i'll put it out. the name's lenny meyer
and you are?
max?
cohen! jewish? max shrugs and turns back to his work.
it's okay. i'm a jew, too. do you practice?
have you ever heard of kabbalah?
jewish mysticism.
i understand. it's just that it's a very exciting time in our history. right now is a critical moment in time.
yes, it's very exciting. have you ever put on tefillin?
tefillin. you know tefillin. i know it looks strange. but it's an amazing tradition that has a tremendous amount of power. it's a mitzvah for all jewish men to do. mitzvahs, good deeds, are spiritual food for our hearts and our heads.
they purify us and bring us closer to god. you want to try it?
are you okay? max? max?
well, maybe some other time.
hey, max, how you doing?
lenny meyer. i'll put it out. so, what do you do?
really? what type of math?
number theory? no way, i work in theory, too. not traditional, though.  i work with the torah. amazing.
yeah. you know hebrew is all numbers. it's all math.
here, look. the ancient jews used hebrew as their numerical system. each letter is a number.
you see. the hebrew "a," the number 1. the hebrew "b," bet, is two. you can take any hebrew text and turn them into a long string of numbers.
the torah is just a long string of numbers. some say that it's a long code sent to us from god.
yeah, like take the hebrew word for, say, the garden of eden, kadem. kuf, dalei mem. kuf is a hundred. daled, four mem, forty. they equal one hundred and forty-four. then take the tree of knowledge. in the garden, aat ha haim, it equals two hundred and thirty-three. now you can take that number and.
huh?
theta?
you're right, i never saw that before. that's the series you find in nature. like the face of a sunflower.
you see, there's math everywhere.
max! how you doing? lenny meyer.
hey, where you going? you got a few moments to do tefillin?
i gotta car, we can cruise over to my.
yeah, right there. that's ephraim, my friend.
great.
do it for me? it means a lot, having someone of your stature performing a mitzvah in my presence. when you told me your name was max cohen, i didn't realize you were the max cohen. maximilian cohen.
0f course, i've followed your research since your columbia days. it's revolutionary. you've inspired the work we do.
yes, very much so. the only difference is, we're not looking at stocks. we're searching for a pattern in torah.
we're not really sure. our calculations have shown us that there is a number encoded in the text.
we don't know. all we know is that it's two hundred and sixteen digits long.
don't worry. this one just goes over your head.
yes. now we have to say a small prayer, repeat after me.
that's it. wasn't so bad, was it? you feel anything?
it's a prayer about our dedication to our one and only god.
oh. we don't know. we just know that it's the most common number encoded in the text. it might be some type of linguistic pattern. if we could figure out what the number is we could maybe answer that.
hello, this is lenny?
max! how are you? you want to come down?
that's good.
excellent.
the torah.
in hebrew characters and numbers.
i don't know. if you get it, maybe we can figure it out. can you really find it?
max!
stay down!
he's okay, he got in his cab. we've been looking for you.
do you have the number?
do you have the number?
you have it. where is it? you have it written down?
we're not joking around, max? where's the number?
you memorized it? did you give it to them?
who!? those wall street bastards.
just answer me!
hit him!
you're dealing with something really big now, max. i don't want to hurt you, so answer me. did you give it to them?
damn it! damn it! they're using it.
shut up!
no, don't!
i told you we don't know
give us the number!
it will kill you!
we're pure. give us the number!