Friday, April 18, 2008

Food for Thought (Bada Ching!)

Via A Simple Jew ...

A Blemish

The numerical value of chometz (חמץ) is 138. This is the same as the numerical value for pegimah (פגימה), the word for blemish. Whoever eats chometz on Pesach thus blemishes his neshoma.

(Rabbi Yaakov Culi)