UNDERSTANDING OUR NEW BORN AGAIN SPIRITMAN from the Hebrew Letters in the word, "NESHAMAH". - continued
Pastor Deborah
Mem is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Numerical value: 40
Sound: "M"
Meaning: 1. Water 2. Mashiach
Maturity is very important
You feed your children food so that they can mature
Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead and live inside us
The works He does, we also do.
Open and Closed Mem
Mem has two forms: an open form and a closed form.
The open form (pesucha) is said to represent the revealed truth of God (as demonstrated by Moses), whereas the closed form (stumah) is said to represent the concealed truth of God (as demonstrated by the Mashiach, the revealer of mysteries).
The Meaning of Mem
Traditionally, Mem has several related meanings:
"waters," "people," "nations," "languages," and "tongues."
Perhaps the most interesting and mysterious letter in the Hebrew alphabet, the meaning of the letter Mem is directly related to what is taught in Genesis 1.
It originated as a pictograph depicting water
Original Pictograph: water
Psalm 119 Hints: product of words
(of the mouth)
According to the scriptures, the very first things that existed
before God created light was WATER and darkness.
Then God SPOKE everything else into existence.
After creating light, he divided the waters by making the firmament called heaven, and then he gathered the waters (effectively dividing them again) below the heaven to reveal dry land.
And with the dry land he created all vegetation and living creatures.
In the Scriptures, the product of WORDS is the physical world
AND from the waters the physical world that we know was created.
The meaning of Mem is water but it also represents ‘physical’ existence.
This is why the prefixמ is commonly used to mean ‘from’,
because everything was created from the waters.
This letter is closely connected to water.
The Hebrew word for water looks like this:
See the open “Mem” followed by a “Yod” and finally the closed “Mem”?
(Hebrew reads from right to left!)
Some rabbis teach that the “Yod” in the middle is a drop of water within the word “water”.
The word for water is Mem מים which reads:
‘water… bring forth… water’.
MEM in its most ancient forms bore a resemblance to WAVES of WATER.
As such, Mem represents the SEA of TORAH, the OCEAN of Talmud, knowledge, wisdom, etc.
ISAIAH 12:3 NLT
With JOY you will DRINK DEEPLY from
the FOUNTAIN of SALVATION!
H4599
מעינה מעינו מעין
ma‛yân ma‛yenô ma‛yânâh
Phonetic: mah-yawn'
Spring, fountain
SOURCE of satisfaction
H3444 salvation
Original: ישׁוּעה YESHÛ‛ÂH
Strong's Definition:
something saved, that is, deliverance; aid, victory, prosperity :-deliverance, health, help (-ing), salvation, save, saving (health), welfare.
The word Mem is WATER mayimמים , the WATERS of WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, the TORAH.
Representing both WATERS and MANIFESTATION,
it is the ABILITY to DIVE DEEP into the WISDOM of GOD.
It is said that in every person is the THIRST for the WORDS of the CREATOR, which are the WATERS of LIFE.
You want a life with God or a life without God
thirst צמא
‘action… water… first’
To ‘thirst’ is to experience a pressing need to obtain (action) water before anything else (first).
Thirst in physical is desperate
Can you imagine you are the spiritman? you are thirsty like this!
Which part of you thirst for God's Word?
Revival
This is when men's hearts are stirred up to want God
The devil is a deceiver
The word of God guide us. The Holy Spirit leads us
The mem, the letter of "water" (mayim) symbolizes the fountain
of the Divine Wisdom of Torah.
Just as the waters of a physical fountain (spring) ascend from their unknown subterranean source (the secret of the abyss in the account of Creation) to REVEAL themselves on earth,
so does the FOUNTAIN of WISDOM express the power of FLOW from the superconscious source.
In the terminology of Kabbalah, this FLOW is from KETER ("crown") to CHOCKMAH ("wisdom").
The stream is symbolized in Proverbs as "the flowing stream, the source of wisdom."
PROVERBS 18:4 TPT
WORDS of WISDOM are like a FRESH, FLOWING BROOK — like DEEP WATERS that SPRING forth from WITHIN,
BUBBLING up INSIDE the one with UNDERSTANDING.
PROVERBS 18:4 NIV
The WORDS of the MOUTH are DEEP WATERS, but the FOUNTAIN of WISDOM is a RUSHING STREAM.
“A person's WORDS can be a source of wisdom, DEEP as the ocean, fresh as a flowing stream (Today's English Version).”
God's word touch your heart. God's word is flowing out like a stream.
Mem also represents the time necessary for ripening and
indicates to us the importance of balanced emotions and of humility.
The mem also teaches us about balanced emotions – balancing the watery motions of our feelings.
And it is about humility – water is the substance that always runs downhill to the lowest place.
No more boasting of what we are able to do.
The mem is the thirteenth letter of the alefbeit.
In Kabbalah we are taught that "thirteen mems,"
as it were, appear in the "primordial air,"
the (outer) "space" into which the letter lamed soars.
Each attribute of mercy is in fact a contraction of relatively Infinite wisdom, at the level of the superconscious ("waters that have no end"), in order to channel and reveal a flash of wisdom on to the "screen" of consciousness.
Conscious wisdom draws its points of insight primarily from that attribute
of MERCY referred to in Torah as "He retains kindness for thousands of generations," whose initial letters spell the Hebrew word for "stream,
"the first word in the previously quoted phrase, "the flowing stream,
the source of wisdom."
