Lamed

"The letter Lamed is the tallest in the aleph-bet — a shepherd's staff representing teaching authority and guidance. Yahushua taught as no man before or after Him — not by quoting other teachers but by His own authority. The crowds noticed immediately."

The scribes and Pharisees taught by citing tradition and the rulings of previous rabbis. Yahushua taught differently — He said "you have heard it said, but I say to you." That phrase alone would have been considered outrageous to a first century Jewish audience. He was not revising the Torah, He was revealing the depth of it with an authority that came directly from being the one Yahuah had put His words into. Moses himself prophesied that a prophet would come with Yahuah's own words in His mouth. That prophet was Yahushua.