“The mystics teach that G-d created the whole of existence with permutations of the 22 letters of the alef-bais… The entire world is nothing more than Hebrew letters connected in a myriad of different ways.

In parashat Ki Tisa, …Hashem commanded Betzalel to build the mishkan (the tabernacle). The mishkan was a microcosm of the creation, meaning that the mishkan too was no more than permutations of the aleph-bais.

The Gemara expounds the letters of Betzalel’s name to read b’tzel-Eil, meaning ‘in the shadow of G-d.’ Just as G-d had combined those letters to create the universe, so did Betzalel know how to combine the letters of the alef-beis to create the mishkan.”