“… Before Him, a great and powerful wind tore through the mountains and shattered the rocks, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind, an earthquake; the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake, a fire; the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, a gentle and subtle whisper.”
(Kings I 19:11-12)
“Kol Demama Daka” (“Gentle and Subtle Whisper”)
קוֹל דְּמָמָה דַקָּה
Ordinal Gematria = 100
= the gematria of “Lech Lecha” (“Go to yourself,” see Genesis 12:1)
לך לך
Listen to the gentle and subtle whisper. Hear the small voice urging you to go toward yourself.
#InnerVoice #InnerPath
The method of gematria known as Mispar Boneh (or Rivua) involves summing the progressive values of each letter in a word (see Torat Menachem, Tiferet Levi Yitzchak, Bereshit, p.2).
“Kol Katan” (“Small Voice”)
קול קטן
Gematria Mispar Boneh =
100 + (100+6) + (100+6+30) + (100+6+30+100) + (100+6+30+100+9) + (100+6+30+100+9+50)
= 1118
= the gematria of the Shema Israel:
“Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is One!”
(Deuteronomy 6:4)
שְׁמַע, יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ, יְהוָה אֶחָד
Listen to the small voice.
Stop following the crowd. Go toward yourself. Take the narrow path—the Shem Un (Name One).
“Shem Un” IN French is pronunced like “Chemin” (“Path”). “Path” is also “Voie” in French, and is pronunced like “Voix” (“Voice”).
שם1
“There are two audible voices and two inaudible voices. Of the inaudible voices, one is the supreme wisdom enclosed, which resides in thought and neither reveals itself nor is heard. The other is formed when a tiny portion of the first emerges and reveals itself as a muted whisper. This is called the great voice. It is tiny and emerges in a murmur. As for the two audible voices, they arise from this murmur: they are the voice of Jacob and the speech that accompanies it. The great voice, the unheard whisper, is the house of supreme wisdom—just as the feminine aspect is called a house. Similarly, the speech mentioned earlier serves as the house for the voice of Jacob, which is the Torah. Thus, the Torah resides within the Beit (the house), the house of beginnings (Beit Reshit = Bereshit).”
(Zohar, Bereshit 50b)
“Wisdom” is called “Sophia” in Greek (Σοφíα).
Sophia
סופיה
Ordinal Gematria = 53
= the ordinal gematria of “Torah”
תורה
The Divine manifests in smallness in this world: the Shechina, the Divine Presence, is like a “little girl,” not like a “great man”.
God becomes “micro” to amplify His voice.
#Sophia #Migdal #Bat #Kol