by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 17, 2009 | Revelations
Sometimes we forget what spirituality is all about… Why are there 6 Days of Creation? Why are the 42 rows of the first column of the Torah (Bible) divided into 6 paragraphs, averaging 7 lines per paragraph? Why are there 6 letters in the first word of the Torah,...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 7, 2009 | Revelations
From this weeks’ portion, Tetzaveh, Exodus 28:2 “And you shall make holy garments for your brother, Aaron, for splendor and beauty.” The Torah instructs the High Priest to wear 8 garments, 4 of white linen and 4 containing gold. The Hebrew words for...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Feb 13, 2009 | Revelations
A lesson from my daughter’s kindergarten class: They were exploring Parshat Noach and the teacher sent us this email letting us know what was going on in class: “We asked each student to draw a picture using a red crayon. We asked them to put effort into...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 30, 2009 | Revelations
Continued from The Hidden Mysteries of the 10 Plagues. At the end of the parsha VaEra we’ve completed 7 of the 10 plagues, leaving 3 more to go in parsha Bo, as in “Come (Bo) to Pharaoh” when logic would dictate that G-d would say to Moses “Go...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 27, 2009 | Revelations
What’s in a Name? Why does the Torah pause to list them? What happened 3330 years ago (66.6 jubilee years) that we NEED to understand to help us today? “These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob…” The second of the...
