Numbers For Chanukah

Goal: A riddle in numbers for Chanukah

Numbers for Chanukah

Add up the number of candles we light in eight days (without the shamash) + The number of candles we light (with the shamash).

Add the Hebrew year.

Add  the gematria of the English word “Chanukah” (A=1 B=2 C=3… L=12… Z=26).

Divide that by the number of brachot we say each night when we light the candles (only from the second day on).

Multiply by the number of sons Mattityahu  the Macabi had.

Divide that by the number of Sifrei Torah we take out on Shabbat Chanukkah that falls on Rosh Chodesh Tevet.

To that you add the number of days Chanukah is.

Turn the number you just got in to 4 separate digits and add them up.

The number you got is the same Gimatriah as a word in Hebrew related to Chanukah… either

סופגניה\ סביבון\ כד\ חנוכיה\ חשמונאים\ פיל

What’s the number?

What’s the word?

Answer for Numbers:

36+ 36+ 8= 80

+5769= 5849

+3 +8 +1 +14 + 21 + 11 + 1 + 8= 5916

/2 = 2958

X5= 14790

/3= 4930

+8= 4938

4+9+3+8=24

24=כד