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The 9 Letters:
I, R
I
No. 90 No. 10
or 900 (final tz)
TZADDI YOD IOTA
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Sound: TS Sound: i as in ill
or machine
HEBREW PHOENICIAN GREEK ROMAN PRESENT-DAY
I – 9
Tzaddi (tsaw-day), the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponds
to the English double letters Ts or Tz. It is the 11th of the single letters.
Its governing influence is in taste, or swallowing, and its hieroglyph means,
a fishing hook.
Fish, we have learned, refer to the esoteric teachings, or spiritual food
of the Initiate. The fishing hook is that force in man that draws and con-
nects him to esoteric study. Jesus was such a drawing power and taught
his disciples to be fishers among men. The fishing hook can be words
from an inspired teacher or minister, or it can be from an awakening
within us. The governing influence of taste and swallowing refers to the
taking in of spiritual food. If we like the taste we, in a sense, swallow and
it becomes a part of our belief pattern just as surely as the nutrition in
physical food supplies our bodies with good health.
The general meaning of Tzaddi is that of a goal or purpose. When Ts
or Tz begins a word it means working toward a goal, and at the end of the
word it signifies that the goal has been reached.