Hebrew letter
Cheth
Cheth (ח), value 8. Fence, enclosure.
3 correspondences · 2 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located
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The oldest attribution here is Letter class Simple, first attested 100 CE.
Letter class
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Simple
Canonical- Who says so
- Sefer Yetzirah's counting (2nd–6th century CE (contested))
- Earliest verified attestation
- 100 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Attested
- Evidence
- The source states it
Westcott's Sefer Yetzirah names Cheth among the Simples.
Evidence
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Rabbi Akiva (traditional attribution); older versions attributed to Abraham, Sefer Yetzirah, 2nd–6th century CE (contested) — 5:1
The Twelve Simple Letters are Héh, Vau, Zain, Cheth, Teth, Yod, Lamed, Nun, Samech, Oin, Tzaddi and Qoph
The printed membership list for the simple letters.
Counts of
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22
Traditional- Who says so
- Sefer Yetzirah's counting (2nd–6th century CE (contested))
- Earliest verified attestation
- 100 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Attested
- Evidence
- The source states it
One of the twenty-two letters Sefer Yetzirah calls the foundation of all things.
Evidence
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Rabbi Akiva (traditional attribution); older versions attributed to Abraham, Sefer Yetzirah, 2nd–6th century CE (contested) — 1:2
Ten are the ineffable Sephiroth. Twenty-two are the Letters, the Foundation of all things; there are Three Mothers, Seven Double and Twelve Simple letters.
Hebrew letter of
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The Chariot
Traditional- Who says so
- Not yet attributed to a school
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1888 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
A Golden Dawn correspondence, not a claim about the historical origin of the card or a universal Jewish letter-to-card system.
Evidence
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, columns VII and XIX, row 18