by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 4, 2008 | Revelations
What does the word Vayetze tell us? We know that the spiritual essence of the assorted Torah parshot (portions) are found in its first verses, and sometimes in its first word. It’s not for nothing that very high level righteous souls (tzaddikim) gave them their...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 3, 2008 | Revelations
“In the beginning…” What was there in the beginning? The world was without form and empty, so what was there? There were four things within this emptiness: The spirit of G-d hovering on the waters; the 42-Letter Name of G-d, the 22 letters (building...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 1, 2008 | Revelations
What do the 4 wells in parsha Toldot have to do with Isaac being 60 and with the fountain of life? The Torah begins with the word for “well” permuted in its verse first 3 letters (BRE to BER), and actually it repeat it as the second word in the Torah (BRE...
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...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Nov 15, 2008 | Revelations
We’ve written several posts about the last line in the Torah and how it reconnects with the first verse in the Torah, an in analyzing the Torah’s physical structure (248 columns of 42 rows) each, we realized that there were 22 mandated blank rows before...
