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Old 04-11-2009, 04:46 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by burgundia View Post
exactly. I wrote a few words in Polish and it is so easy for me to understand...
Hello Burgandia, do you understand anything on this post.

This form of lettering and mathematics is known as Gematria.

Gemetria is numerology of the language and the alphabet, and is used by its proponents to derive meaning or relative relationship. Several forms can be identified:the "revealed" form and the "mystical form".

The word itself comes from the Greek word 'geometry. Although Hebrew Gematria is the best known now, Greek Gematria predates it by many centuries. There is also a Gematria of Latin-script languages, dating from the early Middle Ages, and very possibly back into Roman times, too. Recent times have also seen an emergence of new gematrias,such as the English version in the first post, which dates back to mideval times.

The most common form of gematria is used occasionally in the Talmud and Midrash and elaborately by many post-Talmudic commentators. It involves reading words and sentences as numbers, assigning numerical instead of phonetic value to each letter of the alphabet. When read as numbers, they can be compared and contrasted with other words

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