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The gimel ג is such a fun letter. Jesus used it in saying concerning the rich man. But it has a deep theological meaning as well.

The gimel is drawn as a vav ו which splits. Jewish children learn that it is a rich man pursuing a poor man, because it looks like an outstretched leg.

The vav is the Word of God (Jesus ^[1]) which in the case of the gimel, doesn't just explain or clarify things, but also teaches holiness. The teaching of holiness is how God pursues us.

We experience grace

When God created the heavens and the earth, his creation was bathed in grace. ^[2] But we do not understand grace without understanding holiness, so he immediately revealed himself as holy. ^[3]

Lets put this in different terms. Holiness is expressed by separation. God created us by separating a void from himself. He made space for us within him. He is God, we are not. We are in God. We customarily say that God is everywhere as if the everywhere were a container for God. But there is no container larger than God. ^[4] God is not in everything. Everything is in God. ^[5]

We don't understand grace without law

1. ↑ Joh 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. ↑ Ge 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3. ↑ Ge 1:4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
4. ↑ 1Ki 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
5. ↑ Ac 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.