BE Chap 14. misc.

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks: " A well-known short example of Hebrew numerology that uses a
gematria cipher is the word חי *chai
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_(symbol)>*(lit. "alive"), which is
composed of two letters that (using the assignments in the *Mispar gadol* table
shown below) add up to 18. This has made 18 a "lucky number
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck#Numerology>" among the Jewish people.
Donations of money in multiples of 18 are very popular.[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria#cite_note-3>"

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 7:56 AM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>
wrote:

> For those too lazy to Google, I'm sorry, I wanted to include these links
> in my summary and forgot:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
>
> https://www.gematrix.org
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notarikon
>
> One of my friends is a rabbi—a delightfully eccentric fellow, used to
> write the comic "Moon Knight"—and he once told me gematria is "Jewish
> Scrabble for Mystics." That's always stuck with me. (He's also one of the
> few people I know who read "Finnegans Wake" from cover to cover, and he
> adores Wagner.)
>
> —Quail
>
>
> On 1/19/22, 5:26 AM, "Pynchon-l on behalf of Mark Kohut" <
> pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org on behalf of mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     The basic Jewish Code is the Torah, the five written books [The
> Pentateuch]
>     from Moses. ---New Jewish Encyclopedia
>
>     BUT there is this from a book on Jewishness in society: There is
> another
>     Jewish code in which something is Jewish enough to be recognized by
>     non-Jewish Americans but not too Jewish as to be recognizable only to
> Jews.
>     Fiddler on the roof being the example of the former.
>
>     On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 4:56 AM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     > Jewish Code? Like in the film Pi?
>     >
>     > On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>     >
>     >> NYC, the international city. Another country of folk appear.
>     >> More ethnic stereotyping played with.
>     >> Secret bandwidth accumulation. Why?
>     >>
>     >> wonderful riff on "Volare"....Maxine's?
>     >>
>     >> ..give in multiples of 18......"Jewish code? 18 computes to *chai
> *or
>     >> life."
>     >> "Same thing with pussy!"....    VERY NICE, I say.....
>     >>
>     >> 18 always reminds me of *Catch-22, *of which the working title was
>     >> *Catch-18*
>     >> until cataloging time when S & S discovered Leon Uris's* Mila 18*
> was
>     >> coming out earlier.
>     >> (was he doing "Jewish code" with that title?)
>     >>
>     >> Lester's look: on borrowed time....a heavy vanishes halfway down the
>     >> block.
>     >> Leaving an empty orchestra playing to an empty room in
>     >> Lucky 18......
>     >>
>     >> Premonition and more 'ghosts'.....
>     >> --
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