Gematria

"When HaShem commanded him [Moshe] to go down to Egypt and liberate the Jewish people from bondage, he asked HaShem, "When I come to the children of Israel and I say to them, 'The God of your forefathers sent me to you,' they will ask me, 'What is His name,' What [] should I say to them?" ... The final letters are the name HaShem-, while the beginning letters equal "The Secret of the Name" (Sod Shem–) [30- + 40- + 300- + 40- = 60- + 6- + 4- + 300- + 30- = 410]. Therefore, the beginning and final letters make up the phrase "The Secret of the Name HaShem–.""

"Abulafia himself wrote an autobiographical account of this conversion attempt [of Pope Nicholas III] in his Sefer HaEdot (Book of Testimonies). In this account, he calls himself Raziel, an anonym that he frequently used, this being the name of the angel who taught the mysteries to Adam. Raziel () has a numerical value of 248, this being the same as that of Abulafia's first name, Abraham (). As Abulafia himself indicates, this relationship is more than a simple gematria, but it is a mishkal (balance), since both the numerical value and the number of letters in both names are equal."

"Lenny Meyer: The ancient Jews used Hebrew as their numerical system. May I? Each letter's a number. Like, the Hebrew A, Aleph [], is 1. B, Bet [], is 2. You understand? But look at this. The numbers are interrelated. Like, take the Hebrew word for "father", av []. Aleph, Bet. 1, 2. Equals 3. All right? Hebrew word for "mother", em []. Aleph, Mem []. 1, 40. Equals 41. The sum of 3 and 41? 44. All right? Now, Hebrew word for "child", all right? Mother, father, child. Yeled []. That's 10, 30 and 4. It's 44. Torah is just a long string of numbers. Some say that it's a code, sent to us from God. Max Cohen: That's kind of interesting."