Series: The Torah Codes under the lens
Research
Articles on the Torah codes: the evidence, the history and the method.
Expected by Chance: The Honest Statistics Behind Every ELS Search
Next to every result, our search engine shows a second number: how many matches pure chance alone would have produced. This article explains where that number comes from — the actual frequencies of the 22 letters, the Poisson model, its limits — and how to use it to tell inevitable arithmetic apart from something that deserves investigation.
Read article →The Koren Edition: The Exact Text Where We Search for the Codes
In an equidistant letter search, a single letter too many or too few shifts the entire skip. That is why the question "exactly which text are you scanning?" is not a technical detail: it is the foundation. Here we document our answer — the Koren edition, the text of classical ELS research — letter by letter.
Read article →The Numbers of the Tanakh: Verses, Words and Letters of All 39 Books
Serious ELS research stands or falls on an exact, auditable textual base. We computed — not copied — the verses, words and letters of all 39 books from the very source our search engine uses, and validated the result against the soferic tradition. Here is the table.
Read article →Torah Codes: What the Scientific Evidence Actually Says
A peer-reviewed paper claimed in 1994 that Genesis encodes the names of rabbis born centuries later. Five years on, another paper in the same journal called it "fatally defective". This is the full story of the scientific debate — and how to verify every claim yourself.
Read article →From Weissmandl to supercomputers: the human story of the codes
A rabbi counting letters by hand in the midst of the Shoah, a Latvian mathematician and the list of 32 rabbis: the story behind the phenomenon.