gematria

  In the Torah reading of Vayeitzei in Genesis, we learn about the work ethic of Jacob, where he worked in blazing heat by day and frigid cold by night. The gematria of the pasuk describing his work is 2559. See Genesis 31:40. Here we see the concept of opposite weather conditions,day and night. Can we call this climate change 4000 years ago? The climate is constantly changing. Moreover, a similar conceptual gematria can be found at Talmud Pesachim 50, where the son of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi fell ill and the son described the next world in reverse, whoever was on top here is on the bottom of the next world and whoever is on the bottom here is on the top in the next world. So here again we see the concept of opposite or reverse. There is an additional verses with same theme including Proverbs 28:19, where it says, He who toils his soil will be sated with bread but he who pursues vain things will be sated with poverty. We see from above gematria of 2559 a clear connection between the ve