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was derived from the verse (Psalms 104:4): "Who makest the winds thy messengers, fire and flame thy ministers" (…) And when the lights reach this Sefira, they unite and receive a name that is derived from the central letters of the following verse (Genesis 6:2): "The sons of God saw that the
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Until the end of the Talmudic period, notarikon is understood in Judaism as a common method of Scripture interpretation by which the letters of individual words in the Bible text indicate the first letters of independent words.
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last letters, or the two middle letters of a word, in order to form another word. The word "notarikon" is borrowed from the Greek language (νοταρικόν), and was derived from the
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And it was discovered that the Malachim were created from the wind and the fine and enlightening air, and that the name of their origin
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daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose." And this valiant name, which is drawn in the Gevura, is
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is another book where many examples of notarikon for use on talismans are given from Biblical verses.
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The Dictionary of Jewish usage: a guide to the use of Jewish terms, By Sol Steinmetz,
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method of deriving a word, by using each of its initial (Hebrew:
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The term is mostly used in the context of Kabbalah. Common
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Notarikon is one of the three ancient methods used by the
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