Tonight is the hillula of the Arizal, one of the greatest kabbalists of all time and to whom we owe most of our understanding (even if only on a limited basis) of the Tree-of-life. It is in his merit that we share today new revelations about the Tree-of-life. And as Abulafia said, nothing gets revealed without heavenly permission; everything in its time. As you’ll see now is the time. Rabbi Chaim Vital of blessed memory, the Arizal’s prized student and redactor, explained that the Tree-of-life was directly connected to the 42-Letter Name through the 10 sefirot (dimensions and 32 Paths of Wisdom that interconnect them, but it seemed in conflict with other commentary that described it was 10 sefirot and 22 linkages for a total of 32. Nevertheless, what neither he, nor anyone that we know of, has ever written about is that the 42-Letter Name also connect to the Tree-of-Life through the 42 letters in the 11 Names of the sefirot (including the all-important balancing dimension of Da’at, located between Chochma and Binah).

Now, we can’t tell you how they interact–anymore than Chaim Vital did over 400 years ago–but we do know, as the sages have told us, that it’s the understanding of the 42-Letter Name that will bring the geula (final redemption) and we can show you how the 42 letters of the 11 Names in the Tree-of-life mathematically spell out the date for the geula, the same date given to us by Rav Yehuda Halevi Ashlag, of blessed memory.

But first let’s examine what a little understanding can connect us to. First and foremost we must understand that, as explained by Abraham in his Sefer Yetzirah, the Hebrew letters are the building blocks of the universe and that how they recombine determines both the physical and spiritual (energetic) structure of the universe, so they are a lot more than squiggles on a page. Every word and name they form has significant individual meaning with far-flung consequences we can’t see nor fathom. And it’s only through the translation of gematria and simple mathematics that we get even a glimpse into that deeper meaning and purpose.

The 11 Names of the sefirot that make up the dimensional structure of our greater universe (Keter, Chochma, Binah, Da’at, Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut are spelled in Hebrew:

CTR

ChCMH

BYNH

DAT

ChSD

GBVRH

TGERT

NZCh

HVD

YSVD

MLCVT

It’s well known from the writings of the Arizal that the initials of these sefirot (without the inclusion of Da’at connect to the 5 letters of the name Israel through it’s value (541+5 = 546), and some people know that the first 4 initials of the upper sefirot (Keter, Chochma, Binah, Da’at) add up to 32, as in the 32 Pathways themselves. But what no one has written about that we know of is that there are 11 sefirot, 22 outer letters in the 11 Names, and 20 inner letters, and that the ordinal value for the letter C, T, and R, spelling Keter (CTR) are 11, 22, and 20; therefore, it’s through the spelling of these 11 Names that we can eventually connect to Keter, the crowning sefira.

And the timing for accessing that crowning level is found within the numerical value of the first and last letters of the 11 sefirot: 1985 plus 32 for the kolel of the 32 Paths equals 2017 (5778). Morever, the total value of the 42 letters in the 11 sefirot is 3342 and 3342- 11 (kolel) = 3331. And 3331 years (66.6 jubilee years) from 2448 HC, when the Israelites left Egypt and received the 10 Commandments, equals the end of the year 5778 and a new beginning, for it’s in the beginning where we found the 42-Letter Name and the Tree-of-Life.

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A similar parallel exists between the structure of the Tree-of-life and 10 plagues that preceded the last opportunity we had for achieving the Tree-of-life reality.

The 11 initials of the 10 plagues numerically equate to 541, the numerical value of Israel. The last two initials of the 11 words in the 10 plagues are M-B, as in the Shem MB, the 42-Letter Name. And with that, we’ll segue into the hidden spear in Washington DC that also points to 2018 (5778 HC) in our next article.

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It is said that Purim will be the only holiday that we’ll celebrate after the final redemption, but if all the holidays are based on cosmic windows, what separates Purim in the grand scheme of cosmic time? We read about Purim in the Book of Ester so that’s where we must search for the answer.

Yes, Purim is about defeating Amelak, our individual and collective doubts, about unifying ourselves as we did in Shushan heeding Mordechai and Ester’s calls, and about revealing the concealed, but it doesn’t seem to explain why we’ll still be celebrating this event that occurred thousands of years ago and not all the others. Unless…

Unless, the events of Purim as laid out in the Megilat Ester were to reoccur today, at least metaphorically and spiritually. What if these events that occurred at the end of the 70 years of Babylonian exile were to repeat themselves at the end of the 70 years of our present exile?

Yes, this current exile has lasted 1948 years since 70 CE, but only 70 years since the establishment of Israel as a nation in 1948 CE. Of course the final 70 year time span is based on Rav Yehuda Halevi Ashlog (HaSulam), and other well established predictions of the coming of Mashiach and the final redemption in 5778 (2018 ce), but we’ve covered that in a hundred other articles and books like The Divine Calendar and There’s Nothing Random About the Universe already.

That would indeed give us a reason to keep celebrating Purim; it would be celebrated as the final revelation of the concealed light. It would also mean that we actually have a blueprint of events that are to unfold in the final 8 years.

Every bit of the Tanakh is encoded, and we spend most of articles helping decode the first 5 Books of it, the Torah, but the Megilat Ester (The Book of Ester) is one of the most thoroughly encoded ones, with so many concealed Names of G-d, names of sefirot (the 10 dimensions) etc that it must surely hold some clues for us, something pointing to today.

Let’s look at the special sequence near the end of the reading of the 10 chapters of Ester, where the reader must recite the 10 names of the evil Haman’s children that are killed, in a single breath. It occurs in 3 symmetrical sequential verses of the 32 verses in Chapter 9. The number 32 always hints to hidden Tanakh wisdom, as it references the 32 Paths of Wisdom that comprise the structure of the Tree-of-Life and the number 9 also references wisdom as the 9^th sefira (dimension) of that Tree is the sefira of Chochma (Wisdom).

That said, we know these deaths represent the removal of evil (klippot) and Amelak (doubt) from the 10 sefirot. And as we mentioned in a pervious article, it was in the 70th verse of the Torah that G-d punished the snake and told him that he’ll eat dust for all the days in his life, meaning that his life was finite. Perhaps the snake’s demise will be found at 70 years. It was after all after 70 years of Abraham’s life that G-d made his Covenant with him in 2018 (HC), which is analogous to 2018 CE (5778 HC). When the snake (NChSh) dies, Moshiach will live, as they both share the same gematria, 358.

As it happens that 70th verse in which G-d punished the snake for his part in separating man from the Tree-of-life reality was at Bereshit 3:14, and as we’ve explained in other articles and in The Genesis Prayer, when we divide the number 9 by the small gematria of the 42-letter Name of G-d we get:

9/.123049.. =73.1415777

which is 70 + 3.14… or 70 + Pi

And thus we can see how the 42-Letter Name (Ana B’koach) is integrally connected to this verse, and the prophecies that through its’ understanding will come the geula (final redemption) in 5777-5778.

And as it just so happens, 73.1415778 = 2 x 36.5708 and 5708 is the year Israel became a nation, 70 years before 5778, fulfilling the 70-year period proscribed by the Zohar.

70 years is a very significant period in Biblical history (as explained in The Divine Calendar) but it’s in the 70^th chapter of the Torah that the 10 Commandments (Utterances) were given in 2448, when we last stood at the threshold of the Tree-of-Life reality, 66.6 jubilee years ago.

But back to the Megilat Ester, in this section of the 10 sons, the word v’et (VET) precedes each of the 10 names. VET is the 4^th word in the Torah and has the numerical value 407, whose square root just happens to be 20.17424, or if we were to apply Number Theory and break it up, we’d have possibly the year 2017 and 424, the numerical value of Moshiach Ben David. So in the reading of the story, this connection is made 10 times, once for each of the 10 sefirot (dimensions) connected within in a single breath.

Interestingly enough, the Hebrew word for letter or sign, Ot (EVT), is found exactly 10 times in the entire Torah, and 22 times in the entire Tanakh, corresponding to the 22 letters in the Hebrew Alef-bet.

We know from the sages that the last letters of phrases in Tanakh point to the future, and so when we find that the sum of the 10 names in the 11 words conjoined by the articles VET equals 376, the numerical value for Peace (Shalom), we can take heart. And that the 11^th is Alef is quite significant for a new beginning as well.

The first letters also reveal important encoding and information for us. In this case, we start with the alef from the word (EYSh) that precedes the first VET and is an integral part of the 10-sefirot listed sequence in the Book. The collective first letters sum to 256, the numerical value of Devarim (Deuteronomy), the last Book of the Torah and also of the Name Aaron, Moses’ brother and High Priest, and the only person associated with the written word Moshiach in the Torah.

And while 256 = 2⁸ or 4⁴, interestingly enough, the first 8 of those letters, add up to 248, the numerical value of the Book Bamidbar (Numbers), and of Abraham.

Be that as it may, we’ve discussed in prior articles that the Torah is constructed of exactly (600,000 – 408) component letters and that 408 times the letter vav of numerical value 6 equals 2448, the year of the exile from Egypt and the reception of the Torah at Sinai when we all last had the opportunity to receive the Tree-of-Life, 66.6 jubilee years ago. And since the Tikunei Zohar tells us that each brush stroke of a letter is equivalent to a letter vav (6) we can see why multiplying the missing 408 by 6 is so valid. As an aside we can see why the 7 collective strokes on the 2 differing letter Shins (Sh) embossed on the tefillin add up (7 x 6) to 42, as in the 42 Tetragrammatons (YHVH) within the tefillin, and as in the 42-Letter Name of G-d that preceded Creation.

Nevertheless, the letters in the article VET, permute to EVT, the Hebrew word for “letter” and 407 just happens to be 1 less that 408, making 408 one more than 407, and thus the numerical value 408 can be viewed at “1 EVT” of “E EVT” meaning “1 letter,” the letter Alef(E). So rather than the Torah needing 408 mysterious component letters to complete it in the time of Moshiach, it may only need 1 letter, the letter Alef, as in the first letter of the 42-letter name of G-d. Moreover, the word Chat (ChT) of numerical value 408 can mean “one,” or “single.”

And so, it’s surely no coincidence that the final 3 letters of the single breath passage in discussion (TzTE) add up to 408, or that the word they come from (VYTzTE) has the numerical value 424, that of Moshiach Ben David.

And surely, it’s not a coincidence that the last 3 letters preceding the single breath passage are EVT (407) yet again, part of the word Me’ot (MEVT), meaning the “signals (signs).” This word could also mean “from the signs” or “from the letters” or even “hundreds,” as was used literally in the story. It permutes to v’emet (VEMT) “and the truth.”

So this passage begins with Truth (Emet), a kabalistic synonym for both Torah and the 42-Letter Name of G-d that begins with Elef, ends with Tav and has 40 (M) letters in between. Then the passage proceeds through 54 letters and ends with Moshiach Ben David.

The 54 letters are significant because the 9 brush strokes in the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) at a value of 6 each add up numerically to 54, representative of the running and returning Light though the 27 letters. They also hint to 5778 in that the sum of all the positive integers through 107 = 5778 while 54 x 107 is also equal to 5778, but be that as it may, the sum of the 12 words and names in the passage (excluding the 10 VET’s) is 5805, or 5778 plus 27, representing the 27 letters of the complete Alef-bet. And kabbalistically, all 27 letters are found bound up in the single letter Alef (E), the seed of the entire alef-bet, thus referring back to the  “1 letter” to complete the Torah in the days of Moshiach.

The 3 verses (Ester 9:7-9) are symmetrical, a rare occurrence in Tanakh, further distinguishing them: the first letter of each is Vav; the first letter of the 2^nd word in each s Pe; the first letter of the next word in each is Vav again; then D-E-E; then the first letter of the 5th word in each is Vav again; and then the first letter of the 6^th word in each is Alef(E). So the symmetrical Vavs add up to 9 and once again 9 x 6 = 54, which leaves the symmetrical PE, which can either spell the letter Pe itself, or stand for Petach Eliahu (PTCh ELYHV), “opening Elijah” or “opening to G-d (YHV)”, whose numerical value is 540 or 54 x 10, and when the kolel of 1 is added, it’s 541, the numerical value of Israel.

In the Torah everything has a special purpose. There are 10 large letters in the Torah, connecting us to Binah (the upper world); 6 small letters, connecting us to Zeir Anpin of malchut of Zeir Anpin (the final channel into our lives); there are 10 places with 32 dots, connecting us to the 32 Paths of Wisdom that connect the 10 Sefirot and that according to Rabbi Chaim Vital of blessed memory make up the 42-letter Name; and there are 6 letters at the top of the column that are not vavs (V) and thus do not connect to Zeir Anpin like the rest of the Torah, and instead they connect us to H’Mashiach, the Messiah, of the same numerical value. All together there are 10 + 6+ 32 + 6, or 54 special letters in the Torah.

Moreover, with the 10 VETs in (Ester 9:7-9), we have 30 + 54 = 84 letters, the numerical value of the Hebrew word Pad, meaning “redemption,” and as explained by the tzaddikim, this is the fusion (42+42) of the upper and lower 42-Letter Names, the understanding of which they say will bring about the geula, the final redemption. Pad (PD) is also the initials (Pe and Dalet)of the first two of Haman’s sons listed.

It’s all about the Tree-of-Life. The 10 VETS, all connecting to Moshiach Ben David (424) manifestation in 2017, represent the 10 Sefirot, and the 22 words in the passage represent the 22 pathways between them, completing the 32 Paths of Wisdom.

And the 84 letters + 22 words + 1 breath of G-d totals 107, so as hinted by the tzaddikim and the encoding in the Book of Ester, if we align our consciousness to remove the negativity from ourselves and our world throughout the 10 sefirot, this embedded technology will serve to bring about the final redemption, which is all the more reason that Purim will be the only holiday that we’ll be celebrating in the near future.

And if we add the names of the 5 principle characters in the Book of Ester–Ester,(ESTR) Ahasverosh(EChShVRVSh),. Mordechai(MRDCY), Daniel(DNYEL)and Haman,(HMN)–the 22 letters in their combined names add up to 1946 and since the Zohar describes a final 72 year period before the final redemption, we once again arrive at the year 2018 CE, or 5778 HC.

The real answer to the question why Purim will be the only holiday (Chag) after the final redemption is that according to the Zohar and Rav Ashlag’s commentary, portion Ki Tisa (11:95) the word Chag (feast, holiday) is derived from the Aramaic Chaga, meaning breaking, that is “to execue judgement upon you,” and since the cosmic holidays were all desigend to mitigate the judgements upon us, they will no longer be necessary once we’ve achieved the Tree-of-life consciousness and live without judgment. Purim is designed, not to help us with our world (Malchut) ruled by time, but to help us navigate the universe beyond time, beyond the appointed time, the Tree-of Life.

