Gematria: Understanding Jewish Numerology

The Arts and Science Behind Jewish Numerology

We all know that language, and therefore words, carry power. We see it in the fact that language is the key to communication – the communication of our feelings to one another. From our earliest childhood, we experience the communication of love and, unfortunately, the communication of anger. Words carry power; they carry our expression, intentions, personalities, passions, emotions, and so much more.

Words are made up of letters. Very often, though we use this tool at our disposal all the time – communicating, speaking, crying, singing – in all the different forms of expression of words, whether through speaking or writing, we don’t often pay attention to the precise science and art behind these words.

This is the discussion of numerology, or the Hebrew word Gematria, which comes from the Greek geometria, meaning “geometry.” Essentially, it’s the study of numbers, but Gematria particularly refers to the power and energy that lies in the numbers that correspond to each letter.

Words: Vessels of Energy

Though we use words all the time, and hopefully for good purposes, we must realize that words are energy. As a matter of fact, the word for “words” in Hebrew, which is amira, is made up of ot, meaning “letters”. Every word is made up of letters, and the word ot in Hebrew comes from the word eit, meaning “the morning has arrived,” “has risen,” “the dawn has risen,” “the morning has arrived.” So, ot refers to an arrival, a transmission. It’s a transmission of energy.

Though a letter on its own is hollow – you just have an A, a B, a C, a D – if you combine the letters, let’s say you combine the letters G-O-O-D, it takes on a whole different meaning, more than the sum of its parts. This is because each of the letters has its particular energy, and combining them creates a new energy, a new synergy, you could say, which conveys the feelings that are conveyed when you say the word “good.”

Now, it’s important also to point out that I’m going to be speaking primarily about the Hebrew language because that’s where Gematria really plays a tremendous role. One of the reasons for that is because, according to Jewish mysticism, the Hebrew language is the origin of all languages. There are books that describe how all languages evolved and originated from their original Hebrew. That’s where you have aleph-beit, A-B, and you have the equivalent in not only Latin languages, but also other languages. It all originates from Hebrew.

Hebrew is considered to be the pure language, the language of metaphor, the language that the Divine used to create existence. Thus, the language, the letters, and the words take on a whole different dimension because they convey the power of Creation, the power of the force of creation that lies within each thing that’s named by certain words or a combination of words.

This is why, for example, when we ask for a full name for a blessing, for health, for someone who’s been ill, we look for their Hebrew name and their mother’s Hebrew name. Why the Hebrew name? Because the Hebrew name is seen as the name that channels the Soul’s power into our beings, and therefore that Hebrew name carries a particular power.

Language: The Projection of Energy

Think of it this way: you have a film projector projecting plain white light on a screen. You see nothing; all you see is white light. Now imagine you take a film that has carved out images – in this case, let’s say carved out letters – and then you put that in front of the projector. What will happen? The letters will now be projected – letters of light. So, if you have carved out letters, as I said, G-O-O-D, or we’ll use a Hebrew word, baruch, which is a very classic word which means “to bless,” it’s four Hebrew letters, so you’ll see those letters of light are projected onto the screen.

What’s actually happened here is that the white light, plain, seamless, and shapeless energy without shape and form, is being channeled by the film with the cutout letters. The film and those cutout letters channel the energy, the white light, onto the screen, and therefore you’ll now have letters – letters of light.

This is how we see names and words in general. They’re channeling energy.

Communicating with Heart and Mind

When someone speaks to you – and I’m trying to stay away from superficial talk and gossip and nonsense – let’s talk about something significant. Someone shares with you important words: the words “I love you” or the words “I care about you,” or other words that we use to communicate from our hearts and minds to others.

Those words are particular sentiments, but they carry a white energy; they carry the white, shapeless energy. But they’re being shaped by the letters that we use, which is why words have so much impact and potency. Because the words we use aren’t just about passion (although if you say words without soul, without heart, in a way that shows you don’t care, then they are, as I said, hollow words). But if you combine both together – you combine the passion and the energy of a feeling, the sentiment – if you say it with gusto, with passion, then that passion, like the white light, is channeled through the letters, and in turn, you have an expression that will convey a feeling, sometimes a very strong feeling, an intense feeling.

Good communication, as you see, is not just choosing the right words but also choosing the right inflections and emphasis that the speaker uses in communicating.

