predominate

verb

«predominate» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah, God lets a letter "predominate" in some quality, meaning that letter rules it.

Interpretation. The tradition reads the letters as the tools of creation. Each one rules a part of the world, the year and the human body.

To be the strongest or ruling part. tree →

He let the letter Sheen (ש) predominate in primitive fire, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them, heaven in the world, heat in the year, and the head of male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
He let the letter Sheen (ש) predominate in primitive fire, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them, heaven in the world, heat in the year, and the head of male and female. [32] (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
He let the letter ת predominate in beauty, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them: Jupiter in the world, the seventh day in the year, and the mouth of man, male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

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