18. Tsade - Most Mysterious Letter in Hebrew? | Zion, Waiting on THE LORD, Tribulation, and more
Living through tribulation, what it means to be righteous, the destruction of Jerusalem, and theories on the ancient symbol for the Hebrew letter tsade.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Theories on the symbol for Tsade
2:03 Hebrew words that correspond to the letter Tsade (tsad, tsud, and tsadah)
3:50 Pronouncing the letter Tsade
5:11 How the Hebrew word Tsad is used in scriptures to mean “side”
8:04 Melchizedek
9:37 Pursuing righteousness
12:42 What it means to be righteous (“tsadiq”) in Hebrew
16:46 A time of tribulation: 1000 shall fall at your side
18:50 Remembering Zion
20:53 Sons and daughters of Zion
22:07 Choosing a side
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Transcript:
Dawson: Hey! So, are you willing to do another reenactment for the show?
Lisa: Oh, yes.
Dawson: You are?
Lisa: Yes. I’m down.
Dawson: Awesome.
Lisa: And people, folks, I have no idea what I’m getting myself into so I should preface this.
Dawson: But you agree. You don’t even want to know what …?
Lisa: I agree. I like surprises.
Dawson: Okay.
Lisa: It’s the Eze(kiel) bread. Okay. Do you want me to eat this?
Dawson: As much as you can.
Lisa: Oh, for Father’s glory.
Dawson: Baked to specification.
Lisa: Baked to specification.
Dawson: Today’s letter is Tsade. And the original pictograph for this letter is a mystery. Some theorized that the Ancient tsade was a picture of a bag and that it was represented by this baggish-looking symbol here. Others believe that this was the original symbol for tsade and that it represents a fish hook.
When it comes to investigating the Original Hebrew letters, what we have learned is that most of the answers we need can be found in the words of the Bible. That’s because nearly all of the letters in Father’s alphabet have words in the scriptures that directly correspond to the ancient pictographs.
Since there is a dispute on the symbol for tsade, we look to the words. And in the Bible, we find several Hebrew words that help paint the picture of the original pictograph.
When the Prophet Ezekiel was in Babylon, Father had him lie on his side as a sign for the House of Israel. The word for side in Hebrew is tsad. For 390 days, Ezekiel lay down on his left tsad and for 40 days, he lay down on his right tsad, his side.
When we draw the letter tsade, what we are picturing is a man lying down on his tsad, his side. A few other words that illustrate the name tsade as being a picture of a man on his side are the Hebrew words tsud and tsadah.
The word tsud means to hunt. And hunting is an activity which often involves lying low and waiting for prey. And the word tsadah means to lie and wait.
If you look at how the letter tsade is used in Hebrew words, you will see that it often conveys a meaning of lying down, of being laid down, of lying and wait, and waiting. Waiting as a hunter waits. And also, as we wait for Yashua.
One of the most amazing Paleo Hebrew words I’ve ever seen is a word that’s used to describe those who are waiting on the Lord. And not surprisingly, it has the letter tsade in it. We will talk about that word soon. But you will have to wait for it just a bit.
Dawson: Okay. So I brought you a piece of pizza.
Lisa: Oh, oh, oh, that will do.
Dawson: Yeah.
Lisa: Do you think Eze(kiel) ate pizza?
Dawson: Well, actually …
Lisa: Can I eat it?
Dawson: Yeah, you could eat it. It might not be hot.
Lisa: That’s good.
Dawson: So actually, if you were to spell pizza in Paleo, you would spell it with a tsade.
Lisa: Really?
Dawson: Yeah. So it would be – because it makes the same sound as tsa.
Lisa: Okay.
Dawson: So peh tsade alef. If it was a Hebrew word, that’s how you would spell it. Pizza.
Lisa: Peh tsade …
Dawson: Alef.
Lisa: … alef. Okay.
Dawson: Some people have trouble pronouncing the letter tsade. But if you think of pizza then you should be good to go. Yes. And it gets – you know how pizza is spelled with a Z?
Lisa: Right.
Dawson: So the letter tsade in Hebrew gets transliterated as a Z in English.
Lisa: Oh, okay, okay.
Dawson: That’s why it’s City of Zion with a Z.
Lisa: Right.
Dawson: But in Hebrew, it’s actually tsade.
Lisa: But it’s actually tsade.
Dawson: Zion.
Lisa: Wow! Tsion.
Dawson: Tsion.
Lisa: Wow! Interesting.
Dawson: All right. Enjoy. Thank you for your …
Lisa: Thank you.
Dawson: Thank you for your service.
Lisa: Thank you, Eze. [Laughs]
Carlos: One of my favorites is First Samuel 23:26. It goes, “And Saul …” his name is Shaul.
Dawson: Shaul.
