The Arrangement of Teeth Align with the Letter Aleph to Connect Us with the Supreme Aleph
Continuing on this sacred journey, we will explain based on what we have learned why HKB”H created man’s teeth in relation to the letter “aleph,” which also has two sets of י"ו (16). It is well-known, that the letter “aleph,” the first letter of the aleph-Beis, alludes to HKB”H, who is referred to as “Alupho shel Olam”—the primary (supreme) being in the world or the “Aleph” of the world. For this reason, at Matan Torah, HKB”H began transmitting the Torah with the letter “aleph” (Shemos 20, 2): "אנכי ה' אלקיך אשר הוצאתיך מארץ מצרים". Thus, when a Jew studies Torah and serves Hashem, he must do so l’shem Shamayim, solely for the sake of HKB”H, “Alupho shel Olam.”
As we have learned, the letter “aleph” is comprised of an upper set of י"ו and a lower set of י"ו, just like the teeth with which we chew our food. Thus, if a person eats with the intention of connecting with HKB”H, the “Aleph” of the world, he possesses the capacity to separate the food from the waste and the sparks of kedushah from the klipos. As a result, they ascend to HKB”H refined and pure. Hence, they taught in the Gemara: “So long as the Beis HaMikdash stood, the mizbeiach atoned for Yisrael; now, a person’s table atones for him.” For, eating with this exalted kavanah at one’s table while speaking words of Torah, it is as if one offered a korban Tamid on the mizbeiach; the food is refined as well as the person eating the food.
