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  1. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    You've all put your case forward very well (especially rosends). I think there is enough doubt about the translation that I feature on the Shematria front page to justify its removal (done). Thank you for thrashing that out, and have a great day. :-)
  2. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    I thought it looked weird. That makes sense. Thanks for your help.
  3. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    Just Genesis 1:14-16(a). The verse falls under the Tav when the letters of the alephbet (set out in the priestly order) are corresponded to chapter 1-2. The gematria of 1:16 is converted to base 60 to further underline the point. "Mark" is from the original pictogram and the Paleohebrew X. The...
  4. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    Well the "gate" would refer to the letter Tav (which represents Time). Obviously you need Time when you're creating a world. Lets try another one. How would you read it in this context with the two alephs at either side of it? מרוחו וכל אות ו' קולו' כגון א קמן א פתח א צרי א שוא א שורק או הולם...
  5. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    Here's a link to: Steve's translation. He uses the term gate(s) a little further on in the text too: "Divide the gates by the name of Beth" and also: "Of Tau, the lives of the people [Thechiyieth Hamethiem] [are created]. Therefore, this is the gate to create the universe." A "gate" is a...
  6. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    It is, more rarely though, so I would expect that the word is used in the sense of a gate elsewhere in the text and that influenced the decision of the translator. He's as Jewish as you are btw. Born and raised in a Jewish household and educated appropriately so I am no more inclined to dismiss...
  7. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    One possible meaning of Patach is translated as "gate" by strongs concordance so it must have been used that way somewhere in the Tanakh (perhaps by Ezekiel - I recall seeing it before anyway). Steve was working from a Xerox copy the manuscript 25 years ago when there was no access to the same...
  8. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    With a bit of help from Steve, I actually found it myself on your link. He said it's after the heading (בראשית) where I originally said it should be: בראשית ברא אלהים פתח בכ. In the beginning created Elohim gates (by) twenty. He's translating פתח as "gate" and בכ as "20". Seems legit for...
  9. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    You have me very curious about the matter now so I have written to the translator to ask about the source of these lines. Thank you. He's accepted my friend request so I shall let you know what he says when he responds.
  10. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    I think this may be it. The annotation looks the same. Page 19 of the MS
  11. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    That's something I put in my books and blogs, not snippets in webpages. It wouldn't be really appropriate to go into a long talk about the details of the gates and palaces on that page. I'm trying to keep it focused on the gematria. It needs to be concise!
  12. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    Steve's translation is from a single text: the 1701 Hebrew Edition published in Amsterdam. The 1701 is a compilation of 5 texts, gathered together by its editor who transcribed the letters of the various manuscripts into one volume. The title page notes that the book was "Printed in the chosen...
  13. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    He does a lot more than that. :) Then check the first line of Book 2 (Part 3) 'בראשית'. It should be there. I'm sure they think they are. Ah, another assumption. You throw them like knives! I've been working with these ciphers for years. I only picked up a copy of Sepher Rezial a few months...
  14. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    And are they using it to compare the value of one word with another? And do they have to imagine a connection between words with a shared value? Yeah? No. That's numerology. A cover cipher is a cipher that one uses openly and has a public key. Usually when you see the greats using gematria they...
  15. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    Yes it is. I love those. And so often they have been crafted to reveal a little bit of wisdom too. In this case it appears to have been a comment on a disagreement between two schools on how the candles should be lit - counting down or counting up, and Hillel's school won the debate so now...
  16. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    Never heard of it. I take it that this is one of the many ciphers in the Talmud that are never or almost never used? I call those pseudo-ciphers. I don't use a cipher unless it has textual support (like the Torah) and is a fully fledged gematria system (rather than a numerology con). Nope...
  17. Bethsheba Ashe

    Torah Geometry for Hanukkah night 1

    I disagree. The gematria of Tav according to its placement in the priestly order of the alephbet is 20. In standard gematria it is 400, but the scribes of the Torah never used standard gematria. The gematria of the Torah counts shin as 3 (not 300) and tav as 4 (not 400). I wrote about the...
  18. Bethsheba Ashe

    Atheists: If God existed…

    Well if everyone and every living thing disappeared from the earth because (for instance) it had become uninhabitable due to climate change, then you would have a lot of souls who were unable to incarnate into life when they grew tired of quantum space. I think incarnation might be a form of...
  19. Bethsheba Ashe

    Atheists: If God existed…

    Thank you. I hope to do a book on the subject at some future time, in a fictional work ideally. I'm going to need a break from non-fiction after this year.
  20. Bethsheba Ashe

    The Hermeneutics of Aleister Crowley

    93, Yes, it was how he was able to synthesize so much. :-) 93 93/93.
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