The Building-Blocks of Life

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

The  Buildi ng-Block s of Life

The name of all these “games” Kabbalists play with letters and
numbers is Gematria. Ancient Kabbalists perfected Gematria to
a point that they could (and did) describe the whole of creation
and the Creator-creation relationship using Gematria, as the
following sections demonstrate.
Gematria is an expression of the state of a Kli that discovers
the Creator. The Kli discovers Him within its own structure. The
Kli is made of 10 Sefirot. These 10 Sefirot are divided into the
tip of the letter Yod, and then the letters Yod, Hey, Vav, and Hey
again. This four-letter structure is known as the tetragrammaton
(in Greek), HaVaYaH (in Hebrew), and Yaweh or JHVH or
Jehovah (in English). 

The first Sefira, Keter,
belongs to the tip of the Yod;
the second Sefira, Hochma,
to the Yod; and the third
Sefira, Bina, to Hey. The
next Sefira, ZA, contains
six internal Sefirot: Hesed,
Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah,
Hod, and Yesod. All those
Sefirot are contained in the
letter Vav. And the last Hey
is Malchut, which is also the last Sefira.
As a matter of fact, HaVaYaH isn’t just the structure of one
Kli; it is the structure of every Kli—and of everything there is, was,
or will be. It is the building-blocks of existence. Like a hologram,
however small you cut it, you’ll always get a structure of 10 complete
Sefirot, contained in HaVaYaH. This is also why these four
letters comprise the word havayah (a generic term that in Hebrew
means existence, being).