This is the fourth letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Beth and it is called dalet (dah-let). The sound of this letter is like the "d" in door. Dalet is the first letter of the Hebrew word Davar and Derek. Davar means "word or thing" and Derek means "way." Like Beth and Gimel, the Dalet may also contain a dagesh mark, making it have a hard "th" sound, but still very much resembling the sound of "d". It has the numeric value of 4 (Aleph=1, Beth=2, Gimel=3) and the pictograph meaning is that of a tent door. As I explained before in the Gimel stanza, it is also thought of as a poor or needy person. The word dalet comes from the word dalah (to make needy or impoverished) and the word dalut (poor or impoverished). As a door, Dalet symobolizes our choice to go forward through the door or to wait outside the door. Interestingly, the word for religion is dat (composed of a dalet and a tav), which means "the door of the cross."
Each one of us faces the choice of what we will do with Jesus. Will we accept what He did for us or reject Him? This stanza of Psalm 119 is all about God's way and man's way. Taking either path requires the choice to take that path. We can choose to take the path of the world and that will lead in the end to "my soul clings to the dust,""my soul melts with heaviness", "the way of lying" and shame. The way of Jesus (HaDavar - The Word - see John 1) leads to revival, answers, understanding, strength, truth, and life. The point is that there is a choice to be made. God gives us the choice to accept or deny Yeshua - the Way, the Truth, and the Life or to reject Him and go the way of the world. As in the pictograph of the Dalet, we have before us a door and thus a choice. Romans 13:1 tells us that "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Have you made that decision? In Luke chapter 9, Jesus said, "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." Friend, nobody can make the decision for you. Jesus. Yes or no?
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