The 72 Names of God
At the edge of the Red Sea, three verses of Exodus each hold exactly 72 Hebrew letters. Woven together, they form 72 three-letter sequences – not words to pronounce, but combinations to see and meditate on.
Hebrew reads right to left. “Guide my scan” lights each letter in turn, slowly, three times. Hold one clear intention as you look.
All 72 Names
Select any Name to bring it into meditation mode. The grid reads right to left, starting from Name 1 in the top-right corner.
How the Names are formed
The three verses are Exodus 14:19, 14:20 and 14:21. Write verse 19 from its first letter to its last, verse 20 from its last letter back to its first, and verse 21 from its first letter to its last. Then take one letter from each, position by position: the first Name is the 1st letter of verse 19, the last letter of verse 20 and the 1st letter of verse 21 – and so on through all 72.
On this page, that calculation runs live from the Hebrew text of the verses, so what you see is exactly what they produce. Letters with a special final form in Hebrew (like ם for מ) take it only when they end a Name.
How to use them
- Think of the challenge in front of you – a fear, a habit, a conflict.
- Choose a Name, or draw one at random and trust what comes.
- Scan its letters from right to left, slowly, with one clear intention to change something in yourself.
- Then act. In Rav Berg’s school, meditation opens the door and proactive behavior walks through it.
Wider context
Deriving a 72-part divine Name from these verses is an old tradition: it is described in the Sefer ha-Bahir (late 12th century) and explained by Rashi in his commentary on the Talmud (Sukkah 45a). The specific meaning attached to each Name, and their use as a visual meditation for a general audience, come from contemporary teaching. We show the Names themselves and leave interpretation to you and your teachers.