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פ PEH — Numerical Value: 80 | The letter of the mouth, of speech, of revelation | 26 source entries [Translator's Note] Peh means "mouth" — the organ of speech and of Torah. Source lines 6 and 17 are two sides of the same entry (Pesach = Peh Sach); lines 14 and 18 are two sides of the Pardes entry; lines 24–25 cross-reference Section 15's Segol/Chirik entry. Hebrew EntryEnglish Translation & ExplanationSource פ׳ — six letters Notarikon The letter Peh appears six times in the alphabet — six letters whose names cannot be pronounced without a Peh: א, כ, ך, פ, ף, ק (Alef, Kaf, final-Kaf, Peh, final-Peh, Kuf). [Cross-reference from Section 1.] Six mouths, six openings of speech. Likutay Mooharan 83 פ׳ × 6 = לילית Gematria The letter Peh (= 80) six times (6 × 80 = 480) = gematria of לילית (Lilit = 480). [Cross-reference from Section 12.] The six letters requiring Peh together equal the force of nocturnal impurity — the antidote is holy speech. Likutay Mooharan 83 פא — אף Tziroof Peh-Alef (פא — the name of the letter Peh when shortened) — its letters reversed spell אף (af, "nose / anger"). [Cross-reference from Section 1.] The mouth (peh) inverted becomes the nose of anger. Likutay Mooharan 83 פדיון נפש — ורפא ירפא Gematria Pidyon Nefesh (פדיון נפש, "redemption of the soul") = gematria of ורפא ירפא ("He shall surely heal") together with its two words. [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Healing the body is the redemption of the soul. Likutay Mooharan II:3 פ'ה ל'הם ו'לא י'דברו — ויפל Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "a mouth they have but cannot speak" [Psalms 115:5 — said of idols] spell ויפל (vayipol, "and he fell"). [Cross-reference from Section 6.] The mouth that cannot speak holy words — the fallen state. Likutay Mooharan 19:4 פסח — פה סח Notarikon Pesach (פסח, "Passover") is read as פה סח — "the mouth speaks." Passover is the festival of the speaking mouth — the Seder night of telling (haggadah = telling) and of the mouth that recounts the Exodus. The liberation of the body is the liberation of speech. [Peh sach — the speaking mouth. On Pesach the mouth that was silenced by exile regains its power of speech. The Haggadah itself means "the telling" — and the four sons are defined by how they use (or fail to use) their mouths. Pesach = the festival of the mouth that speaks freely.] Likutay Mooharan 49:6; II:74; 83; Sichos HaRan 88 פורים Roshay Saveivos (×2) Purim yields two first-letter sources: (1) ו׳אם מ׳פאת פ׳ניו י׳מרט ר׳אשו — "if from the front of his head hair is lost" [Leviticus 13:41] [cross-reference from Section 6]; (2) מ׳מצרים ו׳לא י׳ראו פ׳ני ר׳יקם — "from Egypt and they shall not see My face empty-handed" [cross-reference from Section 13]. [Both verses encoding Purim speak of faces — the bald forehead that must not be seen as a sign of impurity, and the face that must not be seen empty-handed. Purim is the festival of the hidden face (hester panim) — and both its source-verses speak of faces concealed or revealed.] Chayay Mooharan §90; Likutay Mooharan II:74 פו'ר'ת' — תרפ"ו אורות Gematria The letters פ, ו, ר, ת from the word פורת ("Poras" — from Yaakov's blessing of Yosef: "Yosef is a fruitful bough" [Genesis 49:22]) = gematria of תרפ"ו (686) — the 686 lights. [Cross-reference from Section 7, the seven Divine Names.] Yosef the fruitful one embodies the full radiance of the seven Divine Names. Likutay Mooharan 2:2 פותח' את' ידיך' Sofay Saveivos The final letters of "You open Your hand" (פותח את ידיך) [Psalms 145:16] spell the Divine Name חתך (Chesech). [Cross-reference from Section 8.] Roshay Saveivos The first letters of the same verse spell אפי (api, "my anger / my nose"). [Cross-reference from Section 1.] G-d's open hand transforms anger into generosity — the same letters, beginning and end. Likutay Mooharan 66:2; 108; II:7; 12 פ'זר נ'תן ל'אביונים — נפל Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "He scattered, he gave to the poor" (פ׳זר נ׳תן ל׳אביונים) [Psalms 112:9] spell נפל (napal, "he fell"). Scattering one's wealth to the poor — the act that appears as a falling away of one's possessions — is in truth the most elevated act of rising. [Giving charity appears as a fall of one's wealth; yet the verse is about the righteous man's eternal glory. What looks like falling (napal) is actually the highest form of rising — the same letters encoded in the act of holy scattering.] Likutay Mooharan 201; Sefer HaMidos "Segulah" 11 פ'י י'דבר ח'כמות ו'הגות ל'בי ת'בונות Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be understanding" [Psalms 49:4] spell חליפות (chalifos, "exchanges / alternations"). [Cross-reference from Section 8.] Wisdom and understanding alternate through the mouth and the heart. Likutay Mooharan II:7; 4 פרדס Roshay Saveivos (double) Pardes (פרדס — literally "orchard"; the four levels of Torah interpretation) — its letters are the first letters of פ׳ירוש ר׳מז ד׳רוש ס׳וד: the four levels of Torah study: Pshut (פ) = the plain meaning; Remez (ר) = the allegorical / hinted meaning; Drosh (ד) = the homiletical meaning; Sod (ס) = the mystical / secret meaning. And conversely: those four words' first letters spell Pardes. [Two sides of same entry.] [The word Pardes (orchard) encodes the entire architecture of Torah interpretation. The four scholars who entered the Pardes (Talmud, Chagigah 14b) — only Rabbi Akiva "entered in peace and departed in peace" — taught that the four levels of Torah must be approached in their proper order and with full preparation.] Introduction to Likutay Mooharan פלאים — אלפים Tziroof Pla'im (פלאים, "wonders / miracles") — its letters are a permutation of אלפים (alafim, "thousands"). [Cross-reference from Section 1.] Wonders and thousands are the same letters — every thousand contains the potential for miracles. Sichos HaRan 4 פלשתים — תמשפיל Tziroof Plishtim (פלשתים, "Philistines") — its letters are a permutation of תֹּמשפיל (tomashpil, "He shall bring low / cast down"). The Philistines — the nation associated with physical pleasure and uncircumcision — are defined by the act of bringing down. [The Philistines represent the spiritual force of tum'as habris (impurity of the covenant). Their name anagrammed spells the act of bringing low — they pull the sacred downward into the physical. The antidote is the raising of holiness through the covenant and through Torah.] Chayay Mooharan §429 פרה — הפר Tziroof Parah (פרה, "the Red Heifer") = permutation of הפר (hefar, "annulment"). [Cross-reference from Section 5.] The Red Heifer and annulment share their letters — both involve divine reversal. Likutay Mooharan II:74 פרנק Sofay Saveivos Frank (פרנק — an old coin) — final letters of כסף נבחר לשון צדיק: "Choice silver is the tongue of the righteous." [Cross-reference from Section 11.] Chayay Mooharan §20 פרעה — העֹרף Tziroof Pharaoh (פרעה) = permutation of העֹרף (ha'oref, "the back of the neck / stubbornness"). [Cross-reference from Section 5.] Pharaoh and the stiff neck are the same letters. Likutay Mooharan 62:5; 163 פ'שוט כ'פול ש'לוש ר'בוע — כשפר Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "simple, double, triple, quadruple" — the four modes of shofar blowing — spell כשפר (kashofar, "like a shofar"). [Cross-reference from Section 11.] Likutay Mooharan II:8; 1 פשוטה — סגול + חיריק Gematria (×2) Peshutah (פשוטה, "simple / plain [form]") yields two gematria connections: (1) = the gematria of the segol of the Name קס"א [161] together with the chirik of the Name ס"ג [63]; (2) = the gematria of תיו (Tav — the last letter). [Cross-references from Section 15.] Likutay Mooharan 6:7 פַּתָּח — ואו Shape / Form The vowel patach (פַּתָּח — the horizontal line beneath a letter) has the shape of the letter Vov. [Cross-reference from Section 6.] The opening vowel takes the form of the letter of connection and extension. Likutay Mooharan 66:2 פרדשקא — תרפ"ו אורות Gematria Paredeshka (פרדשקא — an Aramaic word for a certain type of light or radiance) = gematria of תרפ"ו (686) — the 686 lights. [Cross-reference from Section 7.] This word of radiance numerically contains the full light of the seven Divine Names. Likutay Mooharan 2:2 [Translator's Summary — Section 17, Peh — 26 source entries fully covered] Peh is the letter of the mouth, and fittingly its section overflows with speech-related teachings. Pesach = Peh Sach (the speaking mouth) — Passover is the liberation of speech. Pardes encodes the four levels of Torah interpretation and is itself encoded by them. The mouth that cannot speak (vayipol) versus G-d's opening hand (poteiach es yadecha) whose first letters spell "my anger." Scattering charity to the poor looks like falling (napal) but is the highest rising. And Plishtim (Philistines) anagrammed spells "He shall bring low" — the nation of physical pleasure defined by the downward pull.