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The commonest form of gematria is used occasionally in the Talmud and Midrash and elaborately by many post-Talmudic commentators. It involves converting words and sentences into numbers, usually by assigning numbers to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. When converted to a number, they can be compared to other words and similarities drawn. A commentary almost completely dedicated to gematria is Baal ha-Turim by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher.
Gematria is often used by the Maharal of Prague and hasidic Torah commentators (such as the "Sefath Emmeth" from Gur).
Gematria is a system of recognizing a correspondence between the ten sefirot, or fires of God, and the twenty two letters in the Hebrew alphabet. This system is elaborated in many mystical Jewish writings such as the ZoharThe Zohar ( Hebrew Zohar "Splendor, radiance") is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah (five books of Moses), written in medieval Aramaic and medieval Hebrew. It contains a mysti.
One example of Gematria is that there are twenty-two solid figures that are composed of regular polygonsA polygon (from the Greek poly for "many", and gonos for "angle") is a closed planar path composed of a finite number of sequential straight line segments. The straight line segments that make up the polygon are called its sides or edges and the points wh. There are five Platonic solidA Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron whose faces all use the same regular polygon and such that the same number of faces meet at all its vertices. Compare with the Kepler-Poinsot solids, which are not convex, and the Archimedean and Johnson solids, whis, four Kepler-Poinsot solidA Kepler solid (also called Kepler-Poinsot solid is a regular non- convex polyhedron, all the faces of which are identical regular polygons and which has the same number of faces meeting at all its vertices (compare to Platonic solids). There are four difs, and thirteen Archimedean solidAn Archimedean solid or semiregular solid is a convex polyhedron with regular polygons as faces, such that at least two different types of regular polygons are used, and all vertices are identical (in the sense that the polygons are arranged in the same ws. Since there are twenty-two lettersThis article is about "letter", a written message from one party to another. For other uses, see Letter (disambiguation). A letter is a written message from one party to another. Letters are usually intended to be received by someone far away. Before wide in the Hebrew alphabet (aleph-beth), a correspondence is possible between these two facts. The art of Gematria is knowing which solid is associated with which letter.
Another example is that of Hebrew numerals. Although there are twenty-two letters, there are twenty-seven numerals necessary to sum each number up to one thousand. (one through nine, ten through ninety, one hundred through nine hundred) The Hebrew numeric system notes that the missing final five letters of the numeral system match exactly with the five 'sofeet' forms of the Hebrew letters, which are alternate forms of particular letters only used when that letter is the last consonant in a hebrew word.
Another use is that words which have the same numerical value, share the same qualities, and reveal still other aspects of the Divine.