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Taking it slow, let’s examine a little closer only one aspect of Joseph’s Pyramid (the Great Pyramid), its glimmering capstone. Its full (missing) capstone is 7 levels high, stretching from the 203^rd level to the tip of the 210^th, completing the tip the sword (ChRB), whose numerical value in Hebrew is 210, just like that of “the mountain (HHR).”

And while it is well know that the end of the first exile occurred after 210 years in Egypt the Zohar informs us in Pasha Toldot, (Midrash Hane’elam) Section 8, #71 that in regards to the resurrection the righteous will rise up 210 years before everyone else.  With the pyramid, we have that figure preserved in stone.

It’s interesting that the capstone was mysteriously removed long long ago, because, now, if you’d look straight down over the top of the pyramid you’d see a square 32 feet by 32 feet in the exact middle of it, just as you would if you did the same with the Holy Temple.  The square central alter in the center, or heart, of the Future Holy Temple is 32 cubits by 32 cubits.

As we’ve said previously, this makes sense since 32 is the numerical value for the Hebrew word for heart (LB), representing the 32 Paths of Wisdom, which form the Tree-of-life.

And since the Torah begins and ends with the letters Lamed (L) and Bet(B) as in LB (heart), and since there are exactly 32 x 32 word values in the Torah, which is also 2¹⁰ , analogous to the 210 levels, this structure makes perfect sense from a holistic and comprehensive divine point of view.

And as light flows down from the apex, cascading down the 4 steep highly polished sides of the pyramid, so too did the light (water) flow down the 4 rivers from Gan Eden (Bereshit 2:10) and from the Holy of Holies of the Future Temple through the 4 Names (Aspects) of G-d.

The 4 bases of this capstone, like the 4 bases of the pyramid itself, vary slightly, with the average being about 32.0833 feet, 32 and 1/12 feet or exactly 14 cubits, making the height of the capstone 20.42 feet and the apothem just about 26 feet give or take less than half an inch, with 26 being the numerical value of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH).

Now there are 201.1 cubits to this 203^rd level, 203 being the numerical value of the Torah’s first 3 letters (BRE), leaving 7 additional levels to the apex and since 2011 plus 7 equals 2018, as in 2018 CE, it matches up with the Hebrew year 5778 dictated by the pyramid’s height in inches. But more significantly, and more precisely, the ratio of the height and base of the capstone to the height and base of greater pyramid itself is 4.2424% giving us 424, the numerical value of Mashiach Ben David (the Messiah).

Yes, this is no coincidence.

Light and Dark

Let’s consider the aspect of the “Light” synonymous in Kabbalah with G-d (Hashem) and the structure of Joseph’s Pyramid. But first know this: The Zohar, in the paragraph that immediately proceeds the one quoted above regarding the 210 years, Toldot, (Midrash Hane’elam) Section 8, #71 tells us that “ ‘let there be Light’ (Bereshit 1:2) which means let there be secret, because light is the secret of redemption…” That understood, we know the most basic measurements of the Pyramid are exactly 210 holy cubits for the height and 330 holy cubits for the base.  We’re calling them holy cubits because this cubit (27.5 inches) is the one based on G-d’s name, (YHVH) and designated for the Future Temple, as we’ve discussed in our resent articles. Nevertheless, given only 210 and 330 and the 10 dimensional structure of the universe agreed upon by both most modern physicists and the ancient kabbalists, we find that:

1/(330*10²) = 1/33,000 inches (the exact wavelength for red light)

and

1/(210*330) = 1/69300 inches (the exact wavelength for violet light on the opposite side of the visible light spectrum).

What chance is there that this too is coincidence?

Or that the sum of the base and height in cubits (330 + 210) equals 540 and when we add 1 of the kolel we get 541, the numerical value of Israel.

Now, as we’ve explained, the capstone is exactly 14 cubits wide and 14 is the gematria value for David (DVD) and yad (YD), meaning hand, as in the hand of G-d, so how odd is it that 541 cubits is 14, 877.5 inches or 14 with 5778 reversed, the date Rav Yehuda HaLevi Ashlag of blessed memory gave us for the end of the 4^th exile. (See The Divine Calendar).

Not to get too technical, but the number 14 is the 3^rd square pyramidal number, meaning it takes 14 units to construct a 3 level square pyramid, and the Magen David, (the “Shield of David), is a perfect symmetrical 12-gonal star, indicating these numbers spiritually were chose not by simple mathematical chance, but for the esthetics in their geometric symmetry and how their energy unfolds in our world.

Moreover, 541 is the 10^th centered 12-gonal number, a fancy way of saying a symmetrical 12-sided polygon made up of 541 geometric units, and given Jacob’s (Israel’s) 12 sons as heads of the 12 tribes of Israel, it’s not an insignificant construction or consideration. There is nothing in the universe that does not have a specific purpose.

That all said, the square root of the 541 cubits in feet is 35.210 and while 35 is exactly 1/6^th the pyramid’s height of 210 cubits, the 35^th level of the pyramid is a big delineation point in its structure.

At the 35^th level, the height of the masonry is purposefully twice that of the average and surrounding layers, making it stand-out like a wide stripe or band around the pyramid. Being that it’s exactly 1/6^th the way up the structure , its therefore also 5/6^th the way down, indicating a possible construction analogous to the 6 sefirot (dimensions) of Zeir Anpin. Furthermore, this 35^th level just happens to be exactly 50 inches thick (high), which is yet another allusion to Binah and the 50-year jubilee period. (see our previous article: Mountain of Stone).

Moreover, the 35^th level up is necessarily the 175^th down, corresponding to the 175 years of Abraham’s life, the first of the Patriarchs to visit Egypt.

So once again we ask the questions: Who built the pyramid in Egypt and why?

We can plainly see that the structure itself is all about light and elevation and the end of exile (all four of them), and the Biblical word for Egypt, Mizraim, is synonymous with darkness, so obviously the pyramid wasn’t created by elements of darkness.  Moreover, it obviously served as a beacon of light amongst the darkness, figuratively, and literally with its highly polished gleaming sides, so perhaps we intuitively know why it was built there. It would even look like a flaming sword, but more on that later.

By cloaking it in a veil of darkness, is it possible that G-d tricked the forces of evil and gave us a lasting testament to His Glory (Kavod-numerical value 32) that survived the four exiles mostly intact. You can decide for yourself who built it then.

And let’s keep in mind that our goal in examining the existing great Pyramid is to better understand and prepare ourselves for the Future Temple and the Tree-of-Life reality for the Zohar in the same section quoted above tells us the Future Temple will precede the geula (final redemption) and that doesn’t give us a lot of time to prepare.

In our next article we explore the secret entrance to the pyramid and the mysteries that it holds.
Ezra

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So what is the universe? We’re about to embark on a journey of explanation and exploration of the Third Holy Temple and thus be able to breach the confines of our universe.  We will take it very slowly so that each point can sink in well before we move on.  The starting point will be one of the deepest secrets of all time, the measure of the Holy cubit most necessary for the proper construction of the Third Temple, which is different from the previous Two Holy Temples.  But before we can even get into that we must know what the universe is?

And to do that we must understand in our hearts the flow of the life-force through this universe. We must understand well from where it derives and what Names and gates it passes through. This explanation today will be a general one; we’ll get deeper into the specific gates as we encounter them in the Holy Temple later on.

We’ve written hundreds of articles where we’ve explained the gematria connections to specific words, phrases, and verses in the Torah and how they affect our lives and thoughts, but we need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

In the Torah there are exactly 1024 different word values utilized. This is no accident. Those 1024 word values represent 32² (32 squared) gateways. Rabbi Chaim Vittal of blessed memory explained that all Torah light is spread by squaring and he wasn’t kidding.  The light, or life-force, spread out dimensionally from the original 32 Pathways of Wisdom and became 1024 word values, gates.

To better understand how a Hebrew word on a scroll can be a gate, think about a web address that someone emails you.  It’s just a bunch of letters on a note, like the letters in a word in the Torah.  You can think of the Hebrew words as 1024 major web addresses and since multiple words have the same numerical value, each individual word can be though of as separate web page. Now remember, each word has different gematria values depending on cipher is used so each of the pages in our metaphor has multiple links embedded in it, connecting it to numerous other pages, which in turn adds yet another dimension of expansion.

Now here is where the knowledge of kabbalah comes in.  Gematria is the natural inherent programming of the Hebrew language—the codes behind what you see on your screen.  And Kabbalah is the sourcebook that teaches us how to read and access that programming.  Reading the Torah is amazing, but would you rather read the names of websites, or click on them? That’s what Kabbalah allows us to do.  There is a whole other Internet out there, a pure one of limitless knowledge written on an infinite platform.

But back to the Torah—our PC.  It’s divided into verses and phrases, which link together multiple words, or websites. These form local networks that link together to form larger networks, which all eventually center on a few major portals, just like our Internet (Yahoo, AOL, Google).

In the case of the Torah and the universe, these are the 32 Paths of Wisdom.  This is why the all-important sacrificial alter at the exact center (heart) of the Holy Temple measures 32 x 32 cubits.  The number 32 in Hebrew is Lamed-Bet (LB) which not only spells lev, heart in Hebrew, but Bet (B) and Lamed (L) are the first and last letters in the Torah. And significantly, 32 is the number of faces on a hypercube, which numerically is 2⁵, and geometrically is a cube expanded to the fifth dimension, which we’ll get into later.

Please note that the 32 Paths form the structure of the 10 dimensions of the Tree-of-life, which includes the 22 building blocks (linkages) and the 10 sefirot themselves.

As we explore the Holy Temple and expand our consciousness, we will do so in multiple dimensions and get into the importance of this 5^th dimensional space to us and to the structure of the universe. But for now, just note that what this also means is that the 1024 gateways (32 x 32) of the Torah are located throughout the 10 dimensions (10 sefirot) in that 32 x 32 = 2⁵ x 2⁵ = 2¹⁰.

But this is not the source of the Light; it’s just the expansion of it.  For that we must head from the Alter and the Inner Courtyard of the Temple and enter past the vestibule through the Sanctuary and into the Holy of Holys.  This is where the Foundation Stone is present and from the where the concentrated eternal light enters our world. This is where the Light expands from 2 to 2², which is 4, which is the 4 aspects (milui expansions) of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH), which we won’t go into here.  Suffice to say, all the other Names that have dominion over their own particular areas emerge from these Holy Names.  These are the 4 roots of the Tree-of-life

(Av) YVD HY VYV HY

(Sag) YVD HY VEV HY

(Mah)YVD HE VEV HE

(Ban) YVD HH VV HH

The sum of all 4 aspects has a numerical value of 232, which we only point out today for its symmetry of 2 and 32 in regards to the discussion above; in previous and future articles it will have great significance.

If we were to follow the four roots backwards we’d come upon the 2 great lights, known as Tiferet (Zeir Anpin) and Malchut in perfect union.  This is a state we don’t know, but one we must long for every minute of our existence, and it is the one that should be the sole object of all our prayers. For this is the state of pure unconditional love; it is the state of the Tree-of-Life consciousness.

These 2 great lights is why the Torah begins is a great letter Bet, for 2. This is the Bet of Bereshit, meaning “2 beginnings,” which refers to our 2 chances of attaining the Tree-of-life consciousness: the first 2448 years and the next 3330 years until 5778, as has been explained dozens of times already in numerous articles and Books, including The Divine Calendar and There is Nothing Random About the Universe.

But this week we begin anew the Book of Bereshit and will read in verse 2:10 (as in 2¹⁰) appropriately enough, how a river flowed out of the Garden of Eden. This river split into 4 major rivers.  This is a deep allusion to the flow of the life-force into our world from the foundation stone then out through the Gate of 42, which we will learn about later.

But, of course, the universe is more than a network of 2-dimensional websites, for through each gate is another life or lifetime or world to explore and the knowledge obtained there is real.

As for us, this flowing system of rivers splits and forks countless times to it trickles into each of our souls and into each and every object in our world. If it were to be turned off for only a moment all existence would cease.  And like the words and their values in the Torah that are akin to websites, our lives and souls are connected and bundles together in huge social networking sites with every action and thought we have posted on the supernal facebook and tweated for everyone to see.  It’s only through our limited vision that we think they are our secrets and privacy.

So this is the true structure of the universe. We will begin the next article with what may be the deepest secret of all time: the measure of the ancient and future cubit.

Hopefully, when we finish, we can all successfully construct the Future Temple in our minds and bring the Tree-of-Life reality to life.
With Love,

Ezra

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We’re starting a new book of the Torah this week, Vayikra, a new chapter in our lives.  The sum of the Names of the 5 Books is 2480, or 10 x 248, the numerical value of rachum (Mercy), injecting Mercy into the 10 sefirot (dimensions) for us.  It’s also the same value, 2480 as the sum of the last letters on the 7 lines of the Ana B’koach (42-Letter Name).

The first letter of those 5 Names adds us to 314, connection us to Metatron, the Archangel and protector of wisdom, and to Pi, the path through which our 3-dimensional universe exists.

We are also starting an new zodiac year this week with the month of Nissan (Aries), and according to Abraham’s Sefer Yetzirah, the letters that control (so-to-speak) this month are hey (H) and dalet (D), or numerically, 5 and 4, 54.

This Book, Vayikra starts off with a small letter alef (E) in the chapter.

In the Torah, everything has a purpose.

There are 10 large letters in the Torah, connecting us to Binah (the upper world); 6 small letters, connecting us to Zeir Anpin of malchut of Zeir Anpin (the final channel into our lives); there are 10 places with 32 dots, connecting us to the 32 Paths of Wisdom that connect the 10 Sefirot and that according to Rabbi Chaim Vital of blessed memory make up the 42-letter Name; and there are 6 letters at the top of the column that are not vavs (V) and thus do not connect to Zeir Anpin like the rest of the Torah, and instead they connect us to H’Mashiach, the Messiah, of the same numerical value.

All together there are (10 + 6+ 32 + 6) = 54 special letters in the Torah.  As previously discussed, 54 is the full cycle of the 27 letters, coming and going, receiving and returning light. It’s the energy that enables our universe and that channels the life-giving Light and energy to us for the 5778 years from Adam until Moshiach.

And if that is so than the average value of those 54 letters is 107, as in 54 x 107 = 5778, the  surface temperature of out sun (5778 K), and as in the sum of all the positive integers through 107 = 5778.

Everything in the Torah has a purpose. So do our lives.  Let’s start of this new chapter and year right.  Let’s make the most of our lives.

Shabbat Shalom

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There’s no complex math in this article, but a lot of numbers, and it can’t be helped. I try to tone down the amount of numbers in the posts, limiting them to the most significant and the minimum necessary to establish the synergies and proofs so that the spiritual messages behind the numbers can shine through, but we’re at a critical juncture in the Torah, a seminal moment not unlike what we’ll be going through in 5778.

The 10 Utterances, more commonly known as the 10 Commandments, are found at a unique place in the Torah and at a unique paradigm in time. And we need to establish that for you, before we can reveal what actually happened back then.

