The Letter Vav — study | Rav Ziegler zatsal
Letter study · ו · value 6

The Letter Vav

The hook, the link, the standing pillar
A teaching of Rav Haim Ziegler zatsal · Éditions Gueoula
Translated from the French original; the French version remains the reference text.
The Letter Vav
The hook, the link, the standing pillar

The vav came forward because it is in the Name, where it joins the two hehs.

It was answered: you are the link, not the beginning; you join what exists, you do not bring it into being.

Its value is six: the six days, the six directions, the six orders of the Mishnah.

In Hebrew the vav is the word “and”: it joins words, sentences, things.

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1 The Zohar account
“Master of the world, create the world through me, for I am in Your Name and there I join the two hehs. I am the letter of connection, and I am also the word and, which unites all things.”

The answer came: you are indeed the link, and precisely for that reason you cannot begin. You join what already exists. You will remain in My Name as the central pillar, the upright link from heaven to earth.

2 The shape: a pillar

The vav is a simple upright stroke: a pillar joining what is above to what is below.

The teaching: a man must be that pillar — standing, upright, joining what he receives to what he does.
3 The word “and”

The vav placed before a word means and. “Heaven and earth”: the vav says they are not two unrelated worlds.

Six: the six days of creation, the six directions of space — up, down, north, south, east, west — and the six orders of the Mishnah.

Did you follow the study?

Four questions on the letter vav.

1
What does the vav do inside the Name?
The first heh, the world above; the final heh, the world below.
2
Why can it not begin creation?
It joins what already exists.
3
What does the vav placed before a word mean?
“Heaven and earth”: the vav states the relation between them.
4
What does the value six carry?
Up, down, north, south, east, west.

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