<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">The gematria for <i class="">Isru Chag</i> is 278, the same gematria for <i class="">l'machar</i> found in Bamidbar, Ch.11, vs.18. <br class="">This is in the Sidra, <i class="">Beha’a'lotcha</i>, where God has Moshe establish a Sanhedrin because Moshe complained that he could not carry on alone. <br class=""><br class="">God says to Moshe: "To the people you shall say, 'Prepare yourselves for tomorrow and you shall eat meat..." <br class=""> <br class="">There is an interesting tie here. The day after a festival is the "morrow" and even though the holiday is over, we must always be preparing ourselves. <br class="">(Also, in counting the omer, we are preparing ourselves for the climax of our faith in 50 days).<br class=""> <br class="">A good<i class=""> Isru chag</i> to all.</span><br class="">ri<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><i class="">“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”</i></b><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Anonymous</b></span></body></html>