There's a oft quoted saying that "אלקים בגימטריא הטבע." Why is it הטבע and not טבע? Isn't it "cheating" to add the extra "ה"?
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1Define cheating. If you're just trying to illustrate a point (that God can be found in nature) and not prove it, then I would call it "artistic license". – Double AA Dec 26 '12 at 14:53
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related http://judaism.stackexchange.com/a/2724/759 – Double AA Dec 26 '12 at 15:19
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2I've heard the same thing about השטן and 364 (i.e. every day except one) – b a Dec 27 '12 at 01:23
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related https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/53052/759 – Double AA May 01 '17 at 23:57
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Unless we have some rigorous definition of cheating, this seems opinion based. – mevaqesh May 02 '17 at 00:11
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1@mevaqesh That's not the point. I'm pretty sure we all understand what Joshua meant...I don't think this question needs a "rigorous definition of cheating." – MTL May 02 '17 at 01:13
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@Shokhet I agree that we understand what he meant. But what counts as cheating is opinion based. For example, is trying variant spellings using gematriya (which arent grammatically incorrect) until finding a hit, cheating. Who gets to decide what counts as cheating? Hence POB. – mevaqesh May 02 '17 at 01:18