Cabalistic meaning behind the name AMIGA

[Mrs Beanbag]

Kabbalah uses the Hebrew alphabet so I don't know where these Latin alphabet numerical values come from.

[Mrs Beanbag]

Exactly, and the fact that modern Hebrew is so far removed from ancient Hebrew.

Well the language is, the alphabet is the same though. But it doesn't map onto the Latin alphabet in a 1:1 relationship, not even the same number of letters (Hebrew has 22).

[Mrs Beanbag]

Anyhow, Hebrew is just an amazing language, the fact that everything was constructed to break down numerically is just amazing.

It wasn't... in fact there's no evidence of the use of Hebrew numerals until the Hellenistic period (~3rd century BC), it seems they got the idea from the Greeks.

[Mrs Beanbag]

The Greeks?! Now this story I have to hear. All I have ever seen was evidence of the Greeks borrowing ideas (sometimes sloppily) from everyone around them, especially the Indians and Egyptians. I love running into conflicting ideas in history!!!

Yes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals

There was a lot of borrowing in all directions in the ancient world. The Greek alphabet is derived from the Phoenician (as is the Hebrew one), which in turn was derived from Hieroglyphs. The Greeks got a lot of ideas from Babylon, for instance the four elements and astrological signs, but Babylonians wrote their numbers in base 60 so they didn't get numerals from them, but it is why there are 60 minutes in an hour &c.