by Jeffrey Meiliken | Oct 10, 2010 | Revelations
Someone recently asked me why if some of the sages said Moshiach would come in the 6th millennium, did the tzaddkim say 5778; how are we to account for the missing 222 years. The concept of time is a difficult one to grasp. Sure, we can all watch the clock and...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Aug 15, 2010 | Revelations
All light emanates from the letter Yud(Y).The first line of the Ana B’koach (42-Letter Name) has the numerical value 506, and since the 42-Letter Name of G-d is divided into 14 triplets and there are 506 occurrences of these triplets in the Torah (see The Genesis...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Jan 7, 2009 | Revelations
Traditionally Kabbalah has been passed down from teacher to student and that goes doubly for its secrets, guarded by righteous souls, tzaddiks, from the corruption of man’s evil inclination and from the erev rav (Mixed Multitude) that would stop at nothing to...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 9, 2008 | Revelations
Why do we count? Why does the Torah always list numbers, and why are numbers so hard for us to grasp? The following is an excerpt from The Divine Calendar about the curious mathematics in the 26 generations from Adam to Moses. It is just one more aspect in and of the...