M.L Glikman, Israel
In the Torah (the Book of Exodus 20:15 we read the following:
..." וכל העם ראים את הקולת ואת הלפידם ואת קול השפר ואת ההר עשן..."
The literal understanding of this sentence caused confusion
among many translators and commentators of the Holy Scriptures: "And all
the people see the voices and torches and the shofar sounds and the smoking
mountain…” How is it possible to see the
voices and sound of the shofar?
Here are some examples of translations
and interpretations:
1.
“And all the people are seeing the voices, and the flames, and
the sound of the trumpet, and the mount
smoking…” (Young's Literal Translation).
2. “And all the people saw the thunderings , and
the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking…” (Darby Bible Translation).
3. "And all the
people saw the thunderings, and the
lightnings , and the noise of the trumpet , and the mountain smoking …” (King
James Bible).
4. “ When the people saw the thunderings and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw
the mountain in smoke …"( New International Version).
5. "All the
people perceived the thunderings , the
lightnings , the sound of the trumpet , and the mountain smoking…” (World English Bible).
6. "All the people
experienced the thunder and lightning , the sound of the ram's horn, and the
smoking mountain…"( International
Standard Version).
7." And all the
people saw the voices and the flames, the sound
of the trumpet, and the mount smoking…"( Douay- Rheims Bible).
RASHI
wrote about the miracle: “People saw what one normally hears and heard what one
normally sees” (see Book of Shemot, Shamir Publishers, 1993, p.239). And Abraham ibn Ezra (1080 – 1164) believed that
at that moment all the senses merged together in one place.
The modern
Torah commentators attribute the event to the most ancient description of mass
synesthesia :"Some say that it was an experience of synesthesia,
where they actually saw sounds" (Navigating the Bible . http://bible.ort.org/books/pntd2.asp?ACTION=displeypage&BOOK=28CHAPTER=20 ).
Synesthesia
(in Greek “joint or simultaneous sense or feeling) occurs as a result of transfer
of excitation from nervous structures of one sensor system to another. For example, “experiencing a color image as a
response to a musical phrase” (V.P. Petrenko, 2005). Sometimes a verbal stimulus or the shape of
written letters can cause a sensation of them having colors. The vast majority of people are not able to
see the colors of letters or musical notes.
Only few possess such a gift.
Ken Robinson
wrote: “… synesthesia is when the feelings are mixed or partially overlap each other,
thus the ability to see sounds and hear colors is born” (“The Calling”, 2010, p.53).
Do not
RASHI and ibn Ezra talk about the same thing?
The Lord revealed a Miracle!
In contemporary
perception of synesthesia there is an emphasis on congenital (hereditary or acquired
in utero) inter-neuron and inter-center connections, which contribute to the
phenomenon of co-sense. The lack of the early
educational training process during the person’s infancy (for example, Mowgli
Syndrome) deprives synesthetes an
opportunity to describe their feelings.
Words (speech is the second signal system) become meaningful only as a result of a
person’s interaction with the external world (associations, condition reflexes,
etc.). But words are made of letters. Thus, one of the forms of
synesthesia is to see the letters of the alphabet in color. “Each letter has its color!” was the name of
the article by Avner Pinchover (2012)( http://alefalefalef.co.il )
In
the foreword to the book by Rabbi F.S. Berg “The Power of the Alphabet” (1996)
Kenneth Clark wrote: “The Book of Zohar tells us that the first creation of the
Lord in the world of infinity were the 22 letters of the Hebrew language…” (p.
17). Further in the book we read: “The
Talmud says that Bezalel, a skilled architect, successfully built
the tabernacle, because he" knew how to compose letters of which heaven
and earth were created" (Rabbi Berg, ibid, p. 41).
The Almighty created the world in color.
Each letter that participated in the creation of the world had its
color. Here is what Helena Blavatsky
said in 1897: “Each letter of the alphabet has its own color or a shade… The
Mosaic language has a number, a color and a special syllable for each letter.” (from
the book The Secret Doctrine, vol.3, p. 422)
Rabbi
M. Laitman (2003) referring to the Sefef Yetzirah (the Book of Creation) writes:
“… letters are stones, out of which buildings – words –are made. As the sages tell us, the world was created
by the letters of the holy tongue, each letter of which represents … the power
of creation” (from The Book of Zohar, p. 294).
