Embodied Knowing/Yedah יֶדַע

This world, this body (י/Yud) is a doorway (ד/Dalet) to the world of Ayin/Ein Sof (ע/Ayin).

Yud (י):  The Hebrew letter Yud is the tenth letter in the Aleph Bet, and connotes the ‘world of ten’.  Our sages point out that in the first creation story in B’reishit, the world is created with ten utterances. ‘And God said’, וַיֹּאמֶר, appears ten times in this story.  In addition, according to the Book of Creation/Sefer Yetzirah, there is a blueprint upon which created world rests, consisting of ten Sefirot / סְפִירוֹת or emanations of divine qualities.  The letter Yud (10) hints at the physical aspect of the world of creation.

Dalet (ד):  The Hebrew letter Dalet is the first letter for the word ‘Delet’ / דלת , which means door or doorway.  The letter Dalet hints at the word ‘door’ or ‘doorway’.

Ayin (ע):  The Hebrew letter Ayin connotes ‘Ein Sof’ /אֵין סוֹף‎, one of many names for the Source of all life. Ein Sof means ‘Without End’. It is the infinite quality of divinity - unnameable, intangible, not of this world.  The letter Ayin hints at the world of spirit.

The premise for our Advanced Teacher Training is that your ability to slow down, be present, and listen will allow you to easefully tap into your own embodied intuition as the foundation for your teaching. In addition, study and practice with the support of Jewish wisdom texts and seasoned Torah scholars is essential to your offering.

Knowing יֶדַע: must be embodied, and when mapped onto the body on some visual representations of the Sefirot, it is the center point of Chochma and Binah: Wisdom and Understanding. Knowing/Da’at/דָּעַת is sometimes denoted on the Sefirot Chart as another point aligned in central pillar of the Sefirot - forming a vertical flow from Keter to Da’at to Tiferet to Malchut.