Star of David

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 Face of the Other

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.