Monday, April 24, 2006

Paroh Revisited - Part 1

I mentioned a few posts ago that the Zohar teaches us that Paroh (פרעה) can be understood to mean Peh Rah (פה רע) bad mouth. Recently I saw that his name also contains the letters ערף, the nape. It was beginning to dawn on me then that Paroh somehow controls, or at least has the ability to affect, the mouth and nape. The mouth and nape stand on opposite parts of the skull. The mouth on the front, the nape on the back directly opposite. The front is usually understood to refer to the primary aspect of the person, the back to his secondary, or lesser, aspect. The fact that Paroh's name can be rearranged to mean either the front or the back of the skull would seem to indicate that he has the ability to affect our power of speech either in the primary way, the front of the face-the mouth, or in a secondary way, by being there, but in back.

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