Term Translation Skip R Factor (in
Matrix) Start End
נשיאמדבדב President
Medvedev -35467 0,558 2,804 Isaiah 46:5.25 Joshua 22:10.54
בהתשסח In Year 5768 5 1,678 3,924 1
Kings 8:33.69 1 Kings 8:34.20
באייר 2 Iyyar 4 -1,498 0,748 1 Kings 18:16.33 1 Kings 18:17.6
באייר 2 Iyyar -7 -1,741 0,505 Judges 12:8.23 Judges 12:7.44
התשס Year 5768 -6 0,335 2,581 2
Kings 24:14.81 2 Kings 24:14.57
The ELS reference is 7093 characters between rows.
There are 5 displayed terms in the matrix.
The matrix starts at Joshua 22:9.16 and ends at Isaiah 46:5.25.
The matrix spans 283885 characters of the surface text.
The matrix has 41 rows, is 165 columns wide and contains
a total of 6765 characters.
There are 5 significant terms in the matrix.
The matrix odds are 1 chance in 206910778,422 in favour
of significance.
The cumulative ‘R’ Factor for the displayed matrix is 8,316.
Although the probability
for this clustering to occur by mere chance is below 1 in 200 millions, I was fully aware that it is due mainly to the
occurrences of the year 5768. The
overall contribution of the two 2 Iyyar
terms for the significance of the matrix is the combined ‘R’ Factor 1.25 (1 in
17), which means that even without them, the odds will remain below 1 in 10
millions. I was lucky to find the days at first attempt, but there could be
dates that would decrease even more the odds of the matrix. Therefore, I
decided to scan for any other date in the months Nisan and Iyyar – that is, from
6 April to 3 June 2008. There were two dates that generated higher
significances, both occurring once only: 20 Nisan (כניסן), or 25 April, at skip 1
– that is, in the plain text – and 8 Iyyar (חאייר), or 13 May, at skip 5.
At first, I was puzzled. The new findings surprised me. Being
influenced by the widely spread Bible Code skepticism, I believed that they
should not be there. My first
reaction was to try to find an “explanation”. Indeed, the actual number of
occurrences of 2 Iyyar at skips up to ±7 is 45. This is appreciably lower than
the expected 55 occurrences (odds 1 in 5; SD = 1.35) and so the actual
significance of their occurrences is somewhat higher. However, all this by no
means satisfied my research principles. I believe in the Omnipotence of the Lord God, the Encoder, and I am certain
that He could arrange the code in a way He would silence any critic. Having
provided this particular reality, He should have a specific purpose in mind…
It was while I was musing on this strange “splitting” of the code in
two independent matrices when I spotted that 20 Nisan occurs in the end of the
Torah, thus making the (new) matrix in Figure 2 “overlap” some text of it. Then
the thought dawned on me. The Encoder has separated the Torah code shown in
Figure 1 for a type of a reference
standard! In this particular case, for a touchstone for the proof of any
“contaminating” terms…
I rushed to check the two new dates in the Torah matrix, but they
were gone! Then I realized something that has escaped my attention so far. It
is the way numbers are expressed in Hebrew. The first ten letters of the
alphabet define the first ten whole numbers. Larger numbers are expressed with
more than one character. For instance, number 12 is written as yod (י) denoting 10 followed by beyt (ב) signifying 2. In a
similar way, kav (כ) followed by ב means 22. Therefore, if the letter at the
respective skip before beyt is yod or kav, the date becomes ambiguous: it could be 2, 12 or 22 Iyyar. I
checked the matrix and, though the odds are very low, about 1 in 200, the term
2 Iyyar at both skips appeared to be
ambiguous! The one at skip 4 could be 22 Iyyar as well, while that at skip -7
could be 12 Iyyar. I checked the matrix in the Torah (Fig. 1). There, the
respective letter 15 places to the left of beyt
is dalet (ד), of numerical value 4 and without meaning in
this particular case, thus confirming that the date should be 2
Iyyar. A remarkable proof of the importance of this code as a
reference!
Echo from the Solomon’s Prayer reverberating
in the 21st Century
Nevertheless, a new task emerged now: we have to understand the
deeper meaning of the code. I do not believe that the day of inauguration of a
Russian president is of such major importance that needs a specific method for
encoding in the Word of God. The matrix is surely pointing to something else.
