notarikon means A cabalistic method of deriving a phrase from a word, using the letters of the word as initial letters of words in the sentence. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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NOTARIKON — [Noun] A Kabbalistic hermeneutic method that reveals hidden meanings by forming a phrase from the initial letters of a word, or by deriving a word from the initial, middle, or final letters of a scriptural passage. From Hebrew נוֹטָרִיקוֹן (nōṭārīqōn), borrowed from Ancient Greek νοταρικόν (notarikón, "shorthand"). Unlike an "acronym" (a pragmatic, modern contraction) or "gematria" (a numerical deciphering of letter-values), notarikon is a textual alchemy of extraction and compaction—a hermeneutic of hidden architectures. It is the scribe’s knife, slicing BERESHIT to unveil a prophecy; the mystic’s lens, focusing a psalm into a potent name; the patient unraveling of a divine word folded, origami-like, within the parchment’s fiber. In this meticulous search lies the conviction that every letter is a vessel, and every blank space, a silent prophecy.
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- A cabalistic method of deriving a phrase from a word, using the letters of the word as initial letters of words in the sentence.“Rashi explains the second phrase in his commentary to the parallel section in Berakhot 24a, s.v. takhshitin shebifnim: "Kumaz — a defuss of the uterus that they would make for their daughters, and they would pierce the walls of the uterus as one pierces the ears and insert it so that men would not have relations with them". In other words, according to Rashi, kumaz means a "chastity belt", and Rab”
- A cabalistic method of creating a word from initial, middle and final letters (in any combination) of words in a phrase.“The Hebrew word zahav (ZaHaB) is the notarikon (shorthand) for Zan, Ha'aret, and Bonayh Yerushalayim.”