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...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 8, 2008 | Revelations
When will the Messiah (Moshiach) come? And What did the Golden Calf incident have to do with the delay? And what ever happened to that prophecy of His arrival in 5760? וירא העם כי בשש משה לרדת מן ההר ויקהל העם על אהרן Exodus (Shmot) 32:1 … When the nation saw...
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...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 5, 2008 | Revelations
We need a leader. What does a leader do? Provide direction. What direction are we going now? Anyone know? That’s why we need a leader. There have been several great Patriarchs and numerous great tzaddikim (righteous souls) but only 3 leaders in Biblical history...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 4, 2008 | Revelations
What does the word Vayetze tell us? We know that the spiritual essence of the assorted Torah parshot (portions) are found in its first verses, and sometimes in its first word. It’s not for nothing that very high level righteous souls (tzaddikim) gave them their...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 3, 2008 | Revelations
What can the 22 letters themselves tell us without relaying on words or verses. Each letter has a unique energy value and thus unique numerical valuations of that energy depending on which cipher is being used to read them. And each letter has as a quasi-unique name....
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 3, 2008 | Revelations
“In the beginning…” What was there in the beginning? The world was without form and empty, so what was there? There were four things within this emptiness: The spirit of G-d hovering on the waters; the 42-Letter Name of G-d, the 22 letters (building...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 1, 2008 | Revelations
We’ve seen that in the Divine calendar from Adam to Mashiach, year 0 to year 5778 HC there is midpoint marked by the midpoint of King David’s 70 years life, the year 2889 HC. And it’s known by chazal that אדם (ADAM) stands for Adam-David-Mashiach....
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Dec 1, 2008 | Revelations
What do the 4 wells in parsha Toldot have to do with Isaac being 60 and with the fountain of life? The Torah begins with the word for “well” permuted in its verse first 3 letters (BRE to BER), and actually it repeat it as the second word in the Torah (BRE...
by Jeffrey Meiliken | Nov 25, 2008 | Revelations
In a very simplified recap, we’ve linked the verse Bereshit 21:1 and the keeping of G-d’s promise to Abraham and Sarah, and the birth of Isaac to the coming of H’Mashiach (the Messiah) in 5778 (2018 CE) and to the Ari, Rabbi Isaac Luria, (of...