Comments on Bad Hebrew Tattoos: Beware of Spiritual Gematria Gibberish

if you read it top to bottom, right to left, it sp...

2011-12-23T14:49:34.412+02:00

if you read it top to bottom, right to left, it spells משתטא, which means "fooling around" as in being an idiot. i don't think that's what he had in mind, but maybe the tattoo artist did...

Gematria can yield some surprising connections, bu...

2011-07-07T03:03:52.105+03:00

Gematria can yield some surprising connections, but should always be taken with a grain of salt. That is to say, YMMV.

"Gematria is endlessly fascinating - if you a...

2011-06-29T03:33:42.545+03:00

"Gematria is endlessly fascinating - if you are bored/uninterested by math and/or orthodox-Kabbalah then it would not likely be interesting to you but that is no reason to chime in the passed-judgment remark, many mathematicians love it"

"interested by math" like how republicans are "interested in climate science" I suppose.

Gematria is not at all absurd, this person may be ...

2011-03-22T10:17:50.933+02:00

Gematria is not at all absurd, this person may be absurd with such a tattoo, but Gematria is endlessly fascinating - if you are bored/uninterested by math and/or orthodox-Kabbalah then it would not likely be interesting to you but that is no reason to chime in the passed-judgment remark, many mathematicians love it and it goes a lot deeper than just arithmetic based on letter values, that is like judging literature as a topic when you have only read kindergarten books.

שתט is 300+400+9=709 מתא is 40+400+1=441 i hardly...

2011-03-16T00:31:18.299+02:00

שתט
is 300+400+9=709
מתא
is 40+400+1=441

i hardly see how they were supposed to match in gematria.
and just to show you how absurd a practice gematria is...

the word מתא
which can also be twisted around to spell
אמת
which means "thruth" and is a word with a kabalistic significance,but in gematria it also equals:
אכל שמן
which means "ate oil" just some absurd example i came up with to show how gematria is BS.
=]

other gematria for 709:

If you mean the 72 names of God from the Kabballah - this tattoo doesn't use any of them.

Actually this one is a Kamea found in Sefer Shorsh...

2010-04-11T14:23:22.319+03:00

Actually this one is a Kamea found in Sefer Shorshei HaShemot. I think this one is actually right.

The Palin thing was a JOKE. HUMOR. HA HA. Shin Ta...

2010-02-26T08:49:35.462+02:00

The Palin thing was a JOKE. HUMOR. HA HA.

Shin Tav Tet = 709
Mem Tav Alef = 441
All together = 750???!?!?!

Ha. I also first read it as 'Dish-rag' wit...

2010-01-27T23:20:42.838+02:00

Ha. I also first read it as 'Dish-rag' with a tet, there as a spare, just in case. Hmm.. first 'Egg-of', then 'I ♥ baby chicks'. Can't believe I read the whole gematria link(!). Right up/down there with Astrology and Poultry-geists (sp?)

So perhaps this person is simply showing the publi...

2010-01-27T05:05:34.998+02:00

So perhaps this person is simply showing the public his love for marijuana.

It could, however, be a sort of odd way of spellin...

2010-01-26T21:36:08.340+02:00

It could, however, be a sort of odd way of spelling שמטא or שמתא...

And as a public service, that word means rag, is not in Hebrew but in Yiddish, and is generally spelled שמאטע... Gematria value 420, and equivalent (among other things) to אני אוהב אפרוחים.
(Calculation courtesy of http://www.underdogprojects.com/gematria/ - which has provided me with many hours of fun.)