Dan Brown is a terrific writer and excellent researcher. Here are a few facts and Kabbalistic meanings to some of the facts he dug up for his bestseller The Lost Symbol. We’ve previously drawn numerous connections between the timing of the founding of America, the State of Israel and the Divine Calendar as highlighted by the tzaddikim. So it’s quite interesting that the US Capital Building (the home of Congress) has 541 rooms, since 541 is the well-established standard numerical value for the name Israel.

Nevertheless, the monument at the core of Washington D.C. and Dan’s book is the Washington Monument, which Dan correctly points out is 555 feet tall and has a capstone of 3300 lbs. Now anyone who knows anything about Hebrew knows that the monument resembles a giant letter (V) of numerical value 6. And the reason this is significant is that 555 x 6 = 3330 and that there are exactly 3330 years from the giving of the Torah at Mt Sinai and the second opportunity for the Tree-of-life reality in 2448 HC and the year 5778 HC (2018 CE), the year given by Rav Ahlag and the tzaddikim for the geula (final redemption) and the third reception window for the Tree-of-Life reality.

Moreover, since the letter vav is spelled out VV, it has a numerical value of 12 as in the 12 inches to a foot, which makes the Washington Monument 6660 inches tall, and this is significant only because there are exactly 66.6 jubilee years (50-year Biblical cycle) from 2448 HC to 5778 HC (2018 CE).

Furthermore, in 2018 CE we will be in the 115^th US Congress, and we’ll also be in the 115^th Jubilee year, counting as the sages do from Adam to 5778 HC.

Now, had Washington D.C. and its buildings and monuments not have been designed by the Masons this might all be a great coincidence, but it would be very surprising that architects familiar with ancient gematria and the writings of the tzaddikim would not have incorporated this knowledge in their monumental works. Especially so, considering that the tiny aluminum capstone that rests at the apex of the Washington Monument weighs exactly 100 oz with 100 being the numerical value for Keter, the crowning sefira (dimension) at the apex of the Tree-of-Life. This in itself would mean nothing if the architect didn’t also know that 100 oz was 6.25 lbs and that 625 is the numerical value of “H’Keter (the Crown)” high atop the 555 ft tall monument.  Or that 100 is the numerical value of the letter Caf (CP), the first and representative letter of Keter (CTR), and that CP can also be pronounced Cap, as in Capstone.

Furthermore, gematria and Kabbalah scholars know that the letter Caf (C) has a numerical value of 20 and the Hebrew word for 20 (Esrim) has a numerical value of 620, the same as that of Keter.

No one can say for sure that the Washington Monument was designed as a giant letter Vav or as the central column of the Tree-of-Life, but it does make a heck of a sundial and it is indisputable that the surface temperature of the sun is 5778 K, and that the final measure of the complete Washington Monument stretches figuratively from 625 to 555, for a span of 70, which is oddly analogous to the 70 years that span the statehood of Israel in the year 5708 (1948 CE) to 5778 (2018 CE).

Who knows who knew what, but there are only 8 years left until 2018.

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A new and very logical gematria cipher has recently been revealed and with it many amazing clues of the Torah have been deciphered. It is almost needless to say that it is only new to us, and is actually as ancient as Hebrew itself. This revelation is dedicated to the elevation of the soul of Chiel Mordechai Ben Abraham, may he study peacefully in the highest palaces. With these new revelations, more pieces of the grand puzzle of our universe fall neatly into place and heretofore-mysterious aspects of the Torah have become clear.

This gematria cipher is quite simple compared to most of them and simply uses the 5 final letters in a slightly different way. The standard gematria sofit takes into account the larger values of the special 5 final letters of the Hebrew alef-bet (C= 500, M= 600, N=700, P=800, and Z=900) for a total of 3500, while their standard values are normally counted as (C= 20, M= 40, N=50, P=80, and Z=90) for a total of 280, but since the letters represent energy and energy is never lost, another way to count them includes both values, thus treating the final shaped letters as extensions of the originals for a total of 280 + 3500 = 3780. Many of you may recognize this as 10 x 378, the numerical value of the word chashmol, the angelic cloaking that is today known as electricity, but today we’ll look straight to the heart of the Torah’s structure and leave the numerous other application of this cipher aside for now.

As usual, we turn to the seed level of the Torah to seek out wisdom, whether in the 73 faces of the Torah’s first verse or in the 32 paths of the letter Alef that preceded the Torah. The Torah (Bible’s) first verse states “In the beginning G-d created Heaven and Earth,” and the first word of this omniscient verse is

Bereshit (BREShYT), which is broken down to the prefix Bet (B) meaning “in” and REShYT meaning “Beginning.” The numerical value of REShYT is 911—yes, as in 9/11—but more germane is that utilizing the newly discovered ancient gematria, 911 represents the letter Alef. The letter Alef (ELP) is spelled out Alef-Lamed-Pe) whose numerical value is typically 1+30+80 or 111, but when we add in the 800 for the Pe sofit inclusive) we get 111 + 800 = 911, and thus the first verse of the Torah can be read as “In Alef G-d created Heaven and Earth.

We know from the tzaddikim that the letter Alef(E) is constructed of an upper letter Yud(Y), two parallel diagonal letter Vavs(V,V) and a lower letter Yud(Y), and that we can infer from this that the upper Yud created Heaven and the lower Yud created Earth in a spiritual (or energetic) sense. Moreover, we know from the Arizal that the Letter Alef also represents the numerical value of 1000, as Alef (ELP) and Elef (ELP), meaning 1000) are spelled exactly alike. So it’s surely no coincidence that the 5^th word of the verse, HaSha’im (HShMYM), meaning Heaven, has a numerical value of 1000, utilizing the newly revealed gematria along with the kolel for the 5 letters: 395+600+5 letters = 1000

Likewise the new value for the 7^th and final word in the verse, Earth, H’Aretz (HERZ) is 296+900+4 letters = 1200. So when we add “Heaven and Earth” together with the letter Vav(V), the prefix for “and”, we get  (HShMYM  V’HERZ) = 1000 + 1200 + 7 = 2207. This includes the kolel for each of the 10 letters in the phrase.

Now, to most people the number 2207 would be insignificant and random, but to readers of There’s Nothing Random about the Universe, the number 2207 represents 5778/phi² or more specifically, exactly 2207.000 .

What does this mean?

First, the basics: 5778 is the Hebrew year given by Rav Yehuda Halevi Ashlag, and others for the geula, the final redemption; and Phi (1.61803398…) is the primordial mathematical constant that controls harmonic spiraling growth throughout our universe from the number of petals on our flowers to the shape of the Milky Way.  Moreover, since 5778.000 is exactly phi¹⁸, then the number, or year, 2207.000 is precisely two iterations of Phi away from 5778.000. Observed geometrically, 5778 is exactly 2 turns of the spiral further along the cosmic spiral of time than 2207. The number 5778 is a natural harmonic progression of 2207; therefore, the Tree-of-life reality is a natural progression of “Heaven and Earth,” and the first verse of the Torah may have been designed to show us that.

2207.000 expanded 2 Revolutions along the spiral Phi = 5778.000

Since the letter Alef represent the 32 Paths of the Tree-of-Life and the 10 letters of “Heaven and Earth) also represent the 10 sefirot (dimensions) of the Tree-of-Life, we now see a hint that the Tree-of-life reality, which was present at the dawn of creation, will have to go through 2 more iterations (expansions) to reach the geula in 5778, which is in actuality no different than the tzaddikim have explained numerous times. After Adam, and the start of the 5778-year calendar, the next opportunity for the Tree-of-life consciousness came in 2448 at Mt Sinai, which was exactly 66.6 jubilee years before 5778, when the third cosmic opening for the Tree-of-life reality is destined to occur.

And while probably just coincidental that 22/7 = 3.1428, a close approximation of Pi (3.14159…), through simple gematria the Torah’s 1^st verse of 7 words and 28 letters yields an even closer approximation, 3.14155, as explained The Genesis Prayer.  The important concept to keep in mind is the Torah as the nexus between the physical world that’s structurally guided by Phi and Pi and the spiritual world that’s guided by the Tree-of-life.

Speaking of the Tree-of-life, Etz Chaim (AZ ChYYM), its numerical value, utilizing the newly revealed gematria, is 1728 and with 1 for the kolel it equals 1729, as in the 1729 words in the Torah that have a numerical value of 26, that of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH).

And as for the Tetragrammaton (YHVH), there are 1820 of them in the Torah and 1820 just happens to be the numerical value, utilizing the new gematria, of the famous verse that Hillel and other sages have said encapsulates the entire Torah, Vayikra 19:18, paraphrased as “Love they neighbor as thyself,” which is the essence of the consciousness that will lead to the Tree-of-life reality.  The number 1820 is not only 70 x 26, but it’s also the number of letters in the 28 prophetic verses of Ezekiel 37 about the “dry bones” and the geula in the end of days.

You can add 19+18 in Vayikra 19:18 and get 37 and say “wow,” but a much bigger Wow! moment comes when we compare when we apply the newly revealed gematria to the collective words in the entire Torah.

