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 than … [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 … [Read more...]
For the love of light
Welcome back to the third installment of my blog, dedicated to gematria, the Merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. Today I’d like to discuss with you how the people of the ancient near east may have thought about light, and we’ll explore some common mystical and philosophical thoughts about … [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 our … [Read more...]
The Gematria of Man
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 number of a word … [Read more...]
Genesis Chapters 1-2 and the Tarot.
The verses of the Torah were first publicly numbered (as we find them today) by Robert Estienne (Robert Stephanus) in 1571, but the move was not without criticism at the time from traditionalists. The original manuscripts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in a numbered form. Hebrew … [Read more...]