Rabbi Dr. Elie Feder | Gematria Refigured: The Importance of Quantity and the Fine-Tuning Argument

• Episode 33: Rabbi Dr. Elie Feder "Gematria Refigured" (Part 3 of 3)

• Gematria is one of the methods of Aggadic interpretation but unfortunately it has developed a bad reputation as something that can be easily manipulated to "prove" any idea. As a respected mathematician and a critical thinker, Rabbi Dr. Elie Feder initially did not find it to be compelling at all. That is until a particular gematria piqued his interest. In this episode, he discusses his journey from skeptic to believer. But what are we to make of Gematrias that are seemingly intellectually dishonest, which he refers to in his book 'Gematria Refigured' as "patchwork" or "almost the same" gematrias? The Rabbi presents us with the brilliance of Chazal and explains why they utilized a method of derash specifically focusing on quantity. His approach really blew us away, giving us a newfound appreciation for the Sages.

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• Bio: Rabbi Elie Feder received Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin semikhot from his rebbi, Rabbi Yisrael Chait. He also received a PhD in mathematics from CUNY Graduate Center. He has been a maggid shiur at Yeshiva
Bnei Torah and a mathematics professor at Kingsborough Community College since 2004. He has published many papers and delivered many talks in graph theory, his field of mathematics research. He
lives in Far Rockaway, New York, with his wife, Aliza, and their four children. His new book, Gematria Refigured presents the discoveries that led to the author’s transformation from a gematria skeptic to a
gematria lover. It develops a theory which elucidates how the Torah and Chazal use gematria to direct us toward a very specific type of idea. Through its many examples, this work illustrates how gematria can
help us uncover novel insights, while providing interesting and clearly formulated perspectives into many mitzvot, themes, and stories in Tanakh

• Buy his book here: https://www.amazon.com.mx/Gematria-Refigured-Conveys-Through-Numbers/dp/1957579250

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