but it still defines a relationship the person your divorce is is still called a relationship it's just a disconnection relation if I say I've never seen this person before my life so that's not tunas that's called one and one because there's no connection relation positive or negative now if you look at the turret there's lots of examples of tunas there are connected tuna system disconnected tuna there are marriages that are connected there are Wars and disconnection yaakov an ace of his brother are disconnected tunas damansara the founders of the Jewish people in a marriage are connected to us so you'll find lots of you'll find lots of two's in the Torah that are both positive and negative it's interesting that if you look at all the examples of things that connect or relate to each other you'll see there probably more examples of disconnected tunas then connected tuna salmon are even though you find Bo and the reason is because the whole purpose of creation is connection back to God everything represents some stage of disconnection from that goal and that needs to be overcome so there's a lot of disconnected tunas that you have to work on overcoming invitar an easy example of disconnected tunas is the second day of creation on day one God separates light from darkness he calls it good on day two god takes water which is a metaphor for connection whenever you see water in the tower you have to think metaphorically connection what it connects the continents together your bodies are mostly water when you immerse yourself in water you're more connected to it than if you immerse yourself in sand or snow or dirt or whatever water represents your ability to connect yourself to lie commercial zone the zone and actually in high school chemistry they taught you that water is the universal solvent because it connects more things together on the plan than anything else so what are the medical for connection on day two God disconnects the metaphor for connection into upper water lower water and when you're creating a universe obviously there's no up-and-down so what is upper water mean and what does lower water meaning and the rabbi's explained that upper water means metaphorically your ability to connect to God and lower-level water represents your ability to connect to your BMW or the internet or shopping or whatever it is and that's distant from God so the idea that God has to create a world of equal but opposite disconnection up or whatever is lower water because water is water's water it's all the same thing creates a pain in creation that allows for you either to connect to God or to spend your life connecting to the wrong things and that's why only day two out of the six days of creation is not called good every other day of creation day one - three - four - five - six are all called good except for day two because they two is so disconnected and potentially creates the ability you know of the free it's necessary for free will but the ability to connect the wrong things for the rest of your life is white day - is not called good and that's an easy example of disconnect of Tunis right there in the early paragraphs of the Torah you