Re: hebrew, the movie Pi

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, nicole perrin wrote:

> Yesterday I rented the movie Pi, it's an independent film about a
> genius/insane number theorist.  There were some Jewish people in it who
> were trying to find a pattern in the Torah, and they said that each
> Hebrew letter was assigned a number, and that sometimes the words made
> equations, like this:
>
> the letters in father (or man, I don't remember) add up to   3
> + the letters in mother (or woman) add up to                41
> = the letters in child add up to                            44
>
> (3+41=44)
Here are some more (sorry if I'm stepping on your toes, Steg, but gematria
is one of my favorite things):

aheva "love" = 13
akhad "unity" = 13
13+13 = 26
YHVH "The unpronouncable name of god" = 26

Ruakh Elohim "The spirit of the divine" = 300
The letter shin = 300
(Shin, incidently, looks like three little flames)

hab hab! "give, give!" = 14
Davakh "to sacrifice" = 14
David "beloved, love" = 14

Vav "pin, nail" = 12
Khad "to penetrate, be sharp" = 12

An "pain" = 51
Na "failure" = 51
Havam " to annoy" = 51

Hilel "morning star" = 75
Lileh "night" = 75

There are many, many more (and many more than that that don't make any
sense at all, so don't get feelin' mystic)

BTW, I took most of these from either Godwin's cabalistic encyclopedia (in
which I took his transliterations exactly) or from Crowley'sSephir
Sephiorth, in which case I tried to figure out their *real*
transliterations and probably failed.

Yes, I know, both Godwin and Crowley are goyim.  So am I.  Still, it's
neat.