Welcome to my blog about biblical gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alphabet. In my next posts we’ll discover why the Merkabah is the beating heart of Kabbalah and its secret center. Corrections Before we start today, I’d like to address an issue that came up after my last blog … [Read more...]
How biblical gematria entered the Greek script
Welcome to the ninth installment of my blog about Gematria, the Merkabah and the birth of the Alephbet. Today I’ll be looking at how biblical gematria was adapted to the Greek script, and giving some examples from the New Testament. There have been few writers who specialize on the subject of … [Read more...]
The gematria of the universal and the particular
Welcome to the eighth installment of my blog covering biblical gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. This morning, like a bee to honey, I have been contemplating a wonderful post made by Rabbi Sacks : ‘The universal and the particular (Miketz 5779)’. He said a … [Read more...]
More about the Genesis alphabetic acrostic
Welcome to the fourth installment of my blog about gematria, the Merkabah and the birth of the alephbet, and a happy Hanukkah to you all. Yesterday I gave you the Genesis alphabetic acrostic to contemplate, but today I’m going to attempt a brief potted commentary on it, although its really something … [Read more...]
The conventions of biblical gematria.
Yesterday I called the biblical art of gematria ‘sophisticated’, and today I’d like to elaborate a little upon that theme. You’ll all be familiar with the concept of written grammar, but have you ever paid mind to numerical grammar? It is by convention to numerical grammar that we structure … [Read more...]
The Lost Art of Gematria
Welcome to my blog. With this blog I’ve elected to speak upon Biblical Gematria, the Merkabah, and the birth of the alephbet. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to express them in the comments section below. “If I were asked to characterize the gematria of the … [Read more...]