Yod — the 10th Hebrew letter
י
Symbolism
The hand, the deed; the point of essence; ten — completion of the units, the congregation (minyan), the commandments
What the letter is built from
A single suspended point — the only letter that does not touch the base line; all other letters are said to begin from a yod's first stroke
Its first root in Scripture
The first yod root is yom — 'God called the light Day'
Messianic thread
'Not one yod or one stroke shall pass from the Torah' — Yeshua names the smallest letter as the guarantee of the whole. Yod begins His own name (Yeshua) and the Name (YHVH): the hand that saves.
In the mystical tradition
The yod is the initial point of the Name, the seed-point from which all letters and worlds unfold; suspended above the line, it belongs to the upper world while writing in this one.
Wisdom of the letter
Smallest and mightiest: the enlarged yod of Numbers 14:17 magnifies power in the alphabet's tiniest frame.