First of all, the standard gematria gives us a total value of 21009826 and while  (2+1+0+0+9+8+2+6) = 28, as in the number of letters in the Torah’s first verse, the product of those same digits is (2*1*0*0*9*8*2*6) = 1728, as in the value of Tree-of-life using the new gematria. And just to keep us honest, another deeply revealing form of gematria gives us ⁴√(P_(21009826)/ ∑(_21009826)) = ⁴√(1728/28) = 2.802828, not so dissimilar from the square root of the exact number of words in the Torah, 282.8002828, but we’ve discussed elsewhere about 28 being a core Torah concept and won’t go further with it today, except to say that 28 x 26 (YHVH) = 616, the numerical value of “The Torah,” and the number of times Moses’ name (MShH) is mentioned in the Torah.

Nevertheless, it’s when we apply the newly revealed gematria that we discover that the square root of the total gematria value (33640626) of the 304,805 letters in the Torah is 5800.0054, which is pretty astonishing considered that exact collective number of words, letters and verses in the Torah is exactly 5⁸.

And what ties these two gematria ciphers even closer together and ties them both to the main quantitative (or structural) elements of the Torah is that while the square root of 5⁸, the sum of the words, verses, and letters in the Torah, is 625 and 5/8 = .625, and while 625 is the numerical value of H’Keter(“The Crown”) or highest and crowning sefira (dimension), 21009826/33640626 = .625 (approximately) = 5/8.

Moreover, while the sum of the 22 spelled out Hebrew letters is 4248, it becomes 10048 when the final letters are considered in the spelling, in other words exactly 5800 more.

And in case you didn’t do the math: 5800 – 22 = 5778

Thus, it’s pretty obvious in these days of knowledge that the revelations of formerly concealed gematria ciphers are opening up whole new avenues of Torah exploration for us, and that simple names, like Abraham, whose value was 248, now take on new meaning for us as 848, or twice 424, which is the value of Moshiach Ben David.

As revealed in The Divine Calendar the Covenant of Abraham (also knows as the Covenant of Halves) occurred in 2018 HC.  And 2018 CE is the swiftly approaching Hebrew year 5778, the year dictated by the Torah’s structure, its gematria values and by the 22 letters of the Alef-bet. And in case you think this is all utter nonsense, ask yourself why then is it also the surface temperature of the Sun (5778 K). Did man create the Sun as well?

Ask yourself this as well: If G-d’s Covenant with Abraham in 2018 was known as the Covenant of Halves, what is half of 848? You already know the answer in your heart: 424, Mashiach Ben David.

We can close our minds to the depth of the Torah and its relationship to the underlying structure of the universe and G-d’s designs, or we can open them up and try to grasp the endless dimensions of the Tree-of-life reality.  Either way, it’s through the burning desire of our hearts for the truth that will draw us closer to it.

Since writing this post just a few days ago, many new ancient secrets have been revealed, which we hope to share shortly, including the 42 letters of the Tree-of-Life hidden write under our noses, and a new and very specific clarification to the Zohar’s lengthy discussions about the end-of-days (final redemption).

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It’s funny that in the portion of Naso, we read about the sacrifices that we read during the 8 days of Chanukah and in the very next portion BeHa’alothekha we read about the Menorah in Chapter 8 of Bamidbar. Obviously these two portions must be connected somehow.  Each Chanukah we read about the sacrifices from Numbers (B’midbar) 7:1-89 and 8:1-4, and while the 89 verses of chapter 7 obviously correspond to the gematria value of Chanukah (89), the 4 verses of chapter 8 correspond to the 4 periods of exile.

One simple way that these two portions are connected is in the sum of their two names. Naso has a numerical value of 351 and BeHa’alothekha has a final value of 1007, which together sum to 1358, or keter (1000) plus 358, the numerical value of Mashiach. That would be fine and dandy but of little value to us, unless we also knew that encoded into the sacrifices for Chanukah, the festival of lights designed to bring Mashiach, was the date for Moshiach’s arrival.

Before we explain about some of the deeper meanings of the laundry list of sacrifices that read about in the portion of Naso, on each of the 8 days of Chanukah and that were to be made by the 12 tribes in the Mishkan or Holy Temple, we should note the complete numerical value of the “Menorah” found in Chapter 8 in BeHa’alothekha is 359, the numerical value for Satan (or for Mashiach in Aramaic). It’s common in sourcing the essential energies that the numerical values represent that we find that the cure and the problem have the same exact value, which is why the Menorah (359) is our cure for overcoming Satan (359) in the same way Moshiach (358) is the cure for the snake (358).  Energy is usually  depicted as a wave so to visualize this picture a symmetrical wave along the X-Axis of a simple X-Y graph whereby the peaks reach 358 units high and the troughs 358 units low. Superimposing the energies cancels one another out.

Back to the sacrifices:1 Silver plate weighing 130 shekels (ShKL); 1 Silver bowl weighing 70 shekels; 1 Gold bowl weighting 10 shekels; 1 Young bull; 1 Ram; 1 male lamb (1 year old); 1 male goat; 2 oxen; 5 rams; 5 male goats; 5 male lambs (1 year old).

You have to admit it’s an odd group of items, but with everything in the Torah, there is always method in the madness. (130+70+10+1+1+1+1+2+5+5+5) = 231, as in the 231 Gates of Wisdom, which we know from Abraham’s Sefer Yetzirah are the number of pairs of letters that can be made from the 22 letters of the Alef-bet, which he called the 22 building blocks of the universe.

Besides helping us to cancel out the sins that our souls committed when they were joined as one within Adam during the 130 years that he was separated from Eve, the 130 shekels of silver for the plate that we sacrifice each day corresponds to Jacob’s age when he entered Egypt to begin the exile in Egypt. This itself is no coincidence as his 130 years also served to mitigate that self-same sin of Adams. 130 is also the value of Sinai, where the Israelites received the Torah 210 years later. Of course, if we add together the weight of the silver and gold (representing right and left column energies) we get (130+70+10) = 210.

By way of further explanation, the 70 shekels of silver correspond to the 70 family members with Jacob who entered Egypt. It also represents the 70 nations of the current exile and the year 70 CE when the Second Holy Temple was destroyed and the current exile began. And while the 10 shekels of gold correspond to the 10 Utterances received at Sinai and the 10 Sefirot (dimensions) of the Tree-of-life. Moreover, while the full weight of metals was 210 shekels corresponding to the 210 years of the Egyptian exile, the value of the word Shekel (ShKL) itself is 430, corresponds to the 430 years of the full first exile from the Covenant of Abraham, which began in 2018 HC and ended with the crossing of the YM Suf and the reception of the Torah at Sinai in 2448 HC.

Now, a deeper secret within this weight is that “210 shekels (ShKL)” are equivalent to a numerical value of 210 x 430 = 90,300 or 903 x 100, an 903 is the recognized sum of all the positive integers through 42 and since there is a spiritual tenet that nothing is ever lost, 903 is the full inclusive value of 42, encompassing all the energy of the integers that came before it. Going back to our depiction of energy as waves, we can picture 903 as the sum of the peaks of energy level 1, plus that of energy level 2 all the way through energy level 42.

If you recall the Chanukah reading consists of 89 plus 4, or 93 verses. It’s a possible allusion to 903; nevertheless, the word Shekel is repeated 26 times during in the 93 verses of the full reading and not only is 26 the value of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH), but the value of the word shekel (ShKL) spelled out (gematria milui) is 620, that of keter, the highest, crowning sefira (dimension).  Then in the often repeated phrase amongst these verses, “Shekel B’Shekel H’Kodesh,” the word H’Kodesh (HKDSh) likewise has the gematria milui (spelled-out-value) including the kolel of 1000, which, as stated above is also representative of keter. Therefore, the phrase Shekel B’Shekel H’Kodesh can read as “the crown in the crown at the crown,” or “keter of keter of keter,” which is the highest level imaginable.

All this reiterates all the potent energy available in these connections to the YHVH and to keter of keter of keter, but how does it relate to date for the arrival of Moshaich?

To begin with, the word H’kodesh in gematria milui sofit has the numerical value of 2008, as in the recent year 2008 CE, when from a financial standpoint the world began its implosion, when the world’s stock markets declined a collective 42%. 2008 CE would be Of course, this is 10 years before the prophesied time frame of 2017-2018 CE (5778 HC), and could be accounted for with the kolel, but there is much much more that ties the sacrifices more precisely to this very specific date.

For example there are 41 combined occurrences of the 3 words in the phrase Shekel B’Shekel H’Kodesh found in the reading of the sacrifices and their average value is ((15 x 409)+(12×430)+(14×432))/3 – 3 (kolel) = 5778, as in the year 5778 HC (2018 CE).

Then there are also 6 different phrases throughout the sacrifices that have a numerical value of 5777, (representing the year 2017 CE).  Of the 5845 verses in the Torah, there are only 13 incidences where the value of a phrase that occurs wholly within a single verse has the value of 5777 and one of those is verse Numbers 7:87 of the sacrifices. It is the summary verse for all the sacrifices: “…12 young bulls, 12 rams and 12 male lambs a year old, together with their grain offering. 12 male goats….”

This is significant because the geula was prophesied to most probably occur in the period 5777.78 to 5778.28 .

As for the year 5778, amongst the 93 verses of the sacrifices there are 16 occurrences of phrases (defined as a contiguous grouping or words) with the total value of 5778, the last of which is in the final verse of the sacrifices, Numbers 8:4, where we find the 22-word phrase “…the Menorah, just as The Lord Commanded Moses. This is how the menorah was made: It was made from hammered gold…had shown.”

And not coincidentally, the number 84 (or twice 42) represents Pad, redemption, the union of the upper and lower Mem-Bet (42-Letter Names) necessary for the geula.

