What the Treatises Showed
The six keys: Talmud, Zohar and Sefer Yetzirah, commentators, gematria, points of articulation, modern research.
The alef: one form, one value, one breath, three readings.
The pe-resh family: six words, one gesture — separating in order to bring forth.
And the word דבר (davar), which in Hebrew means both the word and the thing.
The six keys. Talmud, Zohar and Sefer Yetzirah, classical commentators, gematria, points of articulation, modern research: six ways into one letter.
The alef. Two yods and a vav; the value one; the first breath; aluf, ulfana, pele.
The pe-resh family. To separate, to plough, to bear fruit, to explain, to breach, to detail: one gesture under six words.
The comparative argument. What Hebrew holds together and languages of convention do not — with the reservation that this can be set out, but not demonstrated.
This is where the whole course arrives: in the sacred language the word is not a label placed on the thing, it states its essence.
The elements of creation are then received as utterances become matter.
Tradition, the study of roots and modern observation converge — and a convergence is not a demonstration.
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Four questions of synthesis.