by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jul 27, 2011 | Revelations
In our previous article we explained how the value 666 came to be associated with the beast long before Revelations was written and then we examined in depth the verse from Ecclesiastes where the origins lay, including all the allusions to Moshiach (the Messiah),...
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 | Jul 17, 2011 | Revelations
More Torah perfection awaits those that choose to see. Before we move on to the promised article on”the beast” there was an important bit of Torah knowledge that we neglected to pass on in our last post. We recently illustrated that the square root of the...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jul 13, 2011 | Revelations
A long time ago Rabbi Akiva taught me that the number 9 is of paramount importance to us. I must confess that while early on I understood it to mean the 9 pillars, I have yet to really know why, but last night I got a glimpse of one way the number 9 plays into the...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | May 22, 2011 | Revelations
It’s fitting that this is Lag B’omer, the celebrated death anniversary of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, for not only did he pass away on the 33rd day of the Omer period, but in his final speech (See Zohar Idra Zuta), he spoke about the 115th psalm. There are...
