of course, the difference is that numogrammatics is an esoteric object of study, whereas people like Rashi were commenting on scripture which comprised and still comprises the life of a people. as such, the necessity involved in scripture can be translated into a necessary life, a life which is not arbitrary, which is soaked with meaning in all of its practices—to live by a set of laws which are not fallen. the ability to believe that requires something more than an act of faith: it requires a charism given to a whole community, a power to abolish the arbitrariness of human life altogether. that's the great benefit of nomos, of the law