I believe Osvaldo has been able to emphasize with great skill those letters with an archaic and complex contour filled with penetrating colors projected on a light blue background recalling the tone of the Israeli flag. With this artistic project, Osvaldo Menegazzi manages to combine, in my opinion, perfect artistry with the essence of the Jewish world and art in a pure state by maintaining a rigorous and detailed respect for grammar and crests.-
I am a Jewish doctor, careful student of history and Jewish tradition and very attached to my origins, and I never thought to find myself in a place to comment, though with humility and awe, the prestigious work of an artist which I deeply appreciate.-
The Hebrew language is part of the Semitic language group known as the North West. The Hebrew alphabet, Mohabit, punivo, ammonitic hedonistic, dates from the late second millennium. The writing developed in the Syrian alphabetic background. From 539 BC, the old post exilic tract "Phoenician" was gradually replaced by "square" or "Arami" come down to us and used for our Hebrew Bibles.
The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 consonants. Missing vowels were added only in later ages (VI-VIII centuries AD, to secure the aural tradition of the biblical text .-
For each consonant there is a numeric value. This convention was introduced in the post-biblical period, and is sometimes used to indicate the sequence of verses and chapters of each book .-
Gematria is one of the aggadah hermeneutical rules for interpreting the Torah, used to explain a word or group of words according to the numerical value of letters or to substitute other letters of the alphabet according to a fixed system. Although the term Gematria is normally used to mean "manipulated according to the numerical value," it sometimes just means "calculations" .-
