Tonight I was chatting with my friend Lior and she says the Hebrew for "Blessed Be" said by Israeli Pagans is היי ברוכה hayi b'rukhah. The first thing I noticed was the feminine word for 'blessed' in Hebrew, b'rukhah, is a homonym of the Spanish word for 'witch', brujaThen I remembered my Arabic translation of "blessed be" which is literally مباركة ( Read more... )

One classic activity of Kabbalists is to permutate the letters of the Tetragrammaton. For example, starting with YHVH the series can run: YHVH VHYH HYHV HVHY, etc., until you list all possible combinations ( Read more... )

Ever since I was a kid, 47 has been my favorite number. When I was 9, I saw Jim Henson's first feature production, a surreal TV drama titled The Cube. A hammer is thrown through a wall, making a jagged hole. Behind it is seen only blackness with sparks of light flying about. It turns out to be a #47 hole, so a patch already exists that fits it ( Read more... )