<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="5" class="">The gematria for Isru Chag is 278, the same gematria for l'machar found in Bamidbar, Ch.11, vs.18. <br class="">This is in the Sidra, Beha'alotch, where God has Moshe establish a Sanhedrin because Moshe complained that he could not carry on alone. <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, <br class="">we must always be preparing ourselves. As a matter of fact, in counting the omer, we are preparing ourselves <br class="">for mattan Torah in 50 days.</font></body></html>