@trcmf Do it. Start! My first encounter with Hebrew was several years ago in a biblical lecture of Old Testament, and recently a sudden light inside has driven me, out of nowhere, to seek and learn the letters and to seriously start studying the Old Testament. One thought inside my mind said to me that it's going to be too complicated and stop before starting, and right after this thought, another thought came into my heart and assured me I am watched over and start doing it because help will be granted. Immediately my heart felt joy of the second thought. So....taking the courage to pray and start doing it! Godspeed to you!

Oh nice! Chabad.org has a great free resource too called Letters of Light that does a great job at making each letter memorable.

@@_magnify Greatly appreciated. Thank you !

What is the title of this book?

​@@mariajjenkins I too would like to know

no it isnt

​@@dresdiSuccesfully revitalized

@@user_finland it isn't the only one to do that 😂😂. first of all hebrew was never really dead, it was a liturgical language like sanskrit, coptic and latin, and second of all many actually dead languages (like manx) have been revived. just another case of zionists thinking they're the centre of the world

@@dresdiim not saying youre wrong, but it would be more constructive to provide examples

​@@dresdiYes it is...? Lol

Three comments. 1. In biblical hebrew it sometimes means "with", as in "ויתהלך חנוך את האלקים" (Hanoch walked with G-d). 2. It usually appears the definite article heh, not just in modern Hebrew but in biblical Hebrew as well, and 3. Biblical exegetists find additonal meaning in its inclusion, treating it as not absolutely mandated by grammar, therefore included to hint that there is an additional case included not explicitly mentioned in the text. For example "כבד את אביך ואת אמך" (Honor your father and mother) uses the construct, thus implying that there is someone else not explicitly mentioned who should also be honored (taken to be older brother, for example).

@@tesilab994 So I will start with the third claim, first of all you wrote "עת" which means "time" and this is not true both in Exodus and in Deuteronomy it says "את" with א' so check your spelling. As I wrote, "את" is a word that indicates known and comes with the known God, but your father and your mother are already known words in Hebrew because they come with an inflection, like in English you don't say the -your father or the -your mother, so "את" comes alone without ה' (=the) I honestly can't understand the second claim, maybe it's a translation gap. Regarding the first claim, yes "את" without an inflection can be used to denote the word "with" , but this usually only happens with names in modern Hebrew because that's how it was used in the Bible. I didn't mention it because in the examples in the video he tried to prove that "את" is not translated

It's a definite direct object marker

@@tzvi7989 also indicating accusative case then (someone else said this)? In German you would use a specifically changed article to indicate the direct object: for many words that might be "den"

@@moonhunter9993 yeah but only in that way

Same

As with 99% of English words being mispronounced by Americans I’m at the point where it’s an accent at this stage. Like with names of F1 drivers, or the famous “apartheid” that they pronounce as “ay-paart-hide” rather than “ah-parrt-hade”

@@TinyFord1 apartheid is a myth 🇮🇱💙🤍

I’m a Goy from Monterey California. I married a gorgeous girl from the Mountains of Kentucky (whose ancestors were Jewish). After 52 years I still have trouble understanding her accent. If it were up to Solomon he’d cut us half into. BTW, you are helping me understand the first chapter of John in the Christian Bible.

We dont call everyone goy​@@DrBible-ThD-HarvardLaw

Yes, it means specifically. Learned this in Ulpon. Never-the-less it has an alternate meaning here of aleph to tov.

have you understood what he meant when he said God created the Alphabet in the very first sentence? 'Cause to what i can see, we don't ignore the word, we may not translate the word but we translate the sense (which is part of translation, as word-for-word would get confusing). B:rešhit bara AElohim et HaŠhamajim w:et HaAraez i don't see where there is an Alphabet here? Why then just here, if - i just guess - et is one of the most frequent words in the old testament and i'm sure there are similiar usages here...

