Affixer of Names

The writer Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Britain’s poet laureate on Friday, becoming the first woman to take a 341-year-old job that has been held by, among others, Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Cecil Day-Lewis and Ted Hughes.

The number 340 is gematria Sham/Name. It is considered by the cabalists the naming of a child is prophetic because it is through the name the soul enters into the body; no mater what the process the end is prophetic. It is why we instinctively call out a person’s name trying the revive those passed out. It was customary from the very beginning of the Jewish People for the women to name the children because the women had the power of prophesy more than the men.

It is stated in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor that all the words in the Torah/Teaching are Names of God. The original poet of the Jewish People was Dovid the first king in the line to Moshiach; he was the poet-king who played on his harp melodies and songs to God.

Having a woman take such a coveted position in the naming of names–bringing spirit into the world could only bode well for the world as we finish the 6000 years of man and enter into the thousand years of woman and of peace.