North Africa/Molcho 10-5-6-5 Method

10-5-6-5 add up to the numerical equivalent of 26, which is YKVK (the Tetragrammaton).

This is a centuries-old tying Minhag (Italian Jews; Spanish, Portuguese and North African Sephardim).

From R’ David Ely Grundland’s notes:

Rabbi Avraham Gombiner (Magen Avraham – Siman 11 S’Q 22)

And the second should have nine – and the Shla”h wrote the second should have eight and then it works out exactly to the value of “HaShem Echad”, so too wrote the Levush and also in the Kavanot. And in the Lechem Chamudot 48, he wrote that the tzitzit of Rabbi Shlomo Molcho had ten wraps in the first space and after five and so on as the name Havaya, and it is written in manuscripts that the extension should be in chulyot and that each should have three wraps, that is after wrapping three times, one should leave some space, as written in the Rambam.

From R’ David Ely Grundland’s notes:

מגן אברהם סימן יא ס”ק כב

ובשני ט’ – ובשל”ה כתב לעשות בשני ח’ ואז הוא מכוון כמנין ה’ אחד וכ”כ הלבוש וכ”כ בכוונות ובלחם חמודות סי’ מ”ח כתב שבציצית של
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R' David Ely Grundland: Tzitzit Knots

By: R' David Ely Grundland
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