<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Baker</b> <<a href="mailto:jjbaker@panix.com">jjbaker@panix.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>The structure of the act copies the structure of that which is symbolized.<br><br>So too here: Ana Bekoach was constructed to correspond to the name of 42,<br>with the acrostic Kroa Satan, etc. But the 42 stages long predate any
<br>of our kabbalistic concepts, by at least a thousand years. Where's the<br>connection? Otherwise, it seems too much like empty symbolism.<br><br>--<br> name: jon baker <br></blockquote><br>I don't know if I am agreeing with JJB or disagreeing....
<br>FWIW Rav Mordechia Aderet suggested the following in a leture:l <br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
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secret [sod] of the AnaBbeko'ach is the abbreviations [i.e. the 42 letters]
And that the words used is a back formation added on later [attributed to R.
Nehunyah ben Hakena] which made a prayer [i.e.post facto] - using the rosheie Teivos of thosel 42 letters. <br>
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</blockquote><div>Or iow the 42 is NOT derived from the ana bekoach, rather the 42 letters came FIRST and give ntehose 42 the ana beko'ach was formed later..<br><br>I hope this helps<br> </div><br><div><br> </div><br>
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