Elohim's Aleph-Bet (Letters) - The Dalet

Shalom, friends. my name is Chadwick Harvey with Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we continue our journey through Elohim's Aleph-Bet with the fourth letter, the Hebrew letter Dallet. It is a very important letter that will give us great revelation when we look at the gospel account of Yeshua in John 10 and other scriptures we will cover.

If you have not been with us on this journey, we have been discovering the Hebrew Aleph-Bet — the letters that God spoke out of his mouth. It is very important to recognize that these are his letters, pronounced by him, that he created the world with, and also gave to the Hebrew people to understand their language. The Hebrew letters make up the Hebrew words, which form the original language the Bible was written in. These are holy, righteous, and divine letters that, in my opinion, we must understand in order to reach those in-depth layers of understanding within the biblical account. Is it a requirement? No. But to get into those deeper levels and layers of understanding throughout the gospel accounts, the prophets, the book of Revelation, and beyond, I do feel it is important to have these extra layers, because they give us an extra intimacy with the text — and again, he breathed these letters out of his mouth.

Thank you again, everyone, for joining us tonight. We hope you have had a great Shabbat and a great weekend ahead. Tonight we will go through the Hebrew letter Dallet. Tomorrow night we will return with Middle East updates, covering the situations involving Iran, America, Israel, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, as well as North Africa — all at 7 PM. But tonight, we focus on the Hebrew letter that gives us great wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the gospel accounts concerning the door.

The Dallet is the fourth letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet. You can see it in the fourth position from the left on the top line. The first letter is the Aleph, the second is the Bet, the third is the Gimel, and now we are on the fourth — the Dallet. In its modern form, it looks somewhat like an upside-down L, a hanger, or a tent. We will get into more of that, but essentially it represents a door, and we will explore that through the gospel accounts, since Yeshua is the door.

There are 22 letters in the Hebrew Aleph-Bet, with five final forms of five letters, giving us 27 total understandings. We will be going through all of them on this journey, which we plan to conclude around Shavuot — the fourth feast day, ending on May 24th. In the first three letters we covered previously, we saw the Aleph representing the Father, with the diagonal line within the letter representing Yeshua as the mediator between heaven and earth. The second letter, the Bet, is about Yeshua. The third letter, the Gimel, represents the Holy Spirit — the Ruach HaKodesh. Now we arrive at the door.

These letters are telling us a story, and we will continue to see that story unfold. There are many layers of understanding within the letters, but we will present the most evident layer and trust that Yahweh will give each person additional revelation as they study. So let us begin with the Dallet.

Before going further, let us read the scripture that ties everything together. In John chapter 10, verses 7 through 10:

*"Then Yeshua said to them again, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door — the Dallet — of the sheep. All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.'"*

Here we see a beautiful connection with the letter. The Dallet is the door — shaped like a tent door — and this is precisely what Yeshua was referring to. These deeper layers of understanding reveal that he is referring to the letters his Father spoke into existence. The Dallet represents the door Yeshua spoke of in John 10, and we will see how fascinating this connection is as we look further at the Passover door and all the beautiful understandings Yeshua taught us.

The fourth letter of Elohim's Aleph-Bet carries a numerical value of four, which symbolizes creative works. Every Hebrew letter has an order, and in the case of the first ten letters, the numerical value matches the position — the Aleph is one, the Bet is two, the Gimel is three, and the Dallet is four. After the tenth letter, the numerical values begin to increase differently. But for now, the fourth letter carries the value of four, which symbolizes creative works.

The number four is formed from the addition of three plus one. Three represents the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and one represents their creative works — giving us four. We find support for this in Genesis: in the beginning, Elohim — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — created. That is three plus one, equaling four. Therefore, creation is the fourth thing, and the number four is always linked to creative works. On the fourth day of creation, the celestial creation was completed — the sun, the moon, and the stars were made. On the fifth and sixth days, Elohim furnished the earth with herbs, living creatures, and people. So the fourth day marks the completion of the material, or celestial, creation.

A few examples that represent the number four: the four great elements — earth, air, fire, and water; the four regions of the earth — north, south, east, and west; the four seasons — spring, summer, fall, and winter; and the four divisions of the day — morning, noon, evening, and midnight. The number four always represents creative works, dependent on Yahweh — three, being Elohim, plus one, being their creative works — bringing us back to what we discussed about the fourth day of creation.

The ancient pictograph of the Dallet looks like an upside-down hat, or more precisely, a closed or hanging tent door. Moses would have written the Dallet in this pictographic form. Today, in classical Hebrew, we write it differently — as two lines meeting at a corner point, with an overhang called an "ear." The bent shape of the modern letter symbolizes a needy person in a lowly position, bowed over in humility before Yahweh.

The root word of Dallet is "dala," which means to draw out or to impoverish. The related word "dalut" means poor or impoverished. The Dallet is therefore a picture of an ear — the Dallet's ear — listening to the instructions coming from the Gimel, the Holy Spirit, which is the preceding letter. This connects beautifully to the storyline we have been tracing: the Aleph is the Father, the Bet is the Son, the Gimel is the Holy Spirit, and the Dallet is where we listen to the Holy Spirit, who is sent to us by the Father and the Son.

Amazingly, in the first four letters of Elohim's Aleph-Bet, we see a complete picture: the Father and the Son send the Gimel — the Holy Spirit — to the Dallet, the door of our hearts, in the hope that we will receive the revelation.