by Jeffrey Meiliken | Apr 10, 2009 | Revelations
Most people think the cleaning ends with the searching and the burning of the chametz erev Pesach, but that’s on the physical plain. During the 8 days of Pesach is when the real cleansing takes place. We are no longer cleaning our homes, but our souls. Think of...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Apr 8, 2009 | Revelations
My daughter’s kindergarten class reenacted the Passover story and one of the questions asked of the kids was who was the hero? My daughter answer Aaron, “because he went with Moses to see Pharaoh,” while most of the kids said Moses. Now, my daughter...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Apr 5, 2009 | Revelations
Still cleaning and cleansing… In the last installment in my personal pursuit to clean out my home and life and thus my soul, I mentioned the connection to Tzav and the last line of the 42-Letter Name (Ana B’koach), which is ShKVZYT. What I neglected to...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Apr 3, 2009 | Revelations
I haven’t written much this week. I’ve been too busy cleaning and cleaning. Every Pesach (Passover) we invite Eliyahu Hanavi and H’Mashiach into our homes and lives and if we’ve made the proper environment for them they will come. This Erev...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 29, 2009 | Revelations
The Baal Shem Tov has said that he learned all the secrets of healing though the first verse of this 3rd Book in the Torah, Vayikra. I wish I knew them for I’d surely share them with as many people as I could, but I do understand how he could get them from this...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 27, 2009 | Revelations
We’re starting a new book of the Torah this week, Vayikra, a new chapter in our lives. The sum of the Names of the 5 Books is 2480, or 10 x 248, the numerical value of rachum (Mercy), injecting Mercy into the 10 sefirot (dimensions) for us. It’s also the...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 23, 2009 | Revelations
We know from the Zohar, The Book of Splendor, that the construction of the Tabernacle, Mishkan, is connected to the act of Creation in the first verse of the Torah (Bible). So let’s examine all that money (metal) collected to built the Tabernacle, Mishkan and...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 22, 2009 | Revelations
Have you ever wondered how we know so many of the secrets that you haven’t been able to find elsewhere? Ask yourself where we started our journey? In this week’s Torah portion (Pekudei), referring to the redemption, the Tabernacle, H’Miskan (HMShCN)...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 19, 2009 | Revelations
There’s a lot of chatter on the internet about the meaning of the blessing of the sun (Birkas HaChamah), which occurs every 28 years and next on April 8, 2009, erev Pesach 14 Nissan when the sun returns to the exact position as it was on the day it was created....
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 17, 2009 | Revelations
Sometimes we forget what spirituality is all about… Why are there 6 Days of Creation? Why are the 42 rows of the first column of the Torah (Bible) divided into 6 paragraphs, averaging 7 lines per paragraph? Why are there 6 letters in the first word of the Torah,...
