Gematria
numeral system
In numerology, gematria (Hebrew: גמטריא or גימטריה) is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase by reading it as a number. The letters have standard numerical values, but a word may yield several values if a cipher is used.
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Quotes
edit- Lenny Meyer: The ancient Jews used Hebrew as their numerical system. May I? Each letter's a number. Like, the Hebrew A, Aleph [א], is 1. B, Bet [ב], is 2. You understand? But look at this. The numbers are interrelated. Like, take the Hebrew word for "father", av [אב]. Aleph, Bet. 1, 2. Equals 3. All right? Hebrew word for "mother", em [אם]. Aleph, Mem [מ]. 1, 40. Equals 41. The sum of 3 and 41? 44. All right? Now, Hebrew word for "child", all right? Mother, father, child. Yeled [ילד]. That's 10, 30 and 4. It's 44. Torah is just a long string of numbers. Some say that it's a code, sent to us from God.
Max Cohen: That's kind of interesting.
References
edit- ↑ "ילד Yalad—To bear, bring forth, beget, engender / Yeled—Child, son, boy, offspring [Footnote: "It should be noted that adding father, אב, 3 and mother, אם, 41 equals 44."]" Brian Pivik: Gematria and the Tanakh, ch. 2, "Gematria and the Tanakh", p. 70. Lulu (2017). ISBN: 1-257-09404-1.
