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# fundamental

adjective

«fundamental» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it describes the twenty-two letters, and especially the three "mother" letters, as the basic building blocks of creation.

**Interpretation.** Tradition teaches that God made the world with the Hebrew letters, and the three mother letters Aleph, Mem and Shin are the base of all the others.

### Meaning

basic and most important; the foundation that other things are built on [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/#m1)

### Examples

- The three fundamental letters א״מ״ש have as their basis the balance. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/#x1)
- The three fundamental letters א"מ"ש have as their basis the balance. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/#x2)
- They consist of a decade out of nothing \[5\] and of twenty-two fundamental letters. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/#x3)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fundamental» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fundamental» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fundamental.html) on Mova free.