The Hebrew Bible is filled with numbers. There are different kinds of numbers — cardinals and ordinals, integers and fractions, even primes. And they are everywhere in the Torah text. There are ...

Biblical numbers are a little like the relatives at a family wedding—everyone has heard stories about them, nobody fully understands them, and at least one of them has a slightly bad reputation. From ...

The Counting of the Omer, also known as Sefirat Ha-Omer, is an imperative verbal counting of each of the 50 days between the two Chagim (feasts) of Pesach and Shavuot. Every nightfall from the second ...