Yep, good explanation. In addition to the grammatical function you were describing here, many rabbis teach that את also serves a ceremonial function.

accusative case 🤦‍♂️

Right, saying that את (et) has a meaning is like saying Japanese は (wa)/が (ga) and Hawaiian 'o have meaning too.

אחי עברית תנכית שונה, דבר יכול להיות גם מילה או משפט , למשל "דברי המלך", מילות המלך, וגם בטן יכול גם להיות מיוחס לרחם לדוגמא , "פרי בטנה".

@@rtg8709 תודה על התיקון😅 אני מניחה שדיברתי על המילים לפי המשמעות המודרנית הכי נפוצה שלהן.

@@rtg8709 אני עדיין לא מבין אבל כיצד אפשר לפרש את "בראשית ברא אלוהים את" בתור האלף-בית, הרי אפילו בשפה תנכית אם המילה "את" הייתה מיוחסת לשם עצם כשלעצמו אז המשפט לא היה תקין יותר.

A small correction for the small correction - Beten is belly, the word for stomach is Keiva (קיבה).

​@@dennis1790זה מיסטיסיזם תנכי, התנך ידוע בזה שניתן לתת לו פרשנויות שמתנגשות אחת עם השנייה, זה הבסיס לתושב"ע.

This is not biblical scholarly, this is jewish mysticism, and makes less sense when you look at it more closely... Famous example, te hebrew verb לספר means both to tell a story and to cut hair (the initial lamed just means “to“). There is no explanation whatsoever as to why that is...

@@adrianblake8876, you mean you haven’t found an explanation? Have you ever been in a barbershop or beauty salon?

@@seanvogel8067 the one which the barber gossips!? Heard about it, but it's like "the ear gives balance“, a folk etymology at best...

Actually, the example you gave might be grammatically correct and bare the same meaning as with "et". I say might because it is still debated among scholars if "et" is necessary. Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, had a public stance against using "et", like he had nothing more urgent to deal with.

@@eladthehatter I mean, sure? Technically? But not really, and that is not a commonly used sentence structure in the Bible at all. But, again, I don't hold strong opinions about this, I think it's a nice idea and is enjoyable, even if I don't think it's true per say

Exactly. The linguistics in this video are off, to say the least

It is less true for Hebrew for the reason explained. It's not obvious in the "modern" (less than 2500 year old) square script, but the old letters look like the things they mean. (He flashes a chart up which shows them). So the written language, rather than being just phonetic (like Greek, etc) or just pictographic (like Chinese), is both. A naturalistic hypothesis might be that a group of rather intelligent slaves made up a secret language (a conlang) to exchange messages among themselves, using a few hieroglyphics as a starting point. So it looks intelligently designed because (like the banana) it was.

@@michaelmicek that's not really the case. The old Hebrew letters, called paleo-Hebrew, was borrowed from (and is nearly identical to) the Phoenician script. The letters look like the objects they were named after precisely because they were developed from a photographic script, viz. hieroglyphics. It's not a secret conlang (its simply a writing system, Hebrew and Canaanitic were languages long before the advent of writing), and it's not unique to Hebrew because the script wasnt even originally used for hebrew. Thus, the spelling of Hebrew words reveals no hidden meaning based on the letter shapes: hebrew words already meant what they did before writing came to record it, and the objects and shapes used to create the Phoenician script were completely arbitrary.

​@@weirdlanguageguy Highly agree with you, as a native speaker, I felt that he barely any research. When he said about the supposed random creation of English words (which is wrong), I thought he would talk about how the Hebrew root system works. Well too bad that I expected he would actually do research. Instead he went on about the connection between the letter and how it looks. While yes, it's true, he then starts connect it to the words themselves which at that point has crossed line from just not based on research but based on speculation that slightly related to reality to complete pseudo science not backed up by anything. Proof of that is the wrong pronounciation and the wrong translations (for example, בטן means stomach but he translated it to womb somehow). And the part where he starts talking about את is where it's only random rambling, because את is the definite object marker and has no equivalent to English and because of it shouldn't be translated, and it got absouletly nothing to do with א to ת. Anyways, it feels like the video was either made out of speculations or out of unreliable sources (considering that in the video appears a rabbi who isn't neccesary an actual Hebrew speaker, I wouldn't be surprised why the video is so inaccurate)

@@user-wc5mg5wc4k good to hear a native speaker confirm this! Esoteric pseudolinguistics has unfortunately been a mainstay in certain religious circles for centuries.

