Zayin     z & Z

The Lord rested on the seventh day from the work of creating a physical creation (Heaven[s] & Earth) for the creation in the Lord's own image, man (Gen 2:1-3). This is why no regular work is to be done on the 7th day (Shabbat/Sabbath), but sacrifices can be made and given to the Lord on the Shabbat (Sabbath) (Ex 20:8-11; 35:2-3; Lev 23:27-32). For the Lord, who is spirit and Lord of the Shabbat, is always at work (Jhn 4:24). The 7th day is a day of rest from physical work while spiritual work is continued (Jhn 4:24; Psm 68:19; Luk 13:14-16; Jhn 5:15-17). But, priest onto the Lord do the spiritual work of the Lord accomplished through physical work that remains holy/clean even if done on the Shabbat (Num 28:9-10; Mt 12:5). And, as the Body (Church) of Yeshua are priest of the Lord filled with the Spirit to accomplish the good works of the Lord, it is always good and holy for the Body of Believers to work with the Lord in accomplishing the will of the Lord by the Spirit of the Lord (1 Pet 2:5, 9).

Zayin, the 7th letter, has an image of the wind moving upon Arets (Earth, water/land) and having an effect upon it. The beginning letter form is seen in the spaces above and below the clinched etsba' (index finger) of the left hand (7th digit of the hands, 17th of all digits) (see 10th letter), with the final letter form seen in the openings of the face and the spaces below and above the open (straightened) left etsba'. The etsba' (index finger) is a tabernacle with the holy place in place of the two distal sections and the holy of holies located as the first cubed proximal section. As the tabernacle (Bayit/closed-hand) door is opened with the opening of the etsba'ot (digits) of the hand, the door to the holy of holies of the etsba' is opened (As the fingers are straightened, the 2nd knuckle appears as the 17th letter or an open door, see 17th letter). The opening of this Door (Yeshua, see Dalet) by the Lord the Spirit allows a physical unholy (unclean) man, by the blood of the Lamb which sanctifies (cleans/makes holy), to enter into the spiritual Face of the Lord Almighty within the Holy of Holies. The door bridges the gap, as seen in the final form of Zayin, when the 7th upper space of the hands above the left etsba' (index finger) is joined to the sixth space of the hands by the opening of the door of the etsba'. This is why at the time Yeshua ha'Mashiach the Door died on the Cross, the Wind (Spirit and wind are the same word in Hebrew, Jhn 3:8) tore the door (curtain/veil) of the Temple in two keeping the Temple doors open to give us access to the Temple of the Lord (Mrk 15:37, 38; Luk 23:44, 45, 46; Talmud, Tractate Yoma 39b:5-6). Even though the door will always be open to the Holy of Holies (New Jerusalem), nothing unholy will ever enter (Rev 21:25, 26, 27).

With the eyes representing the spiritual (see sixteenth letter), the door at the nose (see 14th letter), and the mouth representing the physical & spiritual (see 17th letter), the final form of Zayin can be seen. The Lord breathed life into man's body through his nostrils and then pronounced a time of rest (Gen 1:27; 2:7, 2). So, life (air) enters through the door (nostrils) of our nose bringing life to our flesh (bodies) and rest from the death we have inside us (we breath out death/CO₂); just as, the Lord the Spirit (symbolized by wind) enters a man's body (man/woman) through Yeshua the Door to give everlasting life to the Body (Church/Family-of-the-Lord/Believer(s) in Yeshua, the Lord and Savior) and rest from the death (sin) we have inside us.

The final 7th letter form can also be seen as an image of the plow upon the earth. The plow represents the sevenfold Spirit of the Lord (see The Lord) opening and working upon the hearts of mankind represented by the earth. (This picture shows an ancient plow.) The oxen (letter Aleph) pulls the plow joining the man (Body-of-Yeshua/Church) to the oxen with the man following the oxen. The man is to look straight ahead toward the oxen (Father) so the plow is not broken upon rocks (separating the Body from the Lord), as would happen if the man looked to the left or to the right (looking away from the Lord toward sin) (Prv 4:25, 26, 27; Luk 9:62).