Welcome back to my blog on gematria, the merkabah and the birth of the alephbet. Today I’m going to discuss the gematria of the Shemhamphorash, which has the largest significant gematria number I’ve ...

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Just at the one-year mark in my current home, and still unpacking boxes – mostly sefarim, books, CDs, and games – I found Sefer Gematriot, which lists all the unique words in Tanach in their gematria ...

This pseudoscience of substituting numbers for letters is known as gematria (or abjad in Arabic), and has innumerable variations depending on whether you include vowels or which language you translate ...