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Star of David

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In Psalm 89:36-37, we see that the moon is « the faithful witness » in heaven. These verses explain God’s covenant with King David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

“And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.” (Genesis 35:10 KJV)

The word Israel (ישראל) has a value of 541.
ישראל = י<10> + ש<300> + ר<200> + א<1> + ל<30> = 541 (Mispar Hechrachi)

Number 541 is the 100th prime number.

In Psalms 84:11 we read that « For the LORD God is a sun and shield », that the Almighty is a sun and shield, he is true light and if we see God (the Sun) giving his light to the moon, about 12% of it gets reflected back (the moon’s geometric albedo). This low reflectivity gives what we consider moonlight.
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/plane…/factsheet/moonfact.html

Albedo has to do with with the ratio of how much light is reflected back.

If we look at the earth-moon distance it is about 108 times the diameter of the Moon.
Similarly we have the sun’s diameter roughly 108 times farther than the earth which give us an interesting perception where the moon and the sun look about the same size.

This 108 is very symbolic, since also the Star of David, a hexagram of a value of 541, has a perimeter of 108 which reflects God’s light with its albedo of the 12 tribes of Israel.

The word Israel = 541 has 108 perimeter labels

Life (חי) = 18
108 = 18 * 6

Also if you draw the Star of Israel as a Hexagonal Flower Tesselation you will see
73 centers (the heart of each flower) – which reminds us of Wisdom [Chokmah (חכמה) = 73]
360 white petals surrounding each center – the full circle
108 spaces/void between flowers – the perimeter of the star

“22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.”
(Proverbs 8:22-31)

Similarly the ordinal value for the word Israel is number 64. The word truth in Greek is αληθεια (John 1:17) and its isopsephy equals 64

αληθεια = α<1> + λ<30> + η<8> + θ<9> + ε<5> + ι<10> + α<1> = 64 (Greek Isopsephy)
“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17)

The Star of David (541) has exactly 37 rows. Number 37 is also a centered dodecagonal number (https://oeis.org/A003154) and if you place the first 37 prime numbers in this star and you sum the six corners you will get the value of 441.

The word for truth in Hebrew is Emet (אמת=441). The letters Aleph (א), Mem (מ) dhe Tav (ת) are the first, middle and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This means that truth is never just a fragment in time (past, present, future), but it is a continuum.
Similarly in Greek the word for truth is ἀλήθεια (aletheia). The prefix “ἀ”, means “not,” and “λήθη” means concealment, in short it means something that is not hidden.
The moment you remove the Aleph (א) from the word אמת it becomes מת or death.
The letter Aleph a representative of אין סוף (Ein Sof – without end) can be visualized as a Yod (י) in the upper part of the Aleph, plus a Yod (י) in the lower part, plus a Vav (ו) which is the diagonal strike that connects the two dots of the aleph.
This gives us Yod (10 – י) + Yod (10 – י) + Vav (6= ו) = 26.
This is significant because the Tetragrammaton equals 26.
Without God (Aleph א) we are truly dead מת

The Place/The Center

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If you take each letter’s gematria value of יהוה (mispar hechrachi) and square them and then in the end you sum the squares, the value is 186. Squaring each letter individually and then summing them up is called Mispar ha-Meruba ha-Prati (מִסְפָּר הַמְּרוּבָּע הַפְּרָטִי).

Number 186 is an interesting number in terms of the place/location.
The word Makom (186) in Hebrew means place.

“Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off” (Genesis 22:4 KJV)
“And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:” (Exodus 33:21)

Another interesting thing is that the number 186 is the gematria of the word קוֹף (Qof).

The Hebrew letter ק (Qof) has a gematria value of 100.

Also Israel’s value of 541 is the 100th prime number.


Now we know that the speed of light is approximately 186,000 miles per second.
186 *1000
“I am the light of the world” – John 8:12
186 miles per hour is approximately 300 kilometers per hour, a representative of the letter Shin (ש) where we have the word אֵשׂ (fire).

In Midrash Bereishit Rabbah 68:9* “God is the place of the world” signifying his omnipresence.
“the Holy One blessed be He is the place of the world, and His world is not His place.”
God is not limited to a specific location, he can be found anywhere and the place becomes sacred.