Knowing that the Torah is the fundament, we should look in the other code,
found outside it. And I think that we don’t need to look for it diligently. It
is right before our eyes: the term in 5768 (בהתשסח).
This term is remarkable in more than one aspect. It is a relatively rare
occasion when a Jewish year occurs at its lowest skip with the preposition “in”
(ב) before it. The other
occurrence at skip -6 is in 2Kings 24, in a text narrating about the removal of
the treasures from the Temple of the Lord
and taking the cream of the Jerusalem society into captivity. The first one,
however, occurs against a very low probability. It is in a text containing a
lot of prophetic character: King Solomon’s solemn prayer of dedication of the
First Temple to the Lord. The
code occurs in a very significant part of the prayer. See Figure 3.
Figure 3. In
(Year) 5768 (בהתשסח), marked in red characters, up in the right column, at skip 5,
in 1Kings 8:33-34. The Figure contains a part of the Solomon’s prayer
concerning Israel as a nation when turning to the Lord after having repented. The insertion contains
statistics. The actual odds for בהתשסח to occur once at skip up to ±5 are much smaller than 1 in a
million; the SD value 6.76 defines a chance far below 1 in a billion!
This text exists in every Bible version I have read. I realized that
this code had to be there! It is connected to specific attitude of the people
of Israel and the Temple; this is why it is in the Solomon’s prayer and
therefore could not be found in the Torah. On the other hand, the process of
revealing it so far unequivocally pointed back to the Torah. Although the
lowest skips of the encoded occurrence of both “Year 5768” and “In Year 5768”
are outside Torah, the matrix in Figure 1 invites us to look more meticulously
there. We have already found the lowest skip of “Year 5768”. Therefore, the
next step is to look for the lowest skip of “In Year 5768” in the Torah.
It turned out to be the apparently insignificant occurrence at skip -218.
There was significance, however, hidden elsewhere. In my recent study on the
Comet Holmes [1], I managed to find
the lowest encoded occurrence of God (is) with us = Emanuel (עמנואל) in the Torah at skip 4
in a matrix with the main term defining the year of the outburst of the comet,
2007, against the odds of about 1 in
200 000. I knew where the occurrence of Emanuel is: in Deuteronomy
1:28-29. Therefore, when I saw in the report that “In 5768” is entirely within
Deuteronomy 1, I foretasted the picture I was about to see after a while. See
Figure 4.
Figure 4. In
(Year) 5768 (בהתשסח), red, at skip -218 - the lowest in the Torah; and God with us (עמנואל), green, at skip 4 in a 6 × 42 matrix. The odds in favour of
significance of this matrix are 1 in 20 000.
Looking at the matrix, I had the feeling that I have been led to it.
The whole process of Bible code breaking we have carried out so far looked like
going a long way. It started at the glorious times of the United Kingdom of
Israel and the building of the First Temple, or even earlier, and ends in our
days. This process outlined the Jewish Year 5768 as an outstanding milestone in
the course of history. God is with us in the Year 5768…
What could this mean?
In Exodus 23:17, the Lord
commands: “Three times in a year shall
all your males appear before the Lord
God.” In the verses immediately above, these three feasts, called also
Pilgrim Festivals, are defined as the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover), the
Feast of Harvest (Pentecost) and the Feast of Ingathering (Booths). This
commandment implies that standing before the Lord
God, we unite with Him closer than in any other everyday circumstances. Therefore,
I searched for codes of these three feasts: Passover = Pesach (פסח), Pentecost = Shavuot (שבועות) and Booths = Sukkoth (סוכות). The most significant
matrix I obtained was with Pentecost. Then, however, I decided
to check also for New Year = Rosh Hashanah (השנה ראש) and the Day of Atonement = Yom Kippur (כפור יום). The matrices obtained with these terms
appeared to be less significant than the one with Pentecost. Finally, I added
to the list the other two major Jewish feasts: Chanukah (חנוכה) and Purim (פורים). No one of the matrices
exceeded in significance of the matrix obtained with Pentecost – Shavuot. The
one obtained with Chanukah was close in significance to that with Pentecost – having
about 50 % higher matrix odds. Chanukah occurred at its lowest value in the
Torah, 3, but far enough from the main term – in Deuteronomy 5:33. The matrix
obtained with this term was more than three times larger than that obtained
with Pentecost.
