Judaism
Gematria
Gematria is a Jewish system, emerging in the Second Temple period (3rd century BCE onward), of assigning numerical values to Hebrew letters and words; used in rabbinic literature and Kabbalistic texts such as the Zohar as a method of textual interpretation, with the number 18 (chai, "life") considered especially auspicious.
Citation
Scholem, Gershom. "Kabbalah." Meridian, 1974.
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