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.

The Bigger Apple

Apple Inc.'s second quarter net income of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 a share, compared to $1.05 billion, or $1.16 a share posting revenue of $8.16 billion, up from $7.51 billion in the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 2.22 million Macintosh computers the company sold 11.01 million iPods during the quarter, iPhone units sold were 3.79 million, a 123 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

Numbers only have meaning when related to words; in Hebrew each letter has an accompanied number so each word has a sum—called gematria. Numbers are indicators that by themselves mean nothing. Even those things which exist beyond the scope of numbers are only a fraction of creation.

The apple which is famous for the creation story has the Name of God implicit within its form through the intertwining of the Y/10, H/5, V/6, H/5, in the form of ten seeds in five pockets, a stem which looks like a Vav and five petal flower on the bottom of the apple representing the final Hey/5.

The YHVH, the Four Letter Name of God is the first representation of the Creator wanting to express kindness in the world, according to the Midrash-Book of Metaphor.

It’s in the Numbers

President Obama traveled to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to lobby Democratic lawmakers on his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, ahead of votes in the House and Senate this week.

Thirty-six is a seminal number in Cabala which makes a science out of the interchange between numbers and letters. For example, 36 is twice 18-Chai/Life and twice 36 is 72 known as AB the highest number directly related to God’s Name YHVH. Each letter of the YHVH is giver of life and when combined together gives life to the four different forms of existence: inanimate, growing, animal and human who live within the four elements of fire, air, water and earth in the four directions upon the earth.

During these unsettled days it is appropriate to look for some sort of heavenly indication, a Simon Tov/Good Sign, for reassurance. In the Book of Esther which records the end of the first exile—the king says I will give to you up to half the kingdom. Thirty-six is half seventy-two.