Although not at its lowest skip, Shavuot שבועות was also entirely within
Deuteronomy 1. This fact made me examine the occurrence scrupulously. I noticed
that the letter preceding the term is hey
(ה), which is the definite
article in Hebrew, thus making the term more specific: The Pentecost, HaShavuot!
The odds are below 1 in 4.5 millions!
See Figure 5.
Figure 5. In
(Year) 5768 (בהתשסח), red, at skip -218; The
Pentecost (השבועות), green, at skip -130 and God
with us (עמנואל), blue, at skip 4. The
Pentecost is at its lowest skip in the Torah. See the report below.
Term Translation Skip
R Factor (in Matrix) Start End
בהתשסח In Year 5768 -218 0,553 3,098 Deuteronomy 1:33.59 Deuteronomy 1:15.71
השבועות The Pentecost -130 0,361 2,906 Deuteronomy 1:24.12 Deuteronomy 1:11.12
עמנואל God is wi th us 4 0,666 3,211 Deuteronomy 1:28.71 Deuteronomy 1:29.9
The ELS reference is 44 characters between rows.
There are 3 displayed terms in the matrix.
The matrix starts at Deuteronomy 1:10.41 and ends at Deuteronomy 1:34.18.
The matrix spans 1348 characters of the surface text.
The matrix has 31 rows, is 28 columns wide and contains a
total of 868 characters.
There are 3
significant terms in
the matrix.
The matrix odds are 1 chance in 4683524,108 in favour of
significance.
The cumulative ‘R’ Factor for the displayed matrix is 6,671.
A stunning Coincidence spotted due
to earlier Findings
But why Pentecost? In the course of carrying out the research, I
noticed few impressing coincidences. I have never expelled from my mind the
strange code I found back in 2004 [2].
I called it ‘strange’ because I ‘invented’ it as a string of Hebrew letters
forming the number 2 000 in a way matching the numerical value of the
year, at the same time expressing it as a logical sequence in accordance with
the rules established for denoting the years within a millennium. The core of
this ‘invention’ was the number 1 000 represented as the sum of the
numerical values of the lowest number of different
letters: tav ת (400), shin
ש (300), resh ר (200) and qof
ק (100), in their
descending order in accordance with both Hebrew and Roman rules. It seemed to
me logical that 2 000 will be this string repeated twice. To my greatest
surprise, it occurred in the Torah against the odds of about 1 in 300. To my
astonishment, however, the letter following the string was vav ו, forming a 9-letter term.
Therefore, I concluded that the code, occurring against infinitesimal odds in
the Torah, defines the year 2006, תשרקתשרקו, which was still in the
future.
My first findings showed the strong link of this term with the Time
of the End as prophesied by the Spirit of God through the Prophets in the
Tanakh, especially Daniel [3]. Specific
interests of every devoted researcher’s approach to the Bible codes are the structure and the symmetry of the terms within a matrix. We cannot part logic and
truth from harmony and beauty. The codes I managed to find were mostly of
general character, usually elucidating specific aspects of prophecies or
looking from a new angle at the world history. However, although these codes, as
I believe and hope, might have contributed to a better understanding of the
Word of God and enhance our awe at His Omnipotence, I could not find any
particular major event from 2006 encoded with this term. Then, quite
unexpectedly, the election of Mr. Shimon Peres as the President of Israel [4] unambiguously appeared to be
connected with this term. However, this event took place in 2007, not in 2006!
Then I realized the significance of the letter aleph א at the other end of the
term. Its numerical value is 1, so the overall numerical value of the extended
term matched exactly the numerical value of the year: 2007!
In the end of the year 2007, a magnificent event happened in the
sky. It was the unexpected outburst of the Comet Holmes and the occultation of
the brightest star in the constellation Perseus, Mirfak, by the comet’s tail. Again,
all these appeared to be encoded with the same main term, which I, to some
extent confused, named 2006/7 code. My confusion was caused
by this strange confirmation of the significance of the aleph on the side of the term that is opposite to the vav, making it 10-letter long: אתשרקתשרקו. I was so much puzzled
that, led by the wish to avoid ‘inflation’ of significance of matrices,
continued to apply the term as its original definition, the 9-letter 2006 code.
