« Chacune de ces 22 lettres est un monde [...] et représente une information à recevoir, un code a décrypter, une énergie à ressentir. »
Il y a près de 4 000 ans, du côté de l’Égypte, naquit un alphabet dit protosinaïtique, dérivé des hiéroglyphes. Par mutations successives, ce système d’écriture donna naissance aux alphabets hébraïque, puis phénicien, grec et latin. Celui des Hébreux, tel qu’il s’est fixé dans leurs textes sacrés, est imprégné de la sagesse de leurs prophètes.
Cet alphabet, constitué de 22 lettres, est une voie d’étude et de méditation : c’est la mystique kabbalistique.
Chacune des lettres (sephira) qui le compose, par sa sonorité, par sa graphie, par le nom auquel elle est associée, ainsi que par sa valeur numérique et par la façon dont elle vit dans les textes, représente une information à recevoir, un code à décrypter de l’arbre séphirotique...
Du potentiel à la manifestation, êtes-vous prêts à ressentir les énergies structurantes de l’Univers ?
✨ Avec : Judith Cypel, Marc Halévy et Michel d'Anastasio (calligraphe).
Tzadé, Pesh, Shil
Nearly 4000 years ago, in Egypt,
a so-called proto-Sinaitic alphabet was born,
derived from hieroglyphs.
At the same time,
tribes from Mesopotamia settled nearby,
between Jordan and the Mediterranean.
It was the beginning of the Hebrew people,
nomads guided by their prophets.
By successive mutations,
the proto-Sinaitic alphabet gave birth to Hebraic,
then Phoenician, Greek and Latin alphabets.
The Hebrew alphabet, as it is recorded in their sacred texts,
is imbued with the wisdom of their prophets.
Each of these 22 letters is a world.
Each, by its sound, by its graph,
by the name to which it is associated,
as well as by its numerical value
and by the way it lives,
in words, in texts,
represents an information to be received,
a code to decrypt,
an energy to feel.
Kabbalah made it a way of study and meditation.
The ancient Hebrew, the biblical Hebrew,
has a particularity,
it is both a language that conveys meaning
and it is also a writing.
That is to say that the Hebrew words write something,
write meaning,
because the letters themselves carry meaning.
So a word that is written with such and such letters,
not only does it have all the meanings it has,
but it also has the essence of the letters that compose it.
Somehow, the alphabet is a code that must be decrypted.
Cryptos, in Greek, is what is hidden,
so it must be decrypted.
You have to go in search of what is hidden
to make it appear in the light.
It is this idea of saying that, in the end,
a letter of the Hebrew alphabet
is not just a sign of writing,
it is also a symbol that calls for intuition,
that calls for imagination,
that calls for interpretation,
and that opens doors.
Each of them is a door that opens
towards a path, towards a landscape.
For example, the word that is translated by bien in Hebrew
is the word tov,
which is written tet, vav, bet.
And the tet is the ninth letter
that tells us about the energy of life that circulates
and that has the vocation of manifesting itself.
And this energy of life that circulates like a spiral
that will take us from plan to plan to plan,
and which, thanks to the vav, the letter of the environment,
will be converted into bet,
that is, into manifestation.
So the letters themselves,
we can say that they are like an energetic skeleton of the universe.
They tell us something about the great laws of being,
the great dynamic laws
that energetically structure the whole universe.
In any case, it is obviously clear
that, from the outset, the Kabbalistic tradition
is a tradition of the question of meaning,
of interpretation, of openness,
what is behind this word, what is behind this verse,
what is behind this letter, what does it tell me?
What does it tell you?
Kabbalah in Hebrew means reception.
So it's really this idea of receiving messages and transmitting them.
And it's funny because today, when we go to Israel,
there are Kabbalah everywhere, or rather Kabbalot,
because in all the hotels, the hostels, etc., there is a reception.
And it's very interesting, it's symbolically speaking,
because what are we going to do at the reception of a hotel?
Well, we're going to look for the key.
By definition, a symbol does not mean one thing.
It is a signifier without meaning, said linguists.
It is something that requires
that we find for ourselves and in ourselves
something that speaks to us.
So look for the key, the key to meaning,
the key to his room,
the key to his high room, to this space in itself,
we could almost say, look for the key to his mission of soul.
Why did our soul come to incarnate on this earth
and how to put itself at his service?
From the moment we know that,
when we say that this means that and wants to say that
and speaks of that like that,
it means that at that moment there is only one possibility,
either we submit or we rebel.
We are faced with something that is the very negation
of spiritual development.
From a Jewish family by his father
and Catholic, but above all secular, by his mother,
Judith Sippel grew up in an environment
where we never speak of God or invisible worlds.
A little lost, the child feels a quest in her,
which she then struggles to formulate.
At the age of 29, a mystical experience
makes her pass from the other side of the veil.
For three days and three nights,
she sees the energies at work in the universe
and sees how much we are guided all the time.
At the age of 35,
carried away by great metaphysical questions,
she discovers the teaching of Annik de Souzenel,
of whom she becomes the student
and who initiates her to the symbolism of Hebrew letters
and great biblical myths.
The study of the ancient Hebrew,
the sacred Hebrew text and the Hebrew alphabet,
opens the doors that she felt since childhood.
These 22 Hebrew letters are consonants,
knowing that there are three that are vowels as well,
so they can be either consonants or vowels.
In the Hebrew tradition,
it is said that consonants are the body
and vowels are the soul.
So there are three of the 22 letters that are both body and soul.
So we are, with the Hebrew letters and the Hebrew tradition,
on the idea of a tradition
where the meaning is constantly in motion,
is always open.
And indeed, the word Hebrew,
in Hebrew it is the word ivri, which comes from the verb avar,
and which means between, between a thousand other things,
crossed, we could say in a synthetic way,
it means crossed.
So it's this dimension, in fact, of a path.
And it is one of the riches of Hebrew,
in terms, in any case, of the interpretation of the sacred texts,
it is the fact that the same word can be vocalized in many different ways
and take words, completely different meanings.
So that means that there is an opening of the text
that calls for imagination, intuition,
and various and varied meanings
that should be complementary
and which is the essence, in fact, of the interpretation of the biblical text.
Born of a Jewish mother,
but raised without religious education,
Mark A. Levy begins by dedicating himself to science.
Graduated from the Polytechnic School of Brussels,
he began his research in physics with Ilya Prigogine,
who received the Nobel Prize in 1977.
The reading of the Tao of Physics is overwhelming.
How could a Chinese man of the 6th century BC
have been able to express ideas
that are at the heart of current cosmological research?
On the advice of Ilya Prigogine,
he turns to the study of philosophy and spirituality.
One of his professors, a fervent Kabbalist,
guides him to the Torah, then to Hebrew,
its alphabet and its meaning.
Twenty-two letters, twenty-two sacred archangels,
illustrated by the calligrapher artist Michel D'Anastasio,
who has been working for 20 years
to grasp the movement and energy of Hebrew letters,
are examples of some of his twenty-two invitations to the inner path.
