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THE CONCEPT: 'TO BE EQUAL TO' IN HEBREW ALPHANUMERICS

 

 

Properly, a book should be devoted to this subject.  However, even if we were to write a long, involved and detailed treatise on the subject of the radical ש-ו-ה we would still not begin to plumb its depths.  The purpose of writing this very brief overview is to provide a reference so that the reader who may question why the חלופים are employed when analyzing Hebrew texts will understand why we take pains to demonstrate letters, words, phrases, sentences, etc. that share a common value in גימטריא.

 

If we are to be liberated from the cruel and senseless strictures of the world we describe as a result of thinking according to the laws of mathematics and linguistics bequeathed to us by the Egyptian and ancient Greek cultures, we must be willing to be at once courageous, humble and have great faith in ourselves. We will have to be willing to divest ourselves of many concepts that we cherish so very dearly because we have been taught that they are axiomatic and a priori and, therefore, are not given to being questioned. This requires courage because we will be required to swim out into the vast ocean of possibility, which is, not incidentally, also the vast ocean of uncertainty. We are accustomed to inhabiting a this-or-that world in which stability means that terms have one and only one meaning and in which ambiguity arouses within us the fear of chaos and unpredictability. We must be prepared to meet the challenge of experiencing a level of consciousness whereupon all is this-and-that. We must take up the challenge of thinking conjunctively, not disjunctively. Humility is required too, as we will have to admit that we have not understood even the most ostensibly simple concepts that our cultures accept as givens, as universals, as laws of existence.  We will have to admit that our definitions are woefully inadequate and be willing to sacrifice them for more profound, flexible, comprehensive, and moral concepts that allow us to describe worlds that are far more inhabitable and suitable to moral/spiritual beings.  We must have faith, unwavering faith, in ourselves, for we will be required to get out of our minds without going out of our minds. We must trust ourselves to be there for ourselves. We are going to encounter God directly. Our faith is going to be supplanted with knowledge of the God of Yisra'el. We will see that what is written in Torah is true, but we will understand it with a depth not heretofore known to us.

 

Have we imagined that we have understood the concept 'equals' in arithmetic? The concept seemed so simple, obvious and self-evident when we were taught it as young children. We imagined that we knew what 'equals' means at once upon hearing it.  We will see that we have not begun to plumb the depths of the magnificent meta-concept that is the value 311, or the word שוה, in Hebrew alphanumerics.

 

Please consider the following list of חלופים for the value 311 carefully:

 

שוה = 311 = שתים = ש' + שי"ן = 1310 = 311 = שיא = איש = האשה = שבט = רפאל = הכפור = אשבח = בגוש = גבוש = גו שב = היוצר = צרויה = ו' + צירה = וֵ = ה' + צירה + א' = ש' + קבוץ + ב' = מסורה = קורה = שם קדשו = ואתגשם = עולם צדק וקדש = נביאת אל עליון = בלשון עבר = המקצוע = ממשלתך = עצרת כל הצדיקים מכל זמן ומכל מקום = 3308 = 311 =

השופטים מכל דור = יודע תרגום הפשוטים = 2309 =311 = יודעים לפרש = יצא לפעל = יקרא* =

קראי* = קורה* = אסדר כל המספרים** = כל המספרים עד עשר כתר** =

למד כל המספרים כתר מלך = תירדו השמים הטעמים = תירדו הספרים הטעמים =

תירדו השמים קבוץ העמים*** = תירדו הספרים קבוץ העמים*** =

צרור צדיקים = בא שוב

 

Again, gaze deeply into the חלופים for the value 311 above.  If we were to attempt to write out all of the information that is contained in those חלופים in grammatically acceptable prose this work would be far, far longer, but greatly reduced. Three short notes, however, may be heuristic.

 

 *Of particular interest is the fact that the words:

יקרא, קראי, קורה

 

are all חלופים for the word שוה.  From this we see that reading Hebrew and calculating are one and the very same act. There is no linguistic-mathematical dichotomy in reality. It follows that the right brain-left brain theory of cognition is wholly unfounded.  We compute even as we create the worlds we inhabit and vice versa. As all of  Hebrew is infused with the laws of justice, we may say that all cognition is moral/linguistic/mathematical. One or two aspect/s of the three may predominate in our considerations of given situations or matters, but they are never, and never can be, abstracted one from the others.