Remember, the numbers are just the energy readings that we take when we press our measuring devices (our minds) against the wiring of the Torah to see how its circuitry works, and which way the current flows. They are our guides to the cosmic gateways to which the Torah connects. If we think of the Torah as a static parchment of paper with words on it, rather than as live wires, then we’ll miss be able to draw enormous amounts of energy from it, and tremendous opportunities, like the one opening up for again soon.

We say “again” because this cosmic window last opened 66.6 jubilee years ago, when G-d chose to recite the 10 Utterances, which chazal tell us also created the world, a total of 115.6 jubilees years ago. To understand that you must be able to think of time as fluid and space as collapsible, and reality as we know it as an illusion. In other words, you must be able to perceive the tree-of-life reality that was offered to our ancestors back in 2448 HC, 49 jubilee years after Creation .

In the 20th chapter and 54th Paragraph of Exodus (Shmot/Names), after the Zohar tells us Moses received the 173 Keys to Heaven (the 42-letter Name); after the rectification of the 10 sefirot of the tree-of-life through the 10 plague, as explained by the Arizal; after the tools of the 42-Letter Name (Mem-Bet) and the 72 Names (Ayin-Bet) were given to Moses and the Israelites when they cried out to G-d; after they split of the Red (endless) Sea; and after they completed the cleansing process through the appreciation, tshuva, and tools embedded in the “Song of the Sea,” the Israelites were ready to receive the 10 Utterances directly from G-d, thus completing their ascension to Keter. That was the plan.

Keter

The 10 Utterances are found at chapter 20 in parsha Yitro of Shmot (Exodus) and the letter yud (Y) of numerical value 10 is a direct substitute for the number 10 in the 10 Utterances and the letter yud when spelled out has the value 20, the same as the chapter. This is significant because the number 20, esrim, has the numerical value of 620, that of Keter, the crowning, hightest sefira (dimension). Moreover,Yitro (YTRV), Mose’s father-in-law, has the value 616, the same as H’Torah (the Torah) plus the kolel of the 4 letters gives 616 +4 = 620, Keter once again. And that’s just the start.

Two Moments in Time Linked Together through a Single Window

That there are 9 verses spanning paragraphs 54 to 62 of Shmot (Exodus) is no coincidence. Readers of this blog know by now the formulas of the sum of positive integers through 107 = 5778; and 54 x 107 = 5778, the year the tzaddikim prophesied for the arrival of Moshaich and the geula (final redemption); and also that the surface temperature (radiance) of the sun, representing the King and Zeir Anpin, is 5778 K, while its core temperature is 156 million K, with 156 being the gematria value of Joseph, representing Yesod of Zeir Anpin. But what hasn’t been revealed yet is that the numerical value 54 is found 156 times in the Torah and that the Name Dan (DN)–the initials that Abraham’s Sefer Yetzirah would lead to Mashiach–of numerical value 54, is found 26 times, corresponding to the value of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH). And consequently that 54 + 156 = 210, as in the 210 years of Exile in Egypt that just ended prior to the 10 Utterances.

And most students of Torah know that the Torah is divided in 54 parashot (portions), so this being paragraph 54 is most probably a hint that the whole Torah is about to be received, not just a few commandments to behave civilly.

The number 54 also has the distinction of being half of 108, the numerical value of the infamous golden calf, and the reason that this connection is so significant will be revealed shortly. And since the number 107 is integrally associated with 5778, and thus the reception of Moshiach, that 108 is 1 beyond it, is significant as well, but for the moment it’s important to note that the first letter on the 10 Utterances is the 107006th letter in the Torah, or looked at another way, 107 x 1000 + 6 (representing the letter Vav(V) and Zeir Anpin).

And for its part, 62, as in the final 62nd and final paragraph of the 10 Utterances, it is the key to understanding what is really going on in the section. For starters. there are 62 letter yuds, of numerical value 10, within these 9 paragraphs. Now, the letter yud (Y) is the first letter of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) and is associated with the level of Chochma (wisdom), the 9th and 2nd highest sefira (dimension), and those 62 yuds have a total numerical value of 620, that of keter (crown), the highest sefira, the place the Israelites had reached as G-d spoke to them.

But the icing on this keter cake is found in that there are 620 letters in these 9 short paragraphs.

Moreover, the sum of the ordinal values of those 620 letters is 11 x 620 + 1 (kolel).

And of the 10 Utterances, 8 begin with the word Lo (LE), “don’t,” which is EL (G-d) backwards and these 8 words total 248, the value of Abraham, of mercy, and of the Earth’s reflected radiance back to the sun (248.5 K), but also 248 = 4 x 62. You can see where this is going; this small 620 letter section of the Torah is quite special and unique.

There are also 172 words in this section, and if we add 1 for the kolel we’d have 173 words, which not only hints at the 42-Letter Name through its small gematria value of 173, but 620/173 = 3.58, and 358, as we know, is the numerical value of Moshiach, the messiah.

And then to complete the picture, there are 13 verses in these 9 paragraphs, just like the 13 times that words with a numerical value of 173 appear in the Torah. Ever wire in this section is very much alive and burning bright.

So while the total number of letters, words, and verses in the entire Torah total 390,625, which is 625², or an astonishingly exact 5⁸, the number of letters, words, and verses in the actual 10 Utterances (Commandments) is 620+172+13 = 805, the numerical value of “The rainbow,” which was G-d first Covenant (brit) with Earth.

And while 13 is the numerical value of ahava (love), if we add the 9 paragraphs to 805 we get 805 +9 = 814, the numerical value of the verse that Hillel stated summarizes the entire Torah in Levitiucs 19:18, paraphrased as “love they neighbor as thyself.”

That there are 9 paragraphs is probably not coincidental either as the numerical value 625, that of H’keter (The Crown) is found 9 times in the Torah, and keter (Crown) of value 620, as in the 620 letters of the 10 utterances, is found 10 times as many times, or 90 times. And just to be thorough, we should point out that 9 x 90 = 810, or 805 + 5 (kolel).

As we’re dealing with the moment the Israelites touched Keter, it should be noted here that 10,000, or 10⁴, representing Keter, when divided by 5778 yields 10,000/5778 = 1.7307026, or a perfectly graphic rendition of the shem mem-bet (173 keys); the 70 nations, etc; and the YHVH (26). Readers of this blog and of The Divine Calendar know full well the significance of the number 70 and the role that the time span of 70 years repeatedly played in the Israelite history, so we should point out that the 10 Utterances occur in the 70th Chapter in the Torah.

So, it’s pretty obvious to us, as it’s always been to the tzaddikim, that the relationship between reaching Keter, receiving the Mashiach and the tree-of-life consciousness, understanding the 42-Letter Name and the year 5778 is a most important one, important enough to etch onto the cosmos and to build the Torah around, and important enough for G-d to reveal to us today, 9 years shy of 5778.

The 10 Utterances and the Seed of Creation, the First Window

We always look to the seed level of anything to find its outcome, for as with a seed and the eventual tree that grows from it, its entire genetic blueprint is already there, and so it is spiritually as well with our actions. In this case, we’ll look to the first verse in the section, Exodus 20:2, and to the first verse in the Torah to which it connects.

We know from chazal and have explained numerous times and in depth in The Genesis Prayer how the 42-Letter name is integrally connected with the Torah’s first verse as both a remote control for the Torah and as the seed of Creation itself, so we’ll skip that here, and instead point out the Torah first verse’s interesting connections to keter and to these 620 letters.

OK, so we know that the 7 words in the Torah’s first verse are connected to chochma/wisdom, of numerical value 73 because their total value is equal to all the positive integers through 73, and we know that the letter yud (Y) of numerical value 10, represents the sefira of Chochma in the YHVH, and that there are 62 yuds in the 620 letters of the 10 utterances, but what we didn’t know was that the word values of each of the Torah first 2 words (9 letters) are repeated a total of 62 times in the Torah.

Or that while the 4th and 6th words (totaling 4+6=10) in the Torah (Et and V’Et) are found a total of 3450 times in the Torah, or 345 x 10, with 345 being the numerical value of both Moses (Moshe) and Hashem (G-d), the total number of times that their word values reoccur is exactly 62² .

Or that the recursions of the 2nd word (barah) plus the recursions of it’s numerical value also equals 62. So those 62 x62 + 62, or 62 x 63 times, whose total word occurrences and word value recurrences is 7363, covers words # 1+2+4+6, or 13, as in the 13 verses of the 10 Utterances.

And as for words #3, 5, and 7 of the Torah’s first verse, whose collective numerical value is 777, their total word occurrences and word value recurrences and word values is 3125 = 625 (H’Keter) x 5.

At the Seed of Keter, the Window Opens

It’s not surprising that the high point (H’keter) in the Torah would be connected to its first verse, or seed level consciousness, in the same way that if we don’t have the purest of intentions when we help someone, our efforts will go awry or even backfire.

So lets look to the seed level within the 10 utterances, its first verse at Exodus 20:2. Amongst the 9 words of the verse, analogous to the 9 paragraphs, it’s there that we find the 3 word, 13-letter phrase (analogous to the 13 verses), its first 3 words, Anochi Adonai Elohicah (ENCY YHVH ELHYC) “I am God, your Lord”

That should have been enough.

While 3-word phrases are often associated with the 3 columns of the Tree-of-life schematic, the word ELHYC has the gematria sofit value of 546, as in the initials of the 10 sefirot (dimensions) of the Tree-of-life.

This is not surprising, as we know from chazal that the 10 Utterances represent those 10 sefirot (dimensions) of the Tree-of-life, but what is news is that the regular gematria value of this phrase is 173, as in the 173 keys of Moses, the 42-Letter Name, the understanding of which chazal tells us will bring the geula.

And if you recall, the numerical value 173 is found 13 (ahava/love) times in the Torah. Yes, it’s because of G-d’s love for us that He gave us the 42-letter name, but also this is another piece of evidence that the 42-Letter Name (Ana B’koach) is the love algorithm, a spiritual formula and cosmic technology that connects us to “unconditional love,” the numerical value of of which is not only the value of the 42-Letter Name’s first line, but also the number of times the 14 triplets in the name appear in the Torah, 506. This is also the complete (ordinal and simple) value of Mashiach Ben David, but much more about that can be found in The Genesis Prayer.

Moreover, 506 is also the numerical value of the 32nd (VShR) of the 72 Names, and as we saw with our blogs on the splitting of the Red (Endless) Sea, the 42-Letter Name and the 72 Names often work in concert when big so-called miracles are required.  This also further connects the 42-Letter Name to the 32 Paths of Wisdom and thus the Tree-of-life.

And speaking of Moshiach and the geula, not only are the first 2 words of the 10 Utterances “I am God” found at letter number 107006 in the Torah, but their numerical value is 107 as well, leading us right back to 5778, the date the tzaddikim gave us for the arrival of Mashiach and the geula (final redemption).

If you question why not a perfect 107,000th letter, there are multiple answers, but the most obvious may be that the additional 6 in 107006, hints at the 6 hours that the erev rav and many of the Israelites didn’t wait for Moses’ return, costing them the immortality of keter, the tree-of-life reality, and costing them another 66.6 jubilee years.

We find this non-perfect reference again in the (600,000 – 408) component letters in the Torah, whereby 408 x 6 = 2448, the year of the 10 Utterances and that Keter was achieved for a few, and not for the 600,000 Israelites who were present and could have achieved it.

And 408/6 = 68, the numerical value of Cha’im, life, as in Etz Cha’im, the tree-of-life and the number of alefs (E) in the 620 letters of the 10 Utterances.

Are we reading into this? You decide. The verse that immediately precedes and introduces the 10 Utterances, Exodus 20:1 “God spoke all these words, saying:” has 7 words and 28 letters, just like the Torah’s first verse; and the initials of those 7 words add up to 68, again the numerical value of Cha’im, life, as in Etz Cha’im, the tree-of-life; and the total gematria sofit value of the verse less a kolel of (28/7 or 4) = 2448, or with a kolel of 28 for the 28 letters = 2480, the sum of the Names of the 5 Books; while the standard gematria for the full verse is 1332 or 2 x 666.

Anyway you look at it, this introductory verse is connecting the 10 Utterances spoken by G-d to Creation itself. And moreover, it is setting us up for the 66.6 jubilee years, or 50 year intervals, as in the value of the middle word in the verse, kol (CL), that stretch from 2448 to 5778.

Some Got it, Most Didn’t; Will We?

By the way, we can break down (ENCY YHVH ELHYC) into the symmetrical phrase (EYC YHVH NHL EYC), which numerically is (31 + 111 + 31) and while 31 is the numerical value of El (G-d) and 111 is the value of alef (E), we also have 62 + 111 = 173. And it could translate to “Where are you? G-d, our guide, Where are You?”

Some of the Israelites reached Keter, and the tree-of-life represented by alef, which when broken down has the numerical value of 32 and thus is our physical symbol of the 32 Paths of Wisdom that are the 32 connections (energy centers and channels) of the 10 sefirot (dimensions) that comprise the tree-of-life.

Most did not, and asked “Where are you? G-d, our guide, Where are You?”

They could see the words but not beyond them. We have to do everything we can to see beyond them, past the barriers of our own illusions, our own limitations.

Like the first 3 words of this verse that significantly at have 13 letters that correspond to the 13 verses, the last 2 words m’bet avadim, have 9 letters corresponding to the 9 paragraphs: (MBYT ABDYM), “from the house of slavery.” S,o let’s examine those 2 words last used during the killing of the first born, the 10th plague. They begin with Mem-Bet and Ayin-Bet, as in the 42-Letter Name and the 72 Names, the keys to freedom hidden within the doorways to the house of slavery. Some found them, some didn’t. Those that hadn’t weren’t really ready, even after everything they had seen. They still weren’t ready to let go completely.

When we unlock the MB and AB in (MBYT ABDYM) we’re left with 5 letters that total 1024, as in the numbers of word values in the Torah, . Moreover, concealed with slavery (ABDYM) are the initials of Mashiach Ben David, and what’s left is Yi (AY) meaning “debris, ruins.” Two clear choices.

When faced with a revelation of light, we can choose to embrace it or to embrace our doubts. Most people choose the comfort of their doubts, and the company of their peers.

And while the numerical value of MBYT is 452, so is the number of times that the value 86, that of Elohim–found in both the Torah’s first verse and the 10 Utterances introductory verse (Exodus 20:1)–appears in the Torah. Meanwhile, the value of (MBYT ABDYM), “From the house of slavery” is 578, a possible allusion to 5778.

The connection to Elohim is understandable, considering the Name and aspect of G-d, was found 32 of those times in Creation, the first chapter of the Torah, and altogether 62 times through the completion of the 10 generations of Adam in chapter 5. There’s not much room for coincidence here. Nor room for error, as the window opens for the 3rd time, the last time being 3330 years ago.

