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Shin and Judgment
"Grace is deceptive,
Beauty is illusory;
It is for her fear of the Lord
That a woman is to be praised."
Proverbs 31.30.
Proverbs 31 ends the book of proverbs and the last 22 verses are an acrostic, each verse starting with a word beginning with a letter of the alphabet, alef to tau. The above paragraph is the letter Shin paragraph, the verse beginning with the word ShQR meaning 'deceitful'. Positing an alphabet sequence starting alef-fool the letter Shin corresponds to the card 'Judgement'. Some words beginning with Shin which relate to the Judgement card are:
ShVFR - trumpet
ShVF - to blow
ShVFT - judge, judgement
So the words for Trumpet, to Blow and Judgement all share the same three initial consonants shin - vau - pei [Ph or F], which are also the first three letters in ShVFRA, which means 'Grace'.
The root of both ShVFRA [grace]and SHVFR [trumpet] is ShFR - to cleanse, make pleasing, to beautify; conciliate, harmonize. As in Sotah 11b [Talmud]where it says :"The Lord sent an angel from on high who cleansed them and made them beautiful, like a midwife that cleanses a child." So we may say the blow of the trumpet not only awakens, but is simultaneously an act of Grace that like a wind cleanses away the dust of the earth, the stain of our sins; like a midwife that cleanses the newly [re]born; and makes us beautiful before G-d.
A word for dust, ShChQ, also means heaven, sky, cloud:
Drop down, ye heavens from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together;I the LORD have created it.
So we may perhaps see a parallel between the cloud as ShChQ in the upper world in which the Angel (ShNAN) appears and man the sleeping corpses (ShKDA) awakened by the call of the Angel in the cloud (ShChQ) above from the dust (ShChQ) of the earth below. There are a couple of words beginning with Shin that refer to the underworld or the grave:
ShAVL – the underworld, grave, pit:
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. 1 sam. 2:6
ShQT – pit, grave:
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit:I have found a ransom.
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Job 33:24 / 28 / 30.
The name of the letter ShYN itself is the root of the word ShYNH - second coming, and of ShYNA – sleep, ShYNAN angel.
ShAVL [and /or ShChVThA] - netherworld, pit, grave [pit, grave];
ShKDA - asleep, corpse;
ShVLL - Naked;
ShV - change, reverse, something bewildering;
ShY - repeat, do a second time; ShYNH - second coming;
ShMYA – heavens;
ShChQ – sky, heaven, cloud, dust;
ShYNAN – Angel;
ShVFR – trumpet;
ShVSThG - a piece of cloth (the flag);
ShShR - Painted red;
ShVF – to blow;
ShVFT – judgement;
ShVFRA – Grace (divine love whereby we are reborn).
*Allthough Shofar in Hebrew refers specifically to a ram's horn, in the Greek Septaguint, Latin vulgate and vernacular languages it was translated simply as trumpet; and in many pictorial example of the last judgement is shown as a trumpet.
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The name of one of the two Hebrew midwifes ordered by Pharoh to kill all male children born to Hebrews but disobeyed was ShFRH (fair). We could also possibly add to the wordlist ShMA - hearing, obeying.
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Like the English King James version the Italian Diodati Bibbia also translates it as trumpet {tromba}, for example:
Esodo 19:16 E al terzo giorno, come fu mattina, si fecero tuoni e folgori; e una folta nuvola in sul monte, insieme con un suon di tromba molto forte; e tutto il popolo ch' nel campo tremava.
Esodo 19:19 E il suon della tromba si andava vie più rinforzando grandemente; e Mosè parlava, e Iddio gli rispondeva per un tuono.
Esodo 20:18 Or tutto il popolo vedeva i tuoni, e i lampi, e il suon della tromba, e il monte fumante; e veggendo , tremava, e se ne stava lungi;
Like the English Tynedale version the French Martin Bible translates it as 'horn' {cor}, for example:
Exode 19:16 Et le troisième jour au matin, il y eut des tonnerres, et des éclairs, et une grosse nuée sur la montagne, avec un très-fort son de cor, dont tout le peuple dans le camp fut effrayé.
Exode 19:19 Et comme le son du cor se renforçait de plus en plus, Moïse parla, et Dieu lui répondit par une voix.
Exode 20:18 Or tout le peuple apercevait les tonnerres, les éclairs, le son du cor, et la montagne fumante; et le peuple voyant cela tremblait, et se tenait loin. -
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. Job 39:24
Ex 19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled
Ex 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Ex 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Lev 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Judges 7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand…
Judges 7:22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets…
Trumpet = ShFR or ShVFR
(also note the symolic connection with the letter Shin that also represents the number 300).
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St. Paul wrote (with Greek Strong numbers for your reference):
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For G3754 the Lord G2962 himself G846 shall descend G2597 G5695 from G575 heaven G3772 with G1722 a shout G2752, with G1722 the voice G5456 of the archangel G743, and G2532 with G1722 [b]the trump G4536[/b] of God G2316: and G2532 the dead G3498 in G1722 Christ G5547 shall rise G450 G5698 first G4412:
The original Greek word for trump here, salpiggi (strong number G4536), is the same Greek word used in the Septaguint to translate the Hebrew word Shofar.
The Hebrew New Testament translates this passage:
1 Thessalonians 4:16 כִּי בִתְרוּעָה יֵרֵד אֲדֹנֵינוּ מִן-הַשָּׁמַיִם בְּקוֺל שׁוֺפַר אֱלֹהִים מִפִּי שַׂר-צְבָא הַמָּרוֺם וְהַמֵּתִים בַּמָּשִׁיחַ יָקוּמוּ אָז רִאשׁוֺנָה:
1 Thessalonians 4:16 KY BThRVOH YRD ADNYNV MN-HShMYM BQVL ShVFR ALHYM MFY ShR-TzBA HMRVM VHMThYM BMShYCh YQVMV AZ RAShVNH:
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
But still, if you don’t agree with the inclusion of ShFR (horn, trumpet) it doesn't really make any odds if you remove it, there are plenty of other words to make the point.
On Rosh HoShanna [on which the dead shall arise according to the talmud] see for example:
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