The vehicle of creation The manifold aspects of the Holy Language are endless. Here are some points to shed light on the subject:
The Sefer Yetzirah refers to the 22 letters most often as otiyot yesod -- 'foundation letters.' In the simplest sense this is because it was through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet that the universe was created. The Sefer Yetzirah itself therefore says of the letters, 'With them He depicted all that was formed, and all that would ever be formed' (2:2)
The opening passage of the Torah: "Bereishit bara Elokim et ha-shamayim v'et ha-aretz ( = In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth.) A traditional Kabbalistic reading of this passage is, "Bereishit bara Elokim ET [aleph-tav]" -- signifying, in other words, the entire aleph-bet. The primal forces contained in these letters were then used as the instruments of all further creation.
Pirkei Avot 5:1 states: "B'asarah ma'amarot nivra ha-olam ( = The world was created with ten utterances.) G-d literally spoke each object into existence.
Language, besides being the vehicle of creation, is what distinguishes human beings from all other animals. Onkelos translates "and man became a living soul" [Bereishit 2:7] as "man became a speaking spirit".
Leshon Hakodesh
"Vayehi kol ha'aretz safa achat ( = "And all the land was one language...")
"Safa achat" = Leshon Hakodesh" ( - the Holy language), in gimatria. 794 = 795 (the
gimatria rules allow a difference in one number.
The world's original language was the Holy Language, i.e. the Hebrew. Following the building of the Bavel tower, which was an idolatrous attempt by the inhabitants of earth then (which were much more spiritual than today's coarse materialistic human beings) using the spiritual power of the language (the world was created by the 22 letters of it) - G-d punished them by confusing the language to many, depriving them of the ability to use it.
But even a superficial observation shows the original
Hebrew in all languages. The ancient Greek is the Alpha, beta, Gamma, Delta as the Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet.
Take the English. Many of the words are in the same sequence as the original Hebrew ones from which they were derived: A (Aleph), B (Bet), C (distortion of the Gimel), D (Dalet)... K (Caf), L (lamed) M (Mem), N (Nun)... Q (Kuf), R (Resh), S (distortion of the Shin), T (Tav).
SEPHER YETZIRAH
The Book of Formation
CHAPTER II
"The twenty-two sounds and letters are the Foundation of all things... These twenty-two sounds or letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly modified in five places; in the throat, in the mouth, by the tongue, through the teeth, and by the lips."
(This is the modern classification of the letters into guttural, palatal, lingual, dental and labial sounds.)
"It was Abraham our Father--blessed be he--who wrote this book (Sefer Yeztirah) to condemn the doctrine of the sages of his time, who were incredulous of the supreme dogma of the Unity.
At least, this was the opinion of Rabbi Saadiah--blessed be he--as written in the first chapter of his book The Philosopher's Stone. These are his words:
'The sages of Babylon attacked Abraham on account of his faith; for they were all against him although themselves
separable into three sects.
The First thought that the Universe was subject to the control of two opposing forces, the one existing but to destroy the other, this is dualism; they held that there was nothing in common between the author of evil and the
author of good.
The Second sect admitted Three great Powers; two of them as in the first case, and a third Power whose function was to decide between the two others, a supreme arbitrator.
The Third sect recognized no god beside the Sun, in which it recognized the sole principle of existence.'"
Rabbi Moses Botarel, from his famous Commentary in 1409.
"Hundreds of years prior to the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai, the Sefer Yetzirah was a form of spiritual technology disseminated by the patriarch Abraham.
Endeavoring to teach the members of his generation about the falsehoods of religious mythology and idolatry, Abraham taught practical techniques how to experience and cognize spiritual reality.
Recognizing that all matter was made up of simpler forms, (the "letters" of their names), Abraham taught how to manipulate these "letters" so as to cognize and experience the underlying force within all the "letters."
The "letters" of the Hebrew alphabet are actually mathematical symbols which represent specific numerical & mental processes which transforms the mysterious Divine essence into a state of pure will.
From will to intuitive insight, from insight to cognized thoughts, from cognized thoughts to charged feelings, from charged feelings to manifest physical form.
The manner of this transformation is performed through specific sound techniques using the Hebrew alphabet."
"Physics & Cabbala - Unifying Two Worlds"
Originally published in Panu Derekh #25
by Ariel Bar Tzadok.
One of the many parts in the mechanism that ensured the exact transfer of the Torah since given in Sinai 3312 ago, without even one word of it's 304,805 being altered in the long journey (a phenomenon unequaled in human history) - is the tradition of writing the letters in a meticulous exact way.
There are over 150 laws concerning how the Hebrew Alphabet must be written by the Jewish Scribe - the "Sofer STA"M (Sifrei Torah ,Tefillin, and Mezuzot)
Alef The Letter Aleph has 3 distinct parts and 10 laws concerning its form. There is an upper Yud, a lower Yud, and a body that is similar to a Vov.
There should be a clear connection from the body of the Aleph to the Yuds but none of the faces of the Yuds are allowed to touch its body. The face of the upper Yud should be slightly angled upward.
