The gallery of classic codes
The observations most often cited, each searched on the Leningrad text by this laboratory's own engine — with its exact start and skip, the count found and the count chance alone would give.
תורה at skip 50 in Genesis
- Scope
- Genesis
- Skip
- 50 (forward)
- Starts at
- Genesis 1:1, the ת of בראשית (letter 6 of the Torah)
- Found
- 3
- Chance alone
- about 2.22
Starting at the first ת of Genesis — the sixth letter of the book, the last letter of בראשית — every 50th letter reads ת, ו, ר, ה. One sequence at one chosen skip; the count and the chance figure for the whole book stand beside it.
Source: Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957), as recorded by his students after his death; the observation is widely cited.
Open in the laboratoryתורה at skip 50 in Exodus
- Scope
- Exodus
- Skip
- 50 (forward)
- Starts at
- Exodus 1:1, the ת of שמות (letter 78,077 of the Torah)
- Found
- 8
- Chance alone
- about 2.32
Starting at the first ת of Exodus — the eighth letter of the book, the last letter of שמות in ואלה שמות — every 50th letter reads ת, ו, ר, ה. Measured on the Leningrad text, with the chance figure for the book beside it.
Source: Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957), as recorded by his students after his death; the observation is widely cited.
Open in the laboratoryThe Name at skip 8 in Leviticus
- Scope
- Leviticus
- Skip
- 8 (forward)
- Starts at
- Leviticus 1:1, the י of ויקרא (letter 141,602 of the Torah)
- Found
- 7
- Chance alone
- about 4.39
Starting at the first י of Leviticus — the second letter of ויקרא — every 8th letter spells the four-letter Name. Its letters are among the most frequent in the text, so chance alone produces several such sequences at this one skip in a book this long; read the two numbers together.
Source: Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957), as recorded by his students after his death; cited with the Genesis and Exodus observation.
Open in the laboratoryתורה backward at skip 50 in Numbers
- Scope
- Numbers
- Skip
- 50 (backward)
- Starts at
- Numbers 1:3, the ת of אתם (letter 186,559 of the Torah)
- Found
- 2
- Chance alone
- about 1.62
Read backward at 50 letters apart, near the opening of Numbers: in the Leningrad text the sequence's ה is the last letter of משה in Numbers 1:1 and its ת is in Numbers 1:3. Measurement only, with the chance figure beside it.
Source: Recounted with Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl's (1903–1957) Genesis and Exodus observation by his students; the exact starting letter is told differently in different retellings.
Open in the laboratoryתורה backward at skip 49 in Deuteronomy
- Scope
- Deuteronomy
- Skip
- 49 (backward)
- Starts at
- Deuteronomy 1:8, the first ת of נתתי (letter 250,366 of the Torah)
- Found
- 2
- Chance alone
- about 1.97
Read backward at 49 letters apart: in the Leningrad text the sequence's ה is the first letter of התורה in Deuteronomy 1:5 and its ת is in Deuteronomy 1:8. Measurement only, with the chance figure beside it.
Source: Recounted with Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl's (1903–1957) Genesis and Exodus observation by his students, as beginning in the fifth verse of Deuteronomy.
Open in the laboratoryמשנה and תורה at skip 50 in Exodus 11–12
- Scope
- Exodus 11–12
- Skip
- 50 (forward) · 50 (forward)
- Starts at
- Exodus 11:9, the מ of משה (letter 93,856 of the Torah); Exodus 12:11, the ת of אתו (letter 94,469 of the Torah)
- Found
- 3
- Chance alone
- about 0.15
In Exodus 11:9–12:13, משנה stands at skip 50 from the מ of משה in 11:9 and תורה at skip 50 from a ת in 12:11; their first letters are 613 letters apart. The same verse 11:9 contains רבות מופתי בארץ מצרים, whose first letters are ר מ ב מ — an initial-letter reading, not a skip. Measurement only.
Source: Attributed to Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957) by his students; widely cited in later writing on letter intervals.
Open in the laboratoryThis laboratory measures and claims nothing: it finds the sequences, shows where every letter stands, and prints what chance alone would produce beside every count. “Found” counts every sequence of the term at the entry's skip in its scope; “chance alone” is the number expected in the same letters by the formula on What are Torah codes?