When you write, you don’t quite have the same power of communicating passion. That’s why good writers know how to use the right words that trigger emotions; certain words and the way they’re phrased and punctuated convey ideas. An exclamation point, for example, will convey something that’s an exclamation. A question mark focuses on something mysterious, unknown, questionable, or cryptic. And the same with other punctuation marks.

Basically, language is energy in containers. The energy is the white light, and the containers are the particular letters you use to communicate the particular message.

Energy and Containers

Everything in life has those two elements: there’s energy, but the energy needs to be harnessed and channeled. And hence, that’s how we see letters. Letters, essentially, are channelers of light, channelers of energy.

When you think about it, it really becomes, as an aside, an incredible point for understanding the importance of the words we use, the care that we should take. You’ll see intelligent people are very careful about what they say and what they don’t say. Sometimes, you can learn more from someone from what they don’t say than from what they do say. It’s the idea of being measured, knowing when to say it, how to say it, and speaking in a pleasant tone. We are told that the words of the wise are said with a certain pleasantness and a measured tone; they don’t speak in ways that are incoherent or overly passionate or overly extreme. Everything is said in a way… and people who don’t control themselves can go into tantrums, yell, scream, become hysterical, and their words come across in that fashion.

So, words are channels and instruments for us to reach each other. And in doing so, we have, as I said, the energy of the word or the letter.

Letters: Building Blocks of Meaning

Let’s speak about letters, which make up words.

Think of it this way: the letters on a page in a book are like the containers, and the energy is the message. What’s the story? What’s the narrative? What’s the sentiment? What’s the experience being conveyed?

In a world like ours, where we live in a material world, we need both. You cannot just have energy without containers because then we won’t be able to reach each other. If someone just pours out their plain, unfiltered, and shapeless energy, you won’t understand what they’re saying. It’ll just be sound. If, on the other hand, there are only letters and no soul behind it, then it’s just empty words. That’s why we need both. We need those… They say, “Words from the heart enter the heart.” So, it comes from the heart, and the heart is beyond words, but then it’s harnessed and channeled in expression.

You know, sometimes there’s an expression I like to use, that when I try to write and communicate, you’re really trying to express the inexpressible. That’s what it comes down to; you’re trying to express feelings, sentiments, and experiences that are not always easy to quantify in words. Therefore you have to use the right metaphors and analogies. And most importantly, you need to find those words that resonate, that resonate with you and with another. And that resonance is really where you create the connection. But you can only do it through words because if you don’t have the words, you don’t have the channel, you don’t have the bridge… The bridge is a good word here. The bridge to bridge two people. But what are you conveying on this bridge? What are you… What’s traveling across this bridge? Our feelings and sentiments that are sometimes not exactly described and don’t fit into the regular parameters of words. Which is why often one of the ways we communicate is through song. You sometimes can’t communicate through exact prose or particularly rational words or language, so we use a song, a feeling, an expression… You know, people relate to the word “you know.” I think everybody understands what that means even though it doesn’t have any particular meaning in the dictionary. Or a cry or a laugh.

So, the point I’m making here is I’m trying to explain the so-called science behind language, behind linguistics. And the science really is that there’s an energy, and there are containers. So, this introduction is critical to really understanding the mystery of Gematria.

The Mystery of Gematria

So, let’s go over to Gematria now.

If words are energy, if letters are energy, and words are the synergy of several letters coming together… I’ll use the classic, as I said, the Hebrew word baruch. It’s the best example because baruch means “blessing.” “You are blessed.” “You shall be blessed.”

So, the word baruch is made up of four Hebrew letters. If you want to use the word in English, “bless” let’s say, B-L-E-S-S. But as I said, I’m focusing on the Hebrew. But I’ll explain it all obviously in English. So this is an example of using language to explain something that may be beyond some people’s language because everybody knows Hebrew.

So, the word baruch, or “bless,” is made up of letters. And the letters themselves… The B, for example, of “bless” could be a “b” in other words. It could be the “b” of “building.” It could be the “b” of “bricks.” It could be the “b” of “bumblebee” if you wish.

