The Divine Origin of Hebrew: Secrets and Science Behind Lashon HaKodesh

The original Hebrew language, known as Lashon HaKodesh (“the Holy Tongue”), is the only language whose origin is from the Creator Himself. It was the spoken language from Adam HaRishon (the first man) until the Generation of the Dispersion (Dor Haflagah), when humanity sinned in the rebellion of the Tower of Babel.

Until that generation, all of humanity spoke one unified language of Lashon HaKodesh. When people used this unity to rebel against the Creator, God intervened and confused their speech. This was the beginning of the division into multiple languages.

The Torah describes it as follows: “And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they settled there. And they said one to another: ‘Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.’ And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said: ‘Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in the heavens, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. And the Lord said: ‘Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do. Come, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So the Lord scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth; and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” (Genesis 11:1–9)

The Spiritual Power of the Hebrew Letters

In the earliest known Kabbalistic work, Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Formation), attributed to Avraham Avinu (Abraham our forefather), it is explained that the holy letters were created by God Himself. These letters contain profound secrets, divine illumination, and spiritual forces embedded within them by the Almighty. Each letter has the power to produce spiritual effects in the higher worlds. In fact, the letters are the code of creation itself — through combinations of their inherent forces, God created the entire universe.

The Essential Difference Between Hebrew and Other Languages

While the languages of the nations are human-made systems of agreed-upon signs and sounds, Lashon HaKodesh is a language of essence. This means that each word inherently expresses the inner essence of the thing it names.

Every word is composed of specific letters whose spiritual forces convey the reality of that object or concept. For example:

• Tzav (turtle): The letter Tzadi (צ) represents righteousness, perfection, and complete mastery; the letter Bet (ב) symbolizes “house” and inner essence. Thus, the turtle — perfect and complete with its own “house” — lives enclosed within its shell.

• Sus (horse): The letter Samekh (ס) represents enclosure, like a protective wall; the letter Vav (ו) represents connection. Indeed, in ancient times, the horse served as a loyal companion, especially for warriors in battle.

Every Hebrew letter embodies a unique spiritual force. The inner essence, vitality, and spiritual root of every created being derive from the forces embedded in the letters of its Hebrew name. All elements of creation are thus built from combinations of these letter-forces.

A Striking Scientific Discovery

A remarkable scientific study has revealed the extraordinary nature of the Hebrew letters, offering evidence of their divine origin. Even staunch skeptics of the Hebrew letters’ non-human, God-given nature changed their views after this research.

Researchers Yaakov Guggenheim, Chaim Elbaz, Elisha Zarbiv, and others analyzed audio recordings of different letter pronunciations using highly sensitive frequency-analysis software. The program detects sound-wave vibrations and displays a visual graphic representation according to the frequency patterns.

The results were astonishing:

• When Latin letters were pronounced, the resulting visual patterns bore no resemblance to the actual shapes of the Latin letters, as expected.

• When Hebrew letters were pronounced, the visual patterns on the screen matched precisely the written shapes of the corresponding Hebrew letters!

The probability of such a result occurring by chance is comparable to pronouncing the word “king” and having a crown shape appear on the screen.