{
  "bookId": "nosson-by-קונטרס-הצרופים",
  "part": "1",
  "torah": "20",
  "title": "אות ק'",
  "hebrewTitle": "אות ק'",
  "sourceUrl": "/reader/nosson-by-קונטרס-הצרופים/1/20",
  "plainUrl": "/reader-plain/nosson-by-קונטרס-הצרופים/1/20/",
  "segments": [
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      "index": 1,
      "he": "קַבָּלָה רָאשֵׁי תֵבוֹת הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לְהַוָיָ\"ה בְּהַדְרַת קֹדֶשׁ. [ליקו\"מ י\"א]\nקְרַע בְּגִימַטְרִיָּא ש\"ע נְהוֹרִין בְּגִימַטְרִיָּא שְׁנֵי פְעָמִים אֵל בְּמִלּוּאוֹ (אָלֶף לָמֶד אָלֶף לָמֶד). [ליקו\"מ כ\"א]\nקִדְמַת רָאשֵׁי תֵבוֹת קַרְקַפְתָּא דְּלָא מַנַּח תְּפִלִּין. [ליקו\"מ ל\"ח]\nקֶשֶׁת רָאשֵׁי תֵבוֹת תְּקִיעָה שְׁבָרִים תְּרוּעָה – הֵם הָאָבוֹת. [ליקו\"מ מ\"ב]\nקָמָה רָאשֵׁי תֵבוֹת הַשְׁקִיפָה מִמְּעוֹן קָדְשְׁךָ. [ליקו\"מ רד\"ל] \nקִינוֹת יִתְהַפְּכוּ לְתִּיקּוּן. [ליקו\"מ רמ\"ז]\nקַשְׁיָא רָאשֵׁי תֵבוֹת שְׁמַע יְיָ קוֹלִי אֶקְרָא. [ליקו\"מ ח\"ב מ\"ו]\nקַבָּלָה בְּגִימַטְרִיָּא נוֹאֵף. [חיי\"מ תקכ\"ו]",
      "en": "ק\n\nKUF — Numerical Value: 100 | The letter whose leg descends below the line | 17 source entries\n\nHebrew EntryEnglish Translation & ExplanationSource\n\n ק — from ה׳\n \n Shape / Form\n\n The letter Kuf (ק) is formed when the leg of the Heh (ה) is lengthened downward. [Cross-reference from Section 5.] The divine letter of revelation (Heh) extends its reach into the lower worlds to become Kuf.\n \n Likutay Mooharan 67:4\n\n ק — requires פ׳\n \n Notarikon\n\n The letter Kuf cannot be pronounced without the letter Peh — its name (Kuf) contains a Peh. [Part of the six-letter cluster, cross-reference from Section 1.]\n \n Likutay Mooharan 83\n\n קבלה\n \n Gematria\n\n Kabbalah (קבלה, \"mystical tradition / receiving\" = 137) = gematria of no'af (נואף, \"licentiousness\" = 137). [Cross-reference from Section 14.] Same channel, opposite orientations.\n\n Roshay Saveivos\n\n Kabbalah — first letters of ה׳שתחוו ל׳יי ב׳הדרת ק׳דש: \"Bow down to Hashem in the beauty of holiness.\" [Cross-reference from Section 5.]\n \n Chayay Mooharan §526; Likutay Mooharan 11:6\n\n קִדְמַת\n \n Roshay Saveivos\n\n Kidmas (קִדְמַת, \"east of / in front of\") — first letters of ק׳רקפתא ד׳לא מ׳נח ת׳פלין: \"a skull that did not wear tefillin\" [Talmud, Berachos 11a — a teaching about the obligation of tefillin]. [Cross-reference: reverse listed below.]\n [The word for \"in front of / primordial east\" encodes the phrase about the skull that neglected tefillin — teaching that the failure to wear tefillin is a primordial, frontal rejection of the divine crown.]\n\n \n Likutay Mooharan 38:6\n\n קדקד — נחמו נחמו\n \n Gematria\n\n Kodkod (קדקד, \"crown of the head\" = 208) = gematria of נחמו נחמו (\"Comfort, comfort\" [Isaiah 40:1]). [Cross-reference from Section 14.] Consolation reaches to the very crown.\n \n Likutay Mooharan II:85\n\n קול — ו׳\n \n Shape / Form\n\n The voice (קול) that is drawn out and extended is the aspect of the letter Vov. [Cross-reference from Section 6.] The sustained vocal tone embodies the letter of connection and extension.\n \n Likutay Mooharan 77\n\n קינות — תיקון\n \n Tziroof\n\n Kinos (קינות, \"lamentations / elegies — the Book of Lamentations\") — its letters are a permutation of תיקון (tikkun, \"rectification / repair\"). Lamentations contains within it the letters of repair — mourning and rectification share the same root.