“And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.” (Exodus 3:5 KJV)

Mircea Eliade touches on the concept of the Sacred and the Profane. The holy place is a place of the presence of God, a place of order out of the chaos of the profane world.
And at this sacred place we find the center of the world.

This sacred place is the Axis Mundi an archetype that connects God and humans, heaven and earth.

“The CENTER, then, is pre-eminently the zone of the sacred, the zone of absolute reality.”**

If we look at two words Makom and Golgotha they have the same numerical value of 186.
Note: The word Golgotha (Matthew 27:33), or “the place of the Skull” where Christ was crucified is also known as Calvary, a name from Latin word “calvaria” meaning “skull”.

The 186th verse in the Bible is Exodus 10:3.

The 186th prime number is 1109. Interestingly 11/09 (November 9) is the 314th day of the leap year.

The place of profane, a hill of executions now became a sacred place because of the Christ’s crucifixion.

*https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.68.9?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
**The Myth of the Eternal Return Cosmos and History, Mircea Eliade, Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 17.

Seven curiosities on pi (π)

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  1. The keyboard shortcut for the letter pi is ALT-227.
    If you take these digits (227) and interpret them as the fraction 22/7, you will get the approximation for π (3.14285714286).
  2. In Hebrew, if you take the first letter of each word in Genesis 1:1 and sum them up and divide by the count of word you will get approximately the number pi.
    • ב = 2
    • ב = 2
    • א = 1
    • א = 1
    • ה = 5
    • ו = 6
    • ה = 5
    • Total is 2+2+1+1+5+6+5 = 22
    • There are 7 words in the verse
    • בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ׃
    • Then we divide 22/7 and we get 3.14285714286
  3. The first word in the New Testament (Matthew 1:1) is Βίβλος. In Greek Isopsephy it equals 314.
  1. In English ordinal (A=1; B=2…Z=26), if you take the words
    “Twenty two divided by seven” you will get the value of 314
    20 + 23 + 5 + 14 + 20 + 25 + 20 + 23 + 15 + 4 + 9 + 22 + 9 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 25 + 19 + 5 + 22 + 5 + 14 = 314
  1. The sum of the first letters of the first five books of the Bible (Torah) is 314.
    First five books of the Bible (בשובד = 2+300+6+2+4 equal 314)

Bereshit (בראשית – Genesis)
Shemot (שמות – Exodus)
Vayikra (ויקרא – Leviticus)
Bemidbar (במדבר – Numbers)
Devarim (דברים – Deuteronomy)

5. Pi (π) is the 16th Greek Letter. In Greek Isopsephy its value is 80. If you sum up all the digits of pi (π) starting from position 16 to position 80, the sum is 314.

6. Exodus 3:14 is the famous verse on the name of the LORD.
“”And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” (Exodus 3:14)
The phrase “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM” in English Ordinal equals 314

7. The phrase “Zero One Two Three Four Five” equals 314 in English Ordinal. If you look in the Pi-Search page https://www.angio.net/pi/ for the string 012345, it occurs at position 447855. If you perform the sum of digits (4+4+7+8+5+5=33) it corresponds to Christ’s earthly ministry (33 years).

Angels and Demons

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The famous print of Maurits Cornelis Escher on angels and demons is called Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell). Escher was a Dutch graphic artist known for displaying objects and touching the perception of space, reality and infinity. An example is the image of angels and demons, where the white angels represent light and goodness and the demons represent the opposite (darkness and evil). While keeping this image in our minds let’s analyze something interesting.

One of the mysterious and debatable numbers in Christianity is 666 because of its verse in the book of Revelation 13:18.

In Greek Isopsephy, number 888 is the number of Christ (Ιησους) and in Standard Hebrew (Mispar Hechrachi) in Malachi 3:6 it is the sum of the Hebrew phrase “I am the LORD, I change not – אני יהוה לא שניתי”

Number 1110 (the blood of Jesus – τὸ αἷμα Ἰησοῦ from 1 John 1:7).

In geometry the connection between 666 and 888 is given by the Pythagorean theorem.

What does this mean? Is there a connection between 888 (light) and 666 (darkness)?

In modern times, if you ever go to a Casino, the roulette wheel has at least the numbers from 1 to 36 and the 36th triangular number is number 666. The magic square of the sun has a sum of 666 as well.

