Lunar Shema draws directly on the 9 x 9 magic square through number forty-one!
In Hebrew letters and numbers share the same symbol. Number one and “A” in Hebrew uses aleph for depicted immediately below for both.
English, by contrast, uses “A” for the first letter and “1” for the first number. The 1st word of the Shema (שְׁמַע) uses three letters being shin, (letters read right to left) mem and ayin. Shin also connotes three hundred; mem represents forty, while ayin is seventy. Added together we arrive at 410 as 300 + 40 + 70 = 410. So where is our lunar forty-one? Since ancients did not utilize zero as a real number, rather as synthetic (combining two opposite numbers on the 3 x 3 or prime magic square), 410 in real numbers becomes 41. https://www.innertraditions.com/author/john-michell/
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