October 15, 2018 · 00:05:45
Tehilim Perek 119: Letter Hey Today’s NachDaily continues in Chapter 119 with the letter “Hey.” Hey represents/is the force in the world that allows something to move from “ko’ach to po’el, from potential energy to kinetic energy,” and the ability for something to be born and sustained. The world was created with the letter Hey. The passuk says, “Elah toldos hashamayim v’ha’aretz b’hibarom, these are the products of the heavens and the earth when they were created...” The word b’hibarom can be read as “b’Hey barom, with the letter Hey the world was created.” The physical world was created with the letter Hey of Hashem's name YKVK. In fact, the Zohar in Raya Mehemna explains that the entire physical world is sustained through the letter Hey. If the light of the Hey would stop shining for even a moment, the entire world would cease to exist! We can safely say that the letter Hey is what allows the world to be sustained from potential to kinetic energy. While the letter Beis represents the transition from form to formless, the creation starting to take form from Hashem's infinite light, Hey represents a creation which already has form, but can’t be seen, coming to fruition and being seen. This can be understood by the reality of a baby in a mother's womb. It can't be seen until it is born into the airspace of the world. Similarly, in the word b’Hibarom, and it was created, the Hey is written in a small font. Kabbalistcally, the reason for this is to differentiate it from the let