Carlos: “And Saul went on this side, on this tsade, of the mountain, and David and his men on that tsade of the mountain.” And now, it’s pronounced mits-tsade.
Dawson: Mits-tsade.
Carlos: That side, mits-tsade, on that side of the mountain. Shaul mits-tsade and David mits-tsade. Each chose a different side.
Another great one is when the Psalmist says, “A thousand shall fall at thy tsade, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee.” I like the word “nigh.”
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: This pretty much lets you know it’s definitely the siden.
Dawson: Yup.
Carlos: It’s used for sides, spoken as side. When you lay on your side, when you standby someone’s side, when someone comes and stands by your side. When you stand on that side of the mountain or youstand on that side of the mountain.
Dawson: Yup.
Carlos: Tsade. It’s one of my favorite pictographs. Now, I see it as a man lying on his side. And the way it’s written, it looks like he is on his right side facing to my left side. That’s the way I see tsade.
Now, to me tsade, you’re on Father’s side. You’re leaning on Father. You’re lying down waiting for Father’s instructions. You’re leaning down being silent before the Lord when He is talking to you. You are leaning down and lying down on your side as a follower of Yashua. You’re lying down on your side as you’re being careful to always listen to the Holy Spirit and you don’t put your own flesh into it, instead you keep yourself at His side. You keep yourself on your side. Don’t let your flesh rise up. That’s just the way I see it.
Now, there are better ways but …
Dawson: That was a pretty good explanation there.
Carlos: Well, when you love Father, that’s pretty much the way it feels.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Maybe I explained it in the feelway more than teaching but sometimes I go on a rant. We love Father here.
Dawson: We are on His tsad.
Carlos: We are on His tsade, which brings me to, we have a king and we are on His tsad and our king is on the tsad of Father, our Creator. So let’s go over his name.
This is the King of righteousness, the Righteous King. Melek …
Dawson: …tsadik.
Carlos: …tsadik. Melek-tsadiq. Now in English, they call it Melchizedek.
Dawson: Yup.
Carlos: But it is Melek-tsadiqMelchizedek, the Righteous King, tsadiq.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: So you cannot use the word righteousness without tsade, without being,watch,you could be on your face, on your front side. You could be on your back, if you’re knocked out by an angel for example. Angels show up, sometimes you’re knocked out. They had to bring you back. So you could be on your back side. You could be on your left side. You could be on your right side. You could be on their side. You could be on Father’s side. You could be on that side of the mountain. You could be on that side of the mountain.
Tsad. Tsade. It’s definitely used for the side. And tsade is definitely used for righteousness.
Father loves His righteous children. Sure.
Dawson: So one thing that’s interesting is He says in a couple of places that He loves those who pursue righteousness. And the pursuing part is a nice way of saying it in English, but in the Hebrew, the word is to basically hunt it down like you are a robber looking for a victim.
Carlos: Wow!
Dawson: You hunt down righteousness. It’s something that you chase after.
Carlos: You get up early in the morning and pray before the devil could say good morning. That’s what you got to do.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: And then you got to remember when temptation comes, you got to always listen to Father. You got to choose it. You got to want it. You got to pursue it.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Yeah. Father loves those who pursue after righteousness, who seek it.
Dawson: Yeah. A point related to pursuing and chasing down righteousness, this is something that you have actually explained to me many, many, many years ago because there is this verse that something that Yashua said, “Since the days of John the Baptist, the kingdom has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.”
Carlos: Yes. Those who work hard at taking the kingdom. Violence means aggressively going after it.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: It doesn’t mean killing people in the name of the Lord.
Dawson: Right. No, it’s along the same lines as pursuing righteousness.
Carlos: It doesn’t mean demanding people. It means you pursue it hard. You pursue it with a high passion. That’s probably a better way of doing that, a very aggressive, high passion, seeking it above all other things.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Yeah.
Dawson: And actually, you know the word “harpazo” in Greek that’s used for …
Carlos: Rapture.
Dawson: … the rapture, lots of people to believe in the rapture. We believe that He is going to hide us through what’s coming but that’s a bit besides the point. It’s be-tsad the point right now.
Carlos: It’s be-tsad the point. It is indeed.
Dawson: It’s be-tsad the point. But that word “harpazo” is in that scripture so when Yashua says, “The kingdom had suffered violence, and the violent take it by force,” He is saying the violent, the aggressive like the people who are pursuing righteousness harpazo it. We harpazo the kingdom. We snatch it. It’s ours. It’s ours.
Carlos: Snatch it. Grab it hard. Don’t let go.
Dawson: He wants us to claim our position in the kingdom so that’s what we do.
Carlos: As His followers, as His servants, as His children.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Yes, indeed. That’s one very clear way of putting it. He definitely wants you on the side of the sheep, not on the side of the goats.
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: Right?