The usage of gematria is known since antiquity and actually the name of Nero (Neron Kaiser), a cruel and depraved individual, one who even killed his own mother adds up to 666.

“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ” (Revelation 13:18)

If reading the above verse carefully it asks you to “count the number”. In Greek this number is presented with three letters Chi (χ), Xi (ξ), Stigma(ϛ) which add up in Greek Isopsephy to 666.

If we view these three letters in angle -180 we will notice a strange symbol. This symbol is one of the preferred activities of humankind in reproducing themselves. People are lifeforms with carbon base. In fact the isotope of Carbon (Carbon-12) has 6 electrons, 6 protons and 6 neutrons.

One might ask, is the number 666 always a negative number?

Isaiah 53, a messianic chapter of Jesus actually has 666 letters.

The phrase “Herein is love” at 1 John 4:10 or the phrase “And this is love” at 2 John 1:6 in Greek are ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη which have an isopsephy of 666.

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1 John 4:10)

“And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.” (2 John 1:6)

Is this just a “Coincidentia oppositorum” (a coincidence of the opposites)? How can this be possible?

Going back to Escher’s painting you will see that both the angels and demons co-exist. In Greek the word φάρμακον (pharmakon) is an example of polysemy (words that have several meanings) and enantiodromia (where things have a tendency to change into their opposites). As an example, the word pharmakon can describe remedy or medicine to cure someone and in another sense it can be a poison.

It reminds of Rumi’s poem

“In (the realm of) Time there is no poison or sugar that is not a foot (support) to one and a fetter (injury) to another—
To one a foot, to another a fetter; to one a poison and to another (sweet and wholesome) like sugar.
Snake-poison is life to the snake, (but) it is death in relation to man.
The sea is as a garden to the water-creatures; to the creatures of earth it is death and a (painful) brand.”

The Face of the Other

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The famous story in Exodus of Moses’ encounter with God, but can’t see the face of God and only his back is very meaningful and studied. Since God is divine and transcends time and space and our dimensions it makes sense that no one can see the face of God and live. (Exodus 33:23).

He is the Most High God עליון (Most High – Psalm 7:17), very powerful פני יהוה (The face of the LORD – Psalm 34:16 KJV) and who sees everything עיני יהוה (The eyes of the LORD – Proverbs 15:3 KJV).

In his book “Totality and Infinity” Levinas* touches on the concept on the face of the other. It is precisely this encounter phenomena that he analyzes. It is the meetup where you face the Other, and the Other is present, is there, is alive and their face speaks even if words are not spoken and as Levinas states “…The manifestation of the face is already discourse”
When we see the Other, we dethrone the “I”, our ego and we are obligated to act ethically.

“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity.”
(Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 51)

“The face is a living presence; it is expression. The life of expression consists in undoing the form in which the existent, exposed as a theme, is thereby dissimulated. The face speaks. The manifestation of the face is already discourse.”
(Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 66)

Jesus’ commandment to love “the other” our brother/sister is for eternity. It is a commandment that we must follow. It obligates us to look at our brother/sister (the Other) and love them because to love is divine.

“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.” (1 John 4:20-21)

God is infinite and his love is beyond our imagination. It is not a surprise that love of your neighbour is mandatory if you claim to love God (Matthew 22:37-40).

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

Simone Weil** a philosopher and mystic wrote on the topic of the forms of the implicit love of God that we imitate the divine love when loving our neighbour. In fact the name of Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς (Jesus Christ) and the phrase (αγαπα και τον αδελφον αυτου – love his brother also) in 1 John 4:21 have the same value of 2368. It is a movement of infinite (∞) love.

Although man was created in the image of God (בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹהִ֖ים – bə·ṣe·lem ĕ·lō·hîm – Genesis 1:26-27), it is only through the true mediator Christ (1 Timothy 2:5), who is the perfect image of God (εἰκὼν τοῦ Θεοῦ – eikōn tou Theou – Colossians 1:15) where we have salvation.

“Through love of neighbour, we imitate the divine love that created us and our fellows. Through love of the order of the world, we imitate the divine love that created this universe of which we are a part.”
(Weil, Awaiting God, 62)

References:
*Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969
**Weil, Simone. Awaiting God: A New Translation of Attente de Dieu and Lettre à un Religieux. Translated by Brad Jersak. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.