by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 9, 2009 | Revelations
In the Midrash Mishlei 9:2 it is said that in the future time [of Moshiach] all the festivals will be annulled except Purim. They say the Name of G-d (YHVH) has been omitted from the Megilat Esther, but like the Torah whose sum of Yud’s (Y), Vavs(V), and Heys(H)...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Mar 1, 2009 | Revelations
I’m sorry for the delay in my posts. I’ve been working all week on the follow up article to the 10 Utterances and it’s such a crucial topic that spans 5 Torah portions that it’s taking longer then anticipated. Meanwhile, one of you had asked me...
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 6, 2009 | Revelations
This past erev Shabbat, the father of a friend passed away. It was the hillula of 3 powerful tzaddiks, students of the Baal Shem Tov, so I knew something was up. I never knew his father, but from the moment I entered the synagogue I did. And one after another, first...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 5, 2008 | Revelations
The verse V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר Why is the verse V’Ydber Adonai El Moshe L’emor repeated so often in the Torah and what does it have to do with Creation? In an earlier article we discussed how the...