Shin appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Gematria
Shin
Shin is 'tooth' and one of the three mothers, the letter of fire (esh) and the initial of Shaddai, the name written on the mezuzah's scroll and worn in the tefillin. Its 300 is the length of Noah's ark in cubits, and the shin of the tefillin is written with four heads instead of three.
The four-headed shin of the tefillin is a real scribal feature and is the basis of the tradition's reading of the letter as doubled. The 'fire' element is Sefer Yetzirah's; the Golden Dawn's path attribution (fire, Judgement) agrees with it by design rather than by coincidence.
Practice
- Script
- Hebrew
- Derivation
- Shin = 300, ordinal 21, reduced 3, no final form. Spelled in full, שין = 300+10+50 = 360.
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Letter value
- Value
- 300
- Meaning
Shin is 'tooth' and one of the three mothers, the letter of fire (esh) and the initial of Shaddai, the name written on the mezuzah's scroll and worn in the tefillin. Its 300 is the length of Noah's ark in cubits, and the shin of the tefillin is written with four heads instead of three — an anomaly the tradition reads as a letter with another letter inside it.
Details
- Letter
- Shin
- Ordinal Value
- 21
- Reduced Value
- 3
Hebrew letters
The King Scale colour and the stone, perfume, plant and animal are the Liber 777 attributions. The path numbering follows the tree.
Correspondences
- Tarot
- Judgement
Nature and meaning
- Hebrew
- ש
- Value
- 300
- Meaning
- Tooth
Details
- Path Number
- 31
- Connects
- HodMalkuth
- Attribution
- Fire
- Colour King Scale
- Orange scarlet
- Stone
- Fire opal
- Perfume
- Olibanum
- Plant
- Red poppy
- Animal
- Lion
- Letter Class
- Mother
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- Judgement Hebrew Letter
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