TrueBT and feivel: The Pnei Yehoshua quotes the Gemara that Gematrios are Parpara’os L’Chachma and says that means that they can never be used to Darshan an actual Halacha (he has to deal with the Yershalmi in Shekalim on Zeh Yitnu and that Stam Nezirus Sheloshim Yom is 30 days from Yihyeh, but he has answers for those). Gematria is not a way to Darshan. It is a way to find Remazim to things we otherwise know and/or to use as a memory device for what we already know. It is never in the realm of Pshat or Drash, only Remez.
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