** The word המספרים, which is equal to 995, is equal to the word מהשמים and the expression טהור כל העמים and האדם שפה.

 

*** Here we see the depths of the intention of תורה for Humankind – the ultimate gathering of the Peoples - revealed most apparently. The moral aspect of תורה that is always operative in conjuction with the linguistic and mathematical aspects becomes appartent in this beautiful חלוף.

 

Please bear the foregoing in mind as we continue our discussion.

 

When we say a sentence such as:

 

המלה ___________ שוה למלה ___________.

 

all of the חלופים, and more, for the word שוה, which equals 311 are operative.

 

The  form sentence:

המלה ___________ שוה למלה ___________.

 

is equal to 496, which is the גימטריא of the word צות. In addition to the word צות, חלופים for the value 496 are:

את הנולד, אתה נולד, אתה יודע, inter alia. Everywhere we encounter the letters צ, ו, ת, for instance in the word המצות, which equals ישראל; or in the word צורות, which equals בן and שבת; or in the word ארצות and אוצרות; we are looking at the form sentence that we use every time we do a חלוף of one word to another. 

 

If we write the form sentence:

 

האות ___ שוה לאות ____.

 

We are looking at the value 1160, or 161 or קונה. The word קונה and all of its חלופים equals the form sentence we use every time we do a חלוף of a letter for another letter.

 

The form sentence:

 

האות ___ שוה למלה ___.

 

is equal to the value 828.  Every time we encounter the letters ח, כ, ף in a Hebrew text we are encountering the skeleton of the sentence we say to ourselves every time we do a חלכוף of a letter for a word or vice versa. The value 828 is the value of the word האותיות and the expression קבוץ הצדיקים, the latter of which is equal to 1827, which is, of course, 828 according to the laws of גימטריא. It is also exactly 10 less than the radical ח-ל-ף.  That being the case, it will be a simple enough matter to construct a sentence that will equal the radical ח-ל-ף. For instance:

 

האות ה' שוה למלה בבשרך.

 

The word בבשרך is equal to 1004, or five.  Therefore, the above sentence is equal to 1837, or 838, the value of the radical ח-ל-ף.

 

Another form sentence that we say to ourselves as a matter of course when performing חלופים is:

 

האות ___ שוה לאותיות ___ ___ ...

 

Before going on, please consider the following חלופים for the value 712.

 

שוות = 712 = יוצרות  = צורותי = אין קץ = 1711 = 712 = בין = אשתוה = האות ש' =

בית כפר = תשבי

  

האותיות שוות = 1540 = 541 = ישראל = המצות = האותיות יוצרות = להביע את רצון הויה = לתקן יש = שמרתם = כחפץ לבך = אליך

 

See my work נקבה: הקרבנות והכפרות for more חלופים for more חלופים for the value 541.

 

האותיות שוות ל... = 1570 = 571 = מלאך = לישראל = התורה הזאת האותיות יוצרות = 2569 = 571 =  סוד אשר = אשר נהיה

 

האותיות __ __ ... שוות לאות __ = 1977 = 978 = חלמ + ץ'*

 

*For חלופים for the letter ץ', which equals 900, see my work נקבה: הקרבנות והכפרות. For חלופים for חלמ, which equals 78, see my work: מאוצר אור החלופים: פרשת מקץ. Both these works can be found on: http://tinyurl.com/6uf2b.

 

האותיות __ __ ... שוות לאותיות __ __ ... = 2393 = 395 = נשמה

 

האותיות __ __ ... שוות למלה _____ = 1645 = 646 = א-להים = מדברת = מלה מלאך = ראש הקהלה = אשר הקהלה = לשבת האות א' = פוסקת =

תפסקו = לסדר מחדש = האמת וצדק = לדורות = לתרגם את ה...  =

לתרגם האות = בני ישראל האות בחיים = ונגלית ירושלם = צדק והאמת =

השופטים צדק אמת

 

See my work נקבה: הקרבנות והכפרות for more חלופים for the Name א-להים.

