Meet Your Tallit “The Great Shins”
The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet is called "shin," and it looks like an English "w". Traditionally, naturally, this letter's ancient pictograph represents a tooth, and has been interpreted as One that devours, cuts off, sharpens, and consumes. In Judaism, Shin is used as a shortened form of Yahweh's Name. What is not well known is that the Shin is seen as black fire; not corrupt, or evil, just black. Black represents the mystery.; things hidden. Have you heard the term, "it is written in black and white?" When looking at a parchment, the written Hebrew there is seen and read because there is ink on paper. What we read describes, depicts, commands, advises, directs, and stirs us. Deuteronomy 4 and Hebrews 12 tell us that our God is a consuming fire! Look also at Deuteronomy 4:11; Psalm 18:10-12; Psalm 97:1-5. Yahweh hides Himself in darkness, and He is a burning Being! I would like to propose to you that the ink-on-paper written Hebrew is the fire that ignites us to seek Him. We burn as Jeremiah did, we have a fire shut up in our bones! We burn to know Who He is and what of Him is hidden in the darkness around Him!
Throughout the ages - maybe Jeremiah knew this as well - the Rabbinic community has long known that there was a second shin, a "w" with four prongs instead of three. It is called the "Shin G'dol" or "The Great Shin." This Shin was discovered within the parchment of Torah and is known as the white fire; it is a fire that begins to illuminate the mystical realm and the internal landscape. Yeshua told us the Kingdom of God is within in, in our midst. The mystery of the Shim G'dol has been kept hidden by the Rabbi's for generations. Yahweh chose to have Shin G'dol uncloaked in the last several years. I first heard of the Shin G'dol in 2018.
Whereas the ink-on-paper shows the Shin, it was the parchment around the written Hebrew that hid the Shin G'dol. It is seen by "reading between the lines." These two Shins, when placed facing each other, fill the gaps of the other. The black and white fires co-mingle - that which is hidden and that which is seen. They are not opposing entities; they both depict our mighty, awesome God, Who likes to play hide and seek and burst into the mystery in the unexplored darkness with the light of sight so we can see and know!
Three years ago, a month before the Feast of Shavuot (Pentecost), I wanted to meet my Living Tallit! In a flash, I saw it! I saw a brilliant wheel of flame. As I looked closer, there was a wheel within a wheel. The inner flames spun clockwise and the outer, counterclockwise. As I looked, details were highlighted. I recognized Shin, Shin G'dol, and another, a shin with five prongs! The flames, however, of this new shin were not connected to each other - it appeared as divided tongues of fire. Yahweh said to me, "You will make your Living Tallit according to the pattern I have shown you. You will hide the Shin Ga'do'lah in plain sight. When it is time, I will tell you, and she will come out from her hiding. When it is time!"
This is exactly what I did. I "hid" the Shin Ga'do'lah within my Living Tallit. As people viewed my Tallit, they did not "see" her; they just saw flames. Over many days, Yahweh taught me about Shin Ga’do’lah. She told me herself that she is "a fiery One walking amongst the fiery ones."
If the Shin is the black fire, and the Shin G’dol is the white fire, then the Shin Ga’do’lah is depth, dimension, and glory; she is the “beyond.” She is present in the sheh’ki’nah. As an example, if you were to lay a Bible flat on a table and look at it, you would see the words on the page: this represents the black fire. The white page around the words represents the white fire. If you could dive INTO the page, and swim into the secrets of Yahweh, that would be the depth, the dimension, the beyond, into the glory.
Together, the Shins form the inside wheel. The secondary flames around them are the outside wheel. When I saw them on my Tallit, I saw each letter had secondary flames that were loose, and not attached in the sense that they helped form the letter. Together, they were with Yahweh in Genesis 2:7 when He breathed the breath of life into mankind. In that verse, the first word in English translated as “breathed” is not ruach; it is “nephach.” Ne’phach means to kindle a flame. It also means to refresh oneself. The idea of "refreshing oneself" is not like sitting by the pool to drink a glass of tea. It is like hitting the refresh button on your computer browser. When you do that, it re-loads what was already there! So when Yahweh created us, He reloaded into us that which was already there - HIMSELF! Together these shins are the “Ye’chi’dah,” the life spark of the fire that we are; for we are made of the elements of our heavenly Father, and He is a consuming flame! Shin Ga’do’lah is the flame on Isaiah's altar of coals that the seraphim took to cleanse his lips. Shin Ga’do’lah was fire on the heads of the Hebrews at Sinai – the first Pentecost - when they were terrified of Yahweh’s Voice. Shin Ga’do’lah was the divided tongues of fire that rested upon the disciples' heads in Acts 2. Shin Ga'do'lah is about going beyond. Beyond the restrictions, beyond the boundaries; beyond our boxes of beliefs into our God Who wants to be discovered for Who He is beyond what we think we know!
For almost three years, I kept her hidden, and then in July of 2021. In September 2021, she was revealed at a conference. Altogether, the 3 shins are called the “Ha'Shinim Ga'do'lim, " or “The Great Shins.” When I named this Tallit pattern, I just took the Hebrew words and made them plural.
“The Great Shins.” After another three years, I was shown something else! In Hebrew, the High Priest is called “Kohen Ga’dol.” “Ga’dol” is translated into English as “High.” It can also mean greatness, loud, distinguished, important, large in number, etc. In the book of Hebrews 7:27, it speaks of the sacrifices the High priest would make. In English is says, “…he has no need to offer up sacrifices day-by-day like those other high priests…” “…like those other kahanim ga’do’lim….”
When I read that verse in Hebrew, I had a sudden scary experience, as the three shins power and magnificence overcame me, and the Fear of the Lord was tangible in the room. The download was that the letter “shin” is the high priest of the Hebrew alphabet! This verse was then connected for me with 1 Peter 2:9, how as believers we are a royal priesthood.
Ha'Shinim Ga'do'lim - The Great Shins - are a part of us! When we meditate to engage with Yahweh and the expansive kingdom within us and practice breathing with various forms of breathwork, we will become aware of their presence as the wheels spin within us. They are our energy. They are the fire within us! They are the Light of life in every man ( John 1:9). They are a revelatory part of our priesthood as believers! They are here now, working together, for these days, in this time, for our benefit, to help us as maturing sons of God to learn how to manifest the shekinah of the Kingdom that all of creation has been groaning for! May you discover them on the inside!