620 Letters Bring Balance

620 Letters Bring Balance to humanity by expressing the Ten Commandments. The Torah contains 613 commandments. Sages added seven to make 620.

Bamidbar Rabbah 13:16 states these correspond to the 613 mitzvos plus 7 rabbinic precepts (or the 7 Noachide laws).

620 Letters Bring Balance. In one word and one commandment, balance expresses the essence of cosmic law. What figures hold or contain balance? Five solids popularly called the Platonic Solids. Here is where we can look and find this esoteric number of 620.

Prominent numbers, in terms of typology, include 14, 26, 26, 62, and 62. How’s that? A tetrahedron contains 4 faces, 6 edges and 4 corners. Looking at the cube we see 6 faces, 8 corners and 12 edges. An octahedron reverses the numbers of corners and faces so we have 6 corners, 8 faces and the edge number is the same as the cube, 12. Our dodecahedron and icosahedron do the same reversal between them. Dodecahedrons hold 12 faces, 30 edges and 20 corners. The dual icosahedron to the dodecahedron maintains 20 faces, 12 corners, and 30 edges. This the cube and octahedron share 26 topological features; while the icosahedron and dodecahedron hold 62.

First of all, notice that 26 and 62 reverse their numbers. Second, in antiquity zero was not considered a real number; rather it was created by synthesizing two opposite numbers on the magic 3 x 3 number square for the purpose of balance: Any two opposite numbers on it total ten. Thus, we can see that the balance that 62 and its reverse of 26 brings to the Platonic solids, the 62 also applies to the total of 620 commandments mentioned in Bamidbar Rabbah 13:16. The number of letters in the entire torah also ties into this system which will be reserved for yet another post.

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