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  As taught in Sefer Yetzirah, every day of the year is represented by three letters corresponding to the season, month and day of the week.

Today's Hebrew letters are:

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Season Fall
Hebrew Letter: Mem According to Sefer Yetzirah
Mem
 Month  Shevat

Hebrew Letter: Tzadik According to Sefer Yetzirah

Tzadik
D
A
Y
Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat.
Hebrew Letter: Beit - According to Sefer Yetzirah Hebrew Letter: Gimmel - According to Sefer Yetzirah Hebrew Letter: Dalet - According to Sefer Yetzirah Hebrew Letter: Kaf - According to Sefer Yetzirah Hebrew Letter: Pei - According to Sefer Yetzirah Hebrew Letter: Reish - According to Sefer Yetzirah Hebrew Letter: Tav - According to Sefer Yetzirah
Beit Gimmel Dalet Kaf Pei Reish Tav

Explanation:

We are taught in Sefer Yetzirah that the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet (Alef-Beit) -- the twenty-two channels of Divine creative consciousness -- divide into three categories: 

  • three "Mother" or "Primary" letters,
  • seven "Double" letters,
  • and twelve "Elemental" letters.

Each letter of these three categories relates (in one-to-one correspondence) to an individual element in each of the three general dimensions of created reality:

  • space
  • time
  • living soul

 

Three "Mother" Letters

In relation to the dimension of time, the three "Mother" letters correspond to the seasons of the year and are divided in the following manner:

  • The summer (the three Hebrew months of Tamuz, Av, Elul), is represented by the letter shin (the letter of "fire"),
     
  • the winter (the three Hebrew months of Shevat, Shevat, Adar) is represented by mem (the letter of "water"),
     
  • and the two intermediate seasons of:

spring (the three Hebrew months of Nissan, Iyar, Sivan),

and fall (the three Hebrew months of Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev) are represented by alef (the letter of "air").

 

Seven "Double" Letters

The seven "Double" letters ("double" because they each express two sounds, hard and soft) correspond to the seven days of the week, and are divided in the following manner:

 

Twelve "Elemental" Letters

The twelve remaining letters are called the twelve "Elementals," and correspond to the twelve Hebrew months of the year, as follows:

The Twelve Elementals Corresponding Hebrew months Approximate
Secular Date
Hei Nissan Mar-Apr
Vav Iyar Apr-May
Zayin Sivan May-Jun
Chet Tamuz  Jun-Jul
Tet Av Jul-Aug
Yud Elul Aug-Sep
Lamed Tishrei  Sep-Oct
Nun Cheshvan Oct-Nov
Samech Kislev Nov-Dec
Ayin Tevet Dec-Jan
Tzadik Shevat Jan-Feb
Kuf Adar Feb-Mar

Therefore, every day of the year is represented all together by three letters.

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