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Writing on gematria and the twenty-four books. Every verse quoted on these pages is read from this site’s own index rather than typed, and every value is recomputed by the engine before it is printed. A rabbinic source is either one this site holds and can show you, or it is named in general terms and quoted not at all.
Parsha
Parashat Bereshit, and the numbers in itThe first word and the only four other places it stands, a word written full exactly twice, ten sayings counted as nine and one, and the first commandment of the count.23 September 2026Parashat Ki Tavo, and the numbers in itA basket no other book of the Tanakh ever borrowed, two scripted declarations in two registers of language, twelve amens answered aloud, and one commanded demand aimed at heaven.14 August 2026Parashat Ki Teitzei, and the numbers in itThe portion with the most commandments, the longest promise on the cheapest of them, fringes the text calls cords, and a count of forty the court strikes as thirty-nine.13 August 2026Parashat Shoftim, and the numbers in itJudges, witnesses, cities and a heifer, and a name whose usual spelling the portion never uses.12 August 2026
Holidays & Seasons
Yom Kippur, and the name the Torah writes in the pluralA singular the written text never uses, two goats and a lot, a fast commanded without the word for fasting, and the accuser's 364, checked as honestly as it can be.14 August 2026Rosh Hashanah, and the name the Torah never gives itA day of teruah, a memorial of blasting, the one verse in the twenty-four books that says Rosh Hashanah, and the number 861 checked as honestly as it can be.13 August 2026Elul, and the year 5787Four verses whose initials spell the month, a year number worked plainly, and the horn the Torah never mentions.12 August 2026
Numbers
613 mitzvot, and the gematria of TaryagWhere the count of the commandments comes from, what it divides into, the words the tradition finds 613 in, and the prophets who gathered them down to one.23 September 2026SeventySouls, elders, palms, years and bullocks are counted; the nations are a tradition; and of everything the number touches, only wine and secret is a gematria.14 August 2026Thirty-sixThe hidden righteous, the candles of the eighth night, and chai twice over: three thirty-sixes, and only one of them is a gematria.13 August 2026Chai, and the gift of eighteenWhy the cheque is written for 36 and not 35, and what the number eighteen was doing in Jewish hands long before it was a donation.12 August 2026Twenty-sixThe value of the four-letter Name, what our index can say about it, and what it cannot.12 August 2026Thirteen, twiceאהבה and אחד carry the same value, and the word the arithmetic belongs to is not the word the Shema uses.12 August 2026FortyThe rain, the mountain, the spies, and the walk to Chorev: every count taken from the text itself.12 August 2026
Method & Masters
How to calculate gematria, step by stepTwenty-two letters that were always numbers: the chart, the addition, the three things that change an answer, and how to check every sum against the text itself.23 September 2026The seven methods of gematriaSeven gematria methods, one at a time: the rule, where the tradition itself uses it, a worked example, and when a learner should reach for it.23 September 2026Hebrew numerology, and whether it is gematriaThe word most people search for, the word the tradition uses, and an honest account of where the two overlap and where they come apart.13 August 2026The Baal HaTurim, and the method he is famous forWhat R. Yaakov ben Asher was actually doing at the head of every parsha, and how the same three tools work on a text you can check yourself.12 August 2026What gematria is, and what it is notSeven reckonings, a Talmudic pedigree, and an honest account of where the ground stops being firm.12 August 2026