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Who knows two hundred ninety-two?

?שנים ותשעים ומאתים - מי יודע


You may need to be a native Israeli to come up with a lazy gematria for this one.

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When you have that line about the gematria, are you actually hinting to something? –  Double AA Feb 13 '12 at 19:00
@DoubleAA, yes; it's a pun. –  Isaac Moses Feb 13 '12 at 19:04
Re "You may need to be a native Israeli": or a native of a particular ir miklat in ever haYarden. –  msh210 Feb 13 '12 at 20:29
Ughh, every time I try to find references, all I find are records of massacres during the Holocaust. Makes me too sad. –  HodofHod Feb 13 '12 at 20:45

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From the Mabul - flood until Avraham Avinu was 292 years

Avraham was born in 1948 - The Mabul was in 1656

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There are 14 possible Jewish calendar combinations. In a year where the following combination happens - גכ"ה - there are 292 days that are not Shabbos or Yom Tov (Chutz L'Aretz) and you may do Melacha.

An explanation of what גכ"ה mean.




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