As one would imagine there’s so much concealed information and guidance jam packed into these 620 letters that it becomes tedious to try to maneuver through it all. So we’ll stop here and continue in our next post, where we’ll explain what everything in the article above was hinting at, what happened at Mt Sinai, and what were the two paths in the Torah that followed.

The implications for us today are extraordinarily profound, which is why all this tedious background enlightenment into the workings and encodings of the 10 Utterances and its connection to the whole Torah were necessary. The Torah must be seen as a whole, and the 10 Utterances as a special moment or (window) in time if we are not to miss the next cosmic opening.

…to be continued shortly.

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The 44th President of the United States has just been sworn in (twice, the second time without the Bible), about 66.6 jubilee years (Biblical 50-year interval) years after the 10 plagues and 8 years shy of the year 5778 when the tzaddikim have prophesied Moshiach and the geula (final redemption) will come.

It’s mandatory to celebrate Passover (Pesach) every year and recount the story of the exodus, including the explicit listing of the 10 plagues. Why? Is it just so we don’t forget? Wouldn’t it be better to instead concentrate on the 10 miracles G-d performed for the Israelites on their way to receiving the 10 Commandments and the Torah in 2448?

A most common form of Torah analysis performed by the sages is to examine the first letters of key word groupings, phrases, or verses. And for what it’s worth, the sum of the nominal value of the initials of our 44th President, Barak Hussein Obama (B,Ch,E) is 11, but certainly more significant is the sum of the nominal value of the initials of the 11 words that comprise the 10 plagues, which is 541, the numerical value of the name Israel.

Israel is not only the last word in the Torah, but Israel was arguably formed out of the end of the exile immediately precipitated by the 10 plagues, especially the last plague, the killing of the firstborn, whose initials are Mem-Bet.

Mem-Bet is not only the Name of the 42-Letter Name of G-d, profoundly associated with the time of redemption, but it is named justly because it has the numerical value of 42, as in the 42 places the Israelites traveled through on their way out of Egypt to the Promised Land. And according to chazal, including the Baal Shem Tov, as in the steps our souls make on their way to redemption.

It’s very important to note that the 10 plagues were executed just as much to wake up the Israelites as the Egyptians. The Egyptians had to let got of their physical belongings, but the Israelites had to embrace the spiritual, a step that is just as hard. The 10 plagues were signs for them, just as we are receiving signs ourselves today

That said, the first letter of the 40 letters in the 10 plagues is dalet, with the numerical value of 4, as in the number of letters in Tetragrammaton (YHVH) and in the Name of G-d, Ehyeh, the Name used in “I am that I am.”

“I am” was what President Obama answered when sworn in for the 2nd time–when he wasn’t using a Bible. When the fuller progressive form of Ehyeh is calculated “I am” has a numerical value of 44. And by the way, Asher (EShR) as in “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” (“I am that I am”) has the same numerical value as Barak Hussein Obama (בּרק חוסיין אובּאמה) which is also the same as the initials of the 10 plagues if the last one is considered a single letter (דצ”ך עד”ש באח”ב).

Is this all coincidence?

The first plague, dam, blood, is spelled dalet-mem, which is numerically 4 plus 40 or 44.

The deeper secret is in the blood. The first plague is Dam (dalet-mem), whose first letter is dalet. The first letter of the last plague is Mem, thus the whole 10 plagues can be collapsed in abbreviated form into dam, the first plague. Not only does mem, complete the word dam, but it in effect encompasses and represents the full 40 letters in the 10 plagues. Please note that that means that there are an exact average of 40/10 = 4 letters per plague, the numerical value of dalet.

We use the word encompasses here because the final mem is not only shaped like a closed womb, but according to the sages it is supposed to represent one as well, and if we subtract the numerical value of dam (blood) from that of Da’at, we get 474 – 44 equals 430, both the numerical value of nefesh, (the animalistic or lower part of the soul), which the sages tell us is housed in the blood, and the number of years the Jews were in exile through the end of the 10 plagues in 2448.

And from the womb flows both the blood of judgment unto the Egyptians and the mercy to the Jews in the birth of the Israel. Please note that the bleeding or menstruating womb is considered the height of serious judgment, according to the Zohar (Shemot). The bleeding womb also refers to the death of the first born.

We know from the sages (chazal) that the Passover passage out of Egypt was about Da’at, the serifa (dimension) of balance and knowledge, and that it was represented in the dalet of dam, the first letter of the first plague. Furthermore, dalet, when spelled out, has the numerical value of 434, while da’at has the numerical value of 474, leaving a difference of 40, between them, the numerical value of mem, showing us that the full word dam, blood, is included in Da’at.

It’s all about Four (4)

While many of the significant mandated elements of Pesach (Passover) including the 4 questions, the 4 cups of wine, the 4 sons, the 4 aspects of the Tetragrammaton and the 4 letters in it, and also in the name Eyheh, we been told by the sages that they correspond to the 4 exiles, which are finally coming to a close, the last one after 1948 years.

The first plague, blood (dam), is spelled dalet-mem, with the first letter having the numerical value of 4, and the next letter having the value of 40, or 10 x 4. Meanwhile, not only does the first letter of the last plague, the killing of the first born, also have the value of 40, but there are 40 letters in the 10 plagues, making 4 the exact average number of letters per plague. And while the final letter of the 10 plagues is 400 or 10 x 40, the second plague, frogs, has a numerical value of 444, or 4 x 111, the numerical value of Alef, the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet and Ehyeh, (and in Obama for that matter).

Moreover, as mentioned earlier, the 4 letters of the Name Ehyeh, (EHYH)—the Name revealed to Moses just prior to the plagues–can be expanded to 10 letters through progressive method– sometimes called squaring–to (E, EH, EHY, EHYH), which is numerically equivalent to 44, the same as dam, blood, the first plague.

The connection to 4 for Pesach and the 10 plagues at the end of the 1^st exile is interesting because 10 is an extension both numerically and spiritually of 4. Numerically, the 4^th triangular number has a value of 10, just as 10 is the sum of the first 4 integers, as in 1+2+3+4 = 10.

Spiritually, both the 4 letters of the Tetragrammaton and of the Name Eyheh when expanded by spelling them out have 10 letters each. Moreover, as we mentioned earlier, Passover is about da’at, which begins with the letter dalet, of numerical value 4, while da’at is a sefira or dimension that combines the dimensions of Chochma and Binah, whose numerical values of its initials (Bet and Chet) 8 and 2 add up to 10. And which also happens to be the initials of Barak Hussein (Bet and Chet).

So in a sense we see the 10 plagues extending throughout the 4 exiles, for a total of 40, as in the 40 letters in the 10 plagues., yet another reason it’s mandated we read the haggada and review all the plagues, etc every year throughout the various exiles.

The plagues didn’t just happen 66.6 jubilee years ago, they’ve been reoccurring continually throughout the 4 exiles in one form or another. Just witness the example of the first plague, dam, blood, there have been many times in these past 3330 years when tens and even hundreds of thousands have died and rivers of blood have flowed.

The 10 Plagues were Planned at the Beginning of Time.

While the 11 words of the 10 plagues correspond to the 11 unique letters in the first verse of the Torah, the first 4 letters of the Torah have an ordinal value of 44, the same as Dam, the first plague. It’s broken down to 2 for the first letter, Bet (2) and 42 for the next 3 letters (Resh, Alef, Shin), which spells Asher yet again, as in the 42-letter Name.

The next 2 letters, completing the entire first word of the Torah, Bereshit, “In the Beginning” have an ordinal value of 32, as in the value of the 4 components of the letter Alef, connecting, as we’ve discussed in other blogs, to the 32 Paths of Wisdom that define the structure of the universe and that house the 10 sefirot (dimensions).

When we add them together, we get numerically 76, square root of 5778, and the value of the fully expanded Tetragrammaton at the highest level of Av (chochma), but alphabetically they spell out Alef-Dalet-Mem, or Adam.

Adam (Alef-dam) represents the first flesh and blood incarnation of the Jewish soul, the source of which, as we’ve written about in other articles, is in the primordial Alef that exists before the Torah, and dam, or blood, represents both the flesh and the flow of the lower soul (nefesh) throughout time, throughout the generations.

With Alef as the source, we can note that the 11 initials of the 10 plagues have an ordinal value of 100 and if we add 11 as the kolel to 100 we get 111, the numerical value of the name of the letter Alef. And once again, we have the union or fusion of the primordial Alef as the head of the Dam, just like ADAM.

Another analogy to the connection between the Alef, whose sum total of its 4 components letters is 32, and the 10 plagues and moreover to the initials of the final plague, Mem-Bet, is provided by Rabbi Chaim Vittal of blessed Memory. The eminent sage explained that the 10 sefirot (dimensions) plus the 32 Paths of Wisdom that link them together form the structure of the greater universe and together they comprise the 42-Letters of the 42-Letter Name, the Shem Mem-Bet.

As explained in detail in The Genesis Prayer, the first verse of the Torah is where the Shem Mem-Bet, or the 42-Letter Name of G-d, is derived from, and if we take the sum of the numerical values of the first letter of each of the 7 words of that first verse, 22—obviously representative of the 22 normal letters of the Hebrew alphabet—and add it to the ordinal value of those same 7 letters, 22, we get 22 + 22 = 44, once again, the value of the first plague, dam, blood.

Incidentally, and again as discussed in detail in The Genesis Prayer, the first verse of the Torah is integrally connected in multiple ways to both the numerical value of Mashiach, the Messiah, 358 and to the mathematical constant PI to an astounding precision. One of the simplest ways is through the average value of those 7 letters, 22/7 or 3.14.

Now, if we think this is coincidence we need only examine the full first 10 letters of the Torah and see that the sum of their ordinal values also equals 100 (keter, the crowning highest dimension), the exact same 100 as the sum of the ordinal values of the first letters of the 10 plagues. And since the 10 plagues has 11 first letters, yet another connection to the Torah’s first verse is found in that amongst the 28 letters of that verse, also an average of exactly 28/7 = 4 letters per word, there are only 11 unique (non-recurring) letters.

Moreover, as mentioned earlier, the sum of the nominal value of those same 11 letters is 541, the numerical value of the name Israel, the last word in the Torah.

The process of gematria computation allows us to subtract the kolel as well as add it and though I rarely use that approach, in this case if we subtract the ordinal value from the initial letters of the plagues from their standard numerical values they are equal to (541 – 100) = 441, which is the numerical value of emet, truth, an allusion to the Torah, to the 42-Letter Name of G-d, and to the Tree-of-life structure of the universe with its 32 paths and 10 sefirot.

Moreover, 441 = 21², or as pointed out by chazal, is the square of the numerical value of the higher Name of G-d, Ehyeh. And the sum of the two Ehyeh that form Emet and that form “I am that I am” Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” add up to 21 + 21 = 42.

Since the first letters of the final plague are Mem-bet and since the sum of all the first letters of all 10 plagues (11 words) is 541, the numerical value of Israel, one interpretation is that the 10 plagues and 42 places lead to Israel.

Another is that it will take 10 plagues, corresponding to the 10 sefirot (dimensions), the existence of Israel, and the understanding of the Shem Mem-Bet (Ana B’koach) to reach the geula (final redemption), as chazal has suggested.

The 10 plagues today have as much significance for us today as they had for the Israelites 66.6 jubilee years ago and the signs around the 44th Presidency are just that: signs. We’re not suggesting anything sinister (G-d forbid) we’re saying that they are signs to help us take notice that immense pressures and changes our coming, and if history Bible are our guides they will come in increasing waves.

Let’s read the signs and be prepared. As we did 3330 years ago, we need to let go and embrace the spiritual. To be continued, as we see what the 10 plagues mean for us today with the 44th President and how they connect to the year 5778 (2018 CE), the year the Covenant of Abraham gets fulfilled.

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It’s as innocent as the child’s dreidel, or the chocolate gelt. Four sides corresponding to the Tetragrammaton (YHVH), but 4 sides engraved with the Hebrew Letters G, H, N, and Sh. Four letters whose numerical value add to to 358, that of Mashiach, the Messiah.

From the games we play to candles we light, the entire Chanukah event is designed to help us bring Mashiach. And that where our consciousness should be. The eight days are a cosmic event not a celebration of a miracle that happened because it occurred during this cosmic event. The light we light each night are to connect us to the special light of miracles available to us once a year for 8 days staring every 25th of Kislev (Sagittarius). It’s different light/energy than what’s available to us in the 8 days of Sukkot-Shemini Atzeret; and it’s different from the light available to us during the 8 days of Pesach (Passover); and it’s different from the energy available to us on the 8 other holidays throughout the year. In total there are 32 days of varying special Light/energy (besides the special light of Shabbat). This connects to the 32 Paths of Wisdom of the Tree-of-Life through which these various light shine unto us.

The oil lasted 8 days because the Light of Chanukah, Mashiach Light lasted 8 days, not the other way around. As soon as the special Light of Mashiach (Or Ganuz) was revealed into our existence, it was hidden. I learned from my teacher that on the first Shabbat of Creation, it was brought out for 32 hours then hidden away for the time of the Messiah. But for 8 days every year we can taste of the Light.

Chanukah meditations

It appears the purpose of Chanukah is to bring Mashiach.

Let’s start with the books of Maccabees dating (for right or wrong) the first war in 3585 HC with the numerical value of Mashiach being 358.

One of the key elements of Chanukah is based on the spiritual tenet that nothing can ever be lost, once it goes from latent(potential) state to physical one it’s ever present in the universe whether we can physically see it or not. So the light of the first night, is added to the second and so forth until the 8th day when we have the light of 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 = 36 days.

That explained, we can note that the sum of all the Torah occurrences of the words “first” through “eighth”—echad, sheni, shlishi, reve’i, chamishi, shishi, sheve’I, and shemeni—is (189+125+2+2+2+2+0+0) = 322 and since the sum of days (numbers) 1-8 representing all the summary Chanukah lights for the 8 days is 36, and (322 + 36) = 358. And while 36 is just the result of rounding off the numerical term 35.8, the number 36 to the kabbalists represents the lamed-vav tzaddikim, or 36 righteous souls necessary at all times to maintain our existence in the universe.

Blessings:

The start of all blessings:

When start the blessing with the word Baruch, we need to keep in mind that it has the value (when using the caf sofit) of 708, the same as that of the 42 letters of the upper Mem-Bet, the Name YHVH through 3 iterations. It is from this Name that the blessings flow through the 6 levels (dimensions) of zeir anpin and into our world:

YHVH

YVD HY VYV HY

YVD VYV DLT HY YVD VYV YVD VYV HY YVD

L’hadleek Ner Chanukah:

Now regarding the Chanukah blessings on the words L’hadleek Ner Chanukah and the kavanot that we’ve learned from the Arizal, the 3 first letters Lamed, Nun and Chet, spell out in small gematria, 3,5,8 or 358, Mashiach.

The initials in L’hadleek Ner Chanukah (to light the Chanukah candle) spell the word Nachal (a holy Name that means stream or river, and also inheritance) and it has a numerical value of 88, which when aided by a kolel of 1 = 89, that of Chanukah itself. Nevertheless, the concept of a stream is very important because by lighting the candles with the right consciousness we’re opening a stream of light (the energy of sustenance) from above into our lives and world. And the inheritance is the Messiah (the Moshiach).

As explained by the Arizal,the secret of 3 letters N, CH. L and Nachal comes very fittingly considering that the gematria of Chanukah is 89, from the 3 words of the 8th and 9th of the 13 attributes of G-d : “Notzer chesed l’alefim.” He further explains that the 8th sefira (level), which is Binah (Imma/Understanding) is where we are drawing this upper light from and that a secret here is that once the 8th level is tapped into, all 3 upper levels (Binah, Chochma and Keter) are at once available to us.

So the first mediation is on opening up the flowing river (Nachal) from Binah, Chochma and Keter though Binah into Zeir Anpin ( the heavenly ladder that connects our world to Binah (the upper world). Zeir Anpin is represented by aspect of the Tetragramamton (YVD HE VEV HE) called (Mah) of numerical value 45 and we are told that it combines to Binah through the alef(E) in the letter vav (VEV) to the regressively spelled Name Ehyeh (E, EH EHY EHYH) which is associated with Binah and has a numerical value of 44, together they are 45 + 44 = 89, once again the value of Chanukah,

Next:

The value of the word L’hadleek plus the kolel (1) = (179 +1) = 180 and partially because of this the Arizal tells us to meditation on Av, Sag, Mah aspects of the Tetragrammaton which total (72+63+45) = 180, at this point in the blessing.

And as Rabbi Chaim Vittal of blessed memory explains “All Torah Light is spread by squaring,” so we look to the the square root of 180/10, or 18, and find that it is 4.2426, which is significant because 424 is the value for “Mashiach Ben David” and 26 is the value of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH).

Moreover, Abraham in the Sefer Yetzirah tells us that the Mashiach will come from the letter combination Dalet-Nun (DN) whose ordinal value is 18, even more significant for us is that the spelled-out (gematria milui) value of the letters nun (NVN)and the lamed (LMD)of L’hadleek Ner is also 180, thus giving us yet another connection to “Mashiach Ben David.”

“Notzer chesed l’alefim” means “He preserves kindness for 2000 years” which is a hint that our time of exile for the past 2000 years is coming to a close, and if we add the 18 to it, we get 2018 CE, the year chazal has prophesied for the coming of the messiah and the final redemption and also the year 2018 HC the year G-d made his covenant with Abraham, our inheritance (Nachal). Indeed, the word candle, Ner, has a numerical value of 250 and so the 8 candles have a collective value of 250 x 8 = 2000.

Av (YVD HY VYV HY)

Sag (YVD HY VEV HY)

Mah (YVD HE VEV HE)

And when we add the 180 of Av, Sag. Mah to the 180 of L’hadleek Ner plus the kolel of 3 for the 3 aspects of the YHVH, we get 180 + 180 + 3 = 363, the numerical value of H’Mashiach, which is what we should be mediating on when we recite L’hadleek Ner:

(YVD HY VYV HY), (YVD HY VEV HY), (YVD HE VEV HE) and H’Mashiach.

Regarding Ner, the Arizal tells us to combine the Names Ehyeh, Elohim and Adonai with YHVH on 3 different levels to draw down the light: (EHYH, ELHYM, EDNY) If we take the first two letters of each Name (EH, EL, ED), they add up to 6 + 31+ 5 = 42, as in the 42-Letter Name of G-d, (the Shem Mem-Bet, known as the Ana B’koach).

Then if we take the third letter ((EHYH, ELHYM, EDNY) in each (YHN) they add up to 10 + 5 + 50 = 65 the numerical value of Adonai, which leaves (H,YM, Y) which sum to 5 + 50 + 10 = 65 again. Another way of looking at the 3 Names is that they represent the 42-letter name and 130 which is the numerical value of the two synonyms, Sinai and Sulam (ladder). Noe the total numerical value of the 3 Names is 172, and when we add 1 for the kolel, it’s 173, as in the small gematria numerical value for the 42-letter Name.

The 3 simple YHVH’s add to 26 + 26 + 26 = 78, Mazla, aramaic for mazal, fortune

Now the main point of the Arizal was that the 6 Names (YHVH-EHYH, YHVH-ELHYM, YHVH-EDNY)-add to 250, the value of Ner, candle, but if we add 6 as the kolel, we get 256, which is the value for both H’Aron (Ark of the Covenant) and for Aaron who lit the Menorah.

So when we recite Ner, we want to meditate on the 42 Letter name (the Ana B’koach), mazal, and Aaron, the only person in the Torah assigned the title Mashiach, lighting the Menorah

EBG YTZ

KRA ShTtN

NGD YCSh

BttR ZTG

ChKB TtNA

YGL PTzK

ShKV ZYT

together with the 6 Names merging together as follows.

YHVH – EHYH (Chochma – Ehyeh)

YHVH _ ELHYM (BInah _ Elohim)

YHVH – EDNY (Malchut – Adonai)

We draw the light of blessing down from Chochma to Binah to our world, Malchut.

Now the 3 Names Ehyeh, Elohim and Adonai plus the 3 Names Av, Sag, Mah from the L’hadleek kavanot numerically add to (172 + 180) + 6 (kolel) = 358, Mashiach, so completing the recitation of Ner, we ant to have in mind drawing down the light from the upper 42-letter name to the lower 42-letter name and igniting the Mashiach consciousness in all of us.

And the candle we’re lighting is the Torah’ light as (nun-resh) of Ner spelled out, gematria milui as (NVN RShY) is (106 + 510) = 616, the numerical value of H’Torah, which helps explain Proverb 6:23. “A mitzvah is a candle, and the Torah is light.”

Extra Light:

According to the Arizal, the YHVH can be also be a kolel, and if we add 3 of them, as in (3 x 26) = 78 to a 3-part meditation we’re adding extra mazal to these types of mediations, and we’re also addressing the right, left and central columns of the tree-of-life. Moreover, as the YHVH is the kolel, the value of the 3 meditations for Ner, which as we’ve said above is 250, plus the kolel (3 x 26) = (250 + 78) = 328.

What this connects to are the 328 phrases in the Torah that have a value of 1729, which itself is the number of words of value 26 (YHVH) in the Torah, beginning with the phrase “Let there be Light in Bereshit 1:3

The Shamesh:

The Shamesh, or 9th candle is much more than a simple helper candle. In completing the unifications of the Names above, we note that the first unification of the YHVH x Ehyeh = 26 x 21 = 546, which is the sum of the 1st letters of all 10 sefirot, draws the energy down through all 10 sefirot.  The value 546 is also the total value of the Names of the 3 Patriarchs whose names began with the letter Yud, which connects them to Chochma (wisdom), the 9th sefira: Isaac (208), Jacob(182), and Jospeh(156).  It;s likewise a connection to Israel, which has a value of 546 when the kolel for the 5 letters is included,

This is an important unification because 546 is the numerical value of koteret, (the incense lit at the inner alter of the Holy Temple) as it says in Proverbs 27:9 “Oil and incense rejoice the heart,” and as the Ari explains, “And the inner altar and the Menorah stood together to give joy to all, as is written.”

So as we light the Shamesh we should meditate to draw down the light through the 10 sefirot and to put joy in our hearts.

And the sum of all 3 unifications is YHVH x Ehyeh + YHVH x Elohim + YHVH x Adonai + 1 (kolel) = 546 + 2236 + 1690 + 1 (kolel) = 2952. And according to one of the most concealed forms of gematria, we get 2952/328, or Product/Sum = exactly 9, as in the 9th candle, the Shamesh.

And not only does the number 9 divided by the small gematria of the 1st line of 42-letter Name (EBGYTZ) = 73.14159, or extremely precisely 70 + Pi (3.14159..), but 9 divided by the small gematria of the 2nd line (KRYShTtN)of 42-letter Name, the line associated with the Shofar blowings of 9 beats each, the line whose numerical value is 729 or (9 x9 x 9), is 9/.027395 = 328.52..

So while lighting the Shamesh if you can connect to the first two lines of the 42-letter name and the 3 unifications, and to the Torah, keeping in mind to lift the world of illusion from the 70 nations, elevating spirituality out of the physicality to bring about Moshiach you will be bringing Mashiach consciousness to the world.

EBGYTZ

KRAShTtN

YEHHVHH (Chochma)

YEHLVHHYM (Binah)

YEHDVNHY (malchut)

The 25th of Kislev:

Yet another connection between the kavanot and the words of the blessing is found between the 25 letters of the union of the 6 Names and the value of Ner, 250, since 250/10 = 25, but most important these would be the 25 letters that the Zohar says is missing for the completion of the Mishkan and 25 words that we know are missing from the completion of the Torah (80,000 – 25) and the 25 letters of the Shma Israel phrase, and the 25^th of Kislev, as explained by the Zohar. The obvious further connection is between the 80,000 words and the 8 lights and nights of Chanukah, since the 4^th root of the sum of all the words, letters, and verses of the Torah = 25 exactly. There are also 25 letters in lamed-vav milui.

So note that the 25 letters in the verse “Shma Israel, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad” (Hear O Israel, G-d our Lord is One) is found at Devarim 6:4 and the word Chanukah (ChNV-CH) can be broken down to the two numerical value 64 (ChNV) and 25 (CH), and moreover that the numerical value of the first and last words in that verse, Shma (ShMY) and Echad (EChD) plus the kolel (1) = 410 + 13 + 1 = 424, the numerical value of Mashiach Ben David.

Further to this line of reasoning, and as all connected by the Zohar, are the 24 days of Kislev, that proceed, the 24 letters in the Baruch Shem phrase that follows the Shma Israel phrase.

So on the first night before lighting you should should connect to the Shma israel and mediate that you are completing the Torah as in the days of Mashiach.

The OiI

The word for eight (8) in Hebrew is shemonah, and a simple permutation of the letters in shemonah (ShMNH) gives us hashemen. “the oil” (HShMN), and also neshama (soul, NShMH), all of which have the numerical value of 395, that of the 5th word in the Torah, H’ShMa’im (the Heavens).

And when we spell out the Shin-Mem-nun root letters of the Oil they add up to 546 that of koteret, the incense again, so once again we must keep in mind (Proverbs 27:9): “Oil and incense rejoice the heart,” and be joyful as we light the oil for that joy will spread through the 10 sefirot and be contagious throughout the world.

Proverbs 27:9 “Oil and incense rejoice the heart,”

The Arizal further explains that the oil in teh Menorah and by transference our chanukiyas represents the consciousness of chochma and the incense represents Binah, thus together they are the partzufs of Abba and Imma.

The 8 Nights of Lights:

The 44 Candles Sweeten the Judgment

On a simple level, over the 8 nights, we’re lighting 44 candles in total including the shamesh every night, these corresponding to the ordinal value of the letter in Chanukah (ChNVCH), which is 44. It also corresponds to first letters of all 10 plagues, which also add up to 44. So you can see the power to create miracles is built into every aspect of these 8 days.

Moreover, the first plague was blood, dam, also of numerical value 44, and as the Arizal explains “the word “m’damei“, whose numerical value (89) equals that of the word “Chanukah“, is rooted in the letters dalet and mem, which spell the Hebrew word for “blood”. Blood represents the negative powers of judgment, our mission it is to sweeten. Via the 44 (the numerical value of dalet, 4, and mem, 40) lights we kindle throughout Chanukah (including the shammas) and the awakening of consciousness they embody, the kelipot become nullified before us.” Thus with every candle we light, we can sweeten the judgment in out lives and in the world.

And note also that 44 is numerical value of the regressive spelling of the higher name of G-d, Ehyeh, connecting us to Chochma and Binah;

(E – EH – EHY – EHYH)

But that’s only the beginning of everything we set in motion

If our actions of lighting the chanukiya each night rekindle the energy from the night before and culminate in completeness on Zot Chanukah then: On the 1st night we light 1 candle and it stays lit metaphysically for (at least) 8 days; and on the second night we light 2 candles that stay lit, we have a total of 3 lit (rekindled) that second night. On the 3rd night we are lighting (rekindling) 1 + 2 + 3 or a total of six; and so on, until we have 1 + 3 + 6 + 10 + 15 + 21 + 28 + 36 = 120, a familiar mathematical progression that seems to be oft used in the deeper meditations and that we first learned from Abraham in the Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Formation. And the Shamesh would be 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 = 36. Thus 120 + 36 = 156 or 6 X 26 representing the YHVH, and thus 2 X 78 for mazal.

The Arizal explains that the eight days of Chanukah are, or end up, at the level of hod, the same as a brit whose 8 days expire at hod before the brit can be performed at the level of yesod. Well, considering this, it’s noteworthy that if we assume that all our candles/oil last for 8 days, then in total, we are lighting 120 lights (which would correspond to the 120 permutations of Elohim) plus the 36 lights for the 8 Shamesh that we light, totaling 156, the numerical value for Yosef, who represents the level of Yesod. It’s also the value of Zion. Moreover, the word brit, corresponding to the brit of Mashiach is concealed within the middle of the 4th line of the 42-letter name (BTtRYNTG) and the word Zion (the upper Jerusalem to be revealed in the time of Mashiach) is concealed with the the 7th line (ShCNVZYT).

Now, what give this combination of the 4th and 7th lines of the Ana B’koach (42-Letter Name), whose letters connect directly with the first 42 letter of the Torah, more significance for us is that the sum of the differentials between them and their corresponding word of the Torah’s first verse is 303 + 610 = 913 and 913 is the value of the Torah’s first word, Bereshit (Genesis) “In the Beginning.” And not only do both the 42-Letter name and the lighting of the Chanukah candles create new beginnings, but they are both integral parts of the technology to bring a new beginning with the arrival of Moshiach.

The 8 Nights of Lights and the Torah

The numerical value of mazal is 77 and their are 77 consecutive duplicate words in the Torah, the midpoint of which is at Darosh, Darash, whose numerical value is 504 + 504 = 1008 = (28 x 36). Now the beauty of this is that the 1st 8 words of the Torah have a total numerical value of 3003, which is the sum of all the positive integers through 77, and that if we consider all the cumulative lit Chanukah lights as a multiple of 8 days: 1 x 3 x 6 x 10 x 15 x 21 x 28 x 36 = 1008 = 504 + 504, the values of Darosh, Darash, the midpoint of the 77 double words in the Torah. Interestingly enough, there are 25 words with the value 504 before and 25 after that midpoint, once again referring back to the 25th of Kislev, when we connect to the 8th of the 13 attributes and open the stream of mazal into our lives and the world.

Now know this for every candle we light below, one is lit above. So for the 156 plus 1 collective one we light each Hanukkah, another 157 are lit above, making 314 in total, with 314 being the numerical value of Shadai (ShDY) and of Mettatron. And of the 1008 plus1 we light in a multiple effect, a total of 2018 candles are lit above and below (1008+1+1008+1) each Chanukah in each of our homes in preparation for the Messiah in the year 2018 CE (5778 HC), our inheritance.

And Zion, of numerical value 156, is the same as Yosef, who represents Yesod of Malchut, where the light of Binah ends up on the 8th day and the point where all the divine sustenance funnels into out lives and world. Moreover, Zion, of numerical value 156, is found 107 times in Tanakh and the sum of all the positive integers to 107 is 5778.

Chanukah, a Special Light

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The verse V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor
וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר

Why is the verse V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor repeated so often in the Torah and what does it have to do with Creation?

In an earlier article we discussed how the verse “ וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר ” V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor breaks down two words at time through gematria (248, 376, and Lo Mar) to the blessing of He will bless you with (248): Mercy (248), Peace (375) and No Bitterness, and the distribution of multiple occurrences of this verse in certain specific portions so we wont go into that again. Taking the first letters of the words in the verse, two words at a time (VY, EM, and LM), just as in the blessing, we have the values, 16, 41, and 70 for Lo Mar “ לא־מר ” . The first two letters (“ ױ ”) of V’Ydber and also the second three (“ ידב ”) and the last three of the second word, the Tetragrammaton (“ יהו ”) also sum to 16, which is the ordinal or alphabet placement value of the letter Ayin (“ ע ”) whose standard gematria value is 70. And 70 are the number of times this verse is repeated in the Torah. As for 41 and “ אמ ” we’ll get to that shortly.

Concerning the 70 times the verse V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor of total value 913—the only verse of this value ( The unique value of this verse is 895 plus the kolel of 18 for the 18 letters of the verse ) in the Torah—is repeated in the Torah, we know 913 is the value of the Torah’s first word Bereshit , and that according to the Tikkunei Zohar there are 70 valid interpretations of Bereshit , in other words 70 connections to the seed level of creation. Seventy is obviously representative of the 70 sub- sefirot of the Zeir Anpin and a connection to the 70 family members of Jacob that entered Egypt and through which all the 600,000 Jewish souls passed. There’s also a connection to the 70 Elders who got a share of Moses’ divine presence with which to prophesize and help guide Israel. And also to the 70 Nation, their 70 languages, the 70 ministering angels, and the 70 bullocks sacrificed during Sukkoth. And also to the 70 years of Babylonian exile and to both the fall of the second Temple in 70 CE and to the 70 years that Adam gave up of his 1000 years lifespan to King David so that he could live to age 70.

How does the verse connect us to Keter and to Secrets?

Mathematically—the physical imprint of the spiritual world—70 represents the highest level, keter, in that the sum of the logs of all the integers 1 through 70 is 100.0 (keter). Spiritually, 70 is also the gematria value of the word, “ סוד ” Sod , secret, as in the 70 levels of Sod , secret understanding of the Torah, or as the Zohar puts it, the 70 faces of the Torah.

This is why, according to the Baal Shem Tov, of blessed memory, we use wine in our cups to do blessings over non-specific items: The cup, or vessel, is the malchut and the wine “” of numerical value 70, represents the 70 sub-sefirot of Zeir Anpin which connects us to sod, secrets. In other words, the act of the proper blessing, creates a unification and connects us to secrets.

Now we can see that the first letters in each of the 5 words of this verse add up to 87 and 87 plus 913 equals 1000, which is “ אלף ” eleph, and consequently the letter aleph of the same spelling. The significance of this is that through this verse, which seeming implies that God spoke to Moses prior to the spiritual writing of the Torah, the letter Aleph precedes the initial Bet in the Torah. We also see the parallel of the 5 words to the 5 kabbalistic worlds (levels of existence) and the 5 Books of Moses. And since the ordinal value of first two words of the Torah sum to 99, added the aleph would bring them up to a perfect 100, or the level of keter.

We also know from the Baal Shem Tov, of blessed memory, that the Name Ani Hashem “ “ is a unification of the upper and worlds, or of the Shechina (Ani)/Malchut with the Tetragrammaton (Havayah) “ ” representing Tiferet (Zeir Anpin). And the numerical value of that all-important unification is 87, which is why the first letters, or seed level consciousness, of the 5 words in the verse had to be 87.

What did Abraham say of the number 87?

Before we see to what Abraham’s Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Formation) connects the number 87, we should note that the sum of all the letter value word occurrences in the Torah is 7570 whose square root is 87.00…. In other words, this is the amount of times words with the value of the 22 individual letters appear in the Torah; for example gimmel has a value of 3 and words of that value appear in the Torah 68 times. Now, referring to Abraham’s description of the 10 sefirot, 87 is the value of Beli-mah “ “ meaning a profound nothingness.

Abraham’s description is far more descriptive in Hebrew, as the word breaks down to Bet-Lamed-Yud of value 42, an obvious reference to the 42-letter Name and Mah of value 45, another obvious reference to the attribute of the Tetragrammaton at the level of Zeir Anpin, and is known as Mah. The Bet-Lamed-Yud itself is quite descriptive since, as Rabbi Chaim Vital of blessed memory explains, the 42-letter Name corresponds to the 32 Paths of Wisdom (Bet-Lamed of value 32) and the 10 Sefirot (Yud of value 10), and moreover Bet and Lamed are the first and last letters of the Torah respectively.

How does this verse connect us to fortune?

We also know that 87 is the value of nazal, which is related to mazal and means to flow or drip, which is what the 5 seed level letters do to the rest of the 5 words and which the 5 words do channeling the energy to us when the Torah is read. How do we know this? Because as the Zohar tells us, the number 5 is connected with the letter Hei as in the oversized Hei found in the word beheibaram that was transferred to Abraham, whose name is permuted with the same letters whose value is 248, and the Hei (5) represents the 5 Books of the Torah. 248 is the value of the first two words in this verse (V’Ydber Adonai) and is the square root of the value of the word, “The Torah. Our connection to creation comes through Beheibaram which means “when they were created” from the verse “These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created…” (Gen 2:4). And as Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai states in the Zohar, “He made them with the letter Hei.”

We also know from the Zohar that the Hei we’re referring to is representative of malchut, which is where the 5 seed level letters are directing their flowing energy. The Hei given to Abraham changed his fortune and allowed him to give birth to Isaac and be fruitful and multiply. Using this verse with the kavannot, or correct consciousness, during the Torah reading, we can do the same, for its purpose is to reconnect us with Creation and like Abraham, as it states in the Zohar, “the heavens are now in your control and all the stars and constellations that shine in them…”

Moses blessed us with the Aleph.

Aleph has a value of 111 and eleph spelled the exact same way means 1000. In Devarim 1:11, just before he passed away, Moses blessed the Israelites with “May G-d, the G-d of your forefathers increase you a 1000 fold.” Since G-d had already blessed the Jews to be as numerous as the dust on the earth, Moses was blessing them with a connection to Binah, as explained by the Arizal.

It is said that the Torah is designed to constantly connect us to Mashiach consciousness, how does this verse do that?

According to chazal, the final letters in a phrase indicate the future, and thus the 5 final letters in this verse sum to 441, when the kolel of one is included and this is the value of Emet, truth and it’s well known that the Torah is Truth. Thus the Torah exists in the future in reference to this verse. In other words, this verse preceded the Torah.

When we deduct the first and last letters from each word of this verse, plus 10 for the ten letters and thus the primordial 10 sefirot they represent, we get the 8 central letters that are equivalent to 358, the value of Mashiach, the Messiah.

So if G-d spoke to Moses prior to the supernal giving of the Torah, then Moses existed on a soul level prior to Adam and creation and he could be expressed in the Aleph that precedes the Bet ands thus he could be the Mashiach as many of chazal have expressed.

How is the 42-Letter Name Truth?

The Shem Mem-Bet or 42-letter Name is also Truth. Emet is spelled Aleph-Mem-Tav. Likewise, the 42 letters begin with Aleph and ends in Tav and has 40 letters in between with 40 being the value of Mem. Moreover, the letters koof, yud, are derivative from aleph in that their values reduce from 100 to 10 to 1 and the value of emet is 441, while among the 42 letters there are 4 koofs, totaling a value of 400; 4 yuds, totaling a value of 40 and 1 alef or value 1, so the 3 derivatives of aleph add up to and align perfectly with 441.

It’d known from chazal that the 42 Letter Name is also integrally connected with the famous name Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh or “I am that I am” and that the 2 Ehyeh “ “ in the Name, each of value 21 can be squared, 21², to equal 441, emet, and that they sum to 42.

What does this mean for the 42 Letter name?

According to the Arizal, all enveloping lights (Or Machief) are derived from the name Ehyeh; therefore, the Shem Mem-Bet is enveloping light.

If this verse is representative of the Torah and Truth and the same is said of the Ana B’koach (Shem Mem-Bet), how does this verse connect to the Shem Mem-Bet (42 Letter Name of G-d)?

The first 2 words of the verse have the standard gematria value of 248, as in Abraham, mercy, and the full 4 spelled out aspects of the 4-letter Tetragrammaton. And while the Torah’s first verse has a total value of 2701, which is equivalent to the sum of the integers through 73 (chochma ), the sum of the integers though 70 is 2485, indicative perhaps of the sum of the names of the 5 books of the Torah, 2480. Moreover, 70-28 = 42. Now the very first word, V’Ydber, has standard gematria value of 222, and an ordinal value of 42 as in the Mem-Bet Shemot , but 222 is the base 4 value of the base 10 number, 42. And while the Torah has 248 columns and 42 rows and that we can say this verse encapsulates the physical blueprint of the Torah, we can also see that at the seed level this verse is strongly tied to the “ מ״ב־שמות ” Mem-Bet Shemot. This is crucial because we know from chazal that the Mem-Bet Shemot preceded the Torah and the full value of the 42 letters of the 42 letter Name is 3701 exactly 1000 more than the value of the Torah’s first verse (2701) represented by the letter “ א ” aleph as discussed above.

As for the number 222 and base 10, the Tetragrammaton is found 222 times with an interval of between 2 and 10 in the Torah and 4 times that or 888 times with an interval of 1 up to the Book of Numbers.

So what are numbers?

The Sefer Yetzirah, or Book of Formation, says that numbers are the foundation of existence. 248 is one of the most significant Torah numbers with extremely positive connotations and representative of the love of Abraham. Indeed the 4^th Book in the Torah, Bmidbar, which is called Numbers in English, has a numerical value of 248. It’s also the value of Romach “ “, the spear used by Pinchas, according to the Zohar, to unite Zeir Anpin and Malchut and thus end the plague that had already killed 24,000 or the 600,000 Israelites. 248, like all significant Torah numbers, is a point in hyperspace that has specific attributes and that can be accessed when connected to properly. They are like web addresses in the hyperspace of the Internet, virtual places from which we can download real information that can help us. And the simple Torah equations that link them together are like the algorithms that Google uses to search through the virtual universe and find them.

Interestingly enough, when we deduct out the value of this first word, 222 from the total raw verse valuation, 895, we get 673, a not so cryptic reference to both Binah (67) and Chochma (73). Not surprising because of the 70 verses: 10 are in Shmot (Exodus), corresponding to the 10 Commandments and the level of Keter; and 27 are in Vayikra (Leviticus), and 100 (keter) less 27 equals 73 (Chochma); and 33 are in Bamidbar (numbers) and 100 keter) less 33 equals 67 (Binah). And since the breakdown clearly represents the upper 3 sefirot it’s also not surprising that 10 equals 3 x 3.333 and 27 equals 3 x 3 x 3 and 33 is 33.

The last two words of the verse Moshe L’Emor add up to 616, the value of H’Torah “The Torah,” and also the number of times the name Moses appears in the Torah without prefixes. And the square root of 616 is 24.8, the same gematria as the verse’s first two words, V’Ydber Adonai.

What’s the connection with 333?

Besides 3 representing the kabbalastic balance of the right, left and central column or positive, negative and neutral system of the universe and sefirot. 333 is also connected to the 42-letter Name. Many people know of the 42-letter Name, also known as the Ana B’koach from the prayer derived from the Name, but very few know of the upper 42 Letter Name, also know as the 42 Letters of the Name, which is in simplistic terms the spelling out of the spelled out form of the Tetragrammaton at the Level of Av (Chochma). This Name comprised of 42 Letters works with the Ana B’koach and has a standard gematria value of 708, which when a kolel of One is added is the same as that of what the Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation) refers to as the seven Doubles, or seven letters that represent the seven planets of the Zodiac and thus control fortune (mazal). It is also equivalent to the word Ketoret, as in the incense of the holy Temple. It also has a gematria katan value of 159, as in the 159 paragraphs in Devarim, the last Book of the Torah. When we add the gematria katan value of the upper 42 letter Name and the lower one, plus One for the kolel we get 159 plus 173 plus 1 equals 333. 333 is also the exact total of the lines, meditation letters, pairs, triplets, words, and letters in the words of the Ana B’koach itself. Moreover, 1.73… is the square root of 3.

Now that we’ve established that connection, it appears not so coincidental that the location in the Torah where the 42 Places that the Israelites journeyed through in passage from Egypt to Israel, each beginning with a Mem and a Bet (to and from) and universally acknowledged by chazal to correspond to the Shem Mem-Bet or 42 Letter Name, is at Bamidbar 33:3.

So 70 is a number and numbers are virtual places, so where is 70?

The number 70 is obviously significant to the Torah, but 70 is not so much a number as a spiritual place located midway between Chochma/Wisdom (73) and Binah/Understanding (67) and the difference between the square root of 73 and the square root of 67 is .358650 with 358 being the value of Mashiach . Moreover, the sum of the integers through 73 (or 2701) less the sum of the integers through 67 (or 2278) plus the kolel of 1 is 424, the gematria value of Mashiach Ben David . The number 70 has the numerical value of the letter Ayin , whose ordinal value is 16, the same as the Name/word Eyeh (“ איה ”), meaning where, which is rather fitting for a place called 70. This place might be opposite the place called Ein (“ אין ”), or Nothing, which according to the Zohar denotes a spiritual place also between Chochma and Binah , called Keter and/or Atzilut the highest place/ sefira of G-d. When we spell the Ayin (“ אין ”) we see the juxtaposition of the letter Ayin (70) with the letter Aleph (1).

