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בראשיתבראאלהיםאתהשמיםואתהארץוהארץהיתהתהוובהווחשךעל־פניתהוםורוחאלהיםמרחפתעל־פניהמיםויאמראלהיםיהיאורויהי־אורויראאלהיםאת־האורכי־טובויבדלאלהיםביןהאורוביןהחשךויקראאלהיםלאוריוםולחשךקראלילהויהי־ערבויהי־בקריוםאחדויאמראלהיםיהירקיעבתוךהמיםויהימבדילביןמיםלמיםויעשאלהיםאת־הרקיעויבדלביןהמיםאשרמתחתלרקיעוביןהמיםאשרמעללרקיעויהי־כןויקראאלהיםלרקיעשמיםויהי־ערבויהי־בקריוםשניויאמראלהיםיקווהמיםמתחתהשמיםאל־מקוםאחדותראההיבשהויהי־כןויקראאלהיםליבשהארץולמקוההמיםקראימיםויראאלהיםכי־טובויאמראלהיםתדשא Verse 1Verse 2Verse 3Verse 4Verse 5Verse 6Verse 7Verse 8Verse 9Verse 10Verse 11Verse 12Verse 13Verse 14Verse 15Verse 16Verse 17Verse 18Verse 19Verse 20Verse 21Verse 22Verse 23Verse 24Verse 25Verse 26Verse 27Verse 28Verse 29Verse 30Verse 31Verse 1Verse 2Verse 3Verse 4Verse 5Verse 6Verse 7Verse 8Verse 9Verse 10Verse 11Verse 12Verse 13Verse 14Verse 15Verse 16Verse 17Verse 18Verse 19Verse 20Verse 21Verse 22Verse 23Verse 24Verse 25Verse 1Verse 2Verse 3Verse 4Verse 5Verse 6Verse 7Verse 8Verse 9Verse 10Verse 11Verse 12Verse 13Verse 14Verse 15Verse 16Verse 17Verse 18Verse 19Verse 20Verse 21Verse 22Verse 23Verse 24Verse 1Verse 2Verse 3Verse 4Verse 5Verse 6Verse 7Verse 8Verse 9Verse 10Verse 11Verse 12Verse 13Verse 14Verse 15Verse 16Verse 17Verse 18Verse 19Verse 20Verse 21Verse 22Verse 23Verse 24 Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26Chapter 27Chapter 28Chapter 29Chapter 30Chapter 31Chapter 32Chapter 33Chapter 34Chapter 35Chapter 36Chapter 37Chapter 38Chapter 39Chapter 40Chapter 41Chapter 42Chapter 43Chapter 44Chapter 45Chapter 46Chapter 47Chapter 48Chapter 49Chapter 50Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26Chapter 27Chapter 28Chapter 29Chapter 30Chapter 31Chapter 32Chapter 33Chapter 34Chapter 35Chapter 36Chapter 37Chapter 38Chapter 39Chapter 40Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26Chapter 27Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26Chapter 27Chapter 28Chapter 29Chapter 30Chapter 31Chapter 32Chapter 33Chapter 34Chapter 35Chapter 36Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26Chapter 27Chapter 28Chapter 29Chapter 30Chapter 31Chapter 32Chapter 33Chapter 34undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined GENESISEXODUSLEVITICUSNUMBERSDEUTERON.undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedundefined

בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.


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Welcome

Welcome to the Gematriaphone, a new “instrument” which lets you hear the Torah's hidden mathematical music. I created the Gematriaphone for the 2020 Powered By Sefaria Contest, which called for novel ways to showcase the wonderful resources of Sefaria, the internet's “Living Library of Jewish Texts.”

The main innovation of this site is a scroll-wheel interface that allows you to rapidly navigate to any word of Torah without having to repeatedly click buttons or load new pages. Once this scrolling feature was in place, it seemed natural to accompany the scrolling with images and sound. For this I turned to gematria, the ancient tradition of transmuting Hebrew words into numbers. The Gematriaphone is an instrument which makes music from gematria.


Gematria

Gematria is a system for ascribing a numerical value to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

א : 1 י : 10 ק : 100
ב : 2 כ : 20 ר : 200
ג : 3 ל : 30 ש : 300
ד : 4 מ : 40 ת : 400
ה : 5 נ : 50
ו : 6 ס : 60
ז : 7 ע : 70
ח : 8 פ : 80
ט : 9 צ : 90

The numerical value of any word is simply the sum of the values of its letters. For instance, the first word of the Hebrew Bible, בראשית, meaning “In the beginning”, is given the numerical value of 913.

ת י ש א ר ב
400 + 10 + 300 + 1 + 200 + 2 = 913

Although there are variant traditions, on this the site final-form letters (ך‎,ם,ן,ץ,ף‎‎) are not counted differently than their non-final counterparts (מ,נ,צ,פ,כ). Similarly, words that appear in the Torah connected with a maqaf, or hyphen, are counted as a single unit. Thus the phrase ויהי־כן, “and it was so,” is considered a single word with numerical value 240.

Divine Statistics

Tally of all words whose letters sum to 26

WordOccurrences
1.יהוה1354
2.והיה153
3.כבד16
4.היטב6
5.בידי6
6.וידו1
7.הויה1
8.וחזה1
9.והדוה1
10.ויגז1
11.החגי1
12.בחטאו1
Total: 1,542

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