by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 14, 2011 | Revelations
The Hidden Message in the 10 Plagues It’s mandatory to celebrate Passover (Pesach) every year and recount the story of the exodus, including the explicit listing of the 10 plagues. Why? Is it just so we don’t forget? Wouldn’t it be better to instead concentrate on...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 16, 2010 | Kabbalah Secrets, Revelations
The Zohar tells us 600,000 angels accompanied the 70 Israelites (Jacob’s family) into Egypt, and in our last article (on parsha VaYigash) we also learned from the Zohar that the chariot Joseph harnessed and rode to greet his father was of angelic (divine) origin, the...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | May 26, 2010 | Revelations
We were told to count to 50, yet every year we count to 49, and let G-d count the 50th day for us? But that’s not what we were told to do. As an adjunct to our last Article on the splitting of the Torah at Bamidbar (Numbers) Chapter 1 into the precise Phi...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jul 31, 2009 | Revelations
We are the Chosen Ones. What does it mean to be chosen? My wife wasn’t feeling well the other day and when I left to drop my son off at a play date, I told my daughter she was in charge while I was gone. She immediately said, “Then I’m the boss,” so I explained to her...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 6, 2009 | Revelations
The longest word in the Torah has 10 letters (VBMShERVTYC) and was used just once. Innocuously enough, it means kneading troughs, where the Egyptians made their bread and where the frogs of the 2nd plague jumped into. Any time something in the Torah singularly...
