by Jeffrey Meiliken | Apr 4, 2012 | Revelations
The Shabbat prior to Pesach (Passover) is called Shabbat HaGadol (the Great Shabbath). The word HaGadol occurs 26 times in the Torah, the same numerical value of the Tetragrammaon (YHVH) and 18 of those times the word HaGadol (HGDL) is written with the cholam (vowel)...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 2, 2012 | Revelations
Where to begin? “In the beginning G-d created….” The Torah tells us what to do in its very first word: Bereshit (“In the beginning” ). But the Torah is far from a narrative and the word Bereshit is far more than the beginning of a story....
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Sep 24, 2011 | Revelations
After my recent lecture in Toronto and a deeper discussion with some of the students I had a renewed interest in how the Ana B’koach (the 42-Letter Name of G-d) interrelates with the first 42 letters of Bereshit (Genesis). I also subsequently received new...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jul 30, 2011 | Revelations
Rav Ashlag was the greatest kabbalist of the past century. Known as Hasulam (the ladder), he was not only the first to translate the Zohar from Aramaic to Hebrew but he wrote volumes of explanations as well and could have written hundreds more by his own account had...
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...