So, that B can be used in many different ways. It’s just a brick; think of a brick in a building. But when that brick, that one letter, combines with another letter, an L, which again is a letter that can be used in many words, and an E, an S, an S, or bet, reish, vav, chaf which can be used in many different combinations… Now, you combine them in this particular order, and you suddenly have a new energy that enters; we call it synergy. It’s more than the sum of the parts. It’s not just a B, an L, and an E, and an S-S; it’s not just a bet, reish, vav, chaf; it is now the meaning “blessing.” “Blessing,” we all know, is much more than just four letters, random letters. Now, the letters, the bricks, have come together and have shaped a message, have shaped a feeling.

Someone says, “I want to bless you.” It’s a lot more than just a bunch of letters; they’re giving you a blessing; they’re giving you a bracha – a blessing.

And the same thing with “I love you” – L-O-V-E. In Hebrew, love is ahava, also four letters. So this, again, conveys much more than just single bricks. These bricks have now turned into a structure, and that structure is the word that conveys a message that’s more than the sum of the parts. But it’s made up of those parts.

So, you have to say those parts all have their energy, then there’s a synergy that enters, what is often called the air in Hebrew in the Kabbalistic language, a type of synergy that hovers and is more than the sum of the letters, which is the word.

Letters, Words, Sentences, Stories

Now, of course, that’s one word. When you combine several words, you create a sentence, and sentences create paragraphs, and paragraphs create chapters, and chapters create books, and books create volumes, and there you have the whole story… the rest is history! The point is that it all begins with these letters. Whether letters of speech or the written word, it’s the same idea; it’s just two different forms of letters. One is coming out of your mouth, and one is being engraved or written on paper or parchment or engraved on a tablet. And what I mean by a tablet, I don’t mean the modern tablet; I mean the tablets that were given at Sinai.

So, once you understand language and letters in that fashion… Now, the interesting thing is if a letter is indeed a channel of energy, then this letter has many… It’s very… It has to be analyzed and dissected. So here, we have several ways we look at letters besides the fact that the letters add up to a word. The letters also have a shape. Every letter has a shape. An aleph, for example, is a diagonal line with a dot on the top right and a dot on the bottom left. A bet is like… a B is like… is three lines with an open left side, like a square without the left side of the square. A gimmel is harder to describe; it’s aligned with it… But each Hebrew letter has its shape. And that shape, indeed, also… as I said before with the film and the projector, the shape of letters is what shapes the energy. Follow that… the shape. So, the shape itself carries and describes that kind of energy. It is…

So, let’s take the word bayit. As a matter of fact, the word bet has another meaning; bet is also “a house.” If you know a little Hebrew, you know that *bayit*… there’s a house and a bet. Actually, it looks like a house. What does a house usually look like? You make three lines, and that’s a house, right? A wall, a wall, and a roof. That’s a bet, an inverted bet. And the same thing with aleph and the same thing with gimmel.

So, besides the fact that the letter itself has… is… makes up the word bayit, the shape of the letter contains the energy of that letter. So now we have the shapes; then, we have the meanings of each letter like I just said. *Bayit*… bet is also “a house.” *Aleph*… we can mean “master.” Aleph, lamed, *mem*… teacher. So, aleph has many of its own meanings. And the same thing, each of the letters has its meaning.

Gematria: The Numerical Value of Letters

What we’re going to focus on here is a third element in each letter, which is its numerical equivalent, which we’ll be calling “numerology.” That’s the Gematria.

So, what’s Gematria? Gematria literally means “the number” that corresponds to the letters of the alphabet, of the Hebrew alphabet. So, we have a system for this; it’s actually quite complex. I’m going to focus on the basics, even though we call this “Gematria for Beginners.” Um… You know, I was wondering whether to use that word. I’ll tell you why. Just as an aside, I remember I was once giving a class, a series of classes, at the Open Center here in the city. It was on Spring Street when I was teaching, then… then they moved somewhere in Midtown. And again, a number of classes there.

One of the classes… The program director called me; she was really good with the titles and so on. She said, “Let’s do a class called ‘Kabbalah for Beginners.’”

So I told her, “I don’t know if that’s a great title. Who wants to be called a beginner?”

