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TAV — Numerical Value: 400 | The last letter — the seal of truth | 51 source entries [Translator's Note] The Tav is the final letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the last letter of the word אמת (emes, "truth"). Many entries here are cross-references completing the alphabetical cycle. Lines 26–27 are the Tamuz entries (cross-references from Section 7); lines 34–35 and 44–45 are related shofar-sound clusters. Hebrew EntryEnglish Translation & ExplanationSource ת׳ — סגול + חיריק Gematria (×2) The letter Tav (ת = 400) yields two gematria connections from the same lesson: (1) = the segol of the Name קס"א [161] together with the chirik of the Name ס"ג [63] (combined = 400 via a specific calculation);

תיקו — תיקון / חסר נון Notarikon Teiku (תיקו — the Talmudic term for an unresolved question, meaning "let it stand") is תיקון (tikkun, "rectification") missing its Nun. The unresolved question is a rectification in waiting — the Nun (= 50, the 50th gate of understanding) has not yet arrived. [When Elijah comes to resolve all unresolved Talmudic questions (teiku = Tishbi yetaretz kushyos u'ba'ayos), the missing Nun will be restored, completing tikkun. The unresolved is not abandoned — it is awaiting its letter of completion.] Likutay Mooharan (Remez) תיקון — קינות Tziroof Tikkun (תיקון, "rectification") = permutation of kinos (קינות, "Lamentations"). [Cross-reference from Section 19.] Mourning and repair are the same letters. Likutay Mooharan (Remez) ת'כלית מ'עשה ש'מים ו'ארץ — מות Roshay Saveivos

The first letters of "the purpose of the creation of heaven and earth" (ת׳כלית מ׳עשה ש׳מים ו׳ארץ) spell מות (moves, "death"). The purpose of creation is encoded in the word for death — creation's goal passes through mortality. [A profound and humbling teaching: the first letters of "the purpose of the creation" spell "death." The purpose of all creation is revealed through the passage of mortality — for it is through facing death that the human soul discovers its true purpose and eternal dimension.] Likutay Mooharan II:39 ת'כלם ש'בעת י'מים — תשי Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "she shall be ashamed seven days" (ת׳כלם ש׳בעת י׳מים) [Numbers 12:14 — the words about Miriam's leprosy] spell תשי (teshi, "you have forgotten / weakened"). [Cross-reference: the reverse appears in Tzadi section above.] Likutay Mooharan 21:7 תלמוד — לילית Gematria Talmud (תלמוד = 480) = gematria of Lilit (לילית = 480). [Cross-reference from Section 12.] The Talmud is the precise antidote to the force of nocturnal impurity — the same number, opposite spiritual orientations. Likutay Mooharan 214

תלת מאה — תלת מה Notarikon Tlas me'ah (תלת מאה, Aramaic: "three hundred") is formed from תלת מה — "three times mah (= 45)" — for 3 × 45 = 135... and also 300 = Shin, the letter of three prongs. Three hundreds emerge from three times the Name of Mah. Likutay Mooharan 4:9 תמד — ד' פעמים אלף Gematria Tamad (תמד, "grape juice / a certain mixture") = four times Alef (4 × 111 = 444 = Tav-Mem-Dalet = 400+40+4 = 444). Four times the silent letter produces this specific measure. Likutay Mooharan 28:3 תמוז — חסר ו׳ Roshay Saveivos (×2) Tamuz (תמוז, written deficiently without the Vov as תמז) — first letters of two verses about Torah and Moshe. [Cross-references from Section 7.] Likutay Mooharan 217

תמר / תֹמשפיל — פלשתים Gematria Tamar (תמר, "date palm / Tamar") = two times the 320 harsh judgments (ש"ך דינים). Tomashpil (תֹמשפיל, "He shall bring low") = permutation of Plishtim (פלשתים, "Philistines"). [Cross-reference from Section 17.] Likutay Mooharan 277; Chayay Mooharan §429 תניא — איתן Tziroof Tanya (תניא, "it has been taught") = permutation of eisahn (איתן, "perennial / mighty"). [Cross-reference from Section 1.] The eternal teaching and eternal strength share their letters. Likutay Mooharan II:5; 15 ת"פ — לילית Gematria

