Temurah

Temurah This is one of the three ancient methods, the other two are gematria and Netrikon, used by the Kabbalists to rearrange words and sentences in the Bible to derive the esoteric substratum and deeper spiritual meaning of the words.

Temurah There are basically three forms of Temurah: "Atbash," in which the first letter is substituted for the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the second for the next-to-last, the third for the third-from-the-last, and so forth; ...

Temurah A form of Qabalistic Cryptology. The letters of Hebrew words are substituted for other letters in a variety of permutations. One use for Temurah may be that the encrypted word has associations in .

Two of these methods for mystical exegesis should be mentioned: Gematria and Temurah.

Under the general heading of Temurah several systems may be grouped and explained in which various letters are substituted for other letters according to prearranged tables or certain mathematical arrangements of letters, regular or irregular.

The revealed text was interpreted with the aid of various hermeneutic techniques. Of the many methods available, the Kabbalists most frequently used three forms of letter and number symbolism: gematria, notarikon, and temurah.

Its emphasis on the magical power of words fuelled the development of the Kabbalistic techniques of gematria (the study of the numerical values of letters and words), notarikon (the study of the first and last letters of words) and temurah (the ...

Assuming each of those letters represents the beginning of a separate word, we can expand it as follows: BrAShYTh RAH ALHYM ShYQBLV YShRAL TVRH, which means "In the beginning, God saw that Israel would accept the Torah." 3. Temurah ...

See also: Gematria, Mystic, Mysticism, Notarikon, Magic