The very bottom end of the Vov part should be slightly turned upwards. The size of the Aleph should be 3X3 kulmusim. The word Kulmus(im) means the width of the tip of the quill."
Aleph is the first letter of the language. The component
strokes of yud, vov and yud add up to a gematria of 10 + 6 + 10 = 26. The letters of the Tetragrammaton have
the same total: yud (10) + hey (5) + vav (6) + hey (5) = 26. This, too, makes aleph a symbol of G-d's unity.
A world controlled by human's lusts and desires, in which men mold their gods according to their own wishes - is a world of strife and war engendered by the conflicting desires.
A world controlled by the love to G-d and the obedience to his will, yielding once lusts and desires to the Almighty's - is a world of grace and love.
The blessing before the Sh'ma - the Jewish declaration of G-d's unity, every Jew must recite twice a day - is:
Ahava ( = love).
The Sh'ma says: "Sh'ma Israel, Hashem (the Tetragrammaton) Elokeinu, Hashem Echad" - Here O Israel, the G-d, our G-d, is the One/unique G-d"
"Echad" - Aleph, Chet, Dalet = 13.
"Ahava" - Aleph, He, Bet, He = 13.
13 are also the number of G-d's attributes of love and
mercy, we recite in our daily prayers: HaShem; HaShem; E-l; Rachum;... as revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai - Exodus 34:6-7.
Moral lessons One of the endless aspects of the Holy Language, is moral lesson to be studied from the sequence of the letters.
Gimel-dalet "stands for Gomel Dalim ( = be kind to the poor). Why is the foot of the Gimel
stretched out toward the Dalet? -- because it is proper for those who do kindness to run after the needy.... And why is the Dalet's 
face turned away from the Gimel? -- because [the rich] should give [to the poor] discreetly, in order that he does not feel ashamed before him" (Shabbat 104A).
This sequence teaches a moral lesson about the importance of charity -- and the even greater importance of tact.
Every letter counts One of the most basic texts to study in order to understand the vital importance of the exact delivery of the Torah's 304,805 letters intact - is the Ramban's Introduction to his monumental Commentary on the Torah.
The following words from this Commentary, relate to our issue:
"...We have yet another secret tradition that the whole of Torah is comprised of Names of The Holy One, Blessed is He (Zohar, Yisro 87a), and that the letters of the words separate themselves into Divine Names when divided in a different manner, as you may imagine by way of example that the verse Bereishis divides itself into these words:
berosh yisbare Elokim ...
In other words, imagine the entire Torah being written as one long string of letters, from the beginning of Bereishis until the end of Devarim. The Zohar says that this string can be divided in such a way as to produce nothing but names of G-d. These are not necessarily names that we are familiar with and have seen in prayer books and the like; but they are names of G-d none-the-less...
It is for this reason that Scroll of the Torah in which a mistake has been made in one letter's being added or subtracted is disqualified ... It is this principle which has caused the Biblical scholars to count every full and defective word in the Torah and Nach and to compose Masoretic text, until Ezra HaSofer and the prophet..."
The genetic code DNA, Design, and the Origin of Life
Charles B. Thaxton, Ph.D.
"...the genetic code can be best understood as an analogue to human language. It functions exactly like a code --
indeed, it is a code: it is a molecular communication system within the cell...
In recent years, scientists have applied information theory to biology, and in particular to the genetic code... It provides a mathematical means of measuring information...
The conclusion drawn from the application of information theory to biology is there exists a structural identity between the DNA code and a written language...
Molecular biology has now uncovered an analogy between DNA and written human languages. It is more than an analogy, in fact: in terms of structure, the two are 'mathematically identical.'...
The DNA code is a genetic 'language' that communicates information to the cell... The amount of information in the DNA of even the single-celled bacterium, E. coli, is vast indeed. It is greater than the information contained in all the books in any of the world's largest libraries. The DNA molecule is exquisitely complex, and extremely precise: the 'letters' must be in a very exact sequence...
For a long time biologists overlooked the distinction between two kinds of order (simple, periodic order versus specified complexity). Only recently have they appreciated that the distinguishing feature of living systems is not order but specified complexity. The sequence of nucleotides in DNA, or of amino acids in a protein, is not a repetitive order like a crystal. Instead it is like the letters in a written message...
The discovery that life in its essence is information inscribed on DNA has greatly narrowed the question of life's origin. It has become the question of the origin of
information...
If we want to speculate on how the first informational molecules came into being, the most reasonable speculation is there was some form of intelligence around at the time... given the structure of a DNA molecule, it is certainly legitimate to conclude that an intelligent agent made it...
As regards the origin of life, our uniform experience is that it takes an intelligent agent to generate information, codes, messages. As a result, it is reasonable to infer
there was an intelligent cause of the original DNA code. DNA and written language both exhibit the property of specified complexity. Since we know an intelligent cause
produces written language, it is legitimate to posit an intelligent cause as the source of DNA...
We can state our case even more strongly. To accept a material cause for the origin of life actually runs counter to the principle of uniformity. Uniform experience reveals
that only an intelligent cause regularly produces specified complexity."
"The Holy Blessed is He looked in the Torah and created the world" (Zohar).
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