Mishnah * I.5.3. Their end is wedged into their beginning and their beginning into their end (continuing)
as a flame is attached to a coal.
"Their end is wedged into their beginning and their beginning into their end" - I've repeated this phrase from the part of this mishnah that is on the previous page.
attached to - Where the previous phrase in this mishnah uses a Hebrew word designating "pounded into," "jammed into," this phrase uses a word designating attachment – "bound to," tied to."
a flame - shahl HEH vett
Lahav (LAH hahv) means flame in Hebrew.
shahl HEH vett: 'Flame' as explained in the Milon Ivri Dictionary - by Yehudah Gur, entry "Shin" (as the letter) –
"Sometimes the letter Shin is added at the beginning of a word for a special purpose."
ett - When this syllable is added at the end of a noun, it enters the feminine class of words.
a flame is attached to a coal - Coal, for instance, contains the potential for giving off light and heat. The flame is the outcome of the burning coal. Coal, burning, and flame are a triad of Potential, Actualizing, and Result. I also use the triad of words Beginning, Middle, and End. The wedging of end and beginning is a lesson about how a result is a new potential. In fact, this is unavoidable. It is as if the Book of Formation is saying, "An end urges on a new beginning."