>>17578369no problem.
another fun one is that nachhash (serpent) and maschiach (messiah) have the same value of 358. in the book of john Jesus talks about how the son of man (he is self-referencing as the Adam Kadmon, i contend) must be lifted up, just as the bronze snake was lifted up on a pole in the desert. all who gazed upon the serpent were healed; Jesus was Torah incarnate, aka the WORD, and all who returned to study Torah were healed in a similar manner.
the gnostics, however, go too far and further equate Jesus with the serpent of the garden, aka HaSatan, painting him as the unfairly slandered good guy.
another tidbit is that when Abraham fought against the kings of Sodom and Gommorah to get Lot back, it's said that Eleazar went with his 318 men. the interesting part is that the gematria for eleazar is 318! so he didn't literally have 318 men, they were just his.