DEUTERONOMY 7:9 KJV
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful (אמן aman) God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
In at'bash, MEM transforms to YOD, the POINT of wisdom or revealed insight, the DROP of water emerging from the fountain of the mem.
Atbash is a simple substitution code, where the first letter of the alphabet (א alef) is replaced by the last
(ת taw), the second letter ( בbet) by the second
last (ש sin or shin) etc.
The name ‘atbash’ refers to the first letters of the names of these Hebrew characters: alef, taw, bet and shin.
Instances of the atbash code are found in the Book of Jeremiah.
The closed, final mem, the source of the fountain of wisdom connected and included within its subterranean, superconscious source, corresponds to the secret of echad, "one."
The open mem, from which emerges the point (yod) of conscious insight, is the first manifestation of love
(i.e., will to cling to another) in the soul.
The connection between the two fountains of the mem, the "closed" fountain and the "open" fountain, is by the power of the Thirteen Divine Attributes of Mercy.
This is the secret of G-d’s Essential Name Havayah - the "Name of Mercy."
The words for "one" (echad) and "love" (ahavah) both equal thirteen, the secret of the letter mem.
The Name Havayah equals 26 = 2 times 13, the union of "one" and "love," the power to draw into consciousness the wisdom of Torah.
Mem corresponds to the number 40 and represents the time
necessary for the ripening process that leads to fruition.
40 days for the development of the embryo,
40 years in the desert before reaching the holy land,
40 years development before Moses was prepared to be the leader of Israel.
Story by a Rabbi
When the mikveh in Brownsville, N.Y. wanted to close its doors because of financial difficulties, my mother’s paternal great-grandfather, Hersh-Meilech Hecht, volunteered to take over all the financial responsibilities and practical duties.
In 1929, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, came to visit the Jews in America.
The chassidim asked him to deliver a maamar, a Chassidic discourse.
He responded that he must first immerse in a mikveh, a ritual bath.
Normally, my grandfather charged ten cents for usage of the facilities, but not when a Rebbe used it.
When he heard the Lubavitcher Rebbe was coming, he prepared the room in honor of the Rebbe as one would for a king.
On the way out of the mikveh, the Rebbe handed him a five-dollar bill (a lot of money in those days).
Hersh-Meilech refused to take the money and asked for a BLESSING instead.
The Rebbe BLESSED him and said, “Your grandchildren will become my chassidim and will learn in (my yeshiva (Jewish school) Tomchei Temimim. (Academy) ”
And so it came to pass.
Mem is a space to grow in – a supportive and multicolored growth space.
Mem holds inside it the natural healing forces of Mother Earth.
Mem is a guide, a caregiver, an instructor and a giver of direction.
The letter Mem is related to motherhood at planetary, personal and human levels and to all things that are related to what motherhood provides
and symbolizes, such as: protecting the process of growth, providing safety, support, accompaniment and love that has no boundaries, which always gives without counting the cost.
Judges 5:7: “The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in ISRAEL.”
A Mother – אם ' êm Aleph Mem
Deborah comes from the root word DABAR which is SPEAKING FROM
YOUR HEART.
Note how this verse is worded: “… until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.”
That is a strange wording with the word arose repeated two times.
She is giving two motivations for her arousal.
One is her name sake, Deborah or speaking from my heart.
Her motivation came right from her heart.
An ‘em in Hebrew is a young woman raising young children.
The logical explanation fits that she when she called herself a mother she was saying she had little children to care for and use this as a reason why she, a woman would assume a role that would traditionally go to a male.
No man was willing to step forward and someone had to speak for her children, she was a mother, so she broke tradition and bravely took her stand against the enemy for the sake of her children.
Water is the most basic and important element in life.
Sixty percent of our bodies are made up of water.
The earth is 71% water.
Without water, we can’t live more than three days.
There is a Jewish saying, “There is no water but Torah.”
Rabbis teach that the Torah is the most basic and important element in one’s spiritual life.
Without the Torah, the Jew is like a fish without water — he couldn’t live.
Since “Mem” is the letter of water, it symbolizes the “spring”
of wisdom found in the scriptures.
Like an underground spring rises up from an unseen source, so does the spring of wisdom rise up from the mysterious Source that is God.
David wrote about wisdom, understanding and insight in the “Mem” section of Psalm 119.
It’s easy to find Jesus in the 13th letter.
The MESSIAH is our LIVING WATER.
He is the ONLY ONE who truly satisfies our INNER THIRST for REAL LIFE.
He is the most basic and vital of all elements in this world.
He is the LIVING WORD and we cannot survive without Him.
As the second half of the Hebrew alphabet reveals the life of faith in response to the good news of the gospel, so the letter “Mem” reflects the believer’s baptism.
First we are taught (Lamed) and then we take a step of obedience by going into the waters (Mem) of baptism.
JOHN 7:37-38
“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said,
rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
JOHN 7:38 KJV
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his BELLY shall flow RIVERS of LIVING WATER.
G2836 belly
κοιλία koilia
the womb, the place where the foetus is conceived and nourished until birth
the innermost part of a man, the soul, heart as the seat of thought, feeling, choice
Living water does not come out from the head but from the heart. When God pours out His word, the anointing is feeding the spirit man. It is like water, refreshing, filling that thirst inside us.
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