Yaaaa, go for it!

Learn biblical Hebrew, not the constructed language invented by Zionists.

by learning a language that reads from right to left, you boost your IQ by at least ten points.. worth it

Boosting the iq by 001 🤣

you should learn Hebrew! as a native Hebrew speaker I can confirm this is a really cool language, for example this video and my opinion. in Hebrew there are many words that are some way connected but have a different meaning, so once you know one word and learn another you can see the resemblance between them. for example; "צדק" (tsedek) means right/justice, and "צדקה" (tsdaka) means charity. it has similar pronunciation and meaning because "tsdaka" is like saying "justice for ___". that's just something I've noticed (:

That is not true given there are many places in the Tanakh where a direct object pointer should have been used and it is not or where it ought not be used and it is. The great scholars of the past were leaning to the et as having divine significance. It all changed when the southern kingdom living in Jerusalem killed the suffering servant of Isaiah 52

@@MrConsto It's just a direct object marker... (I speak Hebrew) זה לא משהו מיוחד, זה רק מייצג את האובייקט במשפט. יש לך דוגמאות של התנך שאמורות להראות את זה?

That's also why people, after medieval times, started adding middle names tho their kids. The middle name was kinda of a secret , and nobody would tell their middle names to untrustworthy people because it meant they could be cursed by the person who knew their whole name. That's also why when you watch a movie about possession, the prist will command the demon to say it's name and submit to the will of the prist, a representative of God on earth.

Hmm yes naming something is sort of an ownership thing. In this way you get to choose something about something else.

and it also shows our dominion over all living creatures, given God Himself told us to name them all.

And it just solidifies me that we imagined this authorship since we made language.

Is that why we don't know God's true name?

Hieroglyphs are the same, tho, and where the Hebrew letters originated (hence the meaning of each letter). It's a bit like Japanese letters coming from Chinese characters (or hieroglyphs). It would have been interesting, if hieroglyphs had been kept in the West, too. Apparently they were considered too difficult (plus holy) for the average person, which is how "demotic" (people) scripts developed. A bit like Korean characters. So I'd say what's really special about China isn't so much that it came up with hieroglyphs (like the Egyptians or the Maya), but that apparently a large enough portion of the population learned to read them to make their continued use feasible. And have it spread across a wider area. And lo and behold, the nations that adopted Chinese characters are still among the most educated in the world. Personally, that amazes me even more. 🙂☝️

@@simonspethmann8086 It's been suggested that the western alphabet, i.e. Latin alphabet, especially with the English language allowed for so much abstraction that it caused or allowed for more innovation. Some say this is why the west is more inventive and innovative than the eastern cultures that use pictograms.

@@jakeaurodSuggested by whom? As someone who knows both languages, that sounds ridiculous.

Korean doesn't have characters, it's a phonetic alphabet. Maybe they appear to the layman as characters, but they're not.​@@simonspethmann8086

but then there's the ateji "i like to eat longevity-administer"

Japanese Kanji are a subset of Chinese characters, the Chinese invented most of them

@@notwithouttext why are you everywhere lol

@@brighthades5968 intersection of videos you watch and videos i comment on has population of at least 3

only difference is each of those actually have meaning, whereas this is just looking too far into coincedences

Funny thing is it says so on the screen when he shows the table... DirObjM (5:10 in blue)

@Adrian Blake he does but i still don't like the way the video is framed

@@whatno5090 It's introducing jewish mysticism, which has many plot holes. He explained “b“ means “in“ because the letter means “house“, but if the letter “l“ means royalty and “g“ means giving, why is “l“ the preposion of “to“ and not “g“? And it doesn't explain unrelated homonyms or basic root word. (the etymology of garden in hebrew js that it comes from the word “protect“, not that it's a combo of letters “give seed"...

