The Letter Tav — study | Rav Ziegler zatsal
Letter study · ת · value 400

The Letter Tav

The mark, the seal, and the last place
A teaching of Rav Haim Ziegler zatsal · Éditions Gueoula
Translated from the French original; the French version remains the reference text.
The Letter Tav
The mark, the seal, and the last place

The tav came forward first, though it is the last letter.

It came forward because it ends אֱמֶת (emet), truth — the seal.

It was answered: you are My seal, and through you also begins what speaks of death.

Its value is four hundred, the highest of the simple letters.

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1 The Zohar account
“Master of the world, create the world through me, for through me ends emet, truth, which is Your seal.”

The answer came: you are worthy, and you are My seal of truth. But precisely because you are so precious, you cannot begin creation. And through you also begins what speaks of death.

The letters came forward from the last to the first: the tav opened the procession, and the alef kept silent. The first to speak was not the first to receive.
2 The seal

אֱמֶת (emet) begins with the alef, passes through the mem and ends with the tav: first, middle and last — truth takes it all.

The tav is the mark: what is written at the end to say that the thing is finished and that it is true.

3 The last place

Four hundred: the highest value of the simple letters, and the last place in the alphabet.

Whoever has gone through the Torah “from alef to tav” has gone through all of it. The letter carries completion.

Did you follow the study?

Four questions on the letter tav.

1
In what order did the letters come forward?
And the alef, the first, kept silent.
2
Why did the tav come forward?
“You are called Truth, and I am the mark of Your truth.”
3
Which word is made of the first letter, a middle one and the last?
Truth takes it all, from beginning to end.
4
What is the value of the tav?
The highest value of the simple letters.

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