Monday, April 17, 2017

Building תצ״ט ופלגא - Continued

The following quote is from Sefer Ilan by the Ramchal.  Chapter 5, section 5.

בנינו של פרצוף בכ״ב אותיות.  כ״ב אותיות לנו קבע מזעיר אנפין נכללים ביסודה, ומנצפ״ך גבורות, מ״ן בתוכם.

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Building תצ״ט ופלגא

In Yahel Ohr, at the end of Parshat VaEra the GR"A brings an explanation as to how it is built.  He credits the sefer Ginat HaEgoz.


If you add the gematria of all the Hebrew letters up until צ, we get to 495.


That is to say

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 20 + 30 + 40 + 50 + 60 + 70 + 80 + 90 = 495


Then we are left with the last four letters of the aleph-bet.


100 + 200 + 300 + 400 = 1000


Elef is then counted as Alef, as one.


495 + 1 = 496


And then we add the sofit letters:


ך = 500

ם = 600

ן = 700

ף = 800

ץ = 900


Therefore:


500 + 600 + 700 + 800 + 900 = 3500


By the same principle, we divide this by 1000.


3500 / 1000 = 3.5.


496 + 3.5 = 499.5