So she said to me, “You know they said the same thing about those books like, you know, ‘Accounting for Dummies,’ ‘Computers for Dummies,’ ‘This for Dummies,’ ‘That for Dummies…’” And first, people thought maybe it won’t work; no one wants to be called a dummy. But the tongue-in-cheek element actually… saying it in people’s faces actually did resonate. They said, “You know, no problem. Why don’t you tell me I’m a dumb…? At least you’re not hiding the fact, you know?” It worked! It was a good marketing tool. Then it became a series for idiots, right? Something like “Cooking for Idiots” and “Accounting for Idiots.” I’m not sure if “idiot” and a “dummy” is… but… But two brands! So, we have the “idiot” and the “dummy” brand, okay?

Now, this was all… So I sat there, “I don’t know if it’s a great idea to call it ‘Kabbalah for Beginners.’” She said, “Let’s try.” And we did it, and I want to definitely recall 30-35 people attended. Then the series was very nice, successful. It was recorded. I think we even have it on… uh… We have it available on our site.

Um… then a few months later, she said, “Let’s do another one.”

“Because…?”

So I said, “You know what? Let’s try ‘Advanced Kabbalah.’ We did the beginners; let’s do ‘Advanced Kabbalah.’”

She says, “What are you going to say?”

I said, “I’m going to say the same thing, but let’s call it ‘Advanced Kabbalah.’” We had over 100 people show up.

As I said, you see, I think maybe when it comes to “Cooking for Dummies,” they don’t have a problem. But for Kabbalah, everyone wants the advanced version; they don’t want the beginner’s version.

So, I was thinking about the “Gematria for Beginners.” I said, “Let’s test it as well. We’ll do ‘Gematria for Beginners’ this week, and at some other point, we’ll do ‘Advanced Gematria.’” The truth is, it’s all advanced, to be very honest. And, uh… But I mean, and even for advanced people, you also have to begin with the beginning and begin with the basics. So don’t be deceived by the name. And we didn’t call it “Gematria for Dummies”; we didn’t call it, good… “Gematria for Idiots.” That’s not Meaningful Life Center style!

Hebrew Letters and Their Numerical Values

But “Gematria for Beginners: The Art and Science of Jewish Numerology.” So, the truth is, it is a very complex study, to be honest, because in Gematria itself, as I’ll point out in this discussion, there are probably, I would say, 30 different ways of doing Gematria! How do you like that?

So, I’m going to begin with the most basic way. And that is that in the Hebrew alphabet, there are 22 letters. 22 letters and five… we’ll call… What are they called? Um… vowels. No, not vowels. No. Five letters that have a double letter that you use at the end of a word, which is… So it’s 22 letters, but I’m not going to discuss the other five because they’ll just complicate matters. Let’s stick to the 22.

So, based on what I’ve said, *ot*… and ot is… means… comes from the word “transmission,” channeling, um… directing, guiding light, right? So, based on that, it’s like 22… Think of it as 22 transmissions, each one with its particular personality, its shape, its meaning, and, of course, its number, which is what we’re focusing on.

And the general way it’s structured goes like this: the first 10 letters are 1 to 10. So, you have *aleph*… 1 to 10, with aleph being number one. One, bet is two, gimmel is three, dalet is four, and yud is ten. Then it jumps by tens. So, you have… the next is 10, 20, 30… You don’t go by units any longer; we go by tens. So, you’d… till kuf would be 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.

I’ll be… Again, I’ll be specific. You know, I’ll spell it out in case somebody wants to start again.

Aleph is one, bet is two, gimmel is three, dalet is four, hey is five, vav is six, zayin is seven, chet is eight, tet is nine, and yud is ten. So we got the first ten letters; we have another 12 to go.

And here’s how it works: the next is kaf. So, um… You understand kaf is 20. Lamed is 30, mem is 40, nun is 50, samech is 60, ayin is 70, pey is 80, tzadik is 90, and kuf is 100.

So now we have 20 letters. Well, 19, I should say. Then we have reish, shin, tav – the last three. And now it jumps to hundreds. So now we went by… We went ten units, then we went ten tens, and now we go from kuf is 100, reish is 200, shin is 300, and tav, the final of the 22 letters, is 400.

Calculating Gematria

So, let’s take any word… Let’s take the word baruch, as I mentioned. So, what would be the Gematria of baruch? The bet is two, the reish is 200, the vav is six, so we have 208, and the kaf is 20. So we have 228.

Take any name. Let’s take a name… um… Give me… Anyone has a Hebrew name here? Tell me your Hebrew name?

