🔥Daily Tanya – Iggeret Hakodesh Epistle 5 Part 3: The Two Hehs of Hashem’s Name and the Divine Source of Speech

1. Why Was This World Created with the Letter Hei?

• Although this world is associated with the lower Hei (ה) of Hashem’s Name, its source begins higher.
• The lower Hei emerges from the hidden Yud (י) through the upper Hei (ה).

 

2. The Upper Hei Represents Binah

• The upper Hei symbolizes Binah (understanding).
• Its length and width represent:
  • Expansion of wisdom
  • Development of hidden insight into clear understanding
• Binah transforms a concealed idea into something graspable and revealed.

 

3. Understanding Reaches the Heart

• The influence of Binah culminates in the heart.
• As the Tikkunei Zohar states:

“Binah is the heart, and through it the heart understands.”

• Intellectual comprehension ultimately produces emotional response.

 

4. From the Heart Comes Speech

• From the heart emerges the breath (hevel) that becomes speech.
• This breath is the source of the revealed letters that eventually emerge from the five organs of articulation.
• Thus, speech follows the chain: Yud → Upper Hei → Heart → Breath → Speech.

 

5. The Lower Hei Represents Malchut

• The lower Hei corresponds to Malchut (Kingship).
• Its broad shape symbolizes the spreading of Divine sovereignty throughout all worlds:
  • Above and below
  • In every direction
  • Throughout creation

 

6. Divine Kingship Through Divine Speech

• Malchut is expressed through “the word of the King.”
• As Kohelet says:

“Where the king’s word is, there is authority.”

• Creation exists through the Divine speech that continuously gives it life.

 

7. The Flow of Revelation

The spiritual flow described by the Alter Rebbe is:

Yud (Hidden Wisdom)
↓
Upper Hei (Understanding/Binah)
↓
Heart (Emotional Internalization)
↓
Breath and Speech
↓
Lower Hei (Malchut and Creation)