 

האותיות __ __ ... שוות למלים _____ _____ ... = 2250 = 252 = קמח דק =

להשתוות לעד = 1251 = 252 =שלשה תגים של האות צ' = מעם ישראל

 

המלים ___ ___ ... שוות למלים ____ ____ ... = 2107 = 109 = קט = דקה = הדק = עגול = ק +קבוץ = 1108 = 109 = בר אהרן

 

The expression המלה שוה is equal to 391, which is the גימטריא of the word ישועה.  The significance of this will be demonstrated and elucidated in the book I am presently writing which reveals that the refutation of Christianty that is to be found in the Dead Sea scrolls and other Jewish sources properly understood in light of the חלופים.

 

The expression שוה למלה is equal to 416, which is the plural form of many feminine words in Hebrew, including the word אותיות. The word אותיות, then can be understood to read שוה למלה אות or אות שוה למלה.

 

להשתוות = 1147 = 148 = קמח = נצח = פסח = המעגל = נולדה לכם בת = בקולי = קהל אחד = האותיות הנקדות הטעמים אחד = 2146 = 148 = כתר אחד על האות ב' =

האותיות הנקדות הטעמים אחד = 2146 = 148 = האותיות הנקדות הטעמים אהבה =

האותיות הנקדות הטעמים האות ם' = 3145 = 148

 

השתוה = 716 = קיום = ישות = תשבחו = התורה המלכה

 

ישתוה = 721 = כאן = יודעים א-היה = עלום י-ה = גם אתה העולם = 1720 = 721 =

בני ישראל אתה העולם

 

ישתוו = 722 = שכתב  = מסר כתב = בכן = נולדים יחד

 

משתוה = 751 = השמות = המקום = אתה משה = אתה א-ל שד-י

 

משתוים = 1356 = 357 = שמות האדם = אדם שמות

 

משתוות = 1152 = 152 = את השמות

 

נשתוה = 761 = שמותיה = שמות י-ה = מקום י-ה

 

תשתוה = 1111 = 112 = בעלי = כל בני = כל הבנה

 

תשתוו = 1112 = 113 = כל נביא = כל בונה

 

Two more conjugations of the verb לשוות should be examined. The first is to be found in ספר ישעיהו מ:כ"ה:

 

ואשוה = 318 = חירק*

 

* See my word מאוצר אור החלופים: פרשת מקץ for חלופים for the punctuation mark חירק.

 

It is well worth our while to examine the form אשוה itself, without the ו' חִבּוּר. The word אשוה will shed light on our current discussion, that of the radical ש-ו-ה, as well as serve as an introduction to my work demonstrating the true meanings of concepts in Christianity, which I am now writing.

 

אשוה = 312 = ישב = שבי = יבש = שבטא = חדש* = הדגש = גוף בשר =

1311 = 312 = בשר גוף = בשר אדם צדיק =מעבר = מערב = חקי-צדק =

שם אות ד' = ואת שם כל בית ישראל = 2310 = 312 = קריאתם = קורה תם =

צירה + ז' = זֵ = הרת עולם = יודעים תורה = האדם יודע תורה =

האדם תורה נולד

 

*It should be clear from the חלוף above that the word חדשה, as in ברית חדשה, which is the word חדש plus the letter ה', thus totalling 317, is equal to the rhetorical interrogative האשוה.  The very word חדשה bespeaks the fact that there can be none who is equal to the God of Yisra'el.

 

The second is to be found in משלי כו:ד:

 

תשוה = 711 = אין = אשתי = העולם = העלום = עלום בבשרך = 1710 = 711

 

More חלופים for the value 711 can be found in my work

נקבה: הקרבנות והכפרות.

