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In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 295.
If there are any treatments of lazy gematria here, I want them to be enlightening.
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http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380044/jewish/Meditations-for-Troubled-Times.htm
And for the blessing "R'tzei" ["Favor"], have in mind that the word "r'tzei" [spelled reish (=200), tzadi (=90), hei (=5), = 295] has the numerical value of the name Elokim spelled out with hei.
"Elokim spelled out with hei" is: alef (1) lamed (30) pei (80), lamed (30) mem (40) dalet (4), hei (5), hei (5), yud (10) vav (6) dalet (4), mem (40) mem (40) =295.
This is because the word "r'tzei" is the same letters as the word "tzara" [which means "trouble"], and this is the secret meaning of the verse "….and it is a time of trouble to Jacob, but he will be saved from it" (Jeremiah 30:7); this "trouble" ["tzara"] is [the secret of the name] Elokim spelled out with hei.
Various online sources give the number of discovered pages of the Aleppo codex (keser Aram Tzova) as 295. (Others give 294. I suppose the discrepancy may be due to one of the two late discoveries of single pages, but don't know.)
