"Lenny Meyer: The ancient Jews used Hebrew as their numerical system. May I? Each letter's a number. Like, the Hebrew A, Aleph [], is 1. B, Bet [], is 2. You understand? But look at this. The numbers are interrelated. Like, take the Hebrew word for "father", av []. Aleph, Bet. 1, 2. Equals 3. All right? Hebrew word for "mother", em []. Aleph, Mem []. 1, 40. Equals 41. The sum of 3 and 41? 44. All right? Now, Hebrew word for "child", all right? Mother, father, child. Yeled []. That's 10, 30 and 4. It's 44. Torah is just a long string of numbers. Some say that it's a code, sent to us from God. Max Cohen: That's kind of interesting."
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