[Audience member responds: Adina]

Adina? Yeah, okay. It’s spelled with an aleph at the end, you know, or a hey, probably a hey.

So then we have 10, 15… uh… nun is 50… 65… And the final hey is… 70. So your name is the Gematria number 70. So, 70 has a special meaning relating to your name.

Every letter… I’m sorry, every word, um… has a Gematria based on the combination of the letters.

Now, I’ve just given you one form of Gematria; there are many other ways to do these calculations. But I said that will be more complicated, so let’s just focus on this. We’ll call it the basic Gematria of a word.

Different Methods of Gematria Calculation

Remember, there are other ways that the letters are counted. Sometimes, we count the letters; we don’t skip tens and hundreds, and it goes literally 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 till 22, with tav being 22.

Sometimes, we don’t count zeros, which means that we have… so we can have number one is… aleph is… is one because you take out the zero. Uh… yud would be also one because you take out the two zeros. So, essentially, you would have four times the letter one: *aleph*… um… aleph… I’m sorry, three times. And bet would be 2, 20, and 200. And gimmel would be three… would be gimmel, um… shin, and uh… I’m sorry, gimmel, lamed, and shin.

So, I’m just pointing out there are many other ways to count. Then there’s all kinds of other Gematrias where you add up the letters in a cumulative way. For example, Adina, you would say one, then you’d say one and four is five, but you add… now the five… You count the one again, so you say five and one is six; then you count the yud and the aleph. So it would be six, ten, plus five is fifteen, and you add it up, and it comes out to be a lot more than 70.

So, there are ways, different ways. Sometimes you cube it; sometimes, you even quadruple it. And then sometimes… I call it a “curl.” You… You add the whole word, and then you add one more number for the sum total of all of them.

I don’t want to confuse matters; I just wanted to point out that there are a lot of complex configurations and permutations of these ideas.

Example: The Tetragrammaton

One classic thing that you may be familiar with… this is more Kabbalistic, but I’ll just mention it for the record. The famous Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey, the holiest Name of God… So everyone knows that’s associated with the number 26. Yud is ten, the hey is five – 15 – the vav is six, so that’s 15, 21, plus one more hey, five, makes 26.

But there’s a thing called counting… There’s another form of Gematria called “with the miluim.” So, if you’ve ever heard of the concept of the Shem Havaya, the Shem Adnut, the Shem Sag, the Shem Av, if you haven’t, you can easily skip this; it won’t affect the rest of the discussion here. But these are four different numerical Gematrias, all based on the Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey. And I’ll explain that in a moment because 26 is the basic number of the four letters. But what happens when you write out the four letters… a *yud*… When you write it out, it itself is made up of three letters. So suddenly, the yud becomes 20 because the yud is… four… is ten, the vav is six, and then four – ten and ten, twenty.

Now the question is, how do you write hey? That’s why I asked you the question. You could write hey-aleph; you could write hey-hey; you could write hey-yud. So all these show different permutations of these letters, and they end up respectively to four different ways of combining them. One adds up to 45, one adds up to 52, one adds up to 63, and one adds up to 72. So, you’ll find sometimes in Kabbalistic and Hasidic writings these names…

As I said, um… This is more of a footnote. I just wanted to point out how this affects literally all discussions about words and names and numbers, and so on. And they’re all different types of Gematrias, but let’s get back to the basic because if you master the basic Gematria, it’s much easier to climb to stage two and figure out other forms of numerical configurations.

Gematria and Connections

Another introduction I want to make before I continue is that Gematria also helps people understand the connections between different things. Let’s say your name, Adina, adds up to the number 70. There are other words in Hebrew that add up to the number 70. And they have a relationship because they have the same Gematria.

But the qualification I want to make here is that a lot of people who are probably more of the novices and don’t know the entire science and art of it just go ahead and start comparing different things that are number 70 and say, “Okay, this is number seven, this is number seven, and therefore we can just make a correlation.” That’s not the case. It goes the other way around because two things are connected; that’s why their numbers are going to be connected. Not that you find two things of the same number; you can just stick one wall to the next, as they say. We can’t just stick walls together. You have to understand, firstly, the significance of a name or the meaning of the word; then, you could say that relates to another word.

Because they have… A classic example would be the number… another 70. It happens to be 70 is this expression… Okay, it says, “When wine enters, secrets come out.” As we see, someone drinks wine, they start… They like to say, “A drunk… What’s on their lung is on their tongue.” In this industry… there’s an expression.