Further in the text: “… each letter has its own “face”, the order of
letters points to the link between different objects” (ibid, p. 296).
Akram
Aylisli (1987) made a connection between a letter and a sound: “Each letter has
its own color… A letter is a symbol of a sound, and sound has its own color”
(The White Canyon, p. 21).
In his book “Orchard of Pomegranates”, RAMAK,
רבי משה קורדובירו ((1522-1570 completely disagrees
with the notion that the letters of Hebrew alphabet are just the tools to
transmit the sounds of speech. In his opinion,
each letter carries the light and radiance coming from G-d’s creating light
(chapter the Gate of Letters, see also “The Jewish Astrology” by M. Glazerson,
1996 and זמיר כהן," הצופן" (Zamir Cohen),
2007).
A.P. Zuravlev (1981), M.N. Dymshitz et al (2010), Sean Day
(1996), Ch.J.Faur (http://www.christianfauer.com/color/idex.html ), Cassidy Curtis (1998) , A. Deadman
(2006), P. Green- Armytage (2010), etc. summarize the accumulated experimental
material in their works and present Russian and English alphabets in color,
with the emphasis on the vowels.
There are no vowels in Hebrew. They are
replaced by vowel marks (dots and bars located around the consonants). This particular feature of the alphabet
prevents the automatic transfer of letter colors from other languages into
Hebrew. Some actually believe that the
vowel marks (nekudot) “are responsible for coloring Hebrew words” (http://www.hidden.visnsoft.com/).
In the literature on Kabbalah one can find references for possible color of
each of the 22 letters. In the Table 1
there is some data illustrating this point.
Table 1
. Suggested colors of Hebrew letters (literature review)
Franz Bardon
|
N. Farell
|
D.M. Craig
|
King Scale Color
|
Letters
|
Light blue
|
Bluish-emerald
|
Bright yellow
|
Yellow
|
א
|
Light purple
|
Grey
|
Yellow
|
Yellow
|
ב
|
Pale green
|
Pale blue
|
Blue
|
Blue
|
ג
|
Dark blue
|
Spring green
|
Emerald
|
Emerald Green
|
ד
|
Dark purple
|
Red
|
Scarlet
|
Scarlet
|
ה
|
Lilac
|
Olive
|
Red-orange
|
Red-Orange
|
ו
|
Lemony yellow
|
Bright yelow
|
Orange
|
Orange
|
ז
|
?
|
Bright red-brown
|
Amber
|
Amber, Orange-Yellow
|
ח
|
?
|
Grey
|
Green-yellow
|
Yellow
|
ט
|
Opal
|
Green-grey
|
Yellow-green
|
Yellow-green
|
י
|
?
|
Magenta
|
Purple
|
Violet
|
כ
|
Dark green
|
Blue-green
|
Emerald
|
Emerald-green
|
ל
|
Blue-green
|
Olive-green
|
Dark blue
|
Blue
|
מ
|
Red
|
Dark brown
|
Green-blue
|
Green-Blue
|
נ
|
Purple-red
|
Green
|
Blue
|
Blue
|
ס
|
?
|
Blue-black
|
Indigo
|
Blue-violet
|
ע
|
Light green
|
Venetian red
|
Scarlet
|
Scarlet
|
פ
|
Bright red
|
Mauve
|
Purple
|
Violet
|
צ
|
Silver-blue
|
Pink brown
|
Bright purple
|
Red-violet
|
ק
|
Golden
|
Amber
|
Orange
|
Orange
|
ר
|
Sparkling red
|
Scarlet
|
Orange-red
|
Red
|
ש
|
Dark brown
|
Dark brown
|
Indigo
|
Indigo
|
ת
|
A hypothesis: a
word in Hebrew serves as an indicator of the color of a phenomenon or an
object.
