<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 19px;" class="">Nahum Sarna says: "The use of numerical symmetry is Scripture's way of conveying the conviction that the formative age in Israel's history was</span><span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""> not a series of haphazard incidents but the fulfillment of God's grand design……"</span><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 19px;" class="">Avraham lived for 175 years</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 19px;" class="">Yitzchok for 180 years<br class="">Ya'akov for 147years.<br class="">These numbers form an ordered and symmet-<br class="">rical series:<br class="">7 x 5 squared = 175 (Abraham)<br class="">5 x 6 squared = 180 (Isaac)<br class="">3 x 7 squared = 147 (Jacob)</span></div></div></body></html>