Lashon HaKodesh: The Structure of Holy Words

The ancient Hebrew language has intrinsically constructive qualities, for it is Lashon HaKodesh – the Holy Language of the Torah. This was the language that Hashem spoke to Mosheh Rabbeinu and the other prophets. The Jews spoke the Lashon found in the Mishnah which was the structure of authentic spoken Hebrew which is mildly different but also more consistent. The phrases in the Torah were aligned with each other in a way that allows for certain ideas to be learned. Thus, it doesn’t follow the patterns of normal Hebrew.

Hashem created the world with words. Each Hebrew letter has divine meaning. Letters are identified with which part of the mouth they use, and when a letter is introduced in the Written Torah, it gives significance to its true essence. And when it’s the first time it’s introduced in a certain part of the word, then this also adds more to the true meaning of the word.

If the idea was to come into physical existence, then all related objects could be derived from it and would have some linguistic similarity. Hebrew words generate philosophical concepts from their very shoresh (root) which can be used to help promote social qualities that can be used in ethical development. Each Hebrew word has a shoresh (root), and each shoresh has deep, esoteric meaning. The shoresh serves as a thematic source that binds all of the variants, of that general idea, together in an abstract way – even if they don’t seem to directly fit. The are the chromosomes of existence and give us the essence of creation.

The word “love” is a significant word in Hebrew. The word אהבה means love, and inside this word is הב which means “give”. This word and many other words teach us lesson in life.

An Ish Tzadik (איש צדיק) is a righteous person, Tzedakah (צדקה) is charity, and the shoresh is Tzedek (צדק) is used the Hebrew word for Planet Jupiter – a planet that is associated with righteousness in the spiritual realms. These are all examples of how a shoresh can be used to describe different things that Hashem wants us to understand as being related.