Talk:Hebrew alphabet

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Hi all,

I didn't realize this page already existed. My bad for not checking first. I made a bunch of additions to the trump cards, and created a couple of pages (Tree of Life and Cube of Space), and they all reference a yet-to-be-created page for Hebrew Letters. What I had intended for it was a table of correspondences, and space for a discussion on each letter. This current page (i.e. Hebrew alphabet), seems to talk about the alphabet (or, canonical sequence of letters) as a whole.

I'm debating whether to add what I had intended for the other page to this one, or to go ahead and create the other page and have both link to each other. Should we decide on the former option, how do I create a redirect page? (I really don't want to subject anyone, myself included, to traverse all the pages and change the links.)

What is your opinion on the matter?

--Abarrach 12:10, 18 September 2006 (PDT)

I have created a redirect from Hebrew letters to Hebrew Alphabet - and have also realised that the links I had made to the images for each letter have changed, so I'll fix that in the next 24 hours.

In terms of tables of correspondences or correlations, I would suggest being very sensitive to presenting this NOT as tarot correspondences, but rather as correspondences that originates with either Levi, the GD (as a modification of Levi inn any case), Crowley (as a modification of the GD), and of Falconnier (as a modification of Levi).

mention in the footnote of De Mellet needs to also be made, whether or not Levi obtained it therefrom.

perhaps, from THIS page, a new page Hebrew letters: correlations could table these most four common forms. This would keep a discussion about the letters in general, and the suggested correlations, in smaller pages.

Jmd 21:39, 19 September 2006 (PDT)

jmd, thanks for your response. I started the Hebrew letters: correlations page last night.

Regarding origines, I regrette to say that I'm not all that well versed in the history of these symbols. I am neither a Kabbalist, nor a BOTA member, nor a Jew, nor a historian, simply someone who is newly fascinated by the glyphs and by the tarot and by the multitude of disciplines that have been linked by them. Of the names you listed, the only one I recognize is Crowly. Thank you for introducing me to the other folk who have influenced our contemporary view of Tarot and the Kabbalah.

That being said, I will continue to share what little I know, and hope (expect) others who are more knowledgeable in the areas in which I write to correct me, and people who have a different perspective to share theirs. I will try to be more sensitive in what I write by presenting the material as one perspective rather than as the absolute truth, and when I am aware of other views, I will at least acknowledge them.

--Abarrach 11:15, 20 September 2006 (PDT)