The Aleph Tav את isn’t just a thing. The Aleph Tav את is very very important for us. Yahawahshi HaMashiach את is the ET את. Proper name meaning or just proper names period are very very important to know whom we are referring to, taking to or about. Respect for the name is the up most important. “If are MADE in HIS image then CALL US BY OUR NAME!” Ericka Badu

@@adrianblake8876Good points.

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Its basically how modern German is structured, excluding its phonetic alphabet. Its a bundle of small words stacked into almost sentences to form compound words which describe an object- obviously quite different than Hebrew and the languages you've mentioned here, but still has that modular characteristic of words being almost their own simple sentences withing sentences. It seems appears missing in most other languages today.

Yay! Glad you found me here!

Alef🏕 beit🏘 gimel 🐫

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In mathematics aleph is used to represent cardinality with infinite sets that can be well ordered. I would recommend looking up aleph numbers.

Hey, thanks for the encouragement 🙏 Thinking about doing a series of 22 videos on each individual letter!

​@@_magnify You should do it man.

כמובן שהם לא דוברים ילידיים, זה ברור מהמבטאות שלהם

Good thoughts! I definitely wouldn't say it is a precise rule. However, there does seem to be a culture of commonly known connotations surrounding individual Hebrew letters in a way that does not exist in the English alphabet. Are you familiar with the Bouba/Kiki Effect?

@@_magnify I am very familiar with the effect. While I am not sure that I know what you would wish to argue from it, I would beg you first to look at Japanese sound symbolism and onomatopoeia. If there are universal patterns, the Japanese have mastered them. I would say however, that the aura surrounding Hebrew specifically likely emerged with mystical speculation attempting to force connections that don't in fact exist. We should note that the idea that writing held mystical properties emerges in Egypt very much earlier. The idea may well have filtered down. I would argue that if we in english chose to do so we could find just as many connections between letters and meaning as in Hebrew.

@@freddypowell7292 I need to get more into Japanese! I tend to agree with you about Hebrew. There is definitely an impulse in Midrashic Teachers to find, or even force connections. Although then, I think it is interesting to ask what it is about Jewish philosophy that inspired Hebrew teachers to be interested in the character of individual letters, while English poets have not been traditionally interested in that dimension of language.

@@_magnify As I say, the influences are not hard to find. Egypt is probably the start of it, placed alongside various later mystical speculations, whereas in english, we are using a foreign writing system anyway, shared across Europe, and because there was never any conception that English might have been the language used to speak the world into creation. Remember that for the great portion of the history of the english language, the holy texts of the majority of english speakers had to be translated. It is possible that the Lord might have spoken Hebrew, but it seems no less likely to me that Hebrew has a connection only by coincidence, and that he could have spoken any language he wanted. There were claims that latin was the perfect language, or that French was.

@@freddypowell7292 thanks for the thoughts! Just curious, what’s your background in? Seems like you know a good amount about a couple different fields.

Wait there's rules on how you guys create words in Hebrew? That's cool! Could you tell them if it won't bother you

​​@@adryanlucas096 Grammer basically - verbs for example, are made of a root of commonly 3 letters, which you can fit into seven different verbs templates (we call them "buildings" in rough translation), each fit to a different context (or create another meaning entirely, for example - some templates create passive verbs while others create active ones). No to mention each "building" has variations depending on the tense, gender, and prounon used. Basically, two verbs can have the same basic root, but mean different things. In some quirky scenarios, you can have two _identical_ sounding words, but both have different tense, pronoun, and even an entire different meaning. And you can only tell which one is which with context. Languages are quirky basically.

