Star of Unity

Star of Unity serves both concepts of unity.

The first concept is the concept of the Star of David, which represents the unity between the upper world and the lower world by putting two triangles together.

The second concept is the concept of unity among the Jewish people by putting six hearts together in a circle.

The Star of David, which is also known as the Jewish star, shows the unification of the spiritual world and the physical world.

There are, in fact, two arrows of the same exact size in triangle shapes that merge and engage the upper world and the lower world together.

​This unification creates a star called the Star of David, a symbol that is the identity of a Jew, and we want to know why.

It is every Jew's duty to create this star by uniting the upper world and the lower world together.

You may ask why this unification is so important.

This unification brings knowledge to us. This is the path of our fathers' generation, after generation.

So how does this create knowledge?

In order to explain this knowledge, which is essential for our physical and spiritual growth, we have to go back to creation first.

So let's explain this clearly...

The creator is one.

The creator is good.

Therefore, the creator wants to do good.

And the only way to do good is by giving.

But there is no receiver!

So He creates a "receiver" called the physical world, which we call "nature."

In fact, we call it "mother of nature" and never father of nature.

Because the creator is a giver, He is the male aspect. He is the spiritual world.

Because nature is a receiver, she is the female aspect. She is the physical world.

So what happened on the 6th day of creation?

The creator took the dust of the earth and inserted His spirit into it, and it became a human.

In other words, the spiritual and physical worlds were married on the 6th day of creation and had a child together, an entity called "Adam."

"Adam" represents the knowledge or the product that was created by our spiritual father and our physical mother.

In other words, every time father and mother unite, they create knowledge.

Because we are the children of Adam, who is the seed of this unification, we are "expected" to also act the same way and bring unification for our continuity.

Therefore, we learn that every time we unite the spiritual world and the physical world, we bring knowledge upon us.

So how do we do that?

First, let's see what spirituality is...

When the creator made the world, He said, and everything was created.

Torah starts by saying that the creator made everything by words...

בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ

Meaning: In the beginning, the creator made the heaven and the Earth.

The verse starts with the letter ב (Hebrew numerical value 2 to tell us in simple language that this creation is about 2, which are the upper world, השמים, and the lower world, הארץ.

The Hebrew alphabet starts with the letter א and ends with the letter ת. So by saying את, Torah is telling us that the creator made the world using the letters from א to ת.

So everything was created by Hebrew letters.

Hence, we learn spirituality is all about "speech" or "verbal language" because there is no physicality involved.

On the other hand, our "action" or "body language" is physical.

In other words, we must unite our "verbal language" and "body language" to create knowledge.

We do this sometimes without even noticing!

In fact, every time we say a blessing (bracha) which is spiritual and eat, drink, smell, or do anything that has to do with physicality, we are uniting father and mother and therefore creating knowledge.

Therefore, by uniting both worlds, we bring knowledge upon us that could help us reach our potential.

While we are learning about the Star of David, it is VERY important to say that by uniting the two triangles, we have six points.

Number 6, which is the numerical value of the Hebrew letter "ו" means "and".

And what does the word "and" do?

The word "and" is the symbol of connection for continuity. It connects everything like two words, two statements, two names, etc...

By uniting the two triangles, we are uniting the spiritual world and the physical world, and we'll get 6 points, meaning AFTER we unite the upper world and the lower world, we'll become the CAUSE of this unification and therefore act as the word "and" or the number "6".

That is WHY the creator made Adam on day 6 of creation to teach man that his work is to establish number 6 and be the "and" or the CAUSE of unification between the "spiritual world and the physical world."

Another way we do this unification is when we say Amen אמן (Hebrew Numerical Value: 91).

The name of G-d, which represents the spiritual world, is י-ה-ו-ה (Hovaya, Hebrew Numerical Value 26, and the name which represents the physical world is אדני (Adoney, Hebrew Numerical Value: 65).

Every time we say אמן we are uniting י-ה-ו-ה the spiritual world and אדני the physical world together.
אמן = י-ה-ו-ה + אדני
65 + 26 = 91

We learn that Judaism is about love and marriage because uniting will bring continuity.

This is the relation we have with our spiritual father and our physical mother, which is nature.

But we also have a relation toward each other as well.

The creator loves to see his children together.

He wants us united.

And how we become united is ONLY through kindness.

In fact, every time we do an act of kindness, we become the CAUSE, and therefore we become united and establish what the creator expected from us on the 6th day of creation when He created man.

And once we all unite, we will have created BOTH relationships, which will complete our mission and bring us to redemption.

As you see in the Star of Unity, the Star of David won't appear until we unite.

​— Bahram Cohanfard