Editing Seven Voices (section)

== The Connection to Grammar and the Seven Winds of the World ==
The Maharal connects the seven voices of the giving of the Torah to the seven vowel movements in grammar. Just as at the giving of the Torah there was one voice that divided into seven (and so the Torah is divided into seventy languages), so is the breath coming from the heart divided into seven movements of speech.

The Maharal adds that the seven vowels and voices correspond to the definition of space, which has seven sides: the four directions, above, below, and the center.

And Rabbeinu Bachya elaborates on explaining the connection between the form of the vowel points and their location to the seven voices - the seven vowel sounds heard in the articulation of speech. And he connects this to the verse "she hewed her seven pillars" - that the entire Torah was "hewn" from these seven vowels, which are the root of the Torah.