7 is Hebrew for Perfection
The other night I was sitting around doing very little. School hadn’t really occurred to me, you know, taking classes and all that jazz, and my mind was wandering around (this was before I started actively looking at MFA-writing programs) when it fell on an interesting oddity.
The oddity:
Take my age: 34 and then separate the numbers 3 and 4. Add those two numbers together: 3+4 and you get 7.
Now, take Erin’s age: 25 and then separate the numbers 2 and 5. Add those two numbers together: 2+5 and you get 7.
That was odd, though not really the oddity. Seven and the Hebrew number for perfection, by the by, is a coincidence.
However, move back one year, 33 and 24 and the numbers equal six. Go forward ten six years, 40 and 31 and the numbers equal 4. It didn’t matter what years you took, the difference in age between Erin and I is such that the sum of the first digit and the second digit of our ages equals the same number.
And this year is the Hebrew number for perfection.
That is, until you eclipse 200 years old. And then I discovered something interesting. Once we are both in our 200’s, the system works again; however, if you assume that all ages are two numbers and my age is 201 while Erin’s would be 192 and you separate the ages into 20+1 and 19+2 both equal 21. Whereas, 2+0+1 equals 3 and 1+9+2 equals 12. This rule is true when you move into your 100’s as well.
Granted, I made no major scientific discovery here. No one is going to write a proof based off of the age difference between Erin and I. As we considered it, it only works at our current age different. Any other (18 year difference and etc) and the numbers don’t pan out.
What made this interesting, in part, to me was that I have spent a long time looking, waiting for my bride (Erin and then I found her, or she found me. You decide. Regardless, our ages are at a perfect difference that allows us to be equal in one area (the sum of the two parts of our individual ages), which, in turn, is really cool.
Of course, Erin’s brother is dating a girl and he said, “I’m 21. 2+1 is three. She’s 20. 2+0 is 2. It doesn’t work for us.” True, true, you do have to have the distance in age that Erin and I have for it to work which means, for the majority of people I know who are married (I can think of one possible exception – not shared here) they won’t have this happen for them.
Just thought I’d share.
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