In spirituality, there are no letters, as I have already elaborated on before. All the multiplication in spirituality relies on the letters derived from the materiality of this world (Baal HaSulam, Letter 14).

Letters are a record of the forces that a person must evoke when reading Kabbalistic texts. That is why Kabbalists when they work on texts, relate their feelings to words and letters and at the same time, can change their powers and impact the environment.

Question: What letters do we need?

Answer: We need practically all letters. And there are only a few of them in Hebrew, only twenty-two. It is said that it is the shortest alphabet of all.

Some alphabets include forty-seven letters and close to sixty, but here are only twenty-two.

Therefore, we need to understand what each letter suggests, what it implies, and what combinations of forces are in it. This is very serious.

When a person begins to approach the meaning of the letters, he feels how they are playing in him. And then he reads them differently. He is no longer in a hurry because each letter evokes a resonance, a reaction in him. In such a way, he gradually begins to feel what the text wants to convey to him.

It is said: there is no renewal in the light, but there is creation, that is, when it is necessary to convey movement over the letters, and the form of the higher ones is revealed.

The form of the higher ones is the following degree. And movement atop the letters means that a person, desiring to reach the next degree, forms an intention above his interests, i.e., not for himself.

In principle, we need to connect with letters in our feelings. Then we can understand what the Kabbalists want to convey to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 14

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