CHayet     h & H

The 8th letter, CHayet, has a beginning image in the form of the braided hair that covers the head or the four fingernails together covering the clenched etsba'ot (digits) of the hand. The second of the four layers covering the Tabernacle was woven goat hair (Ex 26:7). The hair is the wall & covering for the tabernacle; just as, the hair of our head is its covering and the plants of Arets are a covering of Arets (Earth), the dust from which man was formed from into a living tabernacle. Chavah (Eve), whose name is related to the letter Chayet, was then built from man and given her name because she would be the mother of all living man. This is just as the Lord the Spirit, who is represented by the woman (see The Lord), comes from the Lord who sent the Spirit to give life to the living, who is the Body of Yeshua, the Church. The woman though, unlike the Spirit within the Church, brought death to man while bringing understanding to his nakedness (no covering) of which the Lord covered with the death of the sacrificed lamb. This placed Adam (man) & Chavah (Eve-mother of man) within the body of the Lord's sacrifice to allow them to meet/fellowship with the Lord, and this points toward Yeshua, the Lord's Sacrifice, who allows man with the Spirit to enter into the Body of Yeshua, the Tabernacle/Church of the Lord, to meet/fellowship with the Lord. The Lord sees the covering of death as fulfilling the requirement of the death penalty for sin, allowing the sinner to live.

The Tabernacle itself is made with four coverings and represents Mashiach (Christ) (Ex 26:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14). (Four represents Mashiach, see Dalet.) The first covering of linen was colored with wool dyed blue, purple, & scarlet using the dyes from crushed worms. (Tekhelet: dye from crushed rock snail [sea worm] placed in sunlight turning blue; Argaman: dye from crushed rock snail [sea worm] placed in darkness having bad odor turning purple; Shani: red dye from crushed red scale worm of evergreen oak tree.) This points toward Yeshua who is called a worm who was crushed for our iniquities (Psm 22:6, 16; Isa 53:5). The life in the blood of the Lamb/Worm of G-d brought forth from being crushed brings a covering/atonement for the person's life of sin to be seen as clean and holy before the Lord (Lev 17:11). So, the third layer of the tabernacle is a ram's skin dyed the color of blood. The life in the blood for our bodies is not only the nutrients from the sacrifice from the teeth but also the life-giving 8th physical letter (oxygen) of Shamayim (Heaven[s]/air), of which both revive the cells of our body from death brought forth by the sin of Adam. The closed DNA inside the cell appears as braided hair and opens to appear like a final CHayet to revive/repair or give life to a cell. The final CHayet has the image of the back teeth & the inside creases of the open Bet of the hand, like the wooden supports of the wall of the Tabernacle (House/Tent). The creases form the cross of the Bayit of the hand, while the wooden supports of the tabernacle are crossed to support the covering; just as, the Cross of the Skull (Golgotha) supports the Body (of Yeshua) in the sacrificial death that results in life of the Body of Yeshua. So, the wall of the tabernacle, which is the Body of Yeshua (the Church), is covered by the death of the sacrificed and by the life of the blood to make alive the unclean/unholy person who enters into the Body of Yeshua through their belief in the name above all names, Yeshua ha'Mashiach.

One of the defining attributes of an animal being clean or unclean is whether it has a split hoof (Lev 11:3; Dt 14:6). By dividing the hoof into two, 8 toes are created on an animal with four legs. Toes of an animal are what touch the earth; so, it is the toes that help identify the earthly representation of any living creature. Chewing the cud was another attribute needed in order for an animal to be clean. The food we eat is sacrificed so we might live. This sacrificing occurs with the gnashing of our teeth. The second death, Lake-of-Fire/Hell, is also called the place where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth (Mt 8:12; Luk 13:28; Rev 21:8). Chewing food once represents the punishment of our sin or the Lake of Fire (Hell). This is the punishment for the person who remains in their sin rejecting the invitation into the Family of the Lord (Jhn 3:14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21). This is also the punishment Yeshua ha'Mashiach suffered on the Cross for a believer's sin (Rom 3:21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31). Chewing already chewed food, or chewing the cud, represents taking part in a sacrifice of food already sacrificed. Those who believe Yeshua is their Lord (God) and Savior who saved them from the punishment of their sin though Yeshua's death on the Cross have as their punishment for their sin what has already been accomplished through the Cross (Jhn 6:53, 54; Rom 6:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). Chewing the cud then is symbolizing a believer taking part in the sacrifice/punishment already accomplished of which they will not have to suffer. So, clean animals, which chew the cud and have a split hoof, truly do represent the clean Body of Mashiach.

Praise be to the Lord forever and ever, amen.