by Jeffrey Meiliken | Apr 30, 2009 | Revelations
The Hebrew word for swine, as in swine flu, is chazir, which can also mean “it will return,” and if we permute the letters we get Raz Chai or the “secret lives.” A little while back, we were pointing out that many of the depressing milestones...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 30, 2009 | Revelations
Continued from The Hidden Mysteries of the 10 Plagues. At the end of the parsha VaEra we’ve completed 7 of the 10 plagues, leaving 3 more to go in parsha Bo, as in “Come (Bo) to Pharaoh” when logic would dictate that G-d would say to Moses “Go...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Nov 19, 2008 | Revelations
There has been a great mystery in Kabbalah and Judaic studies for millennium. The Zohar and chazal clearly state in many places that there are 600,000 letters in the Torah, but just as clearly if you count them, there are only 304,805 actual letters. Many people have...