Numbers

Torah Mitzion:

Of Names and Numbers

Counting people, according to Rav Mordechai Yosef Leiner, the author of the Mei haShiloach, can be a two edged sword.

Shavuot (Pentecost) guide for the perplexed, 2023

Learn the significance of the holiday and its names, about the number 7 in Judaism as well as the number 50 and more.

Office of the UK Chief Rabbi

What is special about the number 8?

Dvar Torah for Parashat Shemini: This week the Chief Rabbi explains the hidden depth of numbers in Jewish teaching.

Bereishith: Why the world is built and preserved with 7 and 28

Three places in the Torah and prayer with the same number of words and letters cannot be coincidental.

The purpose of our journey - summing up the Book of Numbers

The Torah reading during the Three Weeks is not happenstance, but the map for a nation's journey to Redemption.

Bamidbar (The Book of Numbers): It’s the math that counts

The Parsha and Current Events: Words and Numbers,

Rabbi prepares for long-lost Biblical ceremony

One rabbi shares his preparations for the Biblical ceremony of purity through a red heifer, mentioned in the Book of Numbers.

Why can't we count Jews?

A census presupposes that in battle and when compared to other nations, there is strength in numbers, numbers count. Not with the Jews.

The Book of Numbers: Organizing a Nation

Bamidbar's real message is that our self civil rule, the absolute necessary result of our newly found independence, demands structure

Six, seven and eight

All numbers have symbolism in Judaism, but eight is a higher level than 7, which in turn is higher than 6.

Naso: A sense of mission

A humble heart and a head held high at one and the same time is the demand the Torah places on our leaders - and us.

Parashat Bamidbar: What is important about 600,000 Israelites?

Why the number 600,000, to Chazal, is the quintessential expression of completeness in all mathematical units, and where it appears again.

Bamidbar: Count for something