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Eliyahu
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Message 1 of 2 (721232)
03-05-2014 12:52 PM


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Some people doubt the fact that the Torah is of divine origin.
Fortunately, for those we have the divine signature in the Torah, something that is totally unique to the Torah, namely the codes woven into the Torah.
They have been the subject of much debate, books have been written about them, people tried to debunk them, they have been published in high grade peer reviewed scientific journals like for instance "Statistical Science", people tried to debunk them in that self same journal, but when everything is said and done, one conclusion is inescapable, the codes exist.
This can be checked by everybody who takes a few minutes to check them out. Hebrew texts of the Torah are available online, the Hebrew alphabet can be found in many places, for instance here: Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia, and that is enough to see the codes for yourself.
For instance, the Torah starts with the word bereshiet, which means in the beginning. The last letter of that word is a tav, the Hebrew equivalent of the English T. When we skip from that tav 49 letters after it, (49 being 7 x 7, and 7 is a special number in Judaism) then we get a waav, a W, which in some cases is used to indicate a vowel, an oa like in boat, or an oo like in book.
Again skip 49 letters after that waav and we get a reesh, an R, and again with a skip of 49 we get a hey, an H.
Together that makes T-O-R-H, = Torah.
The same thing we see in the second book of the Torah, Exodus. There, from the first tav jumping 49 letters, we get again Torah.
In the fourth book we see Torah with the same skip, but now spelled backwards: H-R-O-T. And in the fifth book, Deuteronomy, we again see the word Torah spelled backwards, from a hey in the beginning of the chapter, and from there every 49th letter.
So in the first two books we see Torah spelled straight, and in the last two of the five books of the Torah we see Torah spelled backwards. And in the third, the middle book, we don't see Torah encoded.
However, wat we see there, from the first yot, with a skip of seven, is the four-lettered name of God Y-H-W-H.
So the words Torah encoded in the first two and the last two books of the Torah, are facing the name of God.
Another interesting easy to check code is in the beginning of Genesis 2, this text is recited by every religious Jew on Friday night, for the sanctification of the shabbat. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
When from the first yot in this text you count seven letters, and then again seven, and again, then you get Y-S-R-A-L = ISRAEL.
There is no debate necessary about these codes, because everybody can check them out, they are there. They are a fact.
And of course there are much deeper, longer, and more mind blowing codes.
The Torah codes just refuse to die. Peer reviewed articles keep on being published about them. They are here to stay.


"The only reality is mind and observations."

Richard Conn Henry, professor Johns Hopkin department of physics

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03-05-2014 1:12 PM


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