The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is called 'Vav' (pronounced 'vahv') and has the sound

of 'v' as 'vine'.

In modern Hebrew, the letter Vav can appear in three forms:

Note: In ancient Hebrew, Vav could be pronounced as 'w' and sometimes transliterated.
as "w"; however, in modern Hebrew, Vav is pronounced as a "v" sound. Vav
it can also function as a 'consonantal vowel' in Hebrew texts.

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The letter Vav is the sixth letter of the Aleph-Bet, with a numerical value of six. The pictogram Vav
it looks like a tent stake, while classical Hebrew writing (Ketav Ashurit) is
consisting of a vertical line and a conjugated Yod. The meaning of the word vav is "hook".
as a connection hook used when the Tabernacle (tent) was set up.

The Mystery of the Vav

The first Vav in the Torah occurs in Genesis [Link]
The placement of the Vav suggests two of its essential connective powers:

Joining the heavens and the earth implies the connection between spiritual and earthly matters.

Since it occurs in letter 22 in the Torah linked to the sixth word, (et), it alludes to the creative connection.
among all the letters. Vav is, therefore, the connecting force of God, the divine "hook" that
one the sky and the earth.

2. The Vav and the Tabernacle (mishkan)

The word Vav is used in Exodus 27:9-10 to refer to the silver hooks attached to
places (called amudim) that were used to hold the curtain (yeriah) which includes the
tabernacle

Just as the tabernacle was the dwelling place of God while the Israelites traveled through the
desert, which is why the Torah is the dwelling of His word today. Therefore, the scribes
they developed the idea that the Torah scroll was to be built in the form of
tabernacle. They called each sheet of a scroll of parchment a yeriah, named after the
curtain of the tabernacle (about 50 yeriyot per scroll) and each column of text is an amud,
appointed for the place of the tabernacle court.

Now, once each curtain of the tabernacle was secured in its place by means of a
silver hook (vav), the scribes made each column of text begin with a
letter Vav, thus, 'hooking' the text to the parchment:
The laws for writing a Torah scroll are called soferut. There are more than 4,000 'laws' or
rules used by scribes to prepare a kosher parchment. For example, the Torah
must contain exactly 304,805 well-formed letters in the 248th column or
pages). Cadayeriah (parchment sheet) must come from the skin of a kosher animal that has been
especially prepared for writing purposes. Special inks are used and whenever a
write any one of the seven names of God, he must say a blessing (l'shem
of the holiness of God) and dip your pen in fresh ink.

A Torah scroll cannot contain any errors of any kind or it is

consideradopassul(invalid). Each line of each amude is read carefully (backwards)
philosopher compared to a work copy (called Tikun). If detected a
error in an umyeriah, it must be removed from the book and buried in a genizah, a
a kind of "cemetery" or repository of sacred texts (the most famous is the Cairo genizah)
Genizah.

3. The Belly of the Torah

A super-dimensional Vav marks the "center" of the entire Torah (Leviticus 11:42):

Appropriately enough, the word in which this Vav occurs is égachon, which means
belly

4. Vav is a figure of a Man

Since Vav represents the number six, which has been associated as the number of
man in Jewish tradition:

The man was created on the sixth day

The man works for six days - the kingdom of chol and the mundane
Six millennia before the coming of the Mashiach
The 'beast' is identified as the 'number of a man' - 666 (Revelation 13:18)

The broken Vav

Sofrut (that is, the laws regarding the art of scribes writing Sifrei Torah) requires that
All Hebrew letters must be well formed - that is, no letter can touch others.
letters and no letter can be malformed, broken, or otherwise illegible. In
Meanwhile, there is a strange exception to these rules regarding the Vav that appears in the word
Shalom Numbers [Link]

Behold, I am giving him my covenant of peace.

In a Torah scroll, the word shalom would be written like this:

What is the meaning of this broken Vav?

The story in Numbers chapter 25 is about Phineas (the grandson of Aaron, the priest) and his
zeal to remove the evil from Israel, driving a spear through a man who was
fornicating with a Moabite woman. Because of Phineas' act, God stopped the plague and
Israel was delivered from destruction. From a messianic point of view, we can see that
Phineas is a type of Yeshua, for it is written that 'he was zealous for his God and made
expiation for the people of Israel" (Numbers 25:13).

