RUACH - HEBREW CARVING

An artist, and friend of mine, Mr Robert Bain, has been experimenting with designs of Hebrew letter forms, in both classic and modern Hebrew. Robert has asked me if I would like to try and carve some of them. This is one of the them, the word RUACH.

Here Robert, using his own words, explains what the word RUACH means.

A brief explanation of the word RUACH itself, to help in our understanding of the ‘beauty’ of the Hebrew language, especially in its relation to THE WORD of GOD [ELOHIM].

All the Hebrew letters and words are from a basic formation of PICTOGRAMS, RUACH being no exception. Within the word RUACH there is a link in the combination of the letters relating to ‘man’ [REISH] and ‘working outside’ [CHET], these are joined by the ‘and’ or ‘add’ [WAW or VAV in modern Hebrew], leading to the following explanation, as given in The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon, although there is much more of course.

The Hebrew nomads were very familiar with the wind patterns as they would follow a prescribed path indicating the coming season. From this word comes the idea of breath, as it is the wind of man, which also follows a prescribed path of inhaling and exhaling.

I used Oak to carve the image and inlaid the letters with Blue Variagated Gold Leaf Substitute - in other words poor man's gold leaf.

ANOTHER ONE OF ROBERTS DESIGNS - YACHAL MEANING HOPE