The Book of Jeremy

He knocked again, “Grandma?”

“Yes, dear,” the video paused and she nimbly came to the screen door.

“Do you know any Hebrew?”

She opened the screen, “A little, why?”

“Well, I want to figure out if our president is the anti-Christ. So I figure if I use the numbers of the Hebrew letters it could tell us.”

“That’s an interesting idea. Come on inside. Let’s see, so you want to use gematria to test his name?”

“What’s gematria?”

“That’s the name for doing what you just described, using the numerical value of Hebrew letters to help you learn more about something. Let’s go sit down.” They went to her kitchen table. “Pappa’s still at work and I have some time before I need to start dinner.” She took his paper, “let’s see what you have.”