Alphabetical Order
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The four-letter blocks turned
out to be graphic- didactic
units designed for
one schoolday of four
lessons each.24)
Every lesson consisted
of one letter, that
could be developped by
the teacher from a
preceding one.25)
The sequence of schooldays
must have followed
the same boustrophedon
pattern as the letters
within the square quaternities:
Alef-Bet-Gimel-Dalet on Sun- day,
He-Waw-Zayin-Chet on Monday,
Tet-Yod- Shin-Taw on
Tuesday, Peh-Tzadi-Kof-Resh
on Wednesday, Mem-Nun-Samekh-Ayin
on Thursday, and Kaf-Lamed-Alef-Bet on
Friday.26)
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24) See TORAH OF
THE ALPHABET (N. 1) pp.
52–99. The letters
Tet-Yod-Shin-Taw are
the turning-quaternity in
the boustrophedon arrangement of
four-letter blocks
25) As a rule of
didactic psychology, the easiest
letter is always left for the
last lesson, when the student may be
getting a little tired
already, cf. TORAH
OF THE ALPHABET (N.
1) p. 69, and Note
28 infra.
26) In addition to this graphic-didactic
sequence of letters, there are
two other ways to
read my two-dimensional table
of the original
alphabet: The alphanumerical
sequence (see below Note
47), and the
pictographic-symbolical sequence from
bottom to top, cf.
TORAH OF THE
ALPHABET (N. 1) pp.
40–51, in which
Kaf-Lamed-Alef-Bet symbolizes
sexual intercourse
(Beilah), Tet-Yod-Shin-Taw
pregnancy or formation
of the body by
the potter (Yetzirah),
Peh-Tzadi-Kof-Resh birth
(Ledah),
He-Waw- Zayin-Chet
circumcision (Berit
Milah),
Mem-Nun-Samekh-Ayin learning
(ta-Lmud), and
Alef-Bet-Gimel-Dalet teaching
(t-Orah).
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