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I'm atheist Jewish and was raised with a conservative upbringing. I can think of at least like 3 different numbers in Judaism that have special meaning, and none of them are 6. I don't remember anything about the number 6. Also confused.



I'm about as far from Jewish as you can get, but I do have access to Google & Wikipedia, so in the interest in providing some data for this confusing side-thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_symbolism#The_symbolic_...

"The number six symbolizes imperfection". No idea if and how that would relate to the six million in relation to the Holocaust.

Then if you go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_numerology#Numerical_... there's some more details.




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