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# fundamental

«fundamental» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **basic and most important; the foundation that other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

basic and most important; the foundation that other things are built on [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it describes the twenty-two letters, and especially the three "mother" letters, as the basic building blocks of creation. Interpretation: Tradition teaches that God made the world with the Hebrew letters, and the three mother letters Aleph, Mem and Shin are the base of all the others.

### examples

- The three fundamental letters א״מ״ש have as their basis the balance. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/#x1)
- The three fundamental letters א"מ"ש have as their basis the balance. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/#x2)
- They consist of a decade out of nothing [5] and of twenty-two fundamental letters. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fundamental» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fundamental/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.