by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jul 21, 2011 | Revelations
The number 666 is infamous, made so by the phrase in the final chapters of the Christian Bible: Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. In our next couple posts, we’ll...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 5, 2011 | Revelations
The Tikunei Zohar 26 provides us with great insight into a strange custom, the Levirate marriage, a great Mitzvah. This process is called יבום (Yibum). If a man dies, leaving a widow without children, his brother should come to the woman, have sex together to...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 19, 2011 | Revelations
The deeper the secrets, the more important they are. The Shema Israel prayer is the most well known and widely recited Jewish prayer, yet most people recite it without a clue to its many secrets and the power that these can unleash. In this series, we hope to change...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Oct 28, 2010 | Revelations
The Torah always presents information to us with great built in redundancy, so it’s not the Torah’s fault if we’re slow on the uptake. For example, did you ever wonder why there were 70 family members who entered Egypt and began the 210 years of...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Sep 15, 2010 | Revelations
In the 40th verse of the 32nd chapter of Devarim we have an oft overlooked statement by Moses in the middle of the all-important Song of Moses that holds one of the most important secrets of the Torah. The Zohar goes on and on about the connection between this 32nd...