But possibly even more telling, of the 5845 verses in the Torah, 184 phrases wholly within verses or 3.14% of the total verses, have a value of 2019, as in 2019 CE, the first year of the new era of Mashiach as prophesied by the tzaddikim. And of these 184 phrases, 35 are within the 93 verses of the sacrifices, an unfathomably large percentage. Moreover, 184 is the numerical value of Pkad, which chazal has independently connected to the coming of Mashiach and which we wrote about in a previous blog.

So of the 93 verses of the sacrifices, fully, 57 (6, 16, and 35) are either connected to the year 2017 (5777), 2018 (5778), or 2019 and another 41 times specifically to 5778 through the repeated occurrences of shekel b’shekel h’kodesh.

There’s no statistical way that this is coincidence. And if you grabbed a calculator and did the math, you saw that 57/93 = Phi (.6180…).  Even more precisely, it worked out as 57/93 = .612903, or 612 (brit/covenant) and 903, and allusion to the mem-bet (42-Letter Name) as described above.

This is what connects the two portions read after Shavuot, when we’ve just received the Torah in marriage once again. It’s clear that as we can every Chanukah, 6 months earlier, we can also connect now through the subliminal connections programmed into the sacrifices to keter, to the geula and to the coming of Moshiach.  Every 6 months, we get this wonderful opportunity to connect with the Tree-of-life reality, and at the end of 66.6 jubilee years in 5778, we will get the ultimate opportunity to connect to it permanently.

But it is not some G-d given right. It is an opportunity we’ll have to earn.

We’ll have to make sacrifices.

The 4 verses in Chapter 8 of Bmidbar (BMDBR, which incidentally permutes to (DBR MB, say the 42) corresponds to the 4 exiles. And at the end of the 4th exile, we must make sacrifices. Each of the 4 types of animals of the sacrifices had a specific purpose to help the 4 types of man.  But the gold and silver had other significance too: to open up the 231 Gates of Wisdom for us.

The complete value (standard plus ordinal) of silver, representing gevura/judgment or left column energy is 203, as in the first 3 letters of the Torah. And the complete value of gold, representing chesed/loving-kindness, or right column energy, is 28, as in the 28 letters of the Torah’s first verse. All 12 tribes were instructed to give both gold and silver in the weights/proportions described above for the sacrifices.  And just as (130+70+10+1+1+1+1+2+5+5+5) = 231, representing all the sacrifices, the complete values of gold and silver together (28 + 203) = 231 as well. And not only do these 231 Gates correspond with the 231 letter pair combinations amongst the 22 letters of the alef-bet but 231 is also the sum of the positive integers through 22, just as 903 was for 42.  Gold and silver, money, assets, mean nothing in the achievement of the Tree-of-life reality–it can’t be purchased, but chesed/loving-kindness, and helping one another, these are the commodities that count.  Remember, all the 12 tribes gave equally. The sacrifices are made for the community. It took more than Moses; it took unity to reach the Tree-of-life opportunity last time. And also to build the Holy Temples. And it was disunity that blew the opportunity and crumbled the Temples.

The hope for the community lies in our individual sacrifices for the sake of others, for the sake of our souls. Satan equates to selfish desires; Moshiach to overcoming them.

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Before we examine the ancient monument that has stood proud for thousands of years secretly hiding the value of the ancient and future cubit in plain sight and see what else it reveals about our history and future, lets go back to the nature of the cubit itself: the splitting in halves of the double 55 to give us 27.5 inches.

Let’s look first to the Torah and last week’s portion. And as we do, we’ll reveal a secret encoding for the blessing of conception and childbirth, which in essence is the union of the two halves. For those that understand, the two halves are always the letters Vav and Hei of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH)

The Torah portion Vayera begins the 49^th paragraph and 18^th chapter of the Torah. It begins with the words Vayera Elav Adonai (VYRE ELYV YHVH), “God appeared to him,” of numerical value 290.

And note for the moment that that this first chapter of parsha Vayera ends at Bereshit 18:33, which matches up nicely with the gematria value (1833) of the first half of the Shem Mem-Bet (42-Letter Name of G-d), whose mid- point is marked with the letters Resh-Zadi (RZ) of numerical value 290. Readers of The Genesis Prayer already know this RZ gateway, or connection, at the very center of the 42-Letter Name matrix and its relationship between this gateway the Well of Miriam (also of numerical value 290) and the blessing of conception and childbirth, but in this article we’re going to focus primarily on the secret encoding of the Torah as it applies to this miracle/blessing.

Please note because it is not coincidence that there are 290 letters in the 4th paragraph of the Schema, the 1st of which has 42 words.

Nevertheless, before we do, let’s take a step back to the prior weeks’ portion Lech Lecha (LC LC, of numerical value 50-50) the only portion named after one of the Torah’s mysterious 89 double (duplicate) words. In this portion, we find in the 45^th paragraph of the Torah the Covenant of G-d with Abraham, the one that promises that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars, also know as the Covenant of Halves. The readers of know full well that this event occurred, according to the sages of blessed memory in 2018 HC (see The Divine Calendar).

Let’s flash forward to Vayera, 20:18, the last verse in paragraph 50 of the Torah, which states, “God had previously sealed up every womb in Abimelech’s house, because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.”

Now it just so happens that this verse also contains a double word, Azir Azar (AZR AZR), the 17^th double in the Torah, which is akin to the sum of the values of the initials of this portiosn first 3 words, (VYRE ELYV YHVH), 17. Moroever, each of these double words contains the same Resh-Zadi (RZ) combination as in the center of the 42 Letter Name.

We’ll get more into these mysterious doubles, but first the Torah is giving us some very practical spiritual advice if we want to conceive, even if like Sarah Amenu, we are 89 years old and born without a womb. In the verse just prior to this one, in 20:17, “Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and slavegirls, so that they were able to have children.” In the very next verse, the first in chapter 21, Sarah is granted special providence by G-d to give birth to Isaac and begin to fulfill his Covenant with Abraham.

The practical and simple advice is to pray for others to conceive if your desire is for yourself or your wife to.

Now, it’s no coincidence that Isaac is conceived and born in the first 2 verses of chapter 21, just as the RZ combination in the Shem Mem-Bet is located at the 21^st letter of the Name, the midpoint of the 42 letters.

Keeping in mind that the ordinal value of the letter Resh is 20 and Zadi is 18, the last 3 words of verse 20:18, are Sarah, wife of Abraham, (SRH EShT EBRHM) and with the kolel their numerical value sofit can be either 2017 or 2018.

Moreover, the next set of double words in the Torah is also in parsha Vayera, and they are “Abraham Abraham,” and not only are these the 18^th pair of duplicate words, but the numerical value of Abraham is 248, the same as the Hebrew word for womb, rechem.

We further note that these verses, all related to the RZ combination and to childbirth, are in the 4^th reading of the Vayera Torah portion, just as the RZ is in the center of the 4^th line of the Ana B’koach (42-Letter Name), the level of Netzach, which is associated with the energy of victory and perseverance.

We’ll get more into the miracles embedded into these 89 mysterious double words as we get closer to Chanukah, not coincidentally also of numerical value 89, but for now, please note that the midpoint of these 89 words is the 45^th one, Darosh Darash, connecting us back to where we began in the 45^th Paragraph of the Torah and the Covenant of Abraham in 2018. Now Darosh Darash has the numerical value 504 – 504 and this location also splits the number of occurrences of the word value 504 into 25 and 25 per half, and while Darosh Darash is the 45^th overall double, it is the 32^nd unique one and the 32^nd overall one just so happens to be CH CH of numerical value 25-25, representing not only the last two letters of Channukah (ChNVCH), but the date that the miracles of Channukah begin every year, the 25^th of Kislev.

Now, getting back to the occurrence of this hidden blessing for childbirth in 20:18 of paragraph 50 of the Torah, we know that 50 always represents the sefira (dimension) Binah and always connects to the 50 jubilee years prescribed in the counting toward Moshiach and the geula (final redemption), and that 49 chapters after the Covenant of Halves in chapter 15 of Bereshit we have the end of exile and exodus from Egypt.

As part of that Covenant given in the year 2018 HC, G-d informs Abraham that his descendents will be in exile for 430 years and 2018 plus 430 years is 2448 HC, the year of the exodus, which just so happens to be 49 jubilee years (49 x 50) from Adam.

And of the 89 double word pairs in the Torah, 49 are unique after discounting for repeats, leaving (89 – 49) = 40 repeated double word pairs, as in the 40 jubilee years from Adam to the Covenant with Abraham in 2018 HC.

Then again there is the strange tale of Lot’s daughter getting impregnate by their father at the very end of paragraph 49. The descendant of that union many generation later would be King David, born 57.08 jubilee years after Adam., once again tying in the concept of childbirth and Mashiach.

Of course, with the symmetry of the two calendars as illustrated in The Divine Calendar, Abraham’s birth in 1948 HC is analogous to Israel’s birth in 1948 CE, which is 5708 HC; and 2018 HC seventy (70) years later is analogous to the date Rav Ashlag gave us for the arrival of Moshiach and the geula in 2018 CE, or 5778 in the Hebrew calendar.

And how does the 70 years play in to this?

A hundred different ways as per The Divine Calendar, but for this article just note that the letter Ayin in the double words (AZR AZR) at Bereshit 20:18 has a numerical value of 70 and that there are 3760 years from the year 2018 HC to 5778 HC, and 3760 = 42.24 x 89 with 422 being the numerical value of the word “seventy (70).”

