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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.

Shavuot (Pentecost) guide for the perplexed, 2023

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.

What is special about the number 8?

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.

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

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.

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

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

The Parsha and Current Events: Words and Numbers,

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

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.

Rabbi prepares for long-lost Biblical ceremony

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.

Why can't we count 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

The Book of Numbers: Organizing a Nation

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.

Six, seven and eight

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.

Naso: A sense of mission

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.

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

Bamidbar: Count for something

Bamidbar:  Count for something