I have run a number of times several computer programs loading this
term and each time a same set of figures were displayed on the screen. These
figures were imprinted in my mind. Therefore, when such figures occurred with another term, I could hardly remain
unimpressed.
While carrying out the study on the President Medvedev code, I did
some search in the Tanakh outside the
Torah. The reason for this was to find some relations between the Torah as
reference standard and the other text. I searched for the odds for in Year 5768 (בהתשסח) to occur within skip ±5 in
the text from Joshua 1:1 to the end of 2Chronicles. When the programs displayed
the figures, I had the feeling that I have already seen them before. See Figure
8.
Figure 8. Statistics calculated by The Keys to the Bible
computer program for the occurrence of in
Year 5768 (בהתשסח) in the text outside the Torah (top) and 2006 (תשרקתשרקו) in the whole Tanakh (bottom) within the absolute values of
their skips ±5 and ±14 965, respectively. The expected numbers of occurrences
0.01459 and 0.01452, respectively, differ by less than 0.5 %! The standard
deviation values 8.16 and 8.18 define actual odds of the order of 1 in
trillions.
This appeared to be the first one in an amazing series of
coincidences. Both terms generated significant codes with “God (is) with us” (עמנואל) in the Torah at their
lowest or only skip. Both terms occur at their skips against practically the
same odds in the Tanakh (2006) and in the combined Prophets and Writings (in
Year 5768). I evaluate these facts as justification of the structuring of the
Word in three major parts and evidence of specific interaction between the
codes occurring in the different parts of the Bible. But isn’t something deeper
here? Don’t these coincidences hint at a role of the 2006/7 term in these new
codes? A role defined by its skip
value?
A rusty Key found in an old
Treasury
Then I noticed another strange coincidence. The “God with us” term
appeared close to the main term 2006 (תשרקתשרקו) within a highly
significant matrix at the fifth row
splitting of the main term. That is, the skip of the main term is divided by
five and therefore, there are four rows between the letters of the main term in
the matrix. (See Fig. 14 in my work on the Comet Holmes [1]). The term occurs here most significantly along with the main
term in the “unprocessed” matrix in Fig. 4. However, it forms most significant
matrix together with the Pentecost
term at the fifth row splitting of
the main term “in 5768” (בהתשסח) in Fig. 5 here again! Is this a vague hint at
a connection between the Feast of Shavuot this year and the 2006/7 term?
I checked the date of the Feast of Shavuot in year 5768. It starts
at sunset on 8 June. As a Gentile, I am much better accustomed to this type of
dating rather than to that of the Jewish calendar and clearly remember that the
Six-Day War was in its heat on this day of June back in 1967. It was the day
after the Israeli army liberated the Old City of Jerusalem and the paratroopers
reached the Western Wall and took the Temple Mount: 7 June!
Although I have carried out research with the 2006 code for years,
it was as late as in the summer of 2007 when I noticed that 365, the number of the days of a normal
solar year, is a factor of its skip 14 965:
365 × 41 = 14 965
The exact number of days in a solar year is not 365, of course, but
about a quarter of the day larger. This is why an extra day is inserted in every
fourth, or leap year, as in the current 2008. At the time of my writing the article
on Shimon Peres code [4], I
considered the factorization above exclusively from Bible code standpoint and noticed
that the number of the letters in the words of the plain text intersecting the
main term is exactly 41. I was satisfied with the results obtained, which
seemed to me a very good example of how quantum computation works. I did not
look for any temporal connotation of
the number 41 at that time…
I closely examined the various calendar systems used in the East
Mediterranean world and the Greco-Roman civilization and observed that all
these have taken into account, more or less accurately, this approximately one
extra day in four years. All, except the ancient Egyptians! Their year
consisted of exactly 365 days. They appeared to be addicted to this number,
although being aware of the discrepancy, most probably because they believed
that the deity Thoth divinely ordained the number of the days in the year. Israel
in Egypt had surely been subjected to this calendar system.
On the other hand, a skip value should be a whole number. Therefore,
if the Encoder wants us to see a time period expressed as an exact number of
years, I believe, He would have hardly used another method but the number of
the years multiplied by 365. Remembering the Six-Day War, I realized that from
the liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount to the start
of this year’s Shavuot will be exactly 41 solar years – to the day!
However, although the number of the years will be exactly 41, the
number of the days will exceed 14 965 by ten days, coming from the number
of the leap years between 1967 and 2008 including…
One of the programs I use – The Keys to the Bible –displays the largest possible skip of the dialed term
within the specified text. This is the skip at which the first and the last
letters of the term touch both ends of the text – that is, the term spreads
over the whole text – and is one of the crucial parameters for defining the
expected number of occurrences of the term. For years, I have searched codes
with the 2006 term in the Torah only, so I knew the number for this text by
heart. Therefore, I was very much surprised when saw that the first four digits of the largest possible skip
of the “President Medvedev” term in the Tanakh, 149 615, are the same as those
in the 5-digit skip of the 2006 term in the Torah: 14 965! Then I noticed that
both President Medvedev (מדבדב נשיא) and 2006 (תשרקתשרקו) are 9-letter long terms
and therefore they should have the same skip limit in the Tanakh.
What a sign! The skip of 2006 is almost exactly one tenth of the largest possible value in the Tanakh! I was
shocked because of my blindness all these years. Concentrating my attention on
the Torah alone, I may have never looked outside it had I not performed the
research with the President Medvedev code. Well, just about one tenth, but not
exactly…
The maximum skip of a term is defined by the length of the text minus
one letter and the number of intervals between the letters in the term. The
largest skip of a term is the integer part of the ratio of the number of the
letters in the text minus 1 to the number of intervals – in our case, 8. Therefore,
the maximum skip will change by a unit if the number of the letters in the text
increase or decrease by 8 letters. It will remain the same within intervals of
8 letters. For instance, were the Tanakh only 35×8 = 280 letters (that is,
about 0.02% only!) longer, the maximum skip of any 9-letter long term would be
149 615 + 35 = 149 650, or exactly 10 times the skip of the 2006
term.
The number of the letters in the Tanakh version used with the CodeFinder
program is 1 196 925, while the text with The Keys to the Bible
program contains 1 196 921 letters. Both these programs define
149 615 as the maximum skip value for a 9-letter long term. An interesting
detail, indeed. Both numbers are
within the 8-letter interval between 1 196 921 and
1 196 928 specifying the abovementioned maximum skip.
This maximum skip value, however, divided by 10 does not yield a
whole number. Therefore, if there is a meaning in the findings we have
discovered so far, we must look for it in the skip value 14 965. The
maximum skip divided by 10 gives 14 961.5. How much this number differs
from the actual skip? The subtraction of the smaller from the bigger number gives
3.5. In the light of the
number-of-days interpretation of the skip value we have applied so far, the
result of the subtraction should be 3 ½
days. I looked for hours this number in amazement. Indeed, one could hardly
invent a better key to the skip value enigma! 3 ½ days are exactly the half of a 7-day week! It is mentioned in
the famous 70 “sevens” prophecy in Daniel 9:27. To my best knowledge, this is
the only occasion in the Bible where divided day is alluded to.
Why Pentecost?
The 3 ½ days key unambiguously points to a period(s) of time
measured as a set of weeks, that is, “sevens”. There is an interesting facet of
the three Jewish Pilgrim Festivals. While the duration of each of the other two
of them, Pesach and Sukkoth, is 7 days = one week, Shavuot is a one-day feast,
but its date is to be calculated as a
set of seven weeks from a certain day after Pesach. I find this type of
specification by calculation very much intriguing. Indeed, all other days of
celebration are given in the Law as concrete days of certain month. Thus,
Pesach is always on 15 Nisan. Therefore, if there were to be counted seven
weeks starting on the next day, Shavuot will always be on a certain date as
long as the months Nisan and the two months following it, Iyyar and Sivan, are
of fixed length. Therefore, it would be practical to fix the date of Shavuot on
the respective day of Sivan, the 6th of the month, as it is in the
Jewish calendar today.
The reason for the calculation could be on one hand either the
movable day for starting the counting of the seven weeks – as some believe it
should be the first Sunday after Pesach – or the possible changes in the length
of the months. On the other hand, the commandment for counting the seven weeