אות ק'

ק KUF — Numerical Value: 100 | The letter whose leg descends below the line | 17 source entries Hebrew EntryEnglish Translation & ExplanationSource ק — from ה׳ Shape / Form 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. Likutay Mooharan 67:4 ק — requires פ׳ Notarikon 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.] Likutay Mooharan 83 קבלה Gematria Kabbalah (קבלה, "mystical tradition / receiving" = 137) = gematria of no'af (נואף, "licentiousness" = 137). [Cross-reference from Section 14.] Same channel, opposite orientations. Roshay Saveivos 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.] Chayay Mooharan §526; Likutay Mooharan 11:6 קִדְמַת Roshay Saveivos 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.] [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.] Likutay Mooharan 38:6 קדקד — נחמו נחמו Gematria 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. Likutay Mooharan II:85 קול — ו׳ Shape / Form 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. Likutay Mooharan 77 קינות — תיקון Tziroof 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. [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.] Likutay Mooharan (Remez section) קליפה נדחה פיה — שלחן Gematria 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. Chayay Mooharan §476 ק"מ קלין — ממון Gematria 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. Likutay Mooharan 23:1 קס"ח — חסד באת"ב Gematria 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.] Likutay Mooharan II:2; 6 קץ חי — יצחק Tziroof Ketz chai (קץ חי, "the living end") — its letters spell יצחק (Yitzchak). [Cross-reference from Section 10.] Likutay Mooharan II:79 קרע Gematria (×2) Kera (קרע, "tearing [of a harsh decree]" = 370) yields two equivalences: (1) = gematria of El (אל) in its full spelling, twice [cross-reference from Section 1]; (2) = gematria of ש"ע נהורין ("370 lights") — the tearing of decrees releases the 370 lights of the divine countenance. [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.] Likutay Mooharan 21:9 ק'רקפתא ד'לא מ'נח ת'פלין — קִדְמַת Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "a skull that did not wear tefillin" spell קִדְמַת (kidmas, "east of / primordial"). [Cross-reference from Kidmas above.] Likutay Mooharan 38:6 קשיא Roshay Saveivos 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. Likutay Mooharan II:46; Sichos HaRan 146 קשת — ת'קיעה ש'ברים ת'רועה Roshay Saveivos 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. Likutay Mooharan 42 [Translator's Summary — Section 19, Kuf — 17 source entries fully covered] 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.