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YJN #224 - 09/25/11 - Why Hebrew Letters are Used as Numbers

Numbers and numerology are always interesting with it comes to Hebrew and Judaism. Cantor Leigh Korn explores the origins of numbers, a few oddities related to them, with a brief diversion into Kabbalah.

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