![]() Indeed the many names of God and their permutations in Kabbalah have numerical values that are believed to contain potent power. The very basis of the kabbalistic cosmological system rests on the belief that God created the universe through the power of the Hebrew letters along with their numerical values. However, gematria is essential to Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. They were much more invested in the use of logical reasoning and argumentation to support their positions. The rabbis occasionally employed gematria to help support biblical exegesis, but did not rely on it heavily. While gematria was used periodically in the Talmud and Midrash, it was not central to rabbinic literature. The Hebrew Alphabet in Numerologyĩ00 Tzady (final) ץ Who Believes in Gematria? If a word’s numerical value equals that of another word, a commentator might draw a connection between these two words and the verses in which they appear and use this to prove larger conceptual conclusions. In the realm of biblical interpretation, commentators base an argument on numerological equivalence of words. ![]() One can then calculate the numerical value of a word by adding together the values of each letter in it. In gematria, each Hebrew letter is represented by a number (for example, aleph = 1, bet = 2, etc.). This system, developed by practitioners of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), derived from Greek influence and became a tool for interpreting biblical texts. Gematria is a numerological system by which Hebrew letters correspond to numbers. My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help Donate
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