ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) (11/02/85)
In article <3780102@csd2.UUCP> meth@csd2.UUCP (Asher Meth) writes: > >I heard an interesting thought from Rabbi Yitchak Cohen (a 9th grade rebbi, >teacher, at Yeshiva University High School, NYC). > >In the "Veyeeten Lecha" passages said at the conclusion of Shabbos, the last >section begins with a passage in the name of Rabbi Yochanan (quoted from the >Talmud, Megillah 31a) : Rabbi Yochanan says, Any place that you find the >greatness of HaShem, you will find His humility. > >Rabbi Cohen quoted an explanation that interprets the passage as follows. Take >the "gematriyah" (numerical equivalent) of the name of HaShem, ... >... The gematriyah, sum of all the letters, is 26. Now take the "mispar >kattan" - small counting - of this sum; i.e., keep taking the sum of the digits >until the result is less than 10. For 26 the result is 8. >... >Take multiples of this numerical value 26, and compute their "mispar kattan" >values. We arrive at the following table : > ># x 26 "mispar kattan" >=========================== >1 26 8 >2 52 7 >3 78 6 ( 15 becomes 6 ) >4 104 5 >5 130 4 >6 156 3 ( 12 becomes 3 ) >7 182 2 >8 208 1 ( 10 becomes 1 ) > >WOW !! Look at this relationship ! >The greater we multiply the name of HaShem, the smaller the "result" becomes. >This is what Rabbi Yochanan was saying - the greater the name of HaShem, the >more humility is expressed. > >Asher Meth ....... meth@nyu-csd2.arpa ....... allegra!cmcl2!csd2!meth You've heard of "computer literacy"--here's a good case to encourage mathema- tical literacy. If you use ANY number with a digital root of 8 (i.e., a remainder of 8 when divided by 9) you'll get the SAME relationship. There's nothing mystical about it. Furthermore, when you get to 9 times, it starts at 9 again, going through 8,7,6.... Also try a number with a digital root of 7--it goes twice as fast: 7,5,3,1. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'. Kenneth Arromdee BITNET: G46I4701 at JHUVM and INS_AKAA at JHUVMS CSNET: ins_akaa@jhunix.CSNET ARPA: ins_akaa%jhunix@hopkins.ARPA UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa