by Jeffrey Meiliken | Aug 21, 2011 | Revelations
There is a saying that you find what you look for? Such as the number 42, as in the 42-Letter Name of G-d. I see it in news reports everywhere and it keeps coming up for me. This could be because I’m hyper-sensitive to that number having written a book about...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Apr 13, 2010 | Revelations
Our revelations last year, about the Omer we’re pretty startling, but one simple piece of the puzzle had alluded us: why do we count it twice? One time by days and another by weeks. As noted last year, since no light is ever lost, the sum of 49 days we count is...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jul 31, 2009 | Revelations
We are the Chosen Ones. What does it mean to be chosen? My wife wasn’t feeling well the other day and when I left to drop my son off at a play date, I told my daughter she was in charge while I was gone. She immediately said, “Then I’m the boss,” so I explained to her...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 13, 2009 | Revelations
A lesson from my daughter’s kindergarten class: They were exploring Parshat Noach and the teacher sent us this email letting us know what was going on in class: “We asked each student to draw a picture using a red crayon. We asked them to put effort into...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 5, 2009 | Revelations
I was studying the Arizal’s explanations on the 3rd of the 10 plagues last night, Lice (Kinim) of numerical value 120, when it occurred to me that the 50 letters in the 3 iterations of the spelled-out Name of G0d, Adonai, associated with the malchut level total...