Back in the 70s and early 80s, I used to hear people mixing up the terms astronomy with astrology, and that annoyed quite a few astronomers. It was so prevalent that Cornell University even has a page ...

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With this letter to the editor, I want to briefly explain to the public how and why numerology (also known as Gematria) can be very useful to us, especially in times of crisis. Numerology has been ...

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 ...

Lose Hanick from Toronto writes: “The numerical value of the Hebrew letters Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, which spell the sacred name of God, is 10+5+6+5. or 26. But so is the numerical value of ‘God,’ ‘g’ being ...

While some people love gematria, others are skeptical. Whatever your attitude, keep in mind that gematria isn’t a modern-day invention but is prevalent throughout the words of Chazal. One may wonder ...

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 ...