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Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven ~ 777

January 25, 2019 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven Welcome to my blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alphabet. I hope you enjoyed the holiday season.  Although I promised I’d be back in the new year with an article about the Sefer Bahir and the Seven Palaces, that is taking rather longer to write … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gematria, Merkabah Wheel Tagged With: 777, Days of the Week, Gematria, Genesis

More about the Genesis alphabetic acrostic

January 25, 2019 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

Episodes in the Book of Genesis

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...]

Filed Under: Gematria, Merkabah Wheel Tagged With: Gematria, Genesis, mnemonic, pi

The conventions of biblical gematria.

January 25, 2019 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

Jacob crossing hand to bless his sons

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...]

Filed Under: Gematria, Merkabah Wheel Tagged With: biblical, Eden, Ephraim, Garden of Eden, Gematria, Genesis, Jacob, Manasseh

The Gematria of Man

November 19, 2018 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

One of the consequences of studying the gematria of the bible is that I look at this and instantly count the proper value of 14 for the hebrew word for 'man'.  AISh ~ Aleph = 1, Yod = 10 and Shin = 3. One of the other consequences of studying the gematria of the bible is that the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gematria Tagged With: 2:24, adam, AiSh, biblical, cycle, Gematria, Genesis, man, Metonic

Ezekiel’s “living creatures”…

February 2, 2018 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

The biblical text that is most associated with the Divine Chariot is Ezekiel; who gives an account of a vision where there were wheels inside of other wheels, and a living creature of four faces; that of an ox and a lion and an eagle and a man.  The vision is actually a calculation to indicate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gematria Tagged With: Abraham, alphabet, Ezekiel, Genesis, Greek, Isopsephy, Mishnah Kabbalah Merkabah Divine Chariot, New Testament, Paleohebrew, Seven Palaces, Torah Bible Gematria

What the apple really was… (spoiler alert – it wasn’t sex).

August 31, 2017 By BethSheba Ashe Leave a Comment

Introduction. The bible is stuffed with apparently unexplained metaphors, which is one of the reasons why people have speculated over it for thousands of years; in the seeming absence of any type of clarification people have delighted in putting forward their own.  In the case of the fruit of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gematria Tagged With: Apple, Bible, Creation, Fruit, Gematria, Genesis, Hebrew, Torah, Tree of Knowledge

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