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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Gematria Refigured presents the discoveries that led to the author’s transformation from a gematria skeptic to a gematria lover We recently read Parshat Vayetze, and someone told the joke: “How do you ...

We’ve seen lots of top ten lists about the 00’s over the past few weeks, but what do the numbers from the last ten years say about the decade itself? In the spirit of “nothing is coincidence,” we ...

Emily Koenders writes that she is working on a paper on gematria in rabbinic literature and wonders if I can help her locate the talmudic sources of three examples of it. The first of Ms. Koenders’s ...

If a new viral clip from “The Daily Show” is any indication, the answer appears to be yes. In the clip, a woman in a flower crown at a MAGA rally in Wisconsin tells “Daily Show” correspondent Jordan ...