On a 'sod' level we can further think of this broken Vav as an image of

the breaking of the Messiah for our definitive liberation. How so? Well, since
the Vav represents the number of man, the broken Vav represents a man who is
broken. In this particular verse, the man was broken because of a covenant
of peace that brought atonement for Israel - another image of the Messiah Yeshua and his
final liberation for us.

6. The Vav, Messiah, and New Creation

When God first created the 'generations' of heaven and earth, the word toledot (‫)תודלות‬
It is used (Gn 2:4). It refers to the order created before the sin and the fall of Adam and Eve.
After the fall of Adam, however, the word is written differently in the text.
Hebrew, with a missing Vav letter (that is, like‫)תודלת‬. From then on, every time that the
the phrase, 'these are the generations of' occurs in the Scriptures (a stereotypical form of
enumerate the generations of the heads of the family), the word is written "defective", with the
Vav missing (‫ )ו‬The Vav was "lost." However, when we reach Ruth 4:18 the phrase:
These are the generations of Perez' is written with the absent Vav restored (i.e., as
Everyone is a work of art, a unique masterpiece of creation.‫תולדות‬
restored is in Genesis 2:4 and Ruth 4:18, which raises the question of what connection
there may be between the creation of the heavens and the earth, the fall of humanity, and the creation of
Perez's family line?

The name "Perez" ‫ )ץרפ‬means "breaking" (from paratz, which means "to cross"). God
"cross" the families of humanity, in order to restore creation back to its
original intention. The letter Vav represents man, and the first Vav in the Torah is associated with
with the 'first and the last man', as seen in Genesis [Link]

The Restored Vav is an image of the Mashiach that would descend from the 'generations' of Perez.
He would be the only one to break the doors of death in our favor. Just like the original Vav.
was lost by the first Adam and his sin, so the Vav is restored to obedience of the
Second Adam, the Messiah Yeshua.
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KEYWORDS: The letter Vav and the beginning of Creation, two dimensions: internal and external, the Vav
it is the fundamental connector of reality, differentiation: the external dimension of the Vav, the hierarchies
spiritual and physical, the interrelation between things: the internal dimension of the Vav, 'inter-inclusion',
Divine logic and the elementary circuits in science and technology, the first position of the Vav in the Torah,
the presence of the Vav in the words of the Torah, the Vav as 'pillar', the anti-God reality of this world, so
approaching Hashem through science, the limit of rational thought, the vision of humility, the
"mental noises" that hinder the connection with Hashem, the Talmud's view on the "pillars that
they support humanity, the model of 'twelve pillars' of the Sêfer Yetsirah, the 'Big Bang', the model of
seven pillars, three dimensions of space plus something from the past (an aspect of the dimension of
time), explanations about the reality that constantly unfolds from the past, the "river of
"time", what is the "present"? the future and the model of "a pillar" that sustains the world, the Tikkún
Olam ('Rectification of the World'), bringing Mashiach and the 'messianic anxiety', the six days of
Creation, the duration of the world, the union of Heaven and Earth.

Vav
Concept The power to connect and correlate all the elements within the
Creation.
Meaning A hook.
Format An upright pillar.
Number 6
Space Bull (Taurus).
Time Iyar.
Soul Right rim.
Meaning Contemplation
Archetype Issachar.
Channel From keter to biná.

The Letters of the Alphabet–Vav: Connection

In the beginning of Creation, when the Infinite Light filled all of reality, God contracted His Light.
to create an empty space, which would be the "place" necessary for the existence of worlds
finite. Into this vacuum, God 'pulled', figuratively speaking, a single line of light
coming from Infinite Source. This beam of light is the secret of letravav. Although the line seems
being one, it, however, has two dimensions—an external force and an internal one—and
both are part of the process of Creation and of continuous interaction between the creative force and the
created reality.
The external force of the line is the power to differentiate and separate the various aspects of reality.
thus establishing a hierarchical order—high and low—within Creation. The force
The inner line is the power to reveal the inherent inclusion in the various aspects of reality,
one inside the other, uniting them, thus, as a vital whole. This property of the letravav, in
its use in Hebrew is called vav hachibur, the 'vav of connection' - 'and'. The first vav of
Torah - "In the beginning, God created the heavens and [and] the earth" - serves to unite spirit and matter,
heaven and earth, throughout Creation. Estevav, which appears at the beginning of the sixth word of the Torah, is

the twenty-second word of the verse. It alludes to the power to connect and interrelate
all twenty-two individual forces of Creation: the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet,
the draft of the otav. (The word that appears before the two examples of the word 'the' in this
verse, and it is written aleph-tav] is generally considered as representing all the letters
of the alphabet, dealefatav. Our Wise interpret the word in this verse as a
inclusion of all the diverse objects of Creation present in the sky and on earth.
In biblical Hebrew, the letter vav also has the function of inverting the apparent tense of a
verb for its opposite— from the past to the future and from the future to the past
hahipuch). The first appearance of this type in the Torah is the letter that begins the twentieth
second word of the account of Creation, "And God said...". This is the first pronouncement
explicit among the ten statements of Creation: "And God said [the verb 'to say' being
Let there be
light', and there was light." The phenomenon of light paving its way through the darkness of tzimtzum,
primordial contraction is, in itself, the secret of time (the future becoming the past) that permeates the
space.
In the Divine service of a Jew, the power to bring from the future to the past is the secret.
teshuva ("repentance" and "return to God") coming from love. Through
repentance arising from fear, the person's deliberate transgressions transform into
errors; the severity of your past transgressions is partially softened, but not
it completely changes. However, when a Jew returns out of love, their transgressions
deliberate actions actually transform into merits, as the very awareness about the
the distance from God resulting from transgressions becomes the motivating force for the person
return to God with a passion even greater than that of someone who has never sinned.
Every Jew has a portion in the World to Come, as it is written: 'And all of his nation is from
‘tzadikim’; they will inherit the earth forever.” The power of teshuvah to transform.
completely in good the past of the person is the power they could convert the past into
future. This very transformation requires, paradoxically, the attraction of the light of the future to the
past.
Bringing the future to the past in the Divine service is the secret of studying the teachings.
deeper aspects of the Torah, that aspect of the Torah that is related to the revelation of
arrival of Mashiach. Rashi explains the verse in the Song of Songs: 'Let him kiss me'
with the kisses of your mouth, for your love is better than wine" — an allusion to sweets
teachings that will be revealed by the Messiah. When a person dedicates themselves to study
of the secrets of the Torah, it attracts from the future to the past, in order to strengthen itself to return
in complete repentance for love, and, in this way, convert your past into future.
FORM
A vertical line.

A pillar.
A man standing erect.

Worlds
The twelve pillars of Creation—the twelve lines of a cube. The twelve tribes.

The seven pillars of Creation—the six directions and time. The seven shepherds.

A pillar of Creation of the future. Messiah.

The connecting rods in the Tabernacle.

Souls
A estatura completa do homem—de pé sobre a terra com a cabeça em direção ao céu.

The Jewish People united.

The 'Golden Path' in the service of God.

The torso in relation to the hands, the feet, and the thigh.

Divinity
The pillar of Truth.

The consistency of the middle pillar.

The Divinity penetrating through the central point of all Creation.

NAME

A Hook

Worlds
The connection hooks of the pillars in the Tabernacle—concealment and revelation.

The axes of symmetry and the balance between symmetry and asymmetry.

Souls
The power that unites the souls of Israel.

The desire to fulfill God’s Will engraved in the heart of every Jew.

The axes that connect the good points present within each Jew.
Divinity
The link between the various laws—etched letters of the Divine essence—of the Torah.

The binding force between the Divine sparks present in all of reality.

NUMBER

Six

Worlds
The Six Days of Creation, and their corresponding active Divine forces in creation.

The six letters of the word bereishit, 'In the beginning'.

The sixalefsno first verse of the Torah.
The six millennia of the world's duration.

The six directions of the physical world.

Souls
The six wings (states of love and fear in the soul) of the fire angels.

Give the truth to Jacob.

Divinity
The six orders of the Mishnah.
The six "points" of the "Star of David".
Six cubits - the dimensions of the Tablets received by Moses on Mount Sinai.