The Letter Heh — study | Rav Ziegler zatsal
Letter study · ה · value 5

The Letter Heh

Breath, window, and the door left open for return
A teaching of Rav Haim Ziegler zatsal · Éditions Gueoula
Translated from the French original; the French version remains the reference text.
The Letter Heh
Breath, window, and the door left open for return

The heh came forward because it appears twice in the Name.

It was answered that it is too light to found, and open below: everything escapes through it.

But that opening is a mercy: it is the letter of teshuvah, through which one comes back.

Its value is five: the five books, the five levels of the soul, the five fingers.

📖 Read the lesson
1 The Zohar account
“Master of the world, create the world through me, for I am in Your Name, and appear there twice. I am the letter of breath, of revelation, the window through which Your light enters.”

The answer came: you are in My Name and you are precious, but you are too light to carry a foundation. And you are open below: everything escapes there.

That is why you are the letter of return: even one who has fallen comes back through your opening.
2 Breath, and the Name

The heh is the letter of breath: it cannot be pronounced without breathing out.

It appears twice in the Name: the first heh for the world above, the final heh for the world below, and the vav joining them between.

3 The value five

Five as the five books of the Torah; five as the levels of the soul — nefesh, ruah, neshamah, hayah, yehidah; five as the fingers of the acting hand.

Did you follow the study?

Four questions on the letter heh.

1
Why did the heh come forward?
The letter of breath and revelation.
2
What objection was raised against it?
Everything escapes through that opening — and through it one returns.
3
What is that opening a sign of?
Even one who has fallen can come back.
4
What does the value five carry?
Nefesh, ruah, neshamah, hayah, yehidah.

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