The Language of Creation
Rav Ziegler zatsal taught that Hebrew does not work by convention: in it the word states the essence of the thing.
The file begins with the method — twenty-two meanings are enough — then unfolds the treatises one by one.
Every page distinguishes what the text says, what the Sages understood from it, and what the reading adds.
The method of Rav Ziegler — twenty-two meanings, the synthesis, the rule of verification, and two demonstrations: יד and מים.
Treatise 2 — The six keys to the letters — Talmud, Zohar and Sefer Yetzirah, commentators, gematria, points of articulation, modern research.
Treatise 3 — Alef, the code of unity — two yods and a vav, the value one, the first breath, three readings.
Treatise 4 — The pe-resh family — to separate, to plough, to bear fruit, to explain, to breach, to detail.
Treatise 5 — The comparative argument — Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Hebrew; the thirty-two paths; what measurement does not prove.
Treatise 6 — What the treatises showed — the synthesis, and the word davar which means both the word and the thing.
The keyboard of letters — the way into the letter-by-letter studies.
All the lessons of Rav Ziegler — back to the Rav’s page.
Three opening questions
To place the file before reading it.