Friday, May 11, 2012
When does a letter equal a number? When it is Hebrew!
cum purgando ad Romanos
or עם התנצלויות לרומאים
or maybe מיט אַפּאַלאַדזשיז צו די רוימער
Gematria is the practice of looking at the numbers that are represented by the Hebrew letters. Aside from its ancient pictographic meaning, each Hebrew letter represents a number. The first letter is the Aleph and represents 1, the second is the Beit and represents 2, etc. Here is something interesting for your consideration in the gematria