If
one knows the colors of the letters, it is possible to calculate the color of a
word by adding the basis data and using the software for mixing the
colors. For example, the word אש (fire) consist of the letters ש (scarlet, red,
orange-red) and א
(yellow or light blue, see Table 1). According
to the physics of light, red + yellow = orange, while red + light blue = a
shade of purple. We can consider the
test successful, as a fire, depending on what is burning, can be of any of
these colors. What is then the color of
the names of the Hoshen stones?
The
aim of our study is to determine the colors of the words denoting the 12 stones
of the High Priest’s breastplate by using the color scale of the letters
comprising these words. We have not
found a similar research in any literature available to us.
The
method. It is impossible to use a
descriptive identification of colors (e.g. coral, turquoise, salmon, indigo,
etc.) for obtaining quantitative results.
The coding must be used. That is
why a decision was made to utilize the already existing color alphabet of
Hebrew language presented in an article by Avner Pinchover (see Figure 1 and http://alefalefalef.co.il). The issue of the origin of the alphabet at the
beginning stage did not have much significance to us, as we did not imagine the
final result beforehand. The main requirement
was for all the 22 color shades (corresponding to the number of letters) to be
distinctly different from one another.
Fig.1. Avner
Pinchover’s color alphabet
We coded
the colors of the letters in the RGB system (red-green-blue) by using the color
directory at http://www.techyuva.com/wp-content/uploads/colors.gif (see the coding results in the Table
2). We used the computer
mixer http://www.colorhexa.com for adding the codes together and
obtaining the final colors for the words.
The results are shown in the Table 3 and Figure 2.
Table 2. The codes for the Hebrew letters in the RGB
system according to Avner Pinchover’s alphabet.
255, 51, 102
|
FF 33 66
|
א
|
0, 255,
51
|
00 FF 33
|
ב
|
0, 204, 204
|
00СС СС
|
ג
|
255, 51, 51
|
FF 33 33
|
ד
|
204, 51, 204
|
СС 33 СС
|
ה
|
51, 153, 153
|
33 99 99
|
ו
|
255, 204, 0
|
FF CC 00
|
ז
|
51, 153, 255
|
33 99 FF
|
ח
|
255, 255, 51
|
FF FF 33
|
ט
|
51, 255, 153
|
33 FF 99
|
י
|
51, 255,255
|
33 FF FF
|
כ
|
0, 204, 255
|
00 CC FF
|
ל
|
204,204, 0
|
CC CC 00
|
מ
|
51, 51,255
|
33 33 FF
|
נ
|
255, 153,51
|
FF 99 33
|
ס
|
102, 153,255
|
66 99 FF
|
ע
|
204, 204, 204
|
CC CC CC
|
פ
|
153,51,204
|
99 33 СС
|
צ
|
102, 204, 204
|
66 СС СС
|
ק
|
102, 255, 0
|
66 FF 00
|
ר
|
255, 0, 51
|
FF 00 33
|
ש
|
204, 204, 51
|
CC CC 33
|
ת
|
For the sake of comparison we conducted the analysis of the
colors of the names of the Hoshen stones according to their English
transcriptions by using the existing codes of the colors of the English letters
found in the following articles: "Тhе color Alphabet of Christian J.Faur
"( see above) and P. Green-Armytage "А Color Alphabet and the Limits of Color
Coding" http://www.colour-journal.org/2010/5/10/ (see the results in Table 4).
The obtained results. The “color blender” program gave us twelve
color codes for the names of the Hoshen stones as well as their color
description in the color range. We used the
results to make a table imitating the Hoshen.
Table 3. Color codes of the names
of the Hoshen stones.