(2) = peshutah (simple form) — the plain value of 400. [Cross-references from Sections 15, 17.] The last letter, in its simplest form, contains the deepest gematria of the vowel-signs. Likutay Mooharan 6:7 ת׳ = נון + חית Shape / Form The letter Tav is formed when a Nun and a Ches are joined together. [Cross-reference from Section 14.] The final letter of the alphabet is composed of the 14th (Nun) and 8th (Ches) letters — the letter of the fifty gates and the letter of transcendence. Likutay Mooharan 1 ת'אות ר'שעים ת'אבד — תר"ת Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "the desire of the wicked shall perish" (ת׳אות ר׳שעים ת׳אבד) [Psalms 112:10] spell תר"ת — the acronym of the three shofar sounds: Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah (ת׳קיעה ש׳ברים ת׳רועה). The perishing of the wicked's desire is encoded in the shofar call. [The three shofar sounds that awaken the heart to teshuvah on Rosh Hashanah are themselves the decree of the wicked's demise. The shofar does not merely call us to return — it actively dismantles the desires of evil.] Tav-Peh (ת"פ = 480) = gematria of Lilit. [Cross-reference from Section 12.] Likutay Mooharan 83 תפה — אל אלקים / תהלים Gematria Tapeh (תפה — a word/name in the source) = gematria of El Elokim in full spelling = gematria of Tehillim = 485. [Cross-references from Section 1.] Likutay Mooharan 205 תפלין — נפתלי Tziroof Tefillin (תפלין, "phylacteries") — its letters are a permutation of נפתלי (Naftali, the tribe). The binding of tefillin and the tribe of Naftali share their letters — Naftali, described as a swift deer, embodies the swift binding of holiness. [ת-פ-ל-י-נ rearranged = נ-פ-ת-ל-י. Naftali is blessed: "Naftali is a swift deer who speaks beautiful words" (Genesis 49:21). The tefillin bound on the arm and head are the physical enactment of Naftali's beautiful, swift speech.] Likutay Mooharan 47

ת'קיעה ש'ברים ת'רועה — קשת / תר"ת Roshay Saveivos (×2) The three shofar sounds — Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah — yield two first-letter acronyms: (1) קשת (kashes, "bow / rainbow") [cross-reference from Section 19]; (2) תר"ת (tarat — the acronym itself, referring to the sequence). And: ת'קיעה ת'רועה ת'קיעה — the bracketing pattern of Tekiah-Teruah-Tekiah also spells תר"ת. Likutay Mooharan 42; II:88; Sichos HaRan 180 תִּקְעוּ — ע"ב + ריו ב' פעמים Gematria

Likutay Mooharan II:88; Sichos HaRan 180 תבל — תיו לב / ב' פעמים ריו Multiple Tevel (תבל, "the inhabited world / the earth") yields two connections: (1) Tziroof Its letters = ת לב (Tav-Lamed-Beis = Tav + "heart") — the world is the heart of the Tav; (2) Gematria Tevel = Reish-Yud-Vov (ריו = 216) twice (432 = 400+30+2). [Cross-reference from Section 20.] Likutay Mooharan 5:5; 46 תגי דל — יתגדל Tziroof Tik'u (תִּקְעוּ, "blow [the shofar]!" [Psalms 81:4]) = gematria of the Name 72 plus Reish-Yud-Vov twice (72 + 216 + 216 = 504). [Cross-reference from Section 16.] Likutay Mooharan 46 ת"ק שדי — יתקדש Tziroof Tak Sha-dai (ת"ק שדי, "the power of Sha-dai") — its letters are contained in יתקדש (Yiskadash — the second word of Kaddish). [Cross-reference from Section 10.] Likutay Mooharan 177 תרדמה — תרגום Gematria Tardemah (תרדמה, "deep sleep" [Genesis 2:21 — G-d's deep sleep upon Adam before creating Eve]) = gematria of תרגום (Targum, "Aramaic translation [of the Torah]"). The deep sleep of creation and the translation of Torah are numerically one — the Aramaic translation reveals what was hidden in the sleep of the original. [Both = 649. The Aramaic Targum — traditionally attributed to Onkelos and considered a holy translation — shares its gematria with tardemah, the deep sleep. Translation is always a "waking" from the sleep of the original tongue into a new language of understanding.] Likutay Mooharan 19:4 תרומה — לחזות' בנועם' ה' ולבקר' בהיכלו' Sofay Saveivos

Tagei Dal (תגי דל, "crowns of the poor / the tagin of the Dalet") — its letters are contained in יתגדל (Yisgadal — the opening of Kaddish). [Cross-reference from Section 10.] Likutay Mooharan 177 תהלים Gematria (×3) Tehillim (תהלים, "Psalms" = 485) yields three gematria connections: (1) = gematria of El Elokim in full spelling (אלף למד, אלף למד הי יוד מם) [cross-reference from Section 1]; (2) = gematria of Lilit together with her five letters [cross-reference from Section 12]; (3) = gematria of tapeh (תפה — see below). Terumah (תרומה, "the elevation-offering / priestly gift") — final letters of לחזות בנועם ה׳ ולבקר בהיכלו: "to behold the pleasantness of Hashem and to visit His Sanctuary" [Psalms 27:4]. [Cross-reference from Section 12.] Likutay Mooharan II:71 תרי"ג — משה רבינו Gematria 613 (תרי"ג) = gematria of Moshe Rabbeinu (משה רבינו, "Moshe our Teacher"). [Cross-reference from Section 13.] Moshe our Teacher = the 613 commandments. Likutay Mooharan 36:2 תרפ"ו אורות — 686 lights Gematria (×3) The 686 lights (תרפ"ו אורות) are encoded in three ways: (1) = sum of the seven Divine Names (72+63+45+52+161+151+143) [cross-reference from Section 7];

Sofay Saveivos The final letters of ואלה שמות בני ישראל הבאים [Exodus 1:1] spell תהלים. [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Likutay Mooharan 205 ת'וכו ר'צוף א'הבה מ'בנות י'רושלים Roshay Saveivos (×2) The first letters of "its interior inlaid with love, by the daughters of Jerusalem" [Song of Songs 3:10] spell both מאירת (me'ires, "illuminating") [cross-reference from Section 13] and ריתמא (rismah, desert camp-station) [cross-reference from Section 20]. Love inlaid in the interior illuminates and becomes a resting-place. Likutay Mooharan II:5; 16 תולדה — לתודה Tziroof Toledah (תולדה, "offspring / generations") = permutation of LaTodah (לתודה, "for thanksgiving"). [Cross-reference from Section 12.] Generations and thanksgiving are the same letters. Likutay Mooharan II:2; 3 תולע — עולת Tziroof (2) = gematria of פורת יוסף ("Poras Yosef" — Yosef the fruitful) [cross-reference from Section 17]; (3) = gematria of paredeshka (פרדשקא) [cross-reference from Section 17]. Likutay Mooharan 2:2 תר"ת — ת'אות / ת'קיעה ת'רועה ת'קיעה Roshay Saveivos (×2) Tarat (תר"ת — acronym of the three shofar sounds) appears as the first letters of two phrases: (1) ת׳אות ר׳שעים ת׳אבד — "the desire of the wicked shall perish" [Psalms 112:10] [cross-reference from above]; (2) ת׳קיעה ת׳רועה ת׳קיעה — the bracketing shofar pattern. Likutay Mooharan II:88; Sichos HaRan 180

Tola (תולע, "worm / crimson worm") = permutation of Olas (עולת, "burnt-offering"). [Cross-reference from Section 16.] Likutay Mooharan 28:3 תורה — י׳ ו׳ / טנת"א Notarikon The Torah embodies the letter-pair Yud-Vov (י׳ ו׳) — Yud = Ten Commandments, Vov = the Tablets (6 × 6 handbreadths). [Cross-reference from Section 10.] The Torah = Tanta (טנת"א) — the four levels of letter, crown, vowel, and cantillation. [Cross-reference from Section 9.] Likutay Mooharan 34:6; 38:7; 13:4 ת'יו ל'ב' — תבל Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "Tav [and] thirty-two letters" (ת׳יו ל׳ב׳) spell תבל (tevel, "the world"). The Tav — last letter — combined with the 32 paths of wisdom = the world. [Cross-reference from Tevel above.] Likutay Mooharan 5:5 תשובה — מצרימה' את' יעקב' Sofay Saveivos Teshuvah (תשובה, "repentance / return") — final letters of the verse describing the descent into Egypt. [Cross-reference from Section 13.] Exile contains the seed of return. Likutay Mooharan II:73 תשרי Multiple Tishrei (תשרי) — the first and most awesome month of the Jewish year — yields four connections: (1) Tziroof Tishrei = expression of shirah (song) [cross-reference from Section 21]; (2) Gematria Tishrei = two times chosom (seal) with its two words [cross-reference from Section 8];

(3) Sofay Saveivos Final letters of את נפש הגר כי spell Tishrei [cross-reference from Section 1]; (4) Roshay Saveivos First letters of י׳ם ש׳ברת ר׳אשי ת׳נינים — "You broke the heads of the sea-monsters" — spell Tishrei [cross-reference from Section 10]. [The month of awesome judgment is, at its root, a song (shirah). The sea-monsters whose heads are broken encode the month of Rosh Hashanah — the breaking of evil power is the new year. Tishrei is sealed twice — Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the double seal of the divine year. And the concern for the stranger's soul contains Tishrei in its final letters — the new year is sealed in compassion for the vulnerable.] Likutay Mooharan 49:6; 22:11; II:8; 11 [Translator's Summary — Section 22, Tav — 51 source entries, completing the full work] The Tav — last letter of the alphabet, last letter of emes (truth) — completes the circle. The most profound entry: the first letters of "the purpose of the creation of heaven and earth" spell death (moves) — for it is through mortality that creation's purpose is revealed. Tikkun (rectification) as a permutation of kinos (Lamentations), and teiku (the unresolved Talmudic question) as tikkun missing its Nun — awaiting Elijah's completion. Tefillin as a permutation of Naftali. Deep sleep (tardemah) = Aramaic translation (Targum). And Tishrei — the month of awesome judgment — as, at its root, a song. The work is complete. All 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet have been traversed — from the silent Alef that contains the Divine Name to the final Tav that seals the seal of truth. May the merit of these holy permutations, allusions, and mysteries stand by all who study them, in this world and in the World to Come, unto eternity. Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman.