[Mesorah] interesting type of g'matriya

[Michael Hamm]

Hi, all,

Perhaps most of you know this already and I am just catching up, but I
thought I'd point out an interesting type of g'matriya that I'd never seen
before recently.  Sifse Chachamim on D'varim 1:5 writes that "baer hetev"
implies "in seventy languages" because "hetev" expands to seventy in
g'matriya:
he             =  5
he yod         = 15
he yod tes     = 24
he yod tes ves = 26
total          = 70

Best,

Michael Hamm
AM, Math, Wash. U. St. Louis
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