[Avodah] Virtual Glyph Theory

[Zev Sero]

Jay F Shachter wrote:
> Our sages have taught us (Palestinian Talmud, Tractate
> Sanhedrin, Chapter 9, Halakha 6)

Are you sure you got that reference right?  I don't see it there.  

Rashi on the Chumash (17:5) gives a different conservation law:
the yud from Sarai did not split, but was transferred entire into
Hoshea, transforming him into Yehoshua.  The two heis that were
attracted to Avraham and Sarah came from elsewhere; it seems that
glyphs can be created but not destroyed.


> Apparently, the law of conservation of gematria can be violated for
> short periods of time.

Not necessarily such short periods.  Yaakov was long before Eliyahu,
and yet he captured five vavs from him.  (Rashi Vayikra 26:42)

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