Interestingly enough, the natural Log (LN) of 70 is 4.248, a numeric blend of 424 and 248. And 70 is further tied to the 42-letter name through the mathematical constant Pi, in that the number 9, representing the 9^th sefira, Chochma can be divided by the small gematria sequence of the name (123049…) to give us 9/.123049 = 73.141594 or 70 + Pi (3.1415926) to an astonishing accuracy. For more information on the relationship of the Mem-Bet Shemot and the Torah’s first verse to Pi, Phi, Mashiach and each other you can find it in The Genesis Prayer . Of further elaboration in that same book is the significance to the Torah and creation of the value 2⁸ or 256, which is not only the numerical value of Aaron, the Ark of the Covenant, and Devarim, the fifth of the 5 Books of Moses, but is also the spelled out form of the letter Ayin(70) “AYN YVD NVN.”

What are the 32 Paths of Wisdom?

We know from chazal that the letter aleph is broken down to two “ װ ” vavs and two “ ײ ” yuds and thus has a value or 32, which is spiritually quite significant because as R’ Chaim Vital of blessed memory, explains the greater universe is comprised of the 10 sefirot and the 32 paths between them corresponding to the 42 letters of the Mem-Bet Shemot. So it’s obviously fitting that we find a possible spiritual aleph preceding the Torah. According to the Sefer Yetzirah, this 32 connotes the 32 Paths of Wisdom, which G-d utilized in bringing the greater universe into being. And it is even more fitting that the Targum Yerushalmi translates the word Bereshit as “With Wisdom.” And since chazal says as above below, we should ask how this is reflected in the Torah and we see it reflected in the 32 Elohims in Creation, all beginning with the letter Aleph.

And the 32 Paths are indicative of the 32 times the Tetragrammaton “YHVH“ is spelled out in the Torah with an interval of 32. And why Wisdom? Because there are also 32 times that the Tetragrammaton “YHVH “ is spelled out in the Torah with an interval of 73, the value for Chochma, or Wisdom. And since Aleph is also eleph, meaning 1000, there are also 32 times that the Tetragrammaton “YHVH “ is spelled out in the Torah with an interval of 1000.

Moreover, according to the Baal Shem Tov, the Supernal Wisdom is called Aleph.

It’s also notable that the letter aleph is present in all of the first 8 words of the Torah except the 5^th one, “ שמים ” Shamaim , Heaven, possibly because it’s already present there before the “ ב ” Bet.

What is the connection between the 5 Worlds and 32 Paths of Wisdom?

With the help of Aryeh Kaplan’s scholarly analysis we find a definitive mathematical link between the 5 Books of Moses, 5 worlds, 5 words, and 5 levels of existence through the 5 dimensions that make up 5-dimensional hyperspace, in that there are 32 hyperquadrants that can be defined in that hyperspace, and that moreover, they correspond to the 32 apexes found on a 5- dimensional hypercube. In other words, with 5 dimensions or levels of existence folded into a single unified design, the points of reference or juncture points that stand out are 32, or 2⁵. Interestingly enough 32 is also equal to 2¹ + 2² + 2³ + 2⁴, representing the unfolding of the higher dimensions.

How does the light spread from the 32 Paths?

According to Rabbi Chaim Vital of blessed memory, Torah light spreads through squaring and so it is with the 32 paths as when we square them, 32², we get 1024 spiritual depositories or juncture points, and the Torah has exactly 1024 different word values. According to chazal, all words with the same numerical value are spiritually related since in the spirit world closeness is determined by similarity of form (partially defined by the parameters of an object’s gematria) and not physical distance.

To understand this better, we must note that while the 5 dimensional hypercube has 32 apexes, when it’s squared it becomes a 10-dimensional hypercube having 2¹⁰ or 1024 apexes, which means we can conceive the Torah as a 10-dimensional hypercube with each apex having a different gematria value of ranging from 3 to 1500.

And thus as the light of the 32 Paths of Wisdom is spread throughout the Torah it is sealed in with and signified by the Torah’s first letter, Bet, and its final letter, Lamed, which together have the value 32.

How does this reflect the fractal nature of the Torah?

To be fractal, an object must keep reflecting the same dimensions or parameters no matter how deep or what level of magnitude it’s examined, and so it is with the simple dimensions that define the Torah and the expansion of the 32 paths of wisdom.

Abraham’s Sefer Yetzirah speaks of mathematical factorials (i.e. 5 X 4 x 3 x 2 x 1) and the Torah often utilizes the sum of integers, such as the 7 words of the first verse reflect its 28 letters and wisdom through 7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 28 and the sum of the integers through 73 (Chochma) equals 2701, the total value of the same verse, so it’s interesting that the sum integers through 32 squared, or 1024, is 524800 and the sum of the names of the 5 Books of the Torah is 2480.

And speaking of those 5 books, there are 28056 Heis “ה“, each of value 5, in the Torah and the natural log of 28056 is 10.24⁺, all relating back to the 5^th dimensional hypercube.

And why was it so important that there were 28056 heis in the Torah?

Because, as detailed in The Genesis Prayer, the 28056 heis have a total value of 140280, and there are not coincidentally exactly 90,100 individual yuds (Y), heis (H), and vavs (V) in the Torah, which can combine to construct precisely 14028 Tetragrammatons (YHVH), or exactly 1/10^th of the total value of the heis; and moreover, 90,100 is the exact sum of all the integers through 424, the value of Mashiach Ben David. And why did it have to work out to exactly 1/10^th? Because there are two heis in each Tetragrammaton and together they total 10. There is always a deeper reason for everything in the Torah.

What is the deeper meaning of the 90,100 Tetragrammatons?

There are many, but simply, 90 is the kabbalistic value of the level value of Chochma and 100 of Keter and if the two heis representing Binah and Malchut are subtracted out, we’re left with 62044 Yuds and vavs, and 620 is the value of the word Keter, And all this means that each and every Yud, hei and vav in the Torah, no matter where they are located, works together in an invisible matrix that helps to elevate us to Chochma and Keter and bring us closer to Mashiach. It also means, that each one is additional, and like the principal of the sum of the integers so ingrained into the mathematics of the Torah, each additional letter adds power, energy and light to the pervious, and if pay close attention to them and are conscious of them, to us as well. As the Baal Shem Tov explains while commenting on Proverbs 16:15, “One should bind one’s thoughts to the light of the Ein Sof (Infinite One) that is in the letters, which is the life-giving ‘Light that is in the King’s presence.’” He further states, “This is a major rule for Torah study and prayer, and is also remedy to annul harsh judgments.”

If the 70 verses of physicality feed off the aleph (1) how does it survive?

This is like the Rabbis say in Pesikta Rabba 9:2: “A single sheep resides amongst seventy wolves. These wolves attempt daily to devour the sheep, but the Almighty saves it from their clutches.” The Aleph is constructed of an upper and lower Yud separated by a double barrier, which doesn’t permit the lower from accessing the upper, only the upper to give to the lower unilaterally and unconditionally.

In discussing the connection of aleph and eleph the Arizal mentions the connection to the “one million shield-bearers of the first world” as revealed in the Zohar, and since the value of the lower yud is 10 and that of the lower vav above it is 6, we have 10⁶ equals one million. Moreover, the shield as in the Magen David, or Star of David, is six pointed.

How does the primordial Aleph connect with Moshe and Mashiach?

As the primordial aleph connects with Moshe, we see that we can leave the Mem of Moshe alone and convert the Shin into a Bet using the popular gematria cipher called atbash, forming a Mem-Bet (42) plus the letter Hei (5) representative of the 5 words in this verse. When use the exact same cipher sequence on the word Mashiach (“ משיח ”) we form Mem-Bet (42) plus the letters “ יח ” Yud-Chet (18) representative of the 18 letters in this verse. And the letters Hei Yud-Chet spell out the word “ חיה ” Chaya , the level of soul that only Moses attained. And since 5 plus 18 is 23, the same as Chaya , it’s fitting that the word seventy (“ שבעים ”) is found 23 times in the Torah.

How else does Aleph and Moshe connect?

As we’ve previously stated the aleph can also be understood as eleph, the word for 1000 and while 1000 is equivalent to 10 cubed, 10³, according to the Arizal, it also has an essential connection to Hashem and Moshe, both composed of the same transposed letters. He explains that Moshe has the numerical value of 345, the same as the Name, El Shaddai, “ EL ShDY“. And when El Shadai is spelled out “EL ShDY“ and 1 is added for the kolel it has a value of 1000.

Without the kolel, El Shadai spelled out is exactly 999, or 3 times 333. And it just so happens that 999 is the value for both the Torah’s 1^st and 3^rd words together and its 2^nd, 4^th and 5^th words, meaning it is repeated twice within the Torah’s first 5 words.

If the verse V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor is so important, what of the verse V’Omer Adonai El Moshe L’emor, which according to chazal is at a higher level?

While V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor needed to be repeated 70 times for us to make the full connect, the verse V’Yomer Adonai El Moshe L’emor only needs to be repeated 5 times for us to connect to the 5 worlds, etc.

What is Moses’ connection to the 42-letter Name?

We know from the Zohar that Moses was given 173 keys to the gates of Heaven and we know that this is an allusion to small gematria value (173) of the 42 letters of the Mem-Bet Shemot , which is interesting because 173 is the 42nd prime number when the 1 is included. When it’s not included it is the 41st prime, as in the 41 letters of the fully spelled out Ehyeh , another name of G-d that begins with Aleph and is known by chazal to also precede the spiritual creation of the Torah, and as in the 41 letters of the first verse of the ten utterances (commandments)—associated with the Keter, or crown, of the Torah, which just so happens to have a gematria value of 173. Moreover, the verse V’Ydber … is repeated 10 times in Shmot (Exodus) where the 10 Commandments were given.

The square root of 300, which is the value of the Shin in Mashiach and Moshe and both the gematria atbash (reversed alphabet) value of the Tetragrammaton “ “(YHVH) and the gematria milui (spelled out) value of “ אלקים ” Elohim is 17.3….

Now, the physical Torah is written on the level of Zeir Anpin as expressed in the vav of value 6 that begins the verse V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor and indeed 60% of the verses in the Torah and all but 6 columns in the Torah. And the 70 Vavs that begin V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor total 420, or 10 times 42. Also, the sum of the square roots of the 5 words in the verse is 60.60; therefore the sum of the 70 verses is 4242.2, which is interesting because the value of the word seventy “שבעים” is 422. And while the 2^nd Temple was destroyed in 70 CE, the 1^st Temple was destroyed in 422 BCE, both 70 and 422 being forms of the same number 70.

The numerical difference between 73 (Chochma) and 67 ( Binah ) is 6, but on the level of the upper the sefirot this is equivalent to 6000, because each expansion is on the order of 10³ as opposed to Zeir Anpin where it is 10². For those that understand, this verse indicates the timing of the arrival of Mashiach.

Are there any other letters concealed before the Bet of Bereshit.

When we combine the Alef with the Mem of either Moshe or Mashiach we get “ אם ” Im as in Ima , mother , and thus Binah , the spiritual state that precedes Zeir Anpin . Appropriately enough Em (“ אם ”) can also mean female, womb and matrix, which the Torah actually is. According to the Arizal , the mem-sofit “ ם ” can be constructed of two dalets “ ד ” and two yuds” ײ ” and the aleph of two yuds and two vavs , which first of all, if we deduct out the four yuds that connect us to the Chochma spelled out level of the Tetragrammaton (“ יוד־קי־וי־קי ”) we’re left with “ ו־דוד or “and David” which brings a back to the 70 years of David and the Mashiach connection through him. Secondly, these 8 letters that comprise the primordial Aleph-mem , and can be said to represent the original 8 Kings and the world of Tohu “ תהו ” that existed before our Creation and shattered giving way to the Tree-of-life and the Torah. And thirdly, these 8 letters spell out “ י יוד יוד י ” ushering in the seed level of Chochma, and also since the dalet and yud make up the letter hei “ ה ” , they can spell “ יו יקוה ” ushering in first the masculine aspect of the Tetragrammaton and them the full complete form of it.

What is the connection between the Aleph-Mem sofit and Mashiach?

With the value of mem-sofit at 600, the two primordial letters add up to 601, which it states in Genesis is the year the flood ended and life started anew. It is also the sum of Moshe (345) and Aaron (256), the two figures associated with Mashiach. The Arizal and chazal say of Moshe: “whatever pertains to the first redeemer [Moshe] pertains to the final redeemer [Mashiach]. (Bamidbar Rabba 11:3)” and the prophesies regarding Moshe, “My servant” “also refer to the Mashiach [since] the numerical value of Shilo is the same as that of Moshe’s name,” and Shilo refers the Mashiach, as in the verse from Genesis 49:10: “…until Shiloh arrives.” And as for Aaron HaCohen, he is the Torah’s direct link to Mashiach and his arrival date, but that is an entire other article unto itself.

How can the souls of the 600,000 trace through Moshe if he was amongst them?

The transmigration of souls, according to the Zohar and the Arizal , are traced back from the 600,000 souls that received the Torah at Mt Sinai, through the 70 family members of Jacob, through his 12 sons, through the 3 Patriarchs and through Adam, which forms the equation 1/(600,000/70/12/3) = .0042, or simply 42. So with Moses primordially aligned with the Mem-Bet Shemot (42-letter Name) it’s apparent why he was able to unify the 600,000 Jewish souls long enough to receive the Torah and why to disseminate it he needed the 70 elders. Incidentally, he was advised in this, by Ytro “ יתרו ” , whose numerical value was 616, the same as “The Torah.”

We can understand now the Arizal’s commentary that “namely, that the entire generation of the desert, six hundred thousand souls, were all soul-sparks who were derived from the source of Moses’ soul, which was the source of all of them.”

We’re not suggesting, G-d forbid, that anyone should add an aleph before the Torah, only that there is a spiritual one present there at all times. And as we trace the soul root of the 600,000 Israelites we note that Adam begins with Aleph and is followed by dam , blood, so it can be understood as the blood of aleph , or alternatively, mem sofit from aleph , suggestive of our primordial Aleph-mem connection above and since mem sofit —which spiritually denotes pregnancy–has a value of 600, it’s also the 600 souls from Aleph (1) or 600 times 1000 ( eleph ), 600,000. And as for the letter dalet in Adam, there are exactly 7032 of them in the Torah, a possible reference to the 70 verses, etc and the Aleph of value 32 to which they connect.

If all the Jewish souls traced through Moshe, what of Abraham and Adam?

And with the aleph preceding the Bet, the Torah spiritually begins with aleph-bet-resh as in the name Abraham (248), leaving the hei –mem sofit (“the mem ”) as in the hei and mem of Moshe or simply the mem sofit from the name Abram. The hei –mem from Abraham, of numerical value 45, is the same as Adam, completing the scenario of connected Abraham to creation by showing us the direct link from Adam. We further know from the Arizal that the 45 of Adam, and as we’ve just shown, Abraham, is a direct reference to the spelled out aspect of the Tetragrammaton on the level of Mah , or Zeir Anpin . It is thus understandable that the Zohar and Torah says that man was created in the image of Elohim (“ אלקים ”) and that it is written in Devarim 14:1 “You are sons to G-d your Elohim,” since the outer Aleph and Mem-sofit form mother/womb and are primordial as explained above and the inner Lamed-Hei-Yud “ להי ” have a combined value of 45 as in Adam, man.

It should be noted that while the aleph through the 32 paths connotes space in the spiritual sense, “ מ ” mem of value 40, connotes time in the Torah, as every critical phase of the Torah lasted for either 40 days or years, which on a certain level of understanding is synonymous.

And as for that dalet in Adam, it was passed on to Yehuda, whose name is a compilation of the Tetragrammaton and the letter dalet and whose name is found 42 times in the Torah without prefixes.

So exactly where and what is the place of 70?

Since we know it’s between Binah and Chochma and opposite Keter in the tree-of-life, which can be visualized as two stacked cubes tiled downward to expose the uppermost face of the upper cube, then the diamond face of the upper cube his 61 as its apex for “ אין ” Eyn and Keter, 73 ( Chochma ) as the right point, 67 ( Binah ), as the left one and 70 is the bottommost one, or Daat (“ דעת ”), which has the letter “ ע ” Ayin (70) as its central letter and is where the 70 sefirot of Zeir Anpin originate.

Keter/Ein 61

Binah 67      73 Chochma

70 Daat

What is the connection of Keter/Ein to the Torah?

And for those that want to understand better the relationship between Ein and Keter and the place of the Torah we have only to look at “ אין ” Ein (61) less “ אמ ” Em (41) equals 20, Esryim (“ עשרים ”) of numerical value 620, the same as Keter —the reason according to the Arizal that a sukka” סכה ” has a limit of 20 cubits in height—and the quantitative value of all the words, letters, and verses of the Torah added together is 625² with 625 being the value of “ הכתר ” H’Keter , “The Crown,” and since, as Rabbi Chaim Vital of blessed memory, explains, “all Torah light spreads through squaring” we can see from where the fountain spreads.

We know that the first verse of the Torah has 28 letters and 28 is the value of the word for unification, and that the first verse is the unification point between the Torah and the upper words. We also know the wisdom is spread through the Torah as described above and that the value of those 28 letters is 2701 and moreover that 2701 is the sum of all the integers through 73, which is the value of Chochma, wisdom. We further note that, as R’ Chaim Vital has pointed out, Torah light is spread through squaring, and in particular the squaring of the individual letters in a word, so when the phrase Ten Sefirot of Nothingness “Y EYN” of Abraham’s Sefer Yetzirah, representing the entirety of primordial existence, works out to 10² + 1² + 10² + 50² or 2701, we see the how the linkage to the upper words is established for us.

The hidden Samech:

It goes beyond the comprehension of our discussion, but for those that understand, the 60 represented by the letter, Samech (“ ס ”) is found in the center of them all (within the cube), and if you calculate the difference between each of the four points and the number 60, they will add up to 31 ( “ אל ‘ ) G-d, and 31 plus 60 is 91 the unification of the Tetragrammaton and its spoken ( Malchut ) equivalent Adonai, the juncture of the 70 sefirot of Zeir Anpin with the upper worlds. This place of 60, which can be thought of as a vessel, (“ כלי ”) of numerical value 60, is controlled by the Name (“ סאל ”) of numerical value 91.

Keter/Ein 61

Binah 67     60       73 Chochma

70 Daat

Mt Sinai?

To complete our discussion, the value of the spelled out letter “ ע ” Ayin (70) is 130, the same as Sinai and “ סולם ” (ladder)—as in the ladder of Jacob—both of which begin with Samech and on a certain level of understanding are synonymous with each other and with Zeir Anpin and the Shem Mem-bet, all connections from our world to the spiritual realm.

The two parts of the Crown:

And if we ask where the primordial mem-sofit of the Em (“ אם ”) before the Torah fit in all this, we must note that its value is both 40 and 600 and while 60 less 40 equals 20 ( keter, “ כתר ” ), there are two parts to the crown, the large round base and the crowning ornament or jewel represented by 600 and 20, or mem-sofit and the endless, keter of keter . It’s endless because 20, Esryim (“ עשרים ”) of numerical value 620, will always give us another Keter . It’s not coincidental that 600 also forms the base for 611, Torah: 612 Brit /covenant; 613, the mizvot /precepts: 616, “ התורה ” H’Torah ; and 618, which among other things is representative of .61803399, phi, the primordial constant that not only helps create the fractal nature of the Torah and our universe, but controls all spiraling growth in the universe. And what is the value of 20, it’s the value of the spelled out letter Yud (“ יוד ”), the tip of which we know from the Arizal is where keter is located. And do not think for a moment that any of this is coincidence or that there being 62 yuds , totally 620 (Keter) in the 10 Commandments, or that Moses’s pure name (“ משה ”) being mentioned 616 times in “the Torah” of value 616 is coincidence, or the Moses’s name permutes into Hashem “ השמ ” , “The Name,” G-d. To continue with the explanation of the Arizal, 20 is also the value of the letter Caf (“ כ ”), which in starting off the word Keter (CTR), is representative of it and thus considered Keter in its own right. Another reason the Arizal gives that caf is really keter is that Caf is spelled Caf-Pe (“ כפ ”) and those two letters add up to 100, synonymous with Keter . Interestingly, when we use the Pe sofit , they add up to 820, the same as the famous Torah verse that Hillel, of blessed memory, said encapsulated the entire Torah, “Love they neighbor as thyself.” Moreover, if we explain the word Keter (“ כתר ”), we see that it too is split into the value 20 for Caf and 600 for Tav and Resh as in the word, Torah (“ תורה ”), which we know is comprised of the Tav-Resh of Keter and the Vav-Hei of the Tetragrammaton (“ יקוק ”), but this leads to a much longer and deeper discussion.

So the Aleph precedes the Torah and gives rise to the Aleph-bet , the Names of G-d and the Mem (M), which also precedes the Torah, and which combines with the first Bet (B) in the Torah to form the Mem-Bet Shemot , the 42-letter Name, which gave rise to Creation and the rest of the Torah.

Keter 61

Binah 67    60 -40     73 Chochma

70 Daat

And for those that understand the mem of value 40 compliments the Samech of value 60, making 100, also considered keter. And just as we calculated with the letter Samech , the total difference between the values of the four cardinal points and value of the mem (40) is 101, which is the value of the Archangel Michael, synonymous with protection. It’s also the value of one of the Names of the 72 triplets, NNE, and along with the primordial Aleph this is one of the secrets to the two verses contained between the two backwards facing nuns that many chazal describe as a separate book of the Torah within pasha Behalotcha..

And just as we calculated with the letter mem , the total difference between the values of the four cardinal points and value of the mem-sofit (600) is 2669, which when we add the 32 for the Aleph and/or the 32 Paths of Wisdom, we get 2701, the value of the Torah’s first verse. None of these calculations are meant to show how the letters, or the Torah, are generated in a mathematical sense; they are meant to be used as a spiritual blueprint to the organization and processing of the universe and how it interacts with the Torah and our world.

The Origin of the Shin of Moshe and Mashiach:

The primordial connection to the upper 3 sefirot is made by the letter Shin “ש” in that the sum of the standard value of Ein, Chochma and Binah plus their respective 3 ordinal values plus the kolel of 6 is 300, the same as that of the letter Shin “ש.” With the Shin located just above yet behind the Aleph, which itself is just before the Mem, we can now understand Abraham’s Sefer Yetzirah, in which he explains that the after the creation of the ten sefirot from Nothingness, he created the 3 doubles, Aleph, Mem, Shin “” beginning with the Aleph, representing the 32 paths, as explained above.

The excerpts below are courtesy of Aryeh Kaplan’s wonderful translation and explanations of the Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation) published by Samuel Weiser Inc.:

“With 32 mystical paths of Wisdom

engraved Yah…”

“And he created His Universe

with three books (Sepharim),

with text (Sepher)

with number (Sephar)

and with communication (Sippur)…

“Ten Sefirot of Nothingness

And 22 Foundation Letters:

Three Mothers

Seven Doubles

And twelve Elementals…”

“These are the 10 Sefirot of Nothingness:

The Breath of the Living God

Breath from Breath

Water from Breath

Fire from Water

Up, down, East West, North, South…”

“Three Mothers: Aleph, Mem, Shin “”

A great, mystical secret

Covered and sealed with six rings

And from them emanated air, water and fire

And from them are born Fathers.

And from Fathers, descendents.”

“Three Mothers, AMSh “”

in the Universe are air, water, fire.

Heavan was created from fire

Earth was created from water

And air from Breath decides between them….”

If these are the upper 3 sefirot how do they connect to the Torah and physicality?

The first of the 7 doubles described by Abraham and corresponding to the 7 lower sefirot of the unified Zeir Anpin and Malchut is Bet “”, the first letter of the Torah and the place where our physicality and indeed, reality, begins to take form.

How do the Three doubles connect with the 42-Letter Name and physicality?

If we add the numerical value primordial Samech, the Ayin of Daat, and the Aleph, Mem, Shin as discussed above, we get 471, the same as the sum of the first letters of each of the seven lines of the 42-letter Name, which collectively represent the seed level of each of the 7 sefirot from Chesed to Malchut, and the drawing of light in our world and lives. And in case we were to think this is a coincidence, the last letter in each of the 7 lines sums up to 2480, the same as that of actual Five Books of Torah (913, 746, 317, 248, 256), whose average value is 496, the same as that of Malchut.

How is the Connection spelled out?

The primordial doubles Aleph, Mem, Shin are followed by the Torah’s first two letters Bet Resh. When we separate the Primordial doubles, Mem-Shin from the from the hei and the Yud-Chet from Moshe (Mem-Shin- Hei) and Mashiach (Mem-Shin-Yud -Chet) respectively, and combine them with the Bet-Resh of Bereshit, we get Bet-resh-yud-chet-hei, which spells out the word Escape in Hebrew, but more significantly, when we permute these 5 letters, we get chet-bet-yud-resh-hei, which translates to “Connection.” And in connection we find redemption. And this Connection allows us to Escape the reality of our mundane world and reach the spiritual one.

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What can the 22 letters themselves tell us without relaying on words or verses. Each letter has a unique energy value and thus unique numerical valuations of that energy depending on which cipher is being used to read them. And each letter has as a quasi-unique name. I say quasi, only because a few of them can be spelled different ways depending if the letter yud (Y) is included or not., and there no real right way to spell those letters because in different situations they are meant to be spelled different ways depending on whether the support of the yud, representative of the sefira of chochma, is needed. Names are very important as they define what something is and should be chosen carefully. When it pertains to Torah. like the names of the Patriarchs, the names themselves are gateways, or in an analogy consistent with modern technology, the names are cosmic web addresses, each socially networked to other names and addresses.  Together they form a giant tree with myriad branches to be explored.

For the charts below, we’ve selected the most common spellings for the half dozen names that can have multiple versions and switched to a different version when it seemed to make sense.  It’s not so much poetic license as it is trying to follow a predetermined trail by exploring the different branchings until we find the one with the choicest fruit.

As you can in the first chart, the sum of the 22 names of the 22 letters equals exactly 4242, not only a double representation of the number 42, but one that included 424, the numerical value of Mashiach Ben David.  All the possible variations came to 42** and the next most likely branch summed to 4248, one that combined 42 and 248, the numerical value of Abraham.  This particular one was further interesting because the squares of the 22 different names plus the number 42 added up to exactly 1395000 or 1000 (keter) x 1395, and 1395 is the sum of the (numerical values of the 6 Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Aaron.  (see chart #2).

Why would that be? Why would the names of the 22 letters link up with the names of the 6 Patriarchs. we can only speculate, but if we add the names of the 4 Matriarchs (Sarah, Rivka, Rachel and Leah), we find that the 10 together add up to 2481 or 10 x 248 (Abraham/mercy), which also happens to be the value of the sum of the names of the 5 Books of the Torah (Bereshit, Shmot, Vayikra, Bmidbar, and Devarim), or 2480. And Bmidbar (the Book of Numbers) also has the numerical value of 248.

It’s all obviously hinting at the 10 sefirot structure of the tree-of-life, of which we know that there are 22 connecting paths, making 32 in total, which brings us to chart # 3, where we utilized the sofit values for the 22 names and made one variation in the spelling of the letter vav, using the tree-of-life version without the yud this time.  And lo-and-behold, the total came to 10032, or 10000 (keter) plus 32, as in the 32 Paths of Wisdom.

Moreover, the sum of the square roots of the sofit values for the 22 names is 424.242,  which is an even clearer graphic representation of 424, Mashiach ben David and also 42, 42, 42. Now, when we subtract the value of 4242 that we found in chart #1 from 10032, we get 10032 – 4242 = 5790 and 5790 – 12 = 5778.  Why 12? There could be lots of reasons, possible to represent the 12 sons of Jacob, since all the Patriarchs were already represented, or it be that when we add the 10 for the yud we didn’t utilize with the sofit calculation, we get 12 + 10 = 22, as in the 22 letters.

So why all this circular, redundant branching, and this reinforcing of a specific structure pattern? Because it’s all a giant multidimensional matrix that constantly draws us in deeper, with each Name connecting to multiple other gateways, all capable of imparting a different set of knowledge or abilities to us.  It’s literally like leaping across the neurons of a giant mind. But whose?

Who indeed!

And why?

Because the deeper we get and the more in tune we get to this structure, the closer we get to G-d and more prepared with are for Mashiach Ben David in 5778.

Chart # 1

	spelled-out	square of
letter	value	value
alef	111	12321
bet	412	169744
gimmel	73	5329
dalet	434	188356
hey	15	225
vav	22	484
zayin	67	4489
chet	408	166464
tet	419	175561
yud	20	400
caf	100	10000
lamed	74	5476
mem	80	6400
nun	106	11236
samech	120	14400
ayin	130	16900
peh	85	7225
zaddi	104	10816
koof	186	34596
resh	510	260100
shin	360	129600
tav	406	164836
Total	4242	1394958
	plus:	42
		1395000

Chart # 2

Abraham	248
Isaac	208
Jacob	182
Joseph	156
Moses	345
Aaron	256
	1395

chart # 3

	spelled-out	square root
letter	sofit value	of value
alef	831	28.82707061
bet	412	20.29778313
gimmel	73	8.544003745
dalet	434	20.83266666
hey	15	3.872983346
vav	12	3.464101615
zayin	717	26.77685568
chet	408	20.19900988
tet	419	20.46948949
yud	20	4.472135955
caf	820	28.63564213
lamed	74	8.602325267
mem	640	25.29822128
nun	756	27.49545417
samech	600	24.49489743
ayin	780	27.92848009
peh	85	9.219544457
zaddi	104	10.19803903
koof	906	30.09983389
resh	510	22.58317958
shin	1010	31.78049716
tav	406	20.14944168
Total	10032	424.242
	-4242
	5790
	-12
	5778

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