I read somewhere that the last letter of the Hebrew Bible was lamed, so that Elohim was pointing to what it meant to be “after His own heart”.
I just checked to make sure, and was surprised to see that the last verse of 2 Chronicles 36 is from Cyrus’ decree to rebuild the temple. The last sentence is translated as “Whoever is among you of all his people, the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.”
Interesting.
Yes. It is also the last letter of the Torah. The first letter is bet, so either way, the Torah of Moses or the full Tanakh is bookended by lamed bet, the heart.
There is much written about this.
The simple but very deep concept is that every letter and word within the Torah as well as the Hebrew Bible is *contained within the heart*.
To expand that into the NT, the last letter is the Greek nu in Amen, which is spelled nun vav in Hebrew.
So to be consistent, the first letter in Gen 1:1 spelled as a word is bet (bet yud tav), and the last in Rev is the Greek nu, spelled nun vav.
Together this spells beitenu, our home.
Home is where the heart is. It should be in the truth, because that does not change.
Thus on one level, the word tamid (the letters contained inside of the lev, heart) is a miniature little world representing every word in the Tanakh.
And you can see that truth has been rejected and cut out from the hearts of men. The imagery of the “Mother” movie shows that Hollyweird taps into the spiritual realms.