AD 8F 3D – dark
moderate orange תרשיש-
|
99 88 66 – mostly desaturated
dark orange - לשם
|
66 AA EE – soft blue
נפך-
|
EE 66 33 – bright
orange אדם-
|
DD 55 55 – soft redשהם-
|
66 88 55 – mostly
desaturated dark green - שבו
|
99 D9 66 – soft
greenספיר-
|
E6 8C 80 – very soft
redפטדה-
|
B3 80 99 – slightly desaturadet
pink
ישפה-
|
8F 85 A3 – dark
grayish violet אחלמה-
|
73 B3 99 – slightly
desaturated cyan-lime green יהלם -
|
5D EA 4D – soft lime
green ברקת-
|
Figure 2. Colors of the names of the Hoshen
stones.
The result exceeded our expectations.
The hypothesis worked! Most of
the obtained color shades are similar to the colors of the stones from the
Translation of the Seventy. Thus, sard,
topaz and emerald (the first column) in their color range match the colors
obtained for the Hebrew names. In the
second column we find jasper. According
to Pliny, its color is green, which could correspond to the obtained color of
the word “yahalom” – a shade of green. The colors in the third column are similar to
the colors of ligure, amethyst and, with some stretching, agate. In the fourth column there are chrysolite and
onyxion (if the stone is of the nail color).
There are 9 matches out of 12, accounting for 75%. However, there are also striking exceptions. The color of the word נפך (nofech) is a shade of
blue, which does not correspond to the general notion of anthrax, even though
there is a story by Arthur Conan Doyle called “The Blue Carbuncle” that talks
about a diamond. But those who believe the gem to be a turquoise stone
will find the color of the word quite useful.
A surprise, even though not totally unexpected, is that the color of the
wordשהם (shoham) is a shade
of red. Also, when comparing the stones
of the Garden of Eden with the Navaratna, we see that שהם is a red colored stone (see “ Navaratna –
the Key to the stones of Hoshen "), even though it is not consistent with
the general perception of the black color of the stone. However, nobody has expected that the color
of the word ספיר (sapir) would turn out to
be green, with a possible exception of Onkelos.
He translated the name of the fifth Hoshen stone as שבזיז (shavziz), most
likely from the Persian word sabzi – green .
In order to make sure that “Hebrew works only in Hebrew”, i.e. the
implementation of this idea is impossible in an alphabet of any other language,
we calculated the colors of the names of the Hoshen stones in the English
transcription by using the above-mentioned English color alphabets.
Table 4. Color codes
of the Hoshen names (English transcription).
Names of the stones
|
According to the
alphabet by Cr.J. Faur
|
According to the
alphabet by
P. Green-Armytage
|
odem
|
F27416 –vivid orange
|
8A2141 – dark
moderate red
|
piteda
|
806649 – mostly
desaturated
dark orange
|
796A8A – dark
grayish violet
|
bareqet
|
734243 – mostly desaturated
dark red
|
575462 – very dark
grayish blue
|
nofekh
|
B17A59 - dark
moderate orange
|
716E3C – very dark
desaturated yellow
|
sappir
|
998634 – dark moderate yellow
|
CD91A9 – slightly desaturated
pink
|
yahalom
|
864855 – dark
moderate red
|
E4A573 – soft
orange
|
leshem
|
9E5448 – dark
moderate red
|
7D7561 – dark
grayish orange
|
shevo
|
B65E58 – moderate
red
|
958188 – dark
grayish pink
|
ahlama
|
55336D – very dark
desaturated violet
|
DD96B0 –very soft
pink
|
tarshish
|
665B68 – very
grayish magneta
|
A5A7A7- dark grayish
cyan
|
shoham
|
823F58 – dark
moderate pink
|
D8A39D – slightly
desaturated red
|
yashfe
|
8B6A68 – mostly
desaturated dark red
|
69884E – mostly
desaturated dark green
|
Thus,
we have obtained two more color images that are neither similar to each other,
nor to the Hebrew result. Moving beyond the
visual assessment, we continued the comparison process by using mathematical
and statistical analysis. Each code can be
deciphered based on the correlation of R (red), G (green) and B (blue). For example, F27416 = 242, 116, 27, etc. By
deciphering all the tables, containing the codes of the shades of colors of the
Hoshen stones’ names, we obtained the initial ranges of numeric values (n =36,
twelve names multiplied by three color indices). Then we calculated the pair correlation coefficient, which allowed us to estimate whether there is a linear
relationship between the two variables, as well as to determine the strength of
the relationship. In our case, if there is a positive correlation, we can
assume the existence of a common causal factor (for example, the color of
letters or the general trend). All
the calculations were done by using the software “Optimization tasks. Online solutions” (http://www.uchimatchast.ru/aplication/pirson.php).