​​​​@@adryanlucas096not to mention, a lot of latin words got "Hebrew'd"(?) in the last decades since its modernisation (if not straight up moved over with on changes). The whole revival let to a lot of new terms to be invented to fit to modern day. It's basic evolution of language. But to elaborate further- nouns get transferred in the most. Most stay in their original form, and are qoute unquote "unofficial". But, if a new word get so popular it earns a verb representation, then you know it is truely successed in intergrating into the hebrew lexicon. It's the grand prize basically.

that's because they're both semitic languages

@@notwithouttext ikr, it's still cool

@@MindlikeConstellations yeah, it's also cool that it relates to greek 'aleph -> alpha bet -> beta lamed -> lambda as for qof that turned into koppa but then it was dropped from the greek alphabet because they didn't have the [q] sound

@@notwithouttext poor koppa, rip...

@@MindlikeConstellations same with vav/waw -> wau -> digamma -> stigma, it disappeared

Good info! Biblical Hebrew uses both. From a modern perspective it seems like בטן is used more for generally "abodomen/belly" and רחם specifically for the uterus, but I would need to look more into what the anatomical understanding was at the time.

@@_magnify Its fascinating! Keep on the good work 🙂

My learning was that ayin is a glottal stop, whereas aleph was silent, taking the sound of the vowel - which to me sounds more like a vowel place holder (for a leading vowel).

@@cigmorfil4101 probably varies in the different languages and dialects that use alphabets/abjads descended from the Phoenician. But from what I read ʼaleph was a glottal stop (the stop sound in "uh-oh") and `ayin was a glottal fricative (sounds more like straining if your language doesn't have this sound) in Phoenician.

@@cigmorfil4101 That's modern Hebrew pronunciation. Ancient Hebrew used aleph for glottal stop and ayin for pharyngeal approximant, similar to modern Arabic ayn.

I had heard that for Ayin, but not Aleph.

@@_magnify Yeah, both sounds are "throaty" sounds and not common in western languages. Ayin I think would be a pharyngeal/epiglottal sound, and Aleph a glottal one, but in modern Israeli Hebrew both are pronounced more or less the same. Of course, all of this varies with language and dialect, since the semitic abjads being the oldest forms of alphabetic writing, their letters sounds have evolved and diverged for thousands of years.

Finally found someone making sense in the comments! This video is based on pure religious interpretation and has no basis in actual linguistics. Aleph does not signify god, its origin is from the word for "bull", with the letter evolving from the likeness of a bull with horns. Two minutes of research will show you that fact. I am a native Hebrew speaker and I agree that this interpretation is very pleasing, but it is pure nonsense.

Makes sense since sky meets horizon.

It literally says it's a definite direct object marker in the video haha and other languages like Japanese have one too. The reason for it in Hebrew is because it used to be written VSO instead of the majority SVO syntax it is written in today. If you have a sentence like ויאכל המלך הכריך how are you going to know which is the subject and which is the object on first glance if you know nothing about the syntax noun order in the sentence?

(literally so the king the sandwich ate, because there's no marker for the direct definite object in that sentence)

And it seems to have become a grammatical feature of Hebrew early on during the first temple period

Tik Tok and wanting to learn more doesn't even sound real in the same sentence 😂

If you are here from TikTok you will have to unlearn virtually everything.

Ah - that explains how he has so many subscribers with only 5 videos. Interesting stuff!

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@@PETERJOHN101 😂

funnily enough, the nylon example is a folk etymology

This is 100% folk etymology. The letters in Hebrew do come from actual words, but they're not necessarily the words he claims they are. For instance, א/alef isn't "god", but "ox". ב/bet is house. ג/gimel is camel, not garden. ד/dalet is door. And so on and so forth. As a natural language, Hebrew's words came about naturally. They were absolutely NOT the result of a process intended to symbolize the word's meaning through its constituent letters.

