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Decode Torah Through Hebrew, Gematria & Queer Mysticism
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Brit Ahavah Institute
Hebrew • Torah • Mysticism • Queer Spirit
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Learn to decode Torah through Hebrew, image, number, and spirit.

Join the early-access list for a future online course teaching Biblical Hebrew, etymology, pictographic symbolism, gematria, Kabbalah, and LGBTQ+ affirming Torah interpretation.

Get on the list now to receive the launch announcement, sample lessons, a Torah commentary worksheet, and first access to founding-student pricing when enrollment opens.

For Seekers, clergy, writers, ritualists, students
Outcome Create commentary, liturgy, and spiritual practice
Approach Rigorous, mystical, ethical, LGBTQ+ affirming
Early list members receive priority bonuses at launch.
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Why This Course Exists
A sacred-language path for serious seekers
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Most people are handed translations. Few are taught how to enter the Hebrew itself.

Torah is often reduced to flat translation, inherited dogma, or disconnected mystical fragments. LGBTQ+ seekers are frequently asked to choose between intellectual honesty, spiritual depth, and personal dignity.

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You want depth, not slogans.

You want Hebrew, roots, grammar, history, and symbolic interpretation without vague claims or spiritual bypassing.

You want mysticism with integrity.

You want gematria, Kabbalah, and letter symbolism taught with clear boundaries between evidence, symbol, and sacred imagination.

You want a tradition that blesses life.

You want Torah study that can nourish LGBTQ+ bodies, names, love, chosen family, healing, and spiritual leadership.

A disciplined mystical approach to Torah for sacred becoming.

This course will teach you a repeatable framework for analyzing Torah through Biblical Hebrew grammar, etymology, pictographic symbolism, hieroglyphic correlates, gematria, PaRDeS, Kabbalah, and LGBTQ+ affirming spiritual formation.

“The goal is not to force modern identity into ancient text. The goal is to read deeply enough to uncover Torah’s recurring patterns of image, covenant, liberation, naming, love, and life.”

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The 8-Layer Torah Decoding Framework
A practical method for commentary, ritual, and study
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Grammar first. Etymology second. Symbol third. Mystery fourth.

This protects your work from shallow proof-texting and gives you a serious method for building commentary, liturgy, and spiritual practice.

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Peshat: Grammar & Plain Sense

Parse syntax, roots, morphology, prefixes, suffixes, and context.

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Shoresh: Root & Etymology

Trace cognates, ancient meanings, and semantic shifts responsibly.

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Tzelem ha-Otiyot

Read letter-images such as ox, house, water, eye, mouth, hand, and mark.

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Hieroglyphic Correlates

Explore Egyptian and Proto-Sinaitic visual influence without overclaiming.

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Mispar: Gematria

Use numerical resonance as hint and mystery, not as a replacement for text.

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PaRDeS

Move from plain meaning to hint, teaching, and secret with clarity.

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Queer Derash

Develop life-giving interpretation rooted in image, covenant, and liberation.

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Avodah

Transform study into prayer, ritual, sacred naming, and communal healing.

Free waitlist bonus planned:

Early subscribers will receive a downloadable Torah Decoding Worksheet for applying this 8-layer method to any verse or parashah.

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Inside the Course
A guided path from study to sacred creation
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Six modules to help you create commentary, liturgy, and theurgical work.

The course is designed to move you from foundations into application: reading, interpreting, writing, praying, ritualizing, and building a spiritual vocabulary for community.

Module 1

Foundations of Biblical Hebrew

  • Alphabet, transliteration, pronunciation
  • Roots and word formation
  • Prefixes: ו, ב, כ, ל, מ, ה
  • Construct chains and basic syntax
Module 2

Etymology & Ancient Semitic Memory

  • Using roots responsibly
  • Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Arabic
  • Semantic shifts and loanwords
  • Truth, covenant, heart, name, life
Module 3

Pictographic Hebrew & Hieroglyphic Correlates

  • Ancient letter-images
  • Proto-Sinaitic development
  • Egyptian-type signs: eye, water, mouth, hand
  • Symbolic reading without false history
Module 4

Gematria, PaRDeS & Kabbalah

  • Mispar Ragil, Katan, Gadol, Miluy
  • Atbash, Notariqon, Temurah
  • Divine names: אהיה, יהוה, אדני
  • Sefirot and the 32 Paths of Wisdom
Module 5

Queer Torah Hermeneutics

  • Tzelem Elohim and sacred multiplicity
  • Coming out as Exodus
  • Name transformation as covenant
  • Chosen family as holy house
Module 6

Commentary, Liturgy & Theurgy Lab

  • Writing Torah commentary
  • Creating blessings and rituals
  • Ethics of spiritual practice
  • Final project: liturgy or commentary portfolio
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Numerical Gateways
Gematria for disciplined mystical reading
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Discover how numbers become gateways into sacred meaning.

Gematria is not a shortcut around the text. It is a contemplative resonance layer that can reveal relationships between words, names, themes, and spiritual patterns.

Number Hebrew / Concept Course Interpretation
13 אחד / אהבה Oneness and love share a value; love reveals unity.
18 חי Life, vitality, survival, and spiritual flourishing.
21 אהיה The divine name of becoming: “I Am / I Will Be.”
26 יהוה The Tetragrammaton; love plus oneness reveals the Name.
32 לב Heart and the 32 Paths of Wisdom.
50 כל All, fullness, and the Gates of Understanding.
72 חסד / Shem haMephorash Mercy, expansion, and the 72-fold divine name.
91 אמן Union of YHWH and Adonai; heaven and earth sealed together.
358 נחש / משיח Transformation of wound, fear, and exile into healing and redemption.

Why join before launch?

Waitlist members will be invited behind the scenes as the curriculum develops. You may receive preview teachings, founding-student offers, and opportunities to help shape future resources for commentary, liturgy, ritual, and LGBTQ+ spiritual formation.

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Build a spiritual language of love, consent, life, and truthful embodiment.

This course is for people who want to study deeply and create responsibly — not only to decode Torah, but to turn sacred language into commentary, liturgy, blessing, and healing practice.

The Life-Test Principle

Any interpretation that produces spiritual death, shame, or despair must be tested against Torah’s command: Choose life.

The Image-of-God Principle

No reading may erase the divine image in LGBTQ+ persons, bodies, relationships, names, or vocations.

The Covenant-of-Care Principle

True covenant increases mercy, truth, protection, consent, faithfulness, joy, and communal responsibility.

The Shalom Principle

Holiness is not self-erasure. Shalom is wholeness, integration, healing, and embodied peace.

I’m Quintin J Ballentie, and I thank God every day for a chance to live my dream.

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