The yud is a metaphor for God’s very first thought of creation. It is the spark of the ‘Big Bang’ but unlike its secular counter-part, it includes the attributes of personality and intelligence. Since there is nothing outside of God, he created everything within himself. The yud is the first void that God created within himself where he could put the universe. It is a metaphor for a new beginning. When it is used as the second letter of a verb it intensifies the root. As a prefix it becomes ‘he’ with God as the prototypical ‘He’. God is the first He by which all other ‘he’s are defined. Every other letter is formed by first drawing the yud indicating that all things proceed from the mind of God, as if each letter oozed from the tiniest speck in the blank page or substance of God.