3. Gimmel | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | Kinsman Redeemer, Cities of Refuge, and more
The Kinsman Redeemer, Cain and Abel, cities of refuge, pride, and the meek who shall inherit the earth.
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Timestamps:
0:00 The Gimmel Controversy
1:02 Intro to the Avenger
2:37 Camels are no joke
4:18 A foot story (Boaz and Ruth)
5:39 Cities of Refuge
7:31 Word studies: Glory, Meek, Proud
11:14 Song: “THE LORD is Beautiful”
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Transcript:
Dawson: Today’s letter is gimmel and it’s a picture of a foot. There’s a bit of controversy behind the pictograph of gimmel. Some say it’s a plain old foot. Some say a camel’s foot. Some say it’s just a camel and some even say it’s a boomerang. We’re definitely in the foot camp and that’s because words that use the letter “gimmel” often have to do with things that feet and camels seem to do and that’s lifting, walking and gathering.
Now as far as lifting goes, some lifting is in a good sense and some lifting is in a bad sense. Good sense lifting for example would be in its use as a redeemer, when somebody is lifted up and restored and in a bad sense, when somebody is lifted up and proud. We will start off with the good side of gimmel, the redemption.
So tell me about gaal. You said it’s your favorite word that begins with gimmel.
Carlos: Yeah, well, “gaal” is the word “redeemer” such as Messiah is the ultimate redeemer. Being also kinsmen of the tribe of Judah, is the kinsmen redeemer, gaal, and that’s my favorite. Now being someone that does the martial arts, I also like avenger.
Dawson: That’s one translation.
Carlos: That’s one meaning. Yeah, redeemer is used 18 times under gaal. Kinsmen is 13 and avenger is used 6 times, so I like the avenger gaal. Put a big G on my super uniform when I get a cape and mask on. So yeah, I like the letter gimmel. It’s awesome. The third letter in the alphabet but we don’t do gematria here right?
Dawson: Right.
Carlos: We don’t do that. It’s too loosely affiliated with kabbalah, so something we do not play with. No mysticism here. Now in the old days, in the paleo days, they didn’t use horses to ride on. They didn’t have horses until the Syrians learned about it from Scythians who were horsemen and that’s why they say the Syrian and his horse, horse, look out. But in the old days, they used camels.
Now in the old days if you got too near a camel and you made him uncomfortable, he would spit on you and then he would stomp you. He would give you a gimmel and got gimmeled, yeah. So gimmel. It does mean a camel foot. They did not use horses back in the paleo days.
Dawson: So, the language itself in Hebrew, there’s a word “gamal” which is pretty close to gimmel and gamal, even in biblical times, is the word for “camel”. So that’s the camel relation there.
Carlos: There you go. Now camel meant strength and endurance. That’s what it meant. It also meant you have ability.
Dawson: So it is – it’s used for the G, the first letter in the word for warrior and valiant, gibbor.
Carlos: There you go, gibbor. So, we have many uses of that word as we will be learning it. But yeah, gibbor, which means a mighty man.
Dawson: I think that’s the name given to David’s mighty men too. They’re the Gibborim.
Carlos: Gibborim, exactly.
Dawson: One story I wanted to bring up, since you brought up the word “gaal” and “redeemer,” there’s a story in the Old Testament about gaal and it involves a foot as well.
Carlos: What story would that be?
Dawson: That’s the story of Boaz and Ruth. So Naomi instructs Ruth in order to get Boaz to act as her kinsmen redeemer, her gaal, to go and uncover his feet and fall asleep by his feet and that Boaz would know what to do once she did that. So, she goes and she does that and he’s like, “I got it. I will take care of it.”
He goes to her actual next of kin and he tells her next of kin if you won’t gaal for Ruth, then I will gaal for Ruth. Then they trade shoes and the whole thing is a done deal. She becomes part of the family line of King David. Really cool story.
Carlos: Yeah, that’s how you get into the line of Messiah. Wow!
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Thanks to gimmel. Thank you, gimmel. Yeah. Whenever we do gimmel, we seem to have a lot of footnotes, right?
Dawson: No pun intended.
Carlos: No pun intended but yeah, gimmel has a lot of footnotes. We make sure of that.
Dawson: Yeah. So back on the topic of gaal as avenger, you were telling me an amazing story about Cain and Abel.
Carlos: Yeah. Of course we know that Cain got angry, jealous and he attacked his brother. Now he didn’t mean to kill him but he did and for that, he was punished to be a wanderer, a vagabond. In other words, you’re not going to hang around your family or people. You got to leave your people, a vagabond.
So, he goes, “But men will want to kill me.” HE goes, “I will mark you and let everyone know that you’re to be left alone,” and he is allowed to go and build a city of refuge, the City of Nod, just east of Eden. The same goes in when they brought out the 12 tribes from Egypt.
The torah states that if two men get in an argument and one beats another one and it’s unto death, so that he becomes a manslayer, then you’re to build cities of refuge to send these men while the congregation makes judgment.
Now if the man is guilty, of course he’s stoned to death and reparations are done unto the family. But if he’s not guilty, then he must stay in the city of refuge, least a gaal goes and gets vengeance on him and that’s why you have city of refuge for the manslayer that didn’t mean it, so he may have a life to start over again because he didn’t mean to kill him. This is the story of gaal.
Dawson: There are a few words I wanted to share with you that relate to the inheritance Father promised. The first one is kabod. Kabod is a picture of the palm of the hand, a kaf, the house, a beyt and a door, dalet.
So we know that beyt is used for the word “in” or “inside”. Dalet is used for door or gates. Other things as well but we will get to that in another episode.
So what kabod is showing is a picture of something that you have in the palm of your hand within your gates. That’s a description of anything that you own, anything that’s at your house or otherwise in your possession or in your control and in Hebrew, this word is translated – from the Hebrew, it’s translated as wealth and it’s also translated as glory. So, when you read about the glory of THE LORD, you’re reading about His kabod. Both Abraham and Melchizedek called Father “the possessor of earth” and it’s written that the whole earth is full of His glory, of His kabod because HE owns all of it. It’s all His.
Now Abraham referred to Him as the possessor of earth because HE made Abraham a promise of an inheritance. As the title owner of the planet, only Father was able to tell Abraham, a man on earth, that “There’s a piece of land that I’m going to give you.”
So, Abraham believed in this promise and his descendants believed in this promise. It describes the descendants of Abraham who will inherit this promise as meek. Both the psalmist and YASHUA say that the meek will inherit the earth.
In Hebrew the word for meek is the same as the word for humble and that word is “anah”. Here’s what anah looks like. It has three letters as well. The first one is “ayin” which is a picture of the eye and this letter is used – one meaning of it is understanding. The second one is a “nun” which is a picture of a seed or a serpent and can mean life or the spirit. The third letter is the “hey” which is men.
So what meek is, is someone who understands the life of man. He understands that he is created and he is the opposite of proud. He is humble and let me show you what pride looks like.
Pride starts with that gimmel. The second letter is the alef that we remember and the third is the man. So, a proud man lifts up the horn of man. He does not lift up the horn of EL. He lifts up his own horn. Now those who lift up themselves, HE will humble but the humble HE will lift up.
That’s it for gimmel. See you guys next time when we go over dalet, the door.
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