Still you need to practise many many hours in order to express yourself musically. What you say sounds good poetically but everybody who has ever learned an instrument knows that a beginner could never play anything profound no matter what. Best example I can come up with is that we have 0 histories of a violin player who sounded good from the beginning as far as I know

Absolutely.Amazing.True.

You're right that it originally started with Egyptian hieroglyphs, but Dr.Douglas Petrovich figured out that the Proto-Sinaitic script was in fact Hebrew. He decoded carvings that had previously untranslated. So in fact, all other phonetic alphabets on earth descend from Hebrew. The Alphabet is a gift from God.

​@Ken Jackson From 1000 BCE to 135 CE, a script called Paleo-Hebrew was used to record the original scripts of the Tanakh. Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets are two slight regional variants of the same script. The Samaritans, who remained in the Land of Israel, continued to use the paleo-Hebrew alphabet. During the 3rd century BCE, Jews began to use a stylized, "square" form of the Aramaic alphabet that was used by the Persian Empire (and which in turn had been adopted from the Assyrians), while the Samaritans continued to use a form of the paleo-Hebrew script called the Samaritan alphabet. After the fall of the Persian Empire in 330 BCE, Jews used both scripts before settling on the square Assyrian form. The square Hebrew alphabet was later adapted and used for writing languages of the Jewish diaspora - such as Karaim, the Judeo-Arabic languages, Judaeo-Spanish, and Yiddish. The Hebrew alphabet continued in use for scholarly writing in Hebrew and came again into everyday use with the rebirth of the Hebrew language as a spoken language in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially in Israel. Your words "The Alphabet is a gift from God" reveal your religious point of view, whereas my point of view is secular and scientific. The idea of the letters' creative power finds its greatest vehicle in the Sefer Yezirah, a mystical text of uncertain origin which describes a story of creation highly divergent from that in the Book of Genesis, largely through exposition on the powers of the letters of the alphabet. The supposed creative powers of the letters are also referenced in the Talmud and Zohar. Scholars usually do not agree with this. Moreover, I heard similar things about various other scripts: In Ynglism, a sect of Rodnovery, it is believed that Bukvitsa, a modified version of Cyrillic created by the sect, was used by "Slav-Aryans" since ancient times, each letter carries a mystical meaning, and "universe development code" is encoded within them. Here is also the example of something similar, but with Latin letters: englishcode.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/the-secret-meaning-of-english-letters-s/ Now, onto Douglas Petrovich: According to Mark A. Hassler's review of his book "The world's oldest script", Petrovich’s conclusions needle at multiple critical presuppositions sometimes found among disciples of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies. Not everyone will agree with all of Petrovich’s interpretive decisions on a variety of fronts, such as the identification of the glyphs and letters, the direction of writing (e.g. sinistrograde versus dextrograde), and of course, the transcriptions, translations, and historical significance. To date, adversarial critiques of Petrovich’s work have come from Alan Millard, Christopher Rollston, and Thomas Schneider, to whom Petrovich has posted open responses on his Academia profile page (thebibleseminary.academia.edu/DouglasPetrovich). Did the author accomplish his goal? Time will tell. As Petrovich puts it, “Final judgment as to the accuracy of [my] findings should be reserved for three, four, or five decades after publication, not determined hastily” (p. xiii). The summary Petrovich gives of his work offers little that can support his assertions. He declares that he came to believe that Hebrew is the language ‘behind the proto-consonantal script … by weighing the options systematically and allowing the context of various inscriptions to determine which option is correct’, without further explanation. A glance at his Figure 6 shows how dubious his process is. In that text, Sinai 375a, the writing seems to run from the right edge of the stone around the top and down the left side, with some letters below the first few. Petrovich finds the biblical name Ahisamach by reading the first three letters from right to left, then the three below them. Other letters stand in a vertical column with a couple of hieroglyphs among them. The arrangement is odd! No words are cited to prove the texts are in Hebrew. In fact, Hebrew and Canaanite written in consonantal script may be indistinguishable.

​@@xirdaish9082: _"No words are cited to prove the texts are in Hebrew."_ I've watched seven of Dr.Petrovich's lectures posted on KZfaq in which he describes these in detail. He says he obsessively rotated the 22 hieroglyphs though each of the 22 Hebrew letters in turn and attempted to fit every word in the oldest know Hebrew lexicons and came up with one mapping that made sense. Further, the writings made sense in light of the history written in the Bible. Thank you for some historical context. You're clearly a scholar and I'm not. Though you didn't mention the 19th century BC when the script was invented. Nor the 15th century BC when Moses used it to write the Pentateuch. *Xirdaish:* _"Your words 'The Alphabet is a gift from God' reveal your religious point of view, whereas my point of view is secular and scientific."_ What I mean by that is that with all great inventions in history, usually one person had the spark of the non-obvious idea that makes the invention possible. Later, when others see it, it may _seem_ obvious, but nobody else thought of it, so it wasn't. In this case, the timing is right that in may have been Joseph who had that spark. He knew both Egyptian and Hebrew. And God spoke to him in dreams. It's quite possible that God gave him that spark of an idea in a dream. In which case the very first idea of a phonetic alphabet was literally given as a gift from God. But even if it wasn't given in a dream and even if it wasn't Joseph, Dr.Petrovich gave evidence that some of the writing involved his sons, so one of _them_ likely had that initial spark of an idea from which all other phonetic alphabets on earth flowed. The significance of such a crucial gift flowing from God through the Hebrews shouldn't be missed. And in fact, disdain for the Bible or hatred of Jews may well be the motive to dismiss its true origin.

Unless it's numerical meanings, but that's an whole other topic.

God revealed the Torah and the Quran, don't do the mistake of ignoring the Quran just because it's usually associated with an "enemy" culture

Regarding the second half of the video, et is just the Hebrew language's direct object marker. We translate it in English with syntax (because we don't have a direct object marker) by changing "In the beginning created God the Heavens and the Earth" to "...God created the Heavens and the Earth". The idea that it represents the aleph bet is just a kabbalistic theory.

@@4rtie So like a conspiracy theory. I watched all of it, and to be completely honest, the guy is a bit too smug for me to lend much credence to his words.

@@durere not really a conspiracy theory, just an interpretation that isn't nearly as certain as his confidence in presentation would lend you to believe.

@@4rtie Took it with a grain of salt anyway, if it were really so, it would shake the very foundation of how many people see the world, and I would find it hard to believe that it flew over so many heads so far. But I do like to entertain wild ideas.

​​@@durere in addition to this, the actual english translation of genesis 1:1 is "when God started/began to create the heavens and the earth" as opposed to in the beginning. The word "bereshit" is always mistranslated here. It does not mean in the beginning, it literally means at first. Grammatically speaking here it's also a dependent clause as it doesn't start with a verb. It starts with a prepositional adverb

That's not how numerology works tho

I study this topic since many years. He said only extravagant things, and he doesn't understand anything in linguistic and semitic languages. Find in internet how the semitic alphabet was created, and so, the latin one. But yes, each letter has their own meaning, but it doesn't appear in this video, expect fantaisy here.

It is unless it has a nekudah which is what give it different sounds

It is very inaccurate to say that either of these letters are neither consonants nor vowels. Aleph, like all other letters in the Hebrew writing system (therefore classifying it as an Abjad), is a consonant called a glottal stop (written in IPA as [ʔ]), which is like the stop sound you make when saying the word "uh-oh". It is also what's known as matres lectionis, meaning it can indicate a certain vowel. For example, it may sometimes indicate that a longer vowel is pronounced or that there is a diphthong. Ayin historically made the [ʕ] sound, which doesn't exist in English, but does exist in Arabic. Some dialects still use this sound such as Mizrahi, Sephardi, and Samaritan, but it is mostly merged with Aleph in Modern Standard Israeli Hebrew

You'll find many videos like this one, idiotic, even among some kabbalists jews or not jews. First know it is not kabbal but Qabbal, the Q and the Kof have not the same meaning. The Q means to Stand and the K the copy. Inside of QBL we have the etyma BL means to Reverse, so To Stand +To reverse = QBL means 'to put front something', and Qabbal. The double B inside the word is the factitive form of the verb. Nowdays in hebrew philosophy, Qabbala means to recieve, means you have to put yourself front the knowledge.