But it also has a positive meaning that when you drink wine, the inner… your inner dimension is revealed, just like the grape has concealed within its wine. So… so too… And when you squeeze the grape, that wine is produced. So too, we all have inner secrets, more profound things. And when you drink wine, it brings the secret out.

So, the interesting thing is the Gematria of yayin, which is “wine,” is what… is… is 70. The Gematria of saidot, “secrets,” is also 70 because nun is 50, that’s 70. Sod is four, 70… It’s a different kind of… different words.

So, the words themselves… If you saw yayin here, “wine,” “secret” here, you wouldn’t necessarily connect them. But based on this harmonic statement, you realize they both carry the power of a “secret,” and therefore they have the same number. So, it didn’t begin because they both have the same number; it was because they had a relationship, therefore… is the way the cosmic energies work; that’s why they have the same number.

So, it’s important to realize it’s not the number that makes the connection; it’s the connection that makes the number. That’s a critical piece in understanding what Gematrias are and avoids a lot of mistakes that people make. They start looking around, “Okay, what else is number 70?” And, “Okay, I must have a connection to that.” You see, if I’d say 75th Avenue, that’s the place I have to go shopping. Not necessarily! That’s a little going overboard. Because, at first, you need a connection; then, you need the numerical, uh… equivalent of it.

Okay, so with that said, you suddenly see new, uh… new horizons… and completely new vistas and… and horizons open up when you start looking at the number of words here. Right here… yayin means “wine,” sod means “secret,” but when you look at the Gematria, you suddenly realize that you can learn deep things about wine and secrets by looking at the number. And the same is true across the board with every name, either of a person or an object, or anything in existence. The name carries the energy, as I described in the introduction. And that energy… part of that energy is also the number… miracle… the equivalent… the numerology of that word or name.

Gematria: Not a Predictive Tool

Now, one has to be careful because not everyone’s a master of this. But there are those… There were Kabbalists and mystics who are able to look at someone’s name and somewhat recognize certain patterns and personality that that person has. And we’re not talking here about any prophecy or miracles. It’s simply because the name carries energy, and the name carries energy means it’s your energy. It’s the name that you were given.

We’re told… The Arizal… the writings that… the Arizal was a great mystic who says that when parents give a name to children, it’s like a mini-prophecy. They may not know it, but God puts the right name in their mouths, which is why one of the only areas where you don’t have rabbis and leaders will advise on the name… You’ll never find advice on the name. You’ll see the names in the Bible, for example, Leah gave the names… the parents give their names. Even though you can go to… let’s say, to a sage and say, “What name do you think…?” That sage will always say, “You, as parents, have the prophecy, the mini-prophecy. God will give you the right name to put into… well, the right name that this child needs to have.”

Now, sometimes it’s a name after a grandparent, after a loved one, after someone that you want to remember and, more… memorialize. That’s part of it.

The Power of a Name

But a name is a very powerful force. And we see, even though on one hand, the name, you can say, is only a handle… you can exist without a name. If you lived alone on this Earth, you wouldn’t need a name. You don’t need a name to call yourself. Even though I know some people do speak to themselves, and they say, “What’s the matter with you, Adina?” Right? You know what… you know. Or, “What’s the matter with you…” uh… whoever it may be. But, in essence, we don’t need a name.

On the other hand, a name is critical for us to be able to communicate to each other. And we know that a name also touches the core. A person could be asleep; a person could even be in a faint state, in a comatose state, and you call their name, there’s something that touches them very deeply because the name does associate… as I said before, how the soul channels inside of you.

So therefore, the Gematria, the number that associates with your name, is therefore also very significant. And, um… The second section of Tanya, Chapter 1, the Baal Shem Tov… the Alter Rebbe says that the number… the letters… the number… the numerology of a particular word gives you the number of energies that that word contains.

So, in a sense, when you say the word yayin, 70… um… seven… It’s like 70 energies. And what’s 70? So, you can study, and those that are familiar with the number 70 know it has certain power. 70 is 10 times 7. It’s, uh… the seven faculties times ten, meaning they’re complete… uh… their complete cycle.

Numbers and Their Significance

So, with the number, you can begin to recognize different elements. For