YUD - Secrets of the Hebrew letters

Tehilim Perek 119: Letter YUD Hello everybody, I’m Rabbi Shaya Sussman, covering the entire TANACH one perek at a time. Today’s Nach Daily will discuss perek 119, letter YUD. Yud is the peak and culmination of all the previous letters so far. It truly represents Olam Habah, the World to Come. After we pass all of our tests here, represented by the previous 9 letters, we shed the body to attain true life. The passuk in Yeshaya says, “Ki b’Yah Hashem tzur olamim, with the letters Yud and hey of Hashems name God fashioned the world.” The Gemerah in Chagiga 10A explains that the Hey was used to create Olam Hazeh, this world, while the Yud was used to create Olam Habah, the next world. The Yud also represents the reward one will receive in the next world. The first time that a Yud begins a word in the Torah is in reference to the creation, “ Y’hee ohr, let there be light. The Yud in Y’hee, there will be, is the force that allowed the very first formation of light to come into existence. Therefore, the Sefer Yetsira explains, this first spiritual mention of light represents both the beginning and the end at the same time. The beginning of creation in a spiritual form, and the end goal of Olam Habah, which is kulo ruchiyos, completely spiritual, are both contained in the power of the Yud. All of the other letters contain a Yud because, essentially, a Yud is just a dot. Every letter begins with a dot. This fits with what we’ve just learned, because the Yud was used to begin creation.