 

It bears mentioning that the name משה is spelled מושה in many cites in the Dead Sea scrolls.  Let us consider some חלופים for the value of the name מושה:

 

משוה  = 351 = משוה = שומה = אנש  = נאש = קרא כל = הסופר

 

The word שויון is usually translated as 'equality'. The word שויון is equal to 1022, or 23.  The value 23  is that of the words:

 

שויון = 1022 = 23 = כאב = וזהה = איזה = יביא = הביאה = הגיה = החי = חיה  = חי בבשרך = כבשרך = בשר כשר =  חוגג בשרך =  גם אתה אחד = אחדות בני ישראל = מחדשים הלכה =

החשן שבוצים = 2021 = 23 = קבוץ היוצר צורות = שבת שוה קבוץ =

בן שוה קבוץ = קבוץ בן האשה = קבוץ שבת האשה = בריאת שבת עולם = בן ישי = בית שיש = בקודש עמך = בקודש האדם = ברך ישי = יברך חסד רחל = גוף בריא = יברא גוף = את עצמכן = איזה = כבשרך = שי"ן + ו"ו = בתכם = בריאת שבת עולם = 2021 = 23 = רצון הויה  =

א-היה אתם = ותורתי = מחפשת צדק = הוא ירשך = שבח את בני ישראל ברל את בני ישראל = 3020 = יעלץ את עמך = יעלץ את האדם  = עמך גרי הצדק = האדם גרי הצדק = השופטים בי =

הפשוטים בי = עמך הפשוט בטא = האדם הפשוט בטא = מלאך המות

 

We will consider the concept השויון, written with a ה' ידיעה because the value 1027 or 28 is a central one to this elucidation.  The value 28 is that of the word כח. In addition to the meaning 'strength' or 'power', כח also means 'potential'. During the Middle Ages Jewish philsophers considered the subject להוציא מהכח אל הפֹעל. Please note that the word מהכח is an anagram/perfect permuation* of the word כחמה, anagram/imperfect permutation* of the word החכם and a חלוף and anagram/imperfect permuation of the word החיים.

 

(*By perfect permutation the author intends a result of the performance of a חלוף or חלופים that is an anagram the value of which is exactly equal to the original letter, word, expression, sentence etc. that the חלוף or חלופים was/were performed on. If the חלוף or חלופים was/were performed on letters, words, phrases, etc., that are not themselves nor do they contain any letters that have a סופית form, the anagram will always be a perfect permutation.  If however, we perform a חלוף or חלופים on letters that do have a סופית form, or on words, phrases etc., that contain a letter or letters that have a סופית form, and thus the value of the letter or letters may change if it/they is/are placed at the end of a word (and sometimes elsewhere in a word, as we find in the hapax legomenon the word לםרבה, which begins Chapter 9, Verse 6 of the Book of ישעיהו, and is found quite often in the Dead Sea scrolls), the resulting anagram will be either a perfect or an imperfect permutation.  An imperfect permutation is the result of performing a חלוף or חלופים in which a regular letter or regular letters have become a סופית or סופיות or a סופית or סופיות have become a regular letter or regular letters after the חלוף or חלופים was/were performed, and thus the value of the resulting value of the anagram is not that of the original letter, word, expression, sentence, etc.)

 

Perhaps some of the חלופים proffered here will help explain why the matter of הוצאה מהכח אל הפעל was of so much concern to Jewish philsophers, halakhic experts, mathematicians and grammarians.

 

השויון = 1027 = 28 = כח = חיי = יחוד =יחדו =  קבוץ בריתות = 2026 = 28 =

אשכון = האם האב והבת = ישאו כפים = שרש ז-כ-ר = ברכה לרעך =

רכ"ז פעמים = להרכיב עוד מלים = יפרשו את התורה הזאת =

אתם הויה = אתם כל בית ישראל יחד = פרי בטן כל בית ישראל יחד

 

Please God we will elucidate the concepts: resemblance, equivalence and identity in a separate work. For the meantime, the חלופים offered here for the concept of equality will serve as a basis to understanding why the חלופים are performed in order to understand alphanumerics.

 

Hebrew alphanumerics demonstrates that language, mathematics and holiness are various aspects, or 'phases' of the one and the same Divine Spirit enlivening us and issuing from us.  At times one of these aspects may be expressed with greater stress, thus appearing to eclipse the others, but never is one aspect separated, or abstracted, from the others.  Language, mathematics and morality are all operative concomitantly. There is not "pure math", if pure math means a language in and of itself that exists independently and independent of any moral laws.  Neither can morality be said to be relativistic and context specific. Language, we see, is the Divine breath coming through us.  We cannot but speak holiness. The choice is only whether or not to hear what we ourselves are saying.

 

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat

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