YD – ‘executive power’

The sign of potential manifesation, united to the root אד, image of every emanation, of every divisional cause, forms a remarkable root, whose purpose is to produce ideas relative to the hand of man.

In the literal and restricted sense, the hand; in the figurative and general sense, it is the faculty, executive force, power of acting, dominion: it is very kind of aid, instrument, machine, work, term; administration, liberality, faith, protection: it is the symbol of relative unity and of the power of division; it is the margin, border, edge; the point by which one grasps things; it is the place, the point that one indicates, etc. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 362-363)