Who knows twenty-six?
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26 is the gematria of God judaism.stackexchange.com/a/82174/759– Double AA ♦Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 17:55
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There is no word in Megillat Esther with the gematria 26.
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How do you know that? What's the significance - an extra layer of hester panim?– Isaac Moses ♦Commented Apr 30, 2010 at 14:46
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@Shalom How common are words (other than the Tetragrammaton) with that Gematria in other books?– Double AA ♦Commented Dec 28, 2015 at 21:42
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2@DoubleAA Koheles is the only other freestanding book with zero. Chagai and Malachi also have zero, but by our tradition are parts of the single book of Trei Asar. Tanach averages 18 non-Tetragrammaton-yes-Gematria-26 words per ten thousand words; other than the books above, the range is 1.6 for Daniel to 73 for Zechariah (or if you want a freestanding book, Yishaya has 46).– ShalomCommented Dec 30, 2015 at 2:11
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1@DoubleAA this means if things followed averages (hah!), Chagai and Malachi would have been expected to contain 1--2 such words; Koheles and Esther, 5--6 such words. I'd say they're deliberately missing in Koheles and Esther.– ShalomCommented Dec 30, 2015 at 2:17
26 is Hashem (in the Heaven and the Earth. ooh ahh, ooh ooh ahh!) gematriah of tetragrammaton
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I would change the wording to be careful of maraas ayin that u chad vishalom think Hakadosh Baruch Hu is more than one Commented Jul 6, 2015 at 3:29
26 generations to Moshe Rabbeinu (10 to Noach plus 10 to Avraham, then Yitzhak, Yaakov, Levi, Kehat, Amram, Moshe)
26 are the verses of Hallel HaGadol (Hodu LaShem Ki Tov)
corresponding to...
the 26 generations that Hashem sustained with His Chesed (because they did not have the merit of the Torah. See Jeremy's answer.)
(T.B. Pesachim 118)
26 are the knots and strings on the two front Tzitziyos (which the Gr"a says is the meaning of "You shall see them and remember...".)
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Coincidentally, that's also true of the two left tzitziot.– Isaac Moses ♦Commented Apr 28, 2010 at 17:29
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5Yes, but the Gr"a says that the two in front of you are the ones you will most likely see.– YahuCommented Apr 28, 2010 at 17:37
26 are the years of peace that Sodom and its sister cities enjoyed (from after the war with the four kings - Gen. 14 - until their destruction). (Shabbos 10b-11a)
26 is the Gematria of the parts of One. (Alef is made of two Yuds and a Vav.)
26 are the years during which the Romans treated their allies, the Chashmonaim, as equal partners. After that they began to lord it over them, culminating in the eventual Roman takeover of Eretz Yisrael. (Avodah Zarah 8b, 9a)
26 is the number of generations it took to recieve the Torah.
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Same idea as mi.yodeya.com/questions/1265/shisha-veesrim-mi-yodeya/1269#1269– Isaac Moses ♦Commented Apr 29, 2010 at 15:11
26 is the number of times someone outside of the Land of Israel will have asked "mi yodeya" as part of the Pesach seder (excluding repetitions for fitting a particular tune).