\n [ק-י-נ-ו-ת rearranged = ת-י-ק-ו-נ. The Book of Lamentations — the deepest expression of Jewish mourning over the Temple's destruction — encodes rectification. The lamentation is itself the tikkun; the weeping is the repair. This is a quintessentially Breslov insight.]\n\n \n Likutay Mooharan (Remez section)\n\n קליפה נדחה פיה — שלחן\n \n Gematria\n\n Klipah nidcheh piyah (קליפה נדחה פיה, \"the shell whose mouth is thrust aside / repelled\") = gematria of שלחן (shulchan, \"table\") with the kollel. The table at which one eats with holiness repels the outer shell — the holy meal defeats the forces of impurity.\n \n Chayay Mooharan §476\n\n ק\"מ קלין — ממון\n \n Gematria\n\n The 140 voices (ק\"מ קלין) of a woman giving birth = gematria of ממון (mamon, \"wealth\") together with its letters. [Cross-reference from Section 13.] The birth-cry and material wealth share their number — both are expressions of bringing potential into actuality.\n \n Likutay Mooharan 23:1\n\n קס\"ח — חסד באת\"ב\n \n Gematria\n\n The 168 words (קס\"ח תיבות) of the Psalm of Thanksgiving (Mizmor LeTodah, Psalms 100) = chesed (חסד) in the Atbash cipher (= 168). [Cross-reference from Section 13.]\n \n Likutay Mooharan II:2; 6\n\n קץ חי — יצחק\n \n Tziroof\n\n Ketz chai (קץ חי, \"the living end\") — its letters spell יצחק (Yitzchak). [Cross-reference from Section 10.]\n \n Likutay Mooharan II:79\n\n קרע\n \n Gematria (×2)\n\n Kera (קרע, \"tearing [of a harsh decree]\" = 370) yields two equivalences:\n\n (1) = gematria of El (אל) in its full spelling, twice [cross-reference from Section 1];\n\n (2) = gematria of ש\"ע נהורין (\"370 lights\") — the tearing of decrees releases the 370 lights of the divine countenance.\n [Kera = 370 = the 370 lights. Prayer and teshuvah that tear the harsh decree simultaneously release the full 370 lights of divine grace. Tearing and shining are numerically identical.]\n\n \n Likutay Mooharan 21:9\n\n ק'רקפתא ד'לא מ'נח ת'פלין — קִדְמַת\n \n Roshay Saveivos\n\n The first letters of \"a skull that did not wear tefillin\" spell קִדְמַת (kidmas, \"east of / primordial\"). [Cross-reference from Kidmas above.]\n \n Likutay Mooharan 38:6\n\n קשיא\n \n Roshay Saveivos\n\n Kashya (קשיא, \"a difficult question\" — the Talmudic term for an unresolved challenge) — first letters of ש׳מע י׳י ק׳ולי א׳קרא: \"Hear, O Hashem, my voice as I call out\" [Psalms 27:7]. The unresolved question becomes a cry to Hashem — every kashya is a prayer.\n \n Likutay Mooharan II:46; Sichos HaRan 146\n\n קשת — ת'קיעה ש'ברים ת'רועה\n \n Roshay Saveivos\n\n Kashes (קשת, \"bow / rainbow\") — first letters of the three shofar sounds: ת׳קיעה ש׳ברים ת׳רועה — tekiah, shevarim, teruah. The rainbow that G-d set as the sign of His covenant with Noah is encoded in the three sounds of the shofar — both are signs of divine mercy bridging heaven and earth.\n \n Likutay Mooharan 42\n\n [Translator's Summary — Section 19, Kuf — 17 source entries fully covered]\n\n The Kuf, whose leg descends below the line, yields teachings of descent and ascent. Kinos (Lamentations) as a permutation of tikkun (rectification) is quintessentially Breslov — weeping and repair are the same letters. The unresolved Talmudic question (kashya) encoding the cry of prayer. The rainbow encoded in the three shofar sounds. And kera (tearing decrees) = 370 = the 370 lights — tearing and shining are numerically one."
    }
  ]
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