Genesis 2:6

The concept Ve'ed ya'aleh min-ha'aretz (וְאֵּד יַעֲלֶה מִ ן־הָּׁ אָּׁרֶ ץ): "But a mist was rising from the earth," which contains the word "ed" (אֵּ ד ), "mist" or "vapour," projects to us that spiritual energy that ascends from the material plane towards the divine. This evaporation, viewed from the perspective of water, reminds us that our prayers are like that vapor rising to the very ears of the Creator, a metaphor for what our aspirations should be: even though we are rooted in the earth, we must recognize ourselves as part of the divine.

The expression Vehishkah et-kol penei ha'adamah (וְהִ שְ קָּׁ ה אֶת־כָּׁל־פְ נֵּי הָּׁ אֲדָּׁ מָּׁ ה): "And it watered the whole surface of the ground," by referring to "watering," also reiterates that transmission of spiritual energy that nourishes and gives life to all creation. The earth (adamah), as a symbol of the human soul, needs to be "watered" or spiritually nourished with the Word of the Creator to flourish.

This cycle of vapor that rises and then descends as water is fully perceived, but we often overlook that it is the continuous interaction between the spiritual and the material that makes that rising vapor the reflection of human spiritual efforts to integrate with Him through His work. In response, He causes the rain to fall. This cycle suggests that our actions and prayers have the power to attract divine blessing and energy to this world.

The word "ed" (אֵּד), with its gematria value of 5 (alef = 1, dalet = 4), presents to us that divine grace at each of the levels at which our soul is considered to be in its process of learning and growth. This spiritual essence and human nature express our ability to elevate ourselves through those different levels of spiritual consciousness.

The concept of elevation, which our ego often confuses, can even lead us to idolize other people as flawed as we are. Therefore, the act of "watering" the earth should be seen as receiving the influence of divine wisdom that descends to nourish our souls, as water, the source of spiritual life, purifies and revitalizes us.

When our Lord Jesus Christ presented Himself as the water of life or the light of the world, He was indicating that, although by His grace our salvation does not depend on our efforts, but on the desire to elevate ourselves by drawing closer to Him, this in turn means that our intentions, desires, emotions, thoughts, words, interactions, and interrelations, like that "vapor" that rises, must align with the divine, radiating that spiritual response that nourishes our souls, allowing us to grow and flourish in all aspects of our coexistence.

Water is a symbol of the soul and divine wisdom (Chochmah). Its movement from a liquid state, representing an earthly and emotional consciousness, to vapor, which rises to heaven. This is interpreted as the soul's ascent to more subtle, purer states. This evaporation process teaches us about transcendence, the refinement of the ego, and the soul's return to its divine source.

"מים" (mayim) and transformation have a gematria value of 90, which in gematria speaks to the letter צ (Tsadi), which represents the tzadik (the righteous one). This suggests that water, when it "rises," like vapor that rises to heaven, reflects the path of the tzadik, which transcends the material and connects with the spiritual. Just as water transforms into vapor without losing its essence, the soul can elevate itself spiritually while maintaining its essential identity.

Physically, the vapor condenses and falls as rain, which resembles the Kabbalistic principle of tzimtzum: contraction or withdrawal of divine Light and Hashpaah, the pouring or flowing of blessing downward. This means that what ascends spiritually—prayer, meditation, good deeds—can return as material blessings, like rain that fertilizes the earth.

It's about elevating ourselves from the dense to the subtle, which teaches us to leave behind dense or limiting emotional states to reach a higher consciousness, seeking that unity in each cycle, since what ascends returns, demonstrating to us that our spiritual cycles are for renewal; therefore, everything elevated seeks to return to give life to what is below.

To avoid continuing to be disoriented by a confusing language generated by our sinful disconnection, it is necessary to turn to Kabbalah (or Cabala) and gematria (a form of exegesis based on the numerical value of Hebrew words) in order to somehow access that hidden truth that embodies our very essence.

Later, we are even told of the Tower of Babel, which marks that moment of rupture among humanity itself, which shared a single language. This dispersion, when read through our multiple tongues, reiterates that only His word can reorient us.

That original language (probably Hebrew, according to Jewish mystical tradition) was considered the purest channel for naming things in harmony with their divine essence, but the linguistic division resulting from the Fall becomes the concealment of the higher truths contained in the original names.

Thus, words like “vapor,” “earth,” or “face of the earth” may have suffered semantic distortion over time, obscuring their true spiritual meaning. אדמה (Adamah - Earth), Numerical value: א (Aleph) = 1, ד (Dalet) = 4, מ (Mem) = 40, ה (He) = 5, Total: 50, which is also the number of the "Sha'arei Bina" (the portals of understanding), suggesting that the earth (Adamah) is more than a physical element: it is a path to spiritual understanding.

אדים (Edim - Vapor or mist), numerical value: א =1 ,ד =4 ,י =10 ,ם =40, Total: 55, is the value of "המלך" (Hamelech), "the King", suggesting that vapor has an elevated role, perhaps symbolically related to that which ascends, to the spiritual, that which rises from the material.

"Face of the earth" - פני האדמה (Penei haAdamah), פני (Penei) = "face" or "face" → implies interface, revelation, or visible manifestation. האדמה (HaAdamah) = "the earth", the "face of the earth" can then be understood kabbalistically as the visible manifestation of the physical world that conceals (and reveals) the spiritual.

Kabbalah suggests that words have become masks, losing their direct connection to spiritual truth. Gematria is an attempt to reconnect with that original truth, understanding the universe as a coded divine language.