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indicates that the Hebrew aleph-bet’s letters
are for words that are only truth.) 2
The right hand is used in the sense of the
stronger hand, or strength. To make a prayer
come true it requires the right hand ןימי
yamin, the strength of God.
You can look at the word wheel for amen
and easily see the application of some, though
not all, of the words growing from this root to
make a prayer come true.
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1 Edward Horowitz, How The Hebrew Language Grew, KTAV
Publishing House, Inc., p 25
2 Brim note: The Hebrew language is very old. The first two
letters are alef (aleph) and bet. Hence their word aleph-bet. The
Greeks borrowed the letters and changed aleph to alpha, call-
ing their letters the alphabet. We use that word for the ABC’s.
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