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Interesting.The Torah ( תוֹרה ), which means "Instructions", and not law, consists of:
commandments ( mitz-voh-tav מִצְו[bless and do not curse]ֹתָו ),
statutes ( chu-keem חֻקִּים ),
and judgments ( mish-pah-teem מִּשְׁפָּטִים )
These Instructions have been given by our Creator Redeemer to teach us HOW to walk with Him in righteousness and HOW to love Him (Deut 6:4-9) and how to love our neighbor (Lev 19:18).
In Biblical Hebrew, we use the alphabet as numbers, to count, since there are no separate characters as we have in English, like 1, 2, 3, etc.
So each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet has a numerical value.
Thus, when we look at a word in Hebrew, and assign the numerical value for the letters in that word, we are calculating what is called the Gematria ( numerical value ) of that word.This is NOT to be confused with numerology, which is the perversion of what YHWH יְהוָה ELohim אֱלֹהִים has designed in the Creation of His Hebrew alphabet.
Now lets consider the Hebrew word Torah ( תוֹרה ) itself.
It consists of the four letters:
Tav ( ת ) Value = 400
Vav (w) ( וֹ ) Value = 6
Raish ( ר ) Value = 200
Hey ( ה ) Value = 5
So the Gematria ( numerical value ) of the word Torah ( תוֹרה ) is: 400 + 6 + 200 + 5 = 611.
Are we missing something? We think so.
When we put the letter Bet ( בּ ) [ value = 2 ] in front of Torah ( תוֹרה ), we make the phrase: IN the Torah ( Ba-Torah בּתוֹרה ) The Gematria ( numerical value ) is now: 611 + 2 = 613
So IN the Torah ( Ba-Torah בּתוֹרה ) we habe the Value = 613
And IN the Torah, there happens to be 613 commandments.
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