No. this is Gimatria, the Hebrew numbering system, actually an ancient
Greek invention. It is commonly used for dates, lists, chapter numbers
etc. .
See http://www.qsm.co.il/Hebrew/Gimatria.htm
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Cimarosti [mailto:marco.cimarosti@essetre.it]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:47 PM
> To: '????? ????'; rosenne@qsm.co.il
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: RE: Initials
>
>
> Rabbi Juuitchan wrote:
> > This is because it is easy to put vowels between the Hebrew
> > consonants, correct?
> >
> > I am thinking arithmetic and Japanese-style "goroawase" are
> > easy to do in Hebrew if you treat the consonants as digits
> > using the ancient system of writing numbers [...]
>
> Congratulations, you have just discovered Qabbala!
> :-)
>
> _ Marco
>
>
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