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manifests His desire to dwell in the lower worlds and to relate to and The Ba’al Shem Tov united these approaches to prayer with the
bestow His love and goodness on His creatures. three levels of experiencing reality by explaining that every Hebrew
letter contains Worlds, Souls, and Divinity. He concluded his
Another permutation of the word “bereishit,” which offers a similar
message, is ashrei – bat (תב-ירשא), “happy is the daughter.” But who famous letter to his brother-in-law, Rabbi Gershon of Kitov, with
is this happy daughter? The Kabbalah teaches that all of creation is the following thoughts:
feminine in relation to God. So the daughter could be creation, but Every word of your lips intends to unite: for in every letter
that is not all. The Hebrew word for daughter (bat) is at the root of the there are Worlds, Souls, and Divinity and they ascend
Hebrew word for house (bayit) and in the Talmud a wife is referred to and connect and unify with each other and afterwards
as her husband’s “house” or, more accurately, his “home.” Thus, this the letters connect and unify to become a word, and
permutation hints that all of creation is, as it were, the daughter or then unify in true unification in Divinity. Include your
wife of God. The receptive feminine energy creates a dwelling place soul with them [words of prayer and Torah] in each and
– a home – for her beloved in the lower worlds. In Kabbalah, our every state. And all the worlds unify as one and ascend
most exalted relationship with God transpires when He is intimately to produce an infinitely great joy and pleasure, as you
conceived of as our beloved.
may comprehend from the joy of the bride and groom
The word “bereishit” can also be permuted to spell shirat av in miniature, in the physical realm; how much more so
(בא-תריש), literally meaning “the song of the father” or “the cardinal/ [is the joy and pleasure experienced] on such an exalted
essential song.” The latter word, “av,” is spelled alef, beit and can be level as this. Surely God will be your aid and wherever
pronounced as either ab or av because the letter beit, the first letter you turn you will succeed and reach greater awareness.
of the Torah, can be pronounced as either beit or veit. Alef and beit “Give to the wise and he will become wiser.”
– are the two first letters in the alef-beit, the Hebrew name for the
alphabet. Thus, the permutation shirat av could also be read as “the
song of the alef-beit.” This permutation reveals an awesome insight:
the Divine speech of our Father in Heaven was in fact a song, the
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formulation shir ta’av (באת-ריש), “a song of desire.” This permutation Lamech gave birth to Noah and prophetically exclaimed: “This
may allude to an enigmatic Midrashic statement: “God had a passion one will bring us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands,
to have for Himself a dwelling place in the lower worlds” (Midrash from the ground which God has cursed” (Genesis 5:29). The word
Tanchuma, Naso 16). The world, the product of Divine song, is “Noah” is related to the word “rest.” According to Rashi, man would
mysteriously the object of God’s desire, for He wishes to dwell in now be able to more easily work the earth, which had been cursed
it, in the lower worlds. Thus, this permutation alludes to one of the since Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. With
reasons God created the world. (See The Mystical Power of Music for Noah’s birth and Adam’s concurrent death, the curse that had been
a fuller explanation of the role of music in creation and its spiritual in effect during Adam’s lifetime, would be diminished, in effect, laid
connection to the soul.) to rest. Furthermore, Noah reputedly invented the plow, making

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