Genesis 1.1 -- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning was the word. The "word" is compromised of letters and numbers since every Hebrew letter represents a number as well.
In Genesis 1.1, there are 7 Hebrew words containing 28 letters. There is amazing truth revealed through the letters and numbers in the very first verse of the Torah alone. Much has been written about that, but it doesn't stop there! Genesis 1.1 is just the beginning.
Jewish sources describe the world as constructed through the 22 Hebrew letters, understood as spiritual “building blocks” or channels of divine energy. Each letter is not just a sound but a mode of divine intention shaping specific aspects of creation.
When God "spoke" the universe into creation and created the heavens and earth on the first day, he established the math of universe. The Hebrew letters and numbers go hand and hand, but they work in different ways.
In classic Jewish mystical thought, versus "law," divine speech, letters (meaning) and their numerical structure (measure, order) are built into the fabric of reality, somewhat like “semantic physics.”
Hebrew can be compared to a “chemical language” in the sense that its letters and structures function like elemental building blocks that combine to form more complex realities, both linguistically and spiritually. Hebrew is seen not just as a human language but as the code of creation. The letters are like spiritual atoms. Each letter is treated as an active force or energy, not merely a sound, so combining letters is seen as combining distinct spiritual “properties.”
Numbers are structured as “proof. ” Every letter and word carries a quantitative pattern, which can reveal a hidden coherence in Scripture rather than random numerology. Many Jewish and Christian interpreters see these recurring numerical patterns—like key names and phrases sharing values—as analogous to “laws of order” in creation, a kind of mathematical signature that points to an underlying rational design much as physical laws do in nature. Like H²O (water) or NaCl (Sodium Chloride), each Hebrew letter is compounded from other letters. Below is an example with the first Hebrew letter, Aleph.
PURE SPEECH
There is just ONE verse in the Tenach that contains the full Hebrew alphabet (Aleph-Bet) consists of 22 primary letters, including the five letters that have a special "final" or "sofit" form when they appear at the end of a word. That is verse Zephaniah 3.8. It speaks of God's judgment on all the nations of the earth, to be carried out by His "fierce anger" and "jealous anger" which will consume the whole world. The verse encourages the people of God to wait for this day, which is also a day of ultimate salvation for those who are faithful, and calls for repentance from sin.
The next verse, Zephaniah 3.9 reads:
“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord."
What language will that "pure speech" be? Many believe it will be Hebrew because God spoke it. It was the language before Babel, planted in Adam's brain, in the Garden of Eden.
In the Kingdom, we will all be speaking God's pure language.
Hebrew 12:25-29 -- "See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire."
Epilogue:
Secrets of the Hebrew letter Aleph.