Dawson: Yes.
Carlos: He wants you on the side of those who stand in the congregation and not those who will not stand in the congregation.
Dawson: The concept of pursuing righteousness is found throughout the scriptures from Moses to Solomon to the Apostle Paul. And Father calls those who love Him and serve Him righteous, tsadiq. It’s a bit uncomfortable to refer to yourself as righteous, but if you look at this word in Paleo Hebrew, you will see that it’s not a measure of how good you are, but of whose side you’re on.
The root word for righteous is tsad which is the full spelling of today’s letter and quf, which is a picture of the sun at the horizon. This letter quf, the sun symbol in the word tsadiq is used as a symbol for God.
It’s written in Psalm 84 that YHVH Elohim is a sun and shield to us. Yashua in the Book of Revelation calls Himself the Bright Morning Star. And Father says through the Prophet Malachi, “Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.” This verse from Malachi is a beautiful gift from Father to anyone who studies Paleo because in Paleo, we can actually see the sun of righteousness.
The sun is something that is part of His creation. It’s one of the things that He made to show you what He is like, and He is light. Since He is light, everything He does is light. He is therefore always on the side, the tsad of light because that is who He is. He calls those who are on His side, Children of Light and Children of the day. As his children, we stay on His side. We trust His judgments because all of His ways are righteous.
One easy way to look at it is the sun as we see it has a path that it takes through the sky. In the Bible, this path is called the tequphah like the letter quf.
If you were to follow the sun’s tequphah, if you were to be on the side of the sun at all times, it would always be day for you. It would always be light. It would never be dark. It wouldn’t matter what time of day it was because you would be on the side of that which is producing light.
This is what it’s like to be righteous. It’s not easy for us to know how to always be on His side so He leads us by His Spirit. He teaches us His ways so we can follow Him and stay on His side.
This word tsadiq is also a picture of waiting on the Lord and in particular, waiting for His day. Yashua told us night is coming when no one can work. But after night, we know from experience every single day that after night comes the day when He who was called the Bright Morning Star is coming to rule in righteousness. This is the day that the tsadiq wait for.
Carlos: We are headed for a time of tribulation. It is determined that until the times are paid that all the times were fulfilled in the Bible, it is determined that wars – desolations are determined on the world and on the kingdom. But during that time that’s coming, listen. The Psalmist said, “A thousand shall fall at thy side, thy tsade, and ten thousand at thy right hand.”
Now, notice He says a thousand shall fall at thy side. In Hebrew, thy side is thy left. He is standing on my right side or He is standing at my side. So in Hebrew, those that are not that – let’s say those that you don’t care about that much, your enemies in the future, in tribulation, the ones on your left side that you’re not noticing, they are going to fall. And the ones on your right hand, your right hand side, the ones that you do notice, those will be by ten thousand. And none of that shall come unto you. Not the antichrist, not his followers, not the mark of the beast, not anything.
A thousand shall fall at thy tsade and ten thousand at thy right hand. On your right tsade, ten thousand. On your left tsade, a thousand. And that’s just to start because Father protects you from what’s coming. You’re His sheep. He is not sending punishment on the world to punish you. It’s not collective and He distinguishes very clearly between His sheep on His right tsade and the goats on his left tsade.
So, get with it. Get it together. And shalom unto Jerusalem.
Dawson: It’s true what the Psalmist said that His servants delight in the stones of Zion and take pity on her dust. A friend brought us rocks from Israel a while back and this is one of them.
When Ezekiel laid down on his tsad, it was in front of a clay tablet with Zion drawn on it. This was the Faithful City, the City of the Great King, Kiryat Melek Rav, the City of our Appointed Feasts, Kiryat Moedenu, the place of Father’s name and the land where His house, His beyt stood.
It’s written, the Faithful City became a harlot. So Father had Ezekiel placed an iron wall in between him and Jerusalem with battering rams all around to breach its walls.
But before Zion was laid waste, she gave birth to a Son. She gave birth to many sons and daughters in a single day.
The children of Zion who were born on this day and since then are those who are born in the spirit as sons and daughters of our Father and of Zion, the headquarters of His kingdom and the place that He will call us home to one day soon.
If you are His, you are waiting for this day. And if you are waiting for His day, you are tsadiq, righteous.
Carlos: Okay, everybody. Now, we have Lucky is is going to show us how to use tsade. Lucky, show us how to use tsade left and tsade right, tsade left, tsade right. Show us left, tsade left, tsade right, tsade left, tsade right, Lucky. Tsade right, that’s it. Now, go! Lekh! Good job Lucks
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Dawson: You want some butter with that?
Lisa: No.
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Dawson: And that’s a wrap for tsade. We’ve done our best to lay it all out there for you. Next time around, we will talk a little bit more about the letter quf. See you guys.
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