Welcome to The Church and School of Wicca's Homepage! Supervised Study Course Application. TrueTao.org. Temurah (Kabbalah) Temurah is one of the three ancient methods used by Kabbalists to rearrange words and sentences in the Bible, in the belief that by this method they can derive the esoteric substratum and deeper spiritual meaning of the words. (The others are Gematria and Notarikon.) Temurah may be used to change letters in certain words to create a new meaning for a Biblical statement.
The Hebrew alphabet is an Abjad or consonantary alphabet. Techniques that applied to English will mostly transform sense into a nonsensical series of letters are more feasible in Hebrew. There are three simple forms of Temurah: Atbash: Replacing the first letter with the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the second with the next-to-last, and so on. a=z, b=y, c=x, etc. Avgad: Replacing each letter with the preceding letter. a=b, b=c, c=d Albam: Replacing the first letter of the alphabet with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, and so on. a=l, b=m, c=n, etc.
Notarikon. Notarikon (Hebrew: נוטריקון, Noṭariqōn) is a method of deriving a word, by using each of its initial (Hebrew: ראשי תיבות) or final (Hebrew: סופי תיבות) letters to stand for another, to form a sentence or idea out of the words. Another variation uses the first and last letters, or the two middle letters of a word, in order to form another word. [1] The word "notarikon" is borrowed from the Greek language (νοταρικόν)), and was derived from the Latin word "notarius" meaning "shorthand writer.
"[2] Usage by Rashi[edit] Rashi uses notarikon seven times in his pirush ("explanation") on Chumash: Bereishith (Genesis) 15:2 "וּבַגְּמָרָא שֶׁלָּנוּ דָּרְשׁוּ נוֹטְרִיקוֹן, דּוֹלֶה וּמַשְׁקֶה מִתּוֹרַת רַבּוֹ לַאֲחֵרִים"Bereishith (Genesis) 17:2 "כִּי אַב הֲמוֹן גּוֹיִם. Usage in magic[edit] A common usage of Notarikon in the practice of Kabbalah, either for magic or ritual, was to form secret names of Gods derived from religious or biblical verses. Online Tools[edit] Google Chrome Extension. Asatru Alliance | Homepage.