The
following variables of the correlation coefficients were obtained:
1.
When comparing the coloring of the names of the Hoshen stones
obtained by using the two color English alphabets, we calculated the pair correlation coefficient, which equaled r =0,2241. This indicates
that there is no statistically significant correlation relationship between the
samples. The difference in coloring of
the English alphabet letters caused the differences in the coloring of the
stone names.
2.
The comparative analysis of the usage of the color Hebrew
alphabet and the alphabet from the article by P. Green-Armytage determined
r = 0,0821. The conclusion is simple: there is no correlation
relationship. The particular language
characteristics were layered on the differences in the letter coloring.
3.
When comparing the deciphered Hebrew words with the similar results
according the Ch.J. Faur’s alphabet, we obtained the correlation coefficient r =
0.3511, which turned out to be statistically meaningful with this sample (n =
36, the critical coefficient value r = 0,33, the error
probability is 0,05 ), and indicated a weak relationship.
The statistical analysis
confirmed discrepancies in the colors of the names of the Hoshen stones when
using color English alphabets. This could
be caused by the differences in the coloring of the letters in Hebrew and
English. The spelling of the words in
Hebrew is also very different from English.
Conclusions. Professor H. Shore in his book "Coincidences in the Bible
and in Biblical Hebrew" (2008) dedicated the whole chapter to the description
of the connection discovered by him between the gematrical meanings of Hebrew
words denoting colors and the digital expressions of the wavelength of the
corresponding colors in the spectrum (see pp. 158-180). Professor believes that there is hidden
information contained in the words of the Torah, which complements what is
already known.
The hidden and the revealed are parts of one same thing. In our study we just scratch the surface of
the hidden knowledge. The result is
original and meaningful indicating that we are on the right track.
Unfortunately, we were not able to determine
the origin of the color Hebrew alphabet that we used. Perhaps, it is a vision of a synesthete, or maybe
it was developed by A. Pinchover (who came really close to the knowledge of the
coloring of the letters of the Primary Alphabet of the Holy Tongue). If this is the result of the synesthesia,
then how many syesthetes saw it the same way (as not all the synesthetes see
color alphabets the same way, Sean Day, 1966, etc.). The result obtained by us should be seen as just
an example, though an impressive one.
Undoubtedly, the final coloring of a word
depends on the coloring of the letters comprising it. “Each Hebrew letter has
its color!” Thus, it is clear that the colors
of the stones on the High Priest’s breastplate are hidden in their names. In order to declare the knowledge of the
coloring of the Hoshen stones it is necessary first to find out the true colors
of the letters of the Primary Alphabet of the Holy Tongue.
Gematria, the color range of the alphabet,
the correct pronunciation of the Hebrew letters (including taamim) – all these
are additional keys to discovering the depth of the Torah and coming closer to
the All-Encompassing Knowledge.
In their work “On Relationship between the Wavelength of the Visible Light and
Audible Sound”, 2008, A. Benditzky and A. Kovalev found that the visible range of light (0.4 - 0.8 mm)
corresponds to the range of audible sounds (456-913 Hz). The authors
believe that is not a mere coincidence, but rather a reflection of the way the
human organs of vision and hearing perceive and process information. Possibly, if the words are pronounced in this
range, the color associations will appear.
Though, J. Klingman believes that at
the Mount Sinai the people were subjected to the simultaneous and direct
stimulation of the visual and auditory centers in their brains bypassing the
external analyzers. That was the reason
of the mass synesthesia and mass panic.
“… let
not God speak with us, lest we die.” And
Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that
His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin” (the Torah, Exodus
20:19-20).It took physics thousands of years to catch up with the Torah.
27.06.2016
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