B"H
THE NUMBER SIX IN HEBREW ALPHANUMERICS
This brief essay is a
demonstration of the unique alphanumeric properties of Hebrew and its
ramifications for understanding math and language in a far more flexible and
comprehensive manner than does the Egyptian/Greek tradition inherited and
embraced as a priori by modern Western culture.
Please note that I wrote "Hebrew", not the Hebrew language.
Hebrew is not a language properly.
Hebrew is the substrate of all language, all possible mathematical
systems. Although we will not demonstrate how Hebrew is also the substrate of
all moral laws and dispels the illusion that ethics is relativistic and
particular, Hebrew is in fact this as well.
The number six is a
paradigm of these properties, and so it has been chosen as representative of alphanumerics in this essay.
As is known, there are both
feminine and masculine numbers in Hebrew.
We will consider both the feminine and masculine forms of the letter
six. In doing so it will become apparent
that very different conceptualizations are revealed by the feminine and
masculine forms.
The Hebrew letter å'
is equal to the number six. The letter å'
is equal to the name of the letter ä"à. The name of the letter å"å is the only absolutely symmetrical name of
a letter in Hebrew. The name of the letter å"å is equal to 12. The letter å'
can be 'expanded' into its name å"å;
likewise the name of the letter å"å
can be contracted in the letter å'. Because the letter å"å
can be 'expanded' into its name and the letter is perfectly symmetrical, it can
be expanded indefinitely. Thus, in the
presence of any letter å', including the
value of the letter å' within any other
letter (for example é' = å' + ã'), it is impossible
to determine how many å"åéï are present and we
are free to choose how to reckon the value.
According to the age-old
rules of alphanumerics, the value of the letter à'
is 1 and 1000 concomitantly. Thus, by inference, the letter å',
equaling as it does 6, is equivalent in every way to and may always be understood
to be a substitution value of 1005, 2004, 3003, 4002, 5001 and 6000 that is
always in effect. Of course, all of the
foregoing values for the letter å' are substitution
values one for all the others that are always in effect under any text.
The feminine form of the
name of the value of the letter å' is ùù. Due to the fact that the simplest value for
the letter ù' is 300, the name of the value of
the letter å', 6, is equal to 300 + 300, or 600. The
simplest value of the letter í' is 600. We have thus established a connection among
the value 6 and all of its substitution values, the value 600 and all of its
astronomical substitution values, the letter å'
and the letter í'.
We have also, not incidentally, established a connection between the
letters â' and ù'.
At this juncture it
behooves us to mention that there is an alphanumeric reckoning of numbers
called âéîèøéà ÷èðä
according to which only the reduced values of numbers ("ones") are
considered, not the tens or hundreds.
Thus, the number 6 and the number 600 are considered substitution values
one for the other according to this tradition of interpreting and analyzing
Hebrew text. Similarly, the letters â'
and ù' are substitutions one for the other
according to this system of Hebrew exegesis, hermeneutics and linguistic
analysis. It must be understood that
when one system of analyzing Hebrew text is operative it does not make the
others inoperative. All of the systems
of analyzing Hebrew text: âéîèøéà
âãåìä, âéîèøéà ÷èðä, à"ú
á"ù etc., are operative concomitantly.
The name of the feminine
form of the number six hundred in Hebrew is ùù îàåú.
An anagram of the expression ùù îàåú is
àåú + î' + ù' + ù'. We have already seen that the value of ù+ù = í. Therefore, we can rewrite àåú
+ î + ù + ù as àåú î"í.
The simplest value of the letter î' is forty. The simplest value of the
name of the letter î"í is 640. We have established alphanumeric connections
among the letter å', the values 6,
1005, 2004, 3003, 4002, 5001, 6000, 40, 600 and 640 and all of the substitution
values for the numbers 40, 600 and 640. The equivalence of an astronomical
number of numbers and permutations of letters has been demonstrated.
The masculine name of the
value of the letter å', equaling 6, is ùùä. Let us recall that the letter å'
is equal to the value of the name of the letter ä"à.
The value of the letter ä' itself is 5, 1004,
2003, 3002 and 4001 and 5000. The name of the value ùùä
is equal to 300 + 300 + 5
and the total of all of the substitution values of each of the terms. This is the value of the name Adam, which is àãí
in Hebrew.
à + ã + í = 1
= 4 + 600 = 605.
We have established the alphanumeric relationship between the value six and all
of its substitution values and the value 605 and all of its substitution
values. We now also know that everywhere
we encounter the letters à and ã
and í in a Hebrew text we may understand it as
the masculine value 6.
The regrettable, and
ill-conceived, programme of äà÷ãîéä
ììùåï äòáøéú (The Academy of the Hebrew Language, of
the Hebrew University in Yerushalayim, the
supreme authority on the Hebrew language in the State of Yisra'el) to do away
with masculine numbers in Hebrew because they are not in general use in modern
spoken Hebrew reflects the generalized lack of perception of the depths of
Hebrew, the utter ignorance of the vast potential Hebrew holds out to
revolutionize how Humankind cognates and its sanctity in our times. In our
generation, even the esteemed members of the ultimate supreme body for the
study of Hebrew perceive Hebrew as though it were a foreign tongue. Eloquent
though they may be, they are without perception of the uniqueness and depths of
Hebrew. Far from being a misogynistic relic from bygone brutal times, the
existence of masculine and feminine numbers in Hebrew complement and supplement
the knowledge each reveals. If we imagine that the presence of masculine and
feminine numbers in Hebrew is an expression of discrimination, it is only
because our consciousness is not steeped in Hebrew. The Diaspora should be understood not so much
as our geographic dispersion, but rather as our estrangement from Hebrew. This
is as true for those born and raised in the State of
In considering this work understand that the Egyptian/Greek system of
mathematics and logical progression in demonstrating "proofs" is only
a subset of the whole of alphanumerics. If one
attempts to apply the rules of Egyptian/Greek mathematics and logic to alphanumerics as a whole this system will seem logically
inconsistent and contrived. It is not
logically inconsistent, and certainly not contrived, it is an entirely
different system of reasoning and reckoning.
If you allow yourself to apprehend the system on its own merit, you will
see that it is far vastly more flexible and comprehensive than the accepted of
math and the worlds it describes are likewise far more flexible and
characterized by much more "potential" being actual. Please do not try to reduce the whole to a
mere subset.
It is also necessary to
understand that the demonstration here, intended to be heuristic, is
rudimentary. Beyond this level of
analysis lies the analysis of the values of the unpunctuated names of every
substitution value; the analysis of the values of the punctuated names of every
substitution value; the analysis of the value of the îìåééí
of the names of every substitution value, i.e., the spelling out of the names
of each letter in the names of the substitution values; etc.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat
÷éõ ä'úùñ"ã