What Is That For An Medal ? Coin ? Amulet Hebrã¤isch (Id: Kabbalistic Charm Showing Magic Square)

Hi, I have an information, it is from 1650 to 1750 aerea ?

It's called a Magic Square and the letters are numbers with both horizontal and vertical columns adding up to the same number. The designs on the sides and bottom are called Sigel's (sp) and are signs of an arch-angel, angel or demon. This is probably a protection charm in Kabbalistic Faith.

Hallo, es ist ein original. It is an original !

I'm a fairly liberal hasidic Jew. Trust me, as someone who didn't see my mother's elbows until I was in my teens, or her ankles until I was in my 20's, that might be some interpretation of kabbalah belief in current vogue, but it doesn't date from even 30 years ago, or older, and would be considered a blasphemous object to most 'hardcore' orthodox Jews.

Until very recent times, the study of Kabbalah has been limited to hasidic male Jews, over the age of 40. Any depiction of nudity, male or female would be an extremely big "no no".

I'm actually a renegade... I wear short sleeve shirts, and hate black suits....

I read the letter nearest the left as the Hebrew letter chet which stands for 8. Of in fact it is a heh which stands for 5 then the square would add to 34
the letter is not clear and could be either

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As JMerrick & echizento have said, this amulet is not of Jewish origin. As evidenced by the nudity, the non-Jewish symbols, including the non-Kosher bird on the front (birds of prey, like vultures or buzzards are not Kosher).

I'm a fairly conservative Chassidic Jew, and as JMerrick says, it would be considered a blasphemous object to most 'hardcore' Orthodox Jews.

Another bizarre thing is the number on the front of the amulet in the lower left hand corner.

In Hebrew, the letters symbolizing numbers after 10 are as follows: 11 is 10 plus 1, 12 is 10 plus 2, etc.

The only numbers that don't follow that rule are the numbers 15 and 16. Instead of 10 plus 5 or 10 plus 6, these numbers would be shown as follows: 15 would be shown as 9 plus 6; 16 would be shown as 9 plus 7.

The reason being that the letters for the numbers 10 and 5; and the letters for the numbers 10 and 6 are letters that are parts of the name of G-d (the Tetragramatton) and are not to be written together. wikipedia listing for Tetragramatton has a picture of an amulet that has these letters written together but it's unclear if this is "modern" or of Jewish origin.

An example of this would be the number on the front of the coin, top row, second from the right. It's the number 15, but is not shown as 10 plus 5, but instead as 9 plus 6.

The bizarre thing I mentioned above is the number on the front of the amulet in the lower left hand corner. It's the number 16. But instead of it following the above rule and showing as 9 plus 7, it's using the letters for 10 plus 6.

As I mentioned above, these letters are parts of the name of G-d and are not to be written together. Another give-away that this is not of Jewish origin.