by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 8, 2009 | Revelations
Even before the dawn of civilization, man has looked to the stars for signs. Much more recently, we’ve been equipped with powerful telescopes and computers with which to gaze at them. And our astrophysicists are pretty good. After only a few hundred years of...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 7, 2009 | Revelations
Erev Rosh Hashanna, 5769, the final minutes of 5768, 10 years to the hour from when the Kabbalists had prophesied that Moshiach would come. I was about to to a mikveh and checked my blackberry for the final time before storing it away. The stock market had just closed...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 2, 2009 | Revelations
From the smallest packages come the greatest gifts.In this week’s portion, pasha Vayigash, amidst the listing of the 70 Israelites who entered Egypt to begin the exile there, we find a 3 word verse, the Torah’s shortest verse, Genesis 46:23, “And the...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 16, 2008 | Revelations
What is going on right now? Can things get worse? The spiritual tenet of kabbalah that has been lost on everyone is that when looking to solve a physical problem the only solution is a spiritual one. You can’t solve physical (material) problems with physical...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 12, 2008 | Revelations
It had rained for 2 days straight and with the flood water rising in my backyard, I was reading the Zohar on parsha Noach last night, and not surprisingly there are many insights there into the nature of water. What is in the water we drink? How long can we go without...