As in abracadabra: more or less "I will create according to His word". Not Hebrew, but Aramaic, its near relation.

@@chanaheszter168 Fascinating!

The semitic letter for Present is the Y, and related withe the Will, this is why ElohYm and YaD hand.

English "the" and "a" distinguish between a specific "the" and a general "a" thing.

you are taking later christian theology and imposing it back on the old testament where there was zero understanding of any trinity. Jesus is never mentioned in the old testament. -- later christian ideas simply said any plural name for God meant the trinity. that is not what the jews believed or taught or wrote.

@@Michael-le5ph Yeshua (Jesus) Is Spoken Of In The Old Testament Many Times. He Was The One Who Fulfilled The Prophecies And The Scriptures That Spoke Of Him. 2000 Years Ago Roughly Yeshua Came Preaching For Man To Repent To God His Father For The Kingdom Of God Is At Hand. He Healed The Sick, Cast Out Demons, Set The Oppressed Free And Raised Some People From The Dead. Jesus Then Died On The Cross And Rose From The Dead For All Mankind. The New Testament Is Called What It Is Because It Is The Fulfillment Of God’s Promise To All Mankind For Salvation. These Men That God Chose To Write The New Testament Share Scriptures In The New Testament Writings That Show How Yeshua Fulfilled The Old Testament. These Men Were Jews And They Were Raised With The Old Testament. They Saw Yeshua Through God’s Eyes And Then They Were Able To Understand The Old Testament. Yeshua Jesus Is Still Doing The Same Works Today, Healing The Sick, Casting Out Demons And Raising The Dead Which Shows That He Is Who God Revealed Him To Be. These Are Spiritual Matters Though, God Through His Holy Spirit Has To Open The Eyes Of A Person To Be Able Receive God And Jesus And Their Truth. I Will Not Argue With You About Mens Theologies Or Anything For That Matter, I Will However; Say That If You Are Seriously Wanting To Know God, You Should Read The Old And New Testament And Ask God To Reveal The Truth Of His Word To You And God Will. I Have Been Healed Of Spinal Issues In The Name Of Jesus Because God And Jesus His Son Are Real And Their Words Are Truth. I Know Many People Who Have Also Been Healed And Delivered From Demons, I Have Even Been Involved In Deliverance Ministry Myself. I Pray That You Find God, You Can Only Find Him Through Yeshua Jesus And This Is A Fact, It’s Not A Head Matter Because The Things Of God Are Foolishness To Men, But It’s A Spiritual Heart Matter, That Only Jesus Can Fix. God Bless You.

Oh what an honor! Thanks for giving me a heads up. The poster made some good points and corrections, but I did post a short retort there. :)

It’s important to realize that Hebrew is just a bunch of words made from 3 letter roots, so it’s not like there’s a lot to play around with in terms of unique combinations for words. All of these theories are just trying to put meaning into randomness. No one designs languages, they happen

@@ShiyalaKohny yes im aware ive studied hebrew

@@ShiyalaKohnyto me, that last claim sounds like you didnt understand languages. yes they happen. they evolve in a certain way. containing beauty and elegace, rhyme and rhythm. so, to my ear and to my mind, there is more than just randomness. and maybe I just misunderstood your remark. :) regarding the 3-radical system: if i understand correctly, it still leaves with some 10k unique combinations. more combinations than most people use words.

God I fucking despise redittors 😒