## Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah Chapter 21

###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 21:1
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**טעמים נקודות ותגין המתחברים לאותיות:**

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
*The action of the letters is completed by the musical notes, vowel points and crowns.*


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 21:2
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**שלמות האותיות תלוי בטעמים נקודות תגים שמתחברים עמהם, כל אחד משלימים בהם פעולה כראוי להם. אך עיקר הפעולה באותיות:**

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
<sup class="footnote-marker">**NOTE**) are written, in some cases with “crowns” (*tagin*) over them. The associated vowel signs (*nekudot*) and musical notes (*taamim*, the cantillation marks) although unwritten are also integral parts of the oral Torah tradition (the Masoret).**The completeness and perfection of the letters depend on the musical notes, vowel points and crowns that are joined with them. All of them contribute, each in its own proper way, to the full and complete execution of the intended effect or action. However, the main action comes about through the letters.**


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 21:3
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אחר שבארנו ענין האותיות, עתה נבאר ענין טנ"ת המתחברים עמהם:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
*Having explained the letters, we will now discuss the musical notes, vowel signs and crowns that are joined with them.*


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 21:4
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**שלמות האותיות תלוי בטנ"ת,**

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**The completeness and perfection of the letters depend on the musical notes, vowel points and crowns...**


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 21:5
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וזה כי להיות כל דבר נבחן שורש פרטי, נבין מה שהוא עיקרי לבד, ומה שהוא שלמות לבד, וענין זה של הפעולה העיקרית הוא האותיות עצמם, ושלמותם הם טנ"ת:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
Each thing has to be examined as an individual root in order to establish whether it is the main factor in itself or merely a component part that comes to complete the main factor, as discussed below. The main action is executed by the letters themselves, while their completion and perfection lies in the musical notes, vowel signs and crowns...


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 21:6
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**שמתחברים עמהם, כל אחד משלימים בהם פעולה כראוי להם,** זהו דבר הנראה לעינים. כפי מה שהוא למטה - כך הוא למעלה. והרי אנחנו רואים ששלמות האותיות תלוי באלה שמתחברים עמהם, כך למעלה הוא ענין אחד מתחבר לענין האותיות עצמם:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**...that are joined with them. All of them contribute, each in its own proper way, to the full and complete execution of the intended effect or action.** This is something we can see with our own eyes. As it is below, so it is above. Here below in this world, we see that the letters of the Torah are complete only when accompanied by their accompanying musical notes, vowel signs and crowns. So too above, the notes, vowel signs and crowns are bound up with the letters themselves and serve one and the same purpose.


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 21:7
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**אך עיקר הפעולה באותיות,** גם זה אנחנו רואים - שלצורך ההבנה די בכתיבת האותיות לבד:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
However, the main action comes about through the letters. Similarly in this world, we see that the written letters alone are sufficient to give us an understanding of the text.