Mispar Katan Mispari
The Hebrew Alphabet has 22 letters.
When we write numbers in English, we have the choice of writing a number either by writing-out the word - (ex. "one") or using an Arabic numerals (Ex. "1")
In modern times, Arabic number are often used to represent numbers when writing Hebrew. In ancient times, however, Hebrew letters had the role of being used to represent numbers as well.
Gematria is the "traditional Jewish system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase", usually using the Hebrew number system, in order to derive meaning from similar-numbered words/phrases.
Gematria has several methods of deriving a number from any set of words.
One day, I accidentally discovered on of them - although I wasn't working with letters.
I was using the triangular numbers.
I was writing down the sequence down when I noticed something out of the corner of my eyes.
Why the number 253 is a significant number:
The final tetrahedron shown above has 22 layers.
The traditional Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters.
253 is the number of spheres in a regular 22 layer tetrahedron.
The number 253, when condensed Gematria-style, equals the number one. One is the number of leadership and the the number of the God-head.
22, this unlikely number that is not a multiple of 10, 5 or any other obviously related number to any power of 10, has another, "secret" value of "1".
When we write numbers in English, we have the choice of writing a number either by writing-out the word - (ex. "one") or using an Arabic numerals (Ex. "1")
In modern times, Arabic number are often used to represent numbers when writing Hebrew. In ancient times, however, Hebrew letters had the role of being used to represent numbers as well.
Gematria is the "traditional Jewish system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase", usually using the Hebrew number system, in order to derive meaning from similar-numbered words/phrases.
Gematria has several methods of deriving a number from any set of words.
One day, I accidentally discovered on of them - although I wasn't working with letters.
I was using the triangular numbers.
I was writing down the sequence down when I noticed something out of the corner of my eyes.
1 3 6 10 15
21 28 36
45 55 66 78 91 105...
The larger digits on the other side of ten were looking much like the numbers on the lesser side of ten.
So I began adding the digits together as if they were single digits.
The method above for condensing numbers, at least for gematria, is called maispar katan mispari - adding the numbers in each place together as if they were "1's" values, until the sum is a single digit.
In reality, I did this number sequence up to triangular level #40, and the pattern continued, and even beyond that.
If you have a spreadsheet program such as Excel, you can look at this sequence yourself easily.
Below are the instructions for making Excel do the math for you:
The final tetrahedron shown above has 22 layers.
The traditional Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters.
#
Layer in tetrahedron
|
Added
number of circles/
spheres needed in new line to create triangular numbers |
Number
of circle/spheres per
equilateral
triangle
(Triangular
number)
|
Mispar Katan Mispari:
Divide
each digit by its place value and add the numbers together
|
Sum
of triangular numbers, condensed into mispar
katan misparim values.
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
[0
+] 1
|
1
|
2
|
1
+ 2
|
3
|
[0
+] 3
|
3
|
3
|
3
+ 3
|
6
|
[0
+] 6
|
6
|
4
|
6
+ 4
|
10
|
1
+ 0
|
1
|
5
|
10
+ 5
|
15
|
1
+ 5
|
6
|
6
|
15
+6
|
21
|
2
+ 1
|
3
|
7
|
21
+ 7
|
28
|
2
+ 8
|
1
|
8
|
28
+8
|
36
|
3
+ 6
|
9
|
9
|
36
+ 9
|
45
|
4
+ 5
|
9
|
10
|
45
+ 10
|
55
|
5
+ 5
|
1
|
11
|
55
+ 11
|
66
|
6
+ 6
|
3
|
12
|
66
+ 12
|
78
|
7
+ 8
|
6
|
13
|
78
+ 13
|
91
|
9
+ 1
|
1
|
14
|
91
+ 14
|
105
|
1
+ 0 + 5
|
6
|
15
|
105
+ 15
|
120
|
1
+ 2 + 0
|
3
|
16
|
120
+ 16
|
136
|
1
+ 3 + 6
|
1
|
17
|
136
+ 17
|
153
|
1
+ 5 + 3
|
9
|
18
|
153
+ 18
|
171
|
1
+ 7 + 1
|
9
|
19
|
171
+ 19
|
190
|
1
+ 9 + 0
|
1
|
20
|
190
+ 20
|
210
|
2
+ 1 + 0
|
3
|
21
|
210
+ 21
|
231
|
2
+ 3 + 1
|
6
|
22
|
231
+ 22
|
253
|
2
+ 5 + 3
|
1
|
253 is the number of spheres in a regular 22 layer tetrahedron.
The number 253, when condensed Gematria-style, equals the number one. One is the number of leadership and the the number of the God-head.
22, this unlikely number that is not a multiple of 10, 5 or any other obviously related number to any power of 10, has another, "secret" value of "1".
*minus the sofit... ignore that if you don't know what it is...
