Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone
1777, Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, stated that studying Hebrew was essential to a gentleman’s education. He said, “Isn’t it [Hebrew] the language I am sure to hear in heaven?”8 Even Martin Luther, not known for his kind remarks toward the Jews, commented about the Hebrew language, “The Hebrew language is the best language of all, with the richest vocabulary.”9 From the time of Moses, Hebrew was the language of the Torah and the Jewish people. The original written form of the Hebrew letters dates back to the eleventh or tenth century b.c., commonly termed Old Hebrew . By the sixth century b.c., the old script was limited to religious writing, and a different form, the Aramaic script, called a square script , was developed. This Aramaic script is used today when scribes pen a Torah scroll.10 While written script developed over the centuries, and Hebrew is believed to be a form of an early Phoenician script, I personally believe that the original language Adam spoke was somehow linked to what we today know as the Hebrew language. There is a divine connection as seen when studying the mysteries of the Hebrew alphabet. The Amazing Hebrew Alphabet Called the alef-bet , there is a sacred mystique shrouding the Hebrew alphabet. The alphabet consists of twenty-two letters that are all consonants. There are no vowels among the twenty-two letters. The vowel marks, consisting of a combination of dots and dashes (called nikkudim ) placed either above or below the individual letters, were added around
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