Moreover, of those 89 mystical double words, all of which help bring us miracles especially that of childbirth, 3 are in the 1^st chapter of the Torah, 12 in the next, leaving 70 more plus the four (4) that spell out “Ani YHVH Melech, Amen” or I am G-d, King, amen.” This is analogous to the path of the Jewish soul, as explained by the Arizal, from the YHVH to Adam (of numerical value 45) to the 3 Patriarchs to the 12 sons of Jacob to the 70 family members of Jacob to the 600,000 to the fulfillment of G-d’s Covenant with Abraham in paragraph 45 to make them more numerous than the stars.

And what does this all have to do with the 27.5 inch measure of the ancient and future cubit?

Well, the 42-Letter Name is derived from the 1^st verse of the Torah, which ends in Resh-Zadi (RZ) and because these are the 27^th and 28^th letters of the Torah, we have (27+28)/2 = 55/2 = 27.5. Moreover, 89 x 27.5 = 2448, as in the year of the exodus 2448 HC. As for how that relates to 5778, we’ll just have to wait until the next article on that ancient monument of stone.

Meanwhile, tracing back to the first 3 words in Vayera–Vayera Elav YHVH, meaning G-d Appeared to him–we find that the middle word Elav, is repeated a short time later in the portion, this time with 3 dots over it, one of 10 times this occurs in the Torah, and we know from the sages that these 3 dots represent the 3 archangels that visted Abraham on the 3^rd day of his circumcision—Michael, Gabriel, and Rachael—at the entrance to his tent. So not only are we being advised that if we persevere with our good spiritual intentions through our sufferings G-d will send us his angels, but with all the allusions to childbirth and to the arrival of Moshiach in 2018 CE, we are also being specifically advised to persevere with the right consciousness throughout the trials and tribulation of trying to conceive, and moreover through the next 9 years and the birth pangs of Moshiach.

And while G-d will fulfill his Covenant in 2018 (5778) for those that persevere and maintain the proper consciousness, Bereshit 20:18 described the closing of the wombs for everyone who held Sarah captive. And amongst those 89 duplicative words, the word pair Taroph Toraph (TtRP TtRP) appears twice, the first time in paragraph 73 when Joseph was 17 and of the 49 unique pairs, this is the 17^th one. The word means to ravage, tear to pieces, and its while the numerical value of the pair is 578, the gematria sofit numerical value of the pair is 2018. Go figure!

Think about that. G-d set every word in the Torah for a reason. G-d set every word for a blessing. 89 of them he set twice. Maybe we should pay attention to them. Life is fraught with obstacles and suffering, but if we know where to look, it’s also full of blessings and the tools to manifest them.

There are two halves to everything, the physical, represented by the feminine receptive letter Hey of the numerical value (5) and the spiritual represented by the masculine giving letter vav of the numerical value (6), together they add up to 11, as in the 11 unique letters in the Torah’s first verse and the 11 incenses that completes the 89 lights of the Menora within the sanctuary of the Holy Temple.

We must also keep in mind, especially in the darkest times that there is a spiritual and a physical component to everything. Through that knowledge you will find the solution.

Tonight is the death anniversary of the great kabbalist Abraham Azulai, may his memory be for a blessing and may G-d bless us all.

Ezra

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We’re going in a new direction soon and will begin explaining the meaning and significance of the dimensions of the Third Temple. All the proportions we’ve learned about through the Torah, the Names, and the universal constants will have new meaning as we explore the place where all the Shefa (life-force) flows through into our world. Before the Third Temple can be constructed we must understand it. It already exists spiritually, but just knowing the dimensions and erecting stone walls won’t do it. We have the knowledge and it’s coming time to apply it. When we take the process and the knowledge run it through our hearts we will connect to the Tree-of-Life, the greater universe, the Cosmos, and the Holy Third Temple. And then it will be time.

A long time ago, I promised to explain and expand on Abraham Avinu’s layout of the Cosmos first delineated in his Sefer Yetzirah, and now we will do so in the context of the Holy Temple’s design. G-d willing, we will all understand.

When Noach sent out the dove 3 times to find dry land it was an allusion to the 3 Holy Temples, and to the 3 times the numbers 5778 and 2019 appear in the first 1000 (Aleph) digits of Pi (See There’s Nothing Random About the Universe).

It’s almost time to let the dove loose again. There is a lot of work to be done this year and the holiday of Sukkot is almost upon us. They are calling for rain in New York and that’s not good. We’re going to need the power of the sukkah and of the unifications we can make in it in order to do our work properly so we’re going to need everyone’s consciousness in a place of unity, love, and sharing to stave off the rain this year. Let’s all spend the next few days thinking, speaking, and listening through our hearts and the blessings will come to all.

I’m repeating and updating below an article posted a year ago to explain many of the secrets and kavannot of the shakings of the lulov within the sukkah. This year, if we shake with our hearts we will shake the world awake. Let’s do it together.

The Shakings

Regarding the daily shakening of the four species, they would seem to correspond to (5 sets x 6 directions) the 30 blasts of the shofar, and the numerical gematria value (30) of the large Lamed (connected to Binah) in the Torah. Lamed has the numerical value of 74 or 70 +4, which as you’ll see later, representing the 70 Nations and 4 species.

That Lamed connects to the Lamed of Lulav. It’s also the Lamed that along with the letter Pe controls the month of Tishrei (Libra), according to Abraham Avinu, in which we do both the shofar blowings and the shakings. It’s also the lamed of the word aleph (ELP, the first), and when the controlling letters of Tishrei are completed with the letter Aleph (Aleph-Lamed-Pe), they connect to both keter and the beginning, as in Aleph B’Tishrei (permutated to spell Bereshit, the beginning).

With the 3 shakings per direction, corresponding to the 3 beats per type of blast of the shofar, there are 18 total shakings per set, and as Rav Abraham Brandwein points out, “The Lulav hints at the vertebral column that has 18 vertebrae and every movement indicates vitality. Thus all 4 species need to be damp and alive and not dry.” The 18 corresponds to the value of the word, chai, (life). And straightening this connection is that the word value of lulav is 68, as in chaim (life)

With 18 shaking per each of the 5 sets there are 91 total shakings per day, which corresponds to amen and teh all-important unification of G-d’s Names that it represents (YHVH-ADNY ) and to the value of the word Succah itself.

Moreover, at 30 daily shakenings x 7 days, there are 210 total shakings, as in the 210 years of Egyptian exile. And when the 3 shakings per direction are considered, there are 210 x 3 or 630 total shakings in the 7 days. 630 is 10 x 63, the value of the Tetragramamton in the aspect of Binah. The 10 always corresponds to the 10 sefirot (dimensions) and in this case to the 10 sub-dimensions (inner sefirot) within Binah. During the entire process of Sukkot, we’re drawing down the energy from Yesod of Ima (Binah) so the Binah connections are very fitting and part and parcel to the technology involved in the shakings.

Over the 7 days of Sukkot, we’re making 70 sacrifices to share the energy with the 70 nations of the world. Each of these sacrifices corresponds to a specific one of the sub-sefirot in order as we descend through them during the 7 day period.

Regarding the four species: As we know from the Arizal, the four species correspond to the Tetragrammaton (YHVH): Hadas (Yud), Aravah (Hei), lulav (vav) and Etrog (hei). So since the numerical values of Hadas and Aravah = 346 (Shmo), the two species above correspond to Y-H Shmo (the Name of YH), as in 5 of the 6 letters that occur at the top of the 248 columns of the Torah that are not vavs, excluding the initial Bet of bereshit. But the three sides of the sukkah itself forms the shape of the letter Bet, completing the B’Y-H ShMV sequence.

The missing Bet from the B’Y-H ShMV sequence would also appear to be the Bet in lulav (LVLB), since the word lulav represents teh whole Torah in two different ways in that it begins with (L) and ends in (B) and also ends in the letter combination Lamed-Bet (LB), as in the first (B) and last (L) letters of the Torah. This letter reversal is an allusion to the recycling of the Torah that occurs during this period when we read the last verse of the Torah and immediately twist it back to the beginning and read from Bereshit.

Moreover, the numerical value of Hadas and Aravah and lulov together = 414 (kaddish) or 2 x 207 (the numerical value of Or/light), and thus twice light, representing the running and returning light

And as in known from chazal, etrog has the value 610 as in parnesa (sustenance) and ma’aser (tithing) and their various meditations for drawing the Shefa into our lives. The Etrog corresponds to the malchut of yesod, the place where we earn our parnesa (sustenance).

But the total value of the 4 species = 1024, which is 256 x 4 with 256 being the value or the Ark of the Covenant (also Aaron) and 1024 being both 2¹⁰ as in the 210 years of exile yet again, and also 1024 represents the 1024 unique word values in the Torah, which is not coincidence and not coincidentally 32 x 32 which when we study the structure of the Third Temple, we’ll understand how they all relate and relate to the 32 paths of the Tree-of-Life.

Furthermore, as we meditate on ending the 4th exile by sharing light with the 70 nations through the 70 sacrifices, it’s appropriate that the sum of the 4 final letters (B,G,H,S) in the names of the 4 species add up to 70, while that of the Hadas and Arava alone add up to 65, the numerical value of Adonai.

And it’s almost needless to mention that the end of the 4th exile is supposed to happen 70 years after Israel became a nation in 1948 (5708)

Interestingly, and not coincidentally, the sum of the ordinal value of the 16 x 4) letters in the names of the 4 species is 151, as in the value of the Name, Ehyeh (EHYH) spelled out (milui) and also of the word, mikve.

Moreover, the sum of the ordinal value of the letters in lulav is 32, as in the numerical value of the letters Lamed and Bet (LB), which spells Lev, the Hebrew word for heart, and as previously mentioned the last and first letters in the Torah. Yet another connection to the 32 paths of Wisdom, which is in essence the Tree-of-life, represented by the lulav, whose standard gematria value is 68, that of chaim (life). And note that the Inner Courtyard of the Third Temple is 100 cubits by 100 cubits and the Alter in the center of it is 32 x 32 cubits, leaving space of 68 cubits all around.

Moreover, when we add Lulav’s standard value and its ordinal one, we get 68 + 32 = 100, the value of, sach (SCC), the very important roof (covering) of the Sukkah and the representation value of keter, the highest sefira.

So when we shake the Lulav we not only want to bring it back to our heart but we want to mediate the light and love channeling back and forth through it, as we stand both in our succahs and in the center of the Third Temple

Now, if we add all the elements of the holiday together, we get 100 (Sach) + 91 (sukkah) + 1024 (4 species) = 1215. There is a reason for 1215 but we wont go into it now, but when we take away 1 for the kolel, and get 1214, much of the technology gets revealed:

For example the 11 unique letters used in creation of the first verse of the Torah connect with the 11 dots above the letters that occur in the same parsha (portion) as the large letter lamed, and together they help us convert curses into blessings through the 11 incenses (etc). These 11 unique letters have a complete value (ordinal plus standard gematria) of 1214, and 1214 is the exact numerical value of “70 languages” (ShBAYM LShVNVT), corresponding to the 70 nations for whom we’re making the sacrifices. Also, 1214 is the exact value for the Hebrew phrase (ZYRVP HEVTYVT) meaning “permutation of the letters.”

Now, while the last of the 11 letters in the words under the 11 dots is the letter ayin, with a value of 70, the complete value (standard and ordinal) of all 11 letters under the dots is 422, which is the exact numerical value of the word “seventy (70)” (ShBAYM). These, of course, connect to the destruction of the first Two Holy Temples in -422 BCE and in 70 CE, respectively, as is detailed and chronicled in The Divine Calender.

It’s also not a coincidence that the letter ayin, with a numerical value of 70, has an ordinal value of 16, as in the 16 letters of the 4 species discussed above.

In case it’s not understood, it is our responsibility to mediate on sharing this light with the 70 Nations, and this is why we were blessed to be the channels and given these magnificent divine tools to use. As it says in Isaiah 56:7, ” I will bring them to My holy Mountain and make them rejoice in My House of Prayer…For My House will be called the House of Prayer for all the nations.”

Sukkot is the time of joy, when the energy of rejoicing is drawn down upon us by our actions within the succah for the whole year. Let’s do all we can to spread that rejoicing to the entire world.

Chag Sameach

With Love

Ezra

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We’ve spent a great deal of time delving into the secrets of the Torah and increasing our awe of G-d (Hashem) and his unbelievably perfect and complex works. And we just recently explained that speaking and listening and “seeing” with the heart is the key to taking that awe and extending it to all His creations, and thus to truly become one with them and thus Him. That combination will elevate us to a very high level, but it takes one more ingredient to bring Mashiach. And that is CERTAINTY.

The word for certainty in Hebrew, Veda’ut (VEDEVT) has the numerical value of 418, like that of the spelling of the letter chet, the 8^th letter, representing the Brit (Covenant), and the connection to all the significant Biblical dates, as we’ve seen in The Divine Calendar. But when we add the kolel for the 6 letters in the word, we get 424, the numerical value of Moshiach Ben David—a hint of what certainty can really bring us.

When we add the numerical value of “unconditional love,” Ahavatchinam, 506 to 424, we get 930, as in the 930 years of Adam, which we know from the sages is deliberately 70 years less than 1000, and moreover, that 70 is the numerical value of Sod (secrets), as in the deeper Torah, and the 70 faces of the Torah as described by the sages. Therefore, the sefira of Keter, the highest possible crowning level (dimension), or 1000, is achieved by combining the deeper study of Torah (Sod Torah) with unconditional love and certainty.

So what is certainty? We’re not taking about having certainty in what we’re doing, or that what we’re doing is the right thing, or that we will succeed in what we are doing, but certainty that G-d is behind it all and that He wants the best for us at all times. And it is the certainty that when we go through rough times, G-d is there to see us through them and to help us out of them. But, of course, we must have certainty, and then we will be able “to see” our way clear.

Last week’s Torah, portion is Reah, meaning “to see.” In the first paragraph of the portion of Reah, after telling us that if we follow His ways, we will have all the blessings, we are told to have certainty that there is only one G-d and one spiritual path.

Devarim 11:28 “The curse [will come] if you do not obey the commandments of God your Lord, and you go astray from the path that I am proscribing for you today, following other gods to have a novel spiritual experience.”

This goes for our individual lives and also for our collective life that spans all humanity and all generations. Tehilim (Psalm) 107 is about giving thanks to the Lord for delivering us from desolation, captivity, sickness, and the sea. It is about delivering us from the 4 exiles that have spanned the generations for 5778 years.

We’ve discussed in numerous articles that the sum of all the positive integers through 107 is 5778, and that there are 54 portions in the 5 Books of Moses, the Torah, and that our brains operate on a frequency of 54 pulses per minute, and moreover, that 54 x 107 = 5778, so let’s look at Psalm 107 and Isaiah 54 to see what, if anything, they might have to do with 5778, the date the tzaddikim have suggested for the arrival of H’Moshiach (the Messiah).

The number 107, or in Hebrew KTz, can also represent the word Zak (KTz) meaning purify, or Zek, to chain (link) together, as in linking together the 107 integers that add up to 5778.

Psalm 107, the first in the 5^th Book of Psalms, written by King David, whose 70 year life marked the exact midpoint from Adam to 5778, begins with the verse “Hodu l’Adonai Ki Tov Hi L’Olam Chasdo,” which has the gematria value of 402 and with its 24 letters, it has a total value of 426-2 (kolel) = 424, the numerical value of Moshiach Ben David.

The verse translates to “Give thanks to Hashem for He is good for forever endures His kindness.”

Before we break down the verse, we should note that the first letters of the first 4 of the 43 verses in this Psalm, (YHVT) also add up to 424, when adjusted for the kolel, and initials of the first 5 verses spell our Yud Torah (Y-TVRH), and add up to 620, the numerical value of Keter, when adjusted for the kolel, as in the 62 yuds(Y) of numerical value 10 each in the 10 Commandments (Utterances), which was the last time we stood before the offering of the Tree-of-Life reality.

That said, the middle 3 words of this 7 word semi-symmetrical verse add up to 77, and the final word has the numerical value of 78, which seems to spell out 5778, starting with the 5^th Book, 7 words, 77 value in the middle, and ending with 78 as in the initials of the Tree-of-Life (YZ, ChYYM).

And speaking of symmetry, while the standard gematria value of the verse is 402, the ordinal value of the 24 letters is 204. And while the last 2 words add up to 814 in gematria sofit, which is the numerical value of the paraphrased verse “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” the other 5 words add up to 148, a reshuffling of the digits in 814.

As explained in prior articles, the arrival of Moshiach and the final redemption in the end of days is the complete union of the 6 dimensions of Zeir Anpin with that of our dimension Malchut, also known as the fusion of the Names YHVH with Adonai (EDNY).

So to grasp what this means (intellectually, for we must then process it through our hearts). (YHVH + EDNI) = YEHDVNHY = 91, the numerical value of Amen, but when we spell out the 8 letters in (YHVH + EDNI) or YEHDVNHY and add them up we get 232 for the 4 aspects of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) and 671 for Adonai (EDNY) spelled out ELP+DLT+NVN+YVD as explained by the Arizal. And 232 + 671 = 903, which is immediately recognizable as the sum of all the positive integers through 42, and as always, it’s a connection to the 42-Letter Name of G-d that is the Tree-of-Life and that fuses Zeir Anpin with Malchut, and as the sages tell us, is as necessary for bringing about the geula (final redemption) as it was for bringing about Creation and the Torah.

But when we add 671 (the fully expressed Adonai) to 107, we get 778, as in 5778.

671 + 107 = 778. And, of course, 107 + 65 (the simple Adonai) = 172, the numerical value of Ekev, the Torah portion before Reah, and the word heel, as in the heel of Adam, which is what the sages tell us is our generation, the last one before the final opportunity to reach the Tree-of-Life reality.

As it states in the Midrash, “His heel threw a shadow on the orb of the sun.” Since we know the surface temperature of the sun is 5778 K, we have another cryptic allusion to the generation of heel connecting Malchut (heel) with the Sun (Zeir Anpin) in 5778.

Now, as for Isaiah 54, read as the Haftorah portion along with Reah, we see what the Lord says about the end of days, about what will come after we’ve brought the secrets of the Torah into out hearts and shared our love unconditionally, and reached out with certainty and after we have given thanks to the Lord for our deliverance:

Isaiah 54:11

“Unhappy, storm-tossed one, uncomforted!” Recall that Tehilim (Psalm) 107 is about giving thanks to the Lord for delivering us from desolation, captivity, sickness, and the sea.

Isaiah 54:11-17

“Unhappy, storm-tossed one, and disconsolate!

I will set your stones in fair colors,

And lay the foundations with sapphires.

I will make your pinnacles of rubies,

Your gates of precious stones,

And your walls of precious gems.

And all you children will be taught about God;

Great will be the peace of your children.

In righteousness you will be established.

You will be far from oppression,

For you will not fear,

And you will be far from ruin,

For it will not come near you.

They may gather to attack you, but it will not be from me;

Whoever comes to fight you shall fall because of you.

Behold, it is I who created the smith who blows the coals beneath the forge,

And makes a weapon for his work.

I have also created the ravager to destroy.

No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper,

And you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment.

This is the heritage of God’s servants, and their due reward from Me,

Says God.”

Rosh Chodesh Elul is almost upon us. This an important moment in the coming of the Messiah, and the shifting of the world consciousness that has already begun. On this 3321^st anniversary of Moses’ re-ascension of Mt Sinai to bring back the second set of tablets, as the Shofar sounds we must begin our work of tshuva, and go back into time, back into our hearts to remove all the blockages that is keeping the awe in our heads, and that is keeping us from expressing the unconditional love that is at the basis of our souls, and thus keeping us from knowing the certainty that comes from being One with G-d.

We have much work to do, but a glorious future to embrace. Now is the time to give thanks.
With love,
Ezra

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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 that it meant that she had to take responsibility while I was away (45 minutes), not that she could boss anyone around.

A leader leads by example, not by decree. And that goes the same for a people (the chosen ones). We have to take responsibility for what’s happening all around us and to personally work to fix it, without telling anyone else what to do.  If we can then inspire them to voluntarily help us, we will then be leaders.

We haven’t done that.  Moses did.  King David did.  The Baal Shem Tov did.  And a long list of tzaddikim understood that and did it on a smaller scales. But is anyone today doing it? Is anyone ready to step up?

The Geula (final redemption) will happen for those that are ready and have accepted the Tree-of-life reality, but for the majority it won’t, just like at Mt Sinai, as we’ve explained in numerous articles already. G-d provides cosmic windows for things to happen and either we’re ready and prepared for them, or we’re not.  No one can just appear and do the work for us.

Think about it, if that we’re the case, why make us wait? If we weren’t going to change on our own anyway, why wait until now, the year 2500 would have been just as good a time.

It’s not about waiting for Moshiach (the Messiah) to come; it’s about becoming like the Mashiach.  Those that have consciously accepted and prepare themselves for the Tree-of-life reality will step through it when the cosmic window opens.

But how do we reach the millions that don’t realize that, and are waiting for someone to do it for them? And if we don’t try to reach them, what does that say about whether we’ve fully embraced the Tree-of-life consciousness or understood the essence of the Torah, with its over-riding principle to love they neighbor as thyself.

We’ve been told Moshiach Ben Joseph will come first. Will he? It depends on us.  Any one of us can stand up and become the leader that the world needs.  If he steps up and takes responsibility, and inspires many others to follow and to take responsibility themselves, who would argue that he wouldn’t be Moshiach Ben Joseph.

Then the way will be paved for Moshiach Ben David to take us the rest of the way.

As the cosmic window of opportunity opens for us, someone needs to fulfill that mission, if not the 50^th gate will close again.  Back at Sinai, in 2448, we were at the 49^th gate, which not coincidentally was the 49^th jubilee year (50-year Biblical period) since Adam.

As we finish our 5769^th 9^th of Av, we are reminded of the destruction of the First Holy Temple in 3338, 66.6 jubilee years after the sin of Adam, and are reminded of the darkness that comes from choosing the Tree-of-knowledge-of-good-and-evil over the tree-of-life.  Now, 66.6 jubilee years after the revelation and opportunity at Sinai, we face the choice again.  5778, the year known to the tzaddikim, is just around the corner.

When that 50^th gate swings open will we go through as a tiny group, or as a whole people? Will we go through at all?

The First Holy Temple was destroyed in –422 BCE, and as readers of “The Divine Calendar” know, 422 is the gematria value of   “Seventy(70).” The Second Holy Temple was destroyed in 70 CE.  In 5778, the nation of Israel will be 70 years old, the age that King David died; will we go through the gate as a nation, or let fear, doubts, and hatred grip us as in the past?

We each have a choice to make.

It’s up to each of us to take responsibility and to step up, and for one of us to take it to heart and step higher, inspiring the rest of us to follow in his beautiful footsteps. Let’s all take that first step, and then the second to make it easier for him—9 years is not much time to work with and we all have a long way to go.

Let’s not waste anymore time.

Shabbat Shalom

Ezra

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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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In a very simplified recap, we’ve linked the verse Bereshit 21:1 and the keeping of G-d’s promise to Abraham and Sarah, and the birth of Isaac to the coming of H’Mashiach (the Messiah) in 5778 (2018 CE) and to the Ari, Rabbi Isaac Luria, (of numerical value 211) and then we’ve linked Bereshit 23:1 to the coming of H’Mashiach in 5778 (2018 CE) and to the Ari again. Now, let’s take it further, much further.

While we saw that the phrases “The Ari lives” and “The Messiah Lives” are connected to Bereshit 23:1 and to the phrase “Sarah Lives” there are two more verses connected to this 5th portion that link with one another and bring further clarity to the generational chain of H’Mashiach, two more pieces of the puzzle if you will. They are Bereshit 24:1 and 1 Kings (Malachim) 1:1, both of which begin with the key phrases “coming with the days” commonly translated at “old age.” But “coming with the days” is a definite reference to for those that understand. Bereshit 24:1 is talking about Abraham and 1 Kings 1:1, which is from the Haftorah portion associated and read with Chayei Sarah, is about King David.

Bereshit 24:1 is the verse recited 3 times after the Hallel prayers: V’Abraham zaken Ba Bayamim V’adonai berach et Abraham bacol. “Abraham was old, well advanced in years and God had blessed Abraham with everything. We’ll show shortly how this is a continuation of the previous verse, which was also the first in its respective chapter, as are these two, and we’ll also show how they all refer to the end of days (advanced in years) and to G-d’s fulfillment of his promise, his Covenant with Abraham.

The first connection between this verse and Bereshit 23:1 is hinted at in the palindromic word VYHYV, which if your recall indicated a coming and going in two different directions and thus a doubling of Sarah’s 127 years, as in 127 x 2 = 254, which just happens to be the numerical value of V’Abraham, the first word in Bereshit 24:1. And if you recall from the posts about verse Bereshit 22:1 and 23:1, about how they reflected Moses’ 515 prayers for the Messianic age to come and moreover that that the 516th prayer would have ushered it in, thus finding that the numerical value of the 4 word phrase that begins Bereshit 24:1: V’ABRHM TzKN BE BYMYM, is 516 is quite significant.

The verse begins with 4 words phrase: V’ABRHM TzKN BE BYMYM, very similar to the verse in 1 Kings 1:1that begins V’H'Melech David TzKN BE BYMYM, substituting the name King David for that of Abraham, and just like V’ABRHM having the value of 254, or 2 x 127, the 3 letters in the word melech (MLC) King, spelled out, also have the value of (80 + 74 + 100) = 254 = 2 x 127. But we can really begin to see the connection when we notice that the phrase “David H’Melech Chai (King David lives” has the numerical value of 127, as in the 127 years of Sarah’s life.

The first of the two similar verses that reflect the same thought, Bereshit 24:1 and 1 Kings 1:1, has 4 words and the second one has 5, together, 9 words, once again reflecting that theme of 9 that we saw when we were analyzing Sarah’s verse Bereshit 23:1. Since it takes two words to say “King David,” we see that while the first letters of the first 4 words of Abraham’s verse add up to 17, that of tov, good, the first letter of the first 3 words in King David’s verse add up to 17as well. This harks back to Creation when the Torah states that G-d made the Light and it was good (tov).

In case you haven’t realized yet, and I guarantee you have will by the time you finish this blog, the purpose of all this encryption is to lead us to David H’Melech (King David) and his connection to H’Mashiach. Even the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alef-bet say David H’Melech, loud and clear. The sum of the 22 letters is 1495, which visually and mathematically breaks down to 14 and 95, and 14 is the numerical value of David and 95 is the numerical value of H’Melech, thus the sum of the 22 letter represents David H’Melech.

Moreover, the various examples we have of specific words in the verses equating to 254 is more than just 127 x 2. Since the sum of the integers through 22, as in the 22 letters, is 253 and 254 is 1 more than 253, these specific words are all references to going above physicality, which is what both Abraham and King David did. This is also a hint as to what we must do both in order to see and understand all this, and to be able to see and understand what will happen in the time of H’Mashiach, “in the coming of days.” We must expand our minds, our vision, our loving kindness (chesed) beyond the physical, which means beyond ourselves, and our selfish natures. Just as we do every Elul leading up to Rosh Hashanah, but on a much grander scale, we must prepare ourselves for meeting and greeting the King.

Using the 3 Shanah (years) and the 3 linked verses and the multiple of 3 word combinations that keep leading us to astoundingly redundant messages as yet another clue, we can take another 3 word combination, such as the values of the two BYMYM from the two verses (Bereshit 24:1 and 1 King 1:1 plus the value of the word TzKN from those verse and add 2 for the kolel of the 2 verses and we get 204 + 157 + 2 = 363, the numerical value of H’Mashiach, “The Messiah.” Even verse numbers themselves, Bereshit 24:1 + 1 Kings 1:1 plus 6 for the kolel of the 6 digits = 241 + 111 + 6 = 358, the numerical value of Mashiach.

While the word V’Abraham from, Bereshit 24:1 has the numerical value sofit of 814, the same as the verse Vayikra 19:18 paraphrased as Love thy neighbor…, the word V’H'Melech “And the king,” referring to King David from verse 1 Kings 1:1, has the numerical value of 101, which is the same as the gematria atbash of Shanah (ShNH), year, from verse Genesis 23:1. And 101 is the same numerical value as the cyclical ordinal value of the 3 Mothers (E, Sh,M), and is also the simple gematria of Michael, the archangel, protector of Israel, whose numerical value of 541 is the cyclical ordinal value of the 7 Doubles (B,G,D,C,P,R,T) as revealed in the Sefer Yetzirah and as will be explained soon in another post to this blog.

But more germane to our current analysis is that the ordinal value of Sarah, Abraham, and David is 46+41+14 = 101, as well. And their numerical value, including the kolel for the 11 letters in their 3 names is 505 +248 + 14 + 11 = 778, as in 5778.

And since the first word of Bereshit 24:1, V’Abraham and the first word of 1 Kings 1:1 together have the numerical value of 254 + 101 = 355, that of Shanah (year) and/or sefira (dimension), so what better link to Sarah’s verse in Bereshit 23:1 can we ask for?

Except that when we strip away the prefixes as we often do when trying to find the essence of the matter in the Torah, we see that the spelled out sofit values for the 3 letters of the 3 words from the 3 verses, Sarah, (ShRH), the EBR of Abraham, and Melech (MLC) plus the 24 letters in the spelled out versions of these 9 letters = 2635 + 996 + 1345 + 24 = 5000 exactly. And when we couple that with the equation just above, we get Sarah, Abraham and King David = 5778.

And just in case we think this is some colossal coincidence, please note that verse Bereshit 24:1 is divided down the middle into two phrases of 5 words each: V’Abraham zaken Ba Bayamim and V’adonai berach et Abraham bacol. The second phrase “God had blessed Abraham with everything,” has the numerical value of 1995 + 18 (letters) + 5 (words) = 2018. And since we know G-d made his Covenant with Abraham in 2018 HC, it must be telling us that Abraham will finally receive everything (His Promises fulfilled) in 2018 CE, 5778 HC.

But what of the second part of 1 Kings 1:1, which is also split to two 5 word segments (phrases)? That may be giving us another version of the end of days. “YYCSHV BBGTYM VLE YChM LV” translates to “he could not keep warm even when they put covers on him.” It’s a very cold, bleak, uncomforting end.” And since the first word in that phrase has a numerical value of 107 and begins and ends in vav, like the VHYHV that began Bereshit 23:1, and because all the integers from 1 to 107 add up to exactly 5778, we need to take this warning, this possible outcome, seriously. It’s not coincidence that there are 31 verses in 1 Kings 1, just as there are in Bereshit 1. And/or that there are 31 words in all 3 verses. It’s another beginning.

But how do we know these 3 verses are really meant to be connected and that they collectively connect to the end of days? The total standard gematria of the 3 verses is 5770, plus 8 for the 8 years that we’re told by chazal that H’Mashiach will have to pass through before the brit (covenant) can be achieved gives us 5778, and also a clue that the tzaddikim of blessed memory are probably correct. And the square root of the gematria sofit value for the 3 verses is 111.848, pointing us again to the Alef, and the unity of the three ones, or columns of the tree-of-life in the end and since 848 = 2 x 424, the value of Mashiach Ben David, it’s also pointing to the 2 heads once again.

Now, going back to the 3 Shanah’s (years) from the 2nd part of verse Bereshit 23:1, Sarah’s verse. When we spell out (ShNH, ShNH, ShNYM) using the mem sofit we get 2048, a reference to Abraham (248) no doubt, but more to the point, the 2048 is the year their son, Isaac was born.  Incidentally, Sarah died when he was 37, as in the value of the first word of that verse (VYHYV), which starts out “this is he life of Sarah.” Moreover, 2048 – 27 (letters) – 3 (words) = 2018 yet again.

Of course, simple gematria of the 3 Shanahs (years) gives us a value of 355 + 355 + 400 = 1110, or 10 x 111, the numerical value of the letter alef, and also elef, the word for 1000, thus 10 x 1000, which either way, translates to the keter (crown) or head of the 10 sefirot. And if we add the ordinal value (138) to it to get the complete value, we get 1110 + 138 = 1248, a simple allusion to 1000 (keter/elef/alef) and to Abraham (248). It should be very clear by now, that this sequence and these verses are telling us about the seed level of Mashiach, of the universe, and about both the beginning and the end of it all. And that sentiment is echoed in that the 3 Shanah sequence ends in Yud-mem, representing Keter of value 620.

And speaking of first words, the numerical value of the first word in each of these three verses, not only begins with vav, making 3 vavs, or 6 + 6 + 6 = 18, the value of chai, life, but they in simple gematria they are 101 + 254 + 37 = 392 and when we add the kolel of 16 for the 16 letters in the 3 words, we get 408 as in the 408 missing composite letters from the Torah, (600,000 – 408 letters).

Incidentally, the 231 in Genesis 23:1 can be said to relate to the 231 Gates of Wisdom discussed in the Sefer Yetzirah. Nevertheless, of the 12 words in the verse, Genesis 23:1, the two-word phrase Sarah Chayeh is repeated, not only emphasizing that the Torah is talking about someone beyond Sarah, someone yet to come, someone from her spiritual lineage. It also allows us to take note that when the kolel for the 6 letters in this phrase is added to its complete word value (normal and ordinal together) we get a total of 613, as in the 613 precepts delineated in the Torah, indicating we are talking about a complete tzaddik (righteous soul).

The word TzKN repeated in each of these 2 similar verses (24:1 and 1 Kings 1:1) has value of 157 so the value of both these words together is 157 x 2 = 314, that of Shaddai Mettatron, Pi, etc. This in itself is a hint to the 3 letters of David (DVD) that have a value of 14. And speaking of Pi, the letters Shin and yud that were both repeated 9 times in Bereshit 23:1 are not only completed with the letter dalet of David to form the Shin-dalet-yud of Shaddai, but they translate through gematria atbash to Mem and Bet as in the Shem Mem-bet, and as noted in The Genesis Prayer, when we divide the number 9 by the small gematria of the Shem Mem-Bet we get:

9/.123049027395534023292943802957033870306904 =

73.1415777

= 70 + 3.141577

The simple equation not only yields an impossibly precise approximation of the mathematical constant Pi, but also 5777, the year 2017 CE. It’s also coupled to the all-important Biblical time span of 70 (years), including David’s lifespan, and to the number 73, the value of Chochma, wisdom, the 9th sefira, but we’ll get into Pi and its connection to 5778 a little later.

Next, the words BE BYMYM common to both verses (23:1 and 1 Kings 1:1) contains two mem-bets each, signifying the upper and lower Names, meaning redemption, Pad (PD of numerical (42 + 42) value 84, and represented by the Eyheh Asher Eyheh “I am that I am,” also known as the two heads (RESh, a permutation of Asher), which fits with the twin numerical values of the two Yud-mems of the BYMYM. and the Bet (B) which signals 2, by its value (2)/ Meanwhile, the Alef of BE, is also a sign of head, as it’s the primordial letter that comes before the Bet of Bereshit, the physical first letter of the Torah, and it’s also the head of the alef-bet. Spelled out yud-mem has the numerical value of 100 and the second one has the sofit value of 620, both representative of keter, and thus the two heads, or crowns. This also is indicative of a crown at either end, at the beginning and at the end, though that is up to interpretation.

The other head is also Sarah, as the numerical value of 3 of the first 4 words of Bereshit 23:1 subtracting her name they total (VYHYV ShRH ChYY MEH) 37 + 28 + 46 = 111, which is that of the letter Alef.

The other two heads are Sarah’s spiritual lineage and Abraham’s, the two halves of the soul that came together with G-d’s blessing to make their spiritual seeds as numerous and as bright as the stars.

Nevertheless, the word BYMYM when spelled out has the value 412 + 100 + 100 = 612, as in the value of the word Brit, Covenant, so we know that the Torah is not fooling around when it mentions “the coming of days.”

There are many different types of gematria, (established encryption decoding systems, some more common, like sofit (final letters), katan (small), atbash (reverse alef-bet) and albam, (plus 11 or middle of alef-bet) and some are much more concealed and known only to a very few people today. but all are revelatory. Nevertheless, it should be cautioned that other than very basic gematria, none of the others should be utilized unless it has already been established that the particular subject that you’re examining has significant already proven spiritual relevance. In this way, you are not imposing your own creation, but rather stripping away the layers to reveal more and more about the spirit of the subject.

Since we’ve more than established the significance of Bereshit 23:1, and indeed the name Sarah, we can see that her name may contain additional encoded information. And while the name Sarah in gematria atbash (BGZ) has a numerical of 95 as in H’Melech, “the King,” in gematria albam it is 109 as in David H’Melech , “King David.” Moreover, the the first line of the 42-Letter Name (Shem Mem-Bet) which included that letters (BGZ) and which has the numerical value of 506 (one more that Sarah, 505) has the remaining letters (EYT) and if we convert these back using atbash as well, we get (EMT) which spells the word Emet, meaning truth, commonly thought of as Torah truth. Thus the the 42-Letter Name’s first line, whose value equates with that of the Hebrew word for “Unconditional Love,” translates to “Sarah Emet.” And thus both, thN Name Sarah and the 42-Letter Name, not insignificantly, connect to David H’Melech.

The sum of the atbash values for Abraham and Sarah is 898 plus the kolel for the 8 letters in their names gives us 906, as in the value of the last line of the 42-Letter Name again, and as the value of the words Et Sarah from the Bereshit 21:1 which began our sequence of posts on this subject. Moreover, as we shall see momentarily, 906 BCE is also the year David H’Melech was born.

In relation to the 3 different year parameters mentioned in Genesis 23:1, which we know from the Zohar relate to the different sets of sefirot, 100, 20 and 7 respectively, if we follow Abraham’s advise in the Sefer Yetzirah, we get (100 x 20) + (100 x 7) + (20 x 7) + (1 x 2 x 7) = 2854 and 2854 HC is the year King David was born.

There is no coincidence here. If you haven’t read it already. I suggest you check out the blog post titled “King David and the Messiah” and also the book The Divine Calendar, but a few highlight below will illustrate my point:

King David was born in 2854 HC

2 x 2854 HC = 5708 HC

Israel Received Statehood in 5708 HC

therefore

King David’s Birth marks the Mid-point to the Founding of Israel

5708 HC = 1948 CE

therefore

Israel Received Statehood in 1948 CE

2854 HC = 906 BCE

2854 – 906 = 1948

2 x 906 BCE = 1812 BCE

1812 BCE = 1948 HC

Abraham was born in 1948 HC

therefore

Abraham was born in 1812 BCE

and therefore

King David was born at the Mid-point between Abraham’s birth and the year “0″ CE

King David was born in 2854 HC

King David died in 2924 HC

therefore

King David lived 70 years

2854 + 2924 = 5778 HC

therefore

The Mid-point of King Davids life = 2889 HC

The Mid-point from Adam to Mashiach = 2889 HC

therefore

The Mid-point of King Davids life marks the Mid-point in the Time-lime to Mashiach

King David was born in 906 BCE

King David died in 836 BCE

906 + 836 = 1742 BCE

1742 BCE = 2018 HC

2018 HC = The Covenant of Abraham

2018 CE = 5778 HC

Pretty convincing!

Now regarding the 3 sets of years again (100, 20, and 7) the value of the word used for 100, (meah) is 46 and that of 20 (esrim) is 620, which we’ve stated perviously is keter, but 620 + 46 = 666. And while the sum of the values and ordinal values of 20 (esrim) and 7 (Sheva) together is 620 + 80 + 272 + 39 = 1111, the sums of the words used for 100, 20, and 7 collectively sum to 1038 and 138 for their simple and ordinal values respectively, once again indicating the 38 years of the Ari’s life that were even more specifically indicated in the previous posting.

Also in relation to King David, who lived 70 years, we should note that the numerical value of the Ari, 211, is half of 422, the numerical value of the word seventy 70. For many more connections to this and the First Temple’s destruction in 422 BCE and the Second Temple’s destruction in 70 CE, please see The Divine Calendar.

The gematria albam of the 3 interconnected names Abraham, Sarah and David including the kolel of 15 for the 15 letters in their names is 948 as in the 948 digit in Pi where the final series 5778185778 occurs, but to really understand that and to grasp its profound significance for us we must read There’s Nothing Random in the Universe.

Before we move on to the next clue the Torah gives us, I received an email from a reader Ron A who had made a profound finding:

As stated in the last posting, verse Genesis 23:1 that gave rise to all the connections from Sarah to the incarnations of Mashiach (the messiah) is the 5th portion in the Torah and it is the 55th paragraph in the Torah so how perfect is it in the grand scheme of things that this verse contains the word Shanah, year, of numerical value 355, twice, 3 times when we consider the plural version, Shanim. Why perfect? Because we know from the Zohar that the value of Shanah (ShNH) is also that of sefira (dimension), as in the 10 Sefirot (dimensions) of the Tree-of-life, and not only is 55 the sum of all the integers from 1 to 10, but 55 is also the 10th Fibonacci number (1,1,3,5,8,13,21,34,55…), a series of numbers integrally based on the mathematical constant Phi which controls the spiraling nature of the universe and is integrally linked to the year 5778, as explained in the except below. And you may have also noticed that the consecutive 3rd, 4th and 5th Fibonacci numbers spell out 358, the value of Mashiach, while, it just so happens, the numerical sequence found at the 10th digit in PI is also 358. And it’s also perfect because when we add the kolel of 3 for the 3 letters of the word Shanah (ShNH) we get 355 + 3 = 358, Mashiach.

And of further interest here is that that the first 5 Fibonacci numbers (1,1,3,5,8,13,21,34,55…) total 18, as in chai, lives and the 3 vavs (6,6,6), and as in its connection to 2018 and 5778 as will be explained below. Also, while the first 4 numbers add up to 10 (sefirot); the first 6 add up to 31, the value of El; and the first 7 add up to 52, the value of the Tetragrammaton YHVH at the level Ban, Malchut; and the first 8 add up to 86, the value of Elohim; the first 10 equal 230, as in Genesis Chapter 23, where all this about the 10 sefirot is revealed.

Nevertheless, As we explore the relationship of 55 and 505 and 555 to the Ari, of numerical value 211 and verse Genesis 2:11, to the year of the arrival of Moshiach, it’s worthwhile to note as discussed in There’s Nothing Random in the Universe in regards to the mathematical constant Pi that the ” Small Gematria Value of the 42-Letter Name = 173 and that at 173 digits after the decimal place in Pi we find the numerical string …2110555… and 2110555 = exactly 5778.28 Sidereal Years. Moreover, we know that this isn’t an odd, yet still pure coincidence because besides the 3 statistically impossible inclusions of 5778 (2018) and also of the following year 2019, there’s yet another numerical string within these first 1000 digits of Pi and that’s 737190, which in sidereal days equates to exactly 2018.28 years.”

This excerpt from There’s Nothing Random about the Universe helps explain the connection of Phi, the mathematical constant that controls the spiraling nature of the universe to the number 18, that of the 3 vavs (6,6,6) and of (ChY) Chai, as in Sarah, Chai, Mashiach Chai, David Chai. Moshe Chai, and the Ari Chai, all definitive connections we’ve seen linked to these verses (Bereshit 21:1, 23:1 and 24:1, and 1 KIngs 1:1):

Chapter 4

And that single unique number is 5778.

For some reason beyond explanation 5778 and Phi were designed to interact, and 5778 was made to stand alone within all the numbers in the known universe.

Why would this be possible?

Why it’s possible for a number to stand out so is difficult to say and maybe not for us to say at all. But we can explain a little bit about the mechanism and the why might get clearer as you get deeper into this book.

The next series of minor revelations may shed some light though on the process by which 5778 became so unique. When we divide 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 15, or Phi¹⁵, it equates to approximately 4.24, which is the numerical value of Mashiach Ben David, the Messiah, Son of David.

Then when we divide 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 16 we get Phi², or written as an equation, 5778/Phi¹⁶ = 2.61803399 = Phi².

Then when we divide 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 17 we get Phi, or written as an equation 5778/Phi¹⁷ = 1.61803399 = Phi.

And finally when we divide 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 18 we get 1, or written as an equation 5778/ Phi¹⁸ = 1.0000000…, representing a singularity, an absolute oneness.

Therefore Phi¹⁸ = 5778 and the square root of 18 = 4.242640, once again the numerical value of Mashiach Ben David, the Messiah, Son of David. And this time followed by the numerical value of the Tetragrammaton, 26.

We can begin to understand that there is a dynamic occurring here and that 5778 didn’t accidentally become unique. Regardless of how we want to read this, 5778, Phi and the number 18 are integrally and dramatically linked together.

It’s interesting that 17√5 and 19√5 bound 18√5 on both sides.[1] It’s the same with dividing 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 6 less 17, and also 19. In other words we get a resultant whole number to 3 decimals places or more when with the equation 5778/(Phi⁶ – 17), and also with 5778/(Phi⁶ – 19).

It’s as if the numerical universe were zeroing in on 18 and 5778.

And 5778/(Phi-1)¹⁸= 33385284= 5778²

And as we learned in The Divine Calendar, 3338 was the year the First Temple was destroyed. This also means that (Phi-1)¹⁸ = 1/5778.

5778/ Phi¹⁸ = 1.0000000

Phi¹⁸ = 5778

√18 = 4.242640

5778/(Phi-1)¹⁸ = 5778²

(Phi-1)¹⁸ = 1/5778

What Does Phi¹⁸ = 5778 Mean?

The equation Phi¹⁸ = 5778 simply means that 5778 is the 18th power of Phi. And as a derivative of Phi itself the number 5778 might be expected to work out to a whole number, or nearly a whole number, at some point.

But that doesn’t answer what the significance of 18 is, or why it had to equal 5778. And it certainly doesn’t explain why 5778 in the Hebrew calendar is 2018 in the Gregorian or Western calendar. Once again 5778 and 18 linked together.

If you’ve already read The Divine Calendar you already understand why that is and don’t believe the 18 in 2018 and in Phi¹⁸ = 5778 to be coincidental. As you read this book you’ll also come to know that it wasn’t.

5778 is the 18th Power of Phi

or

phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi = 5778

5778 HC = 2018 CE

Phi⁶ x Phi⁶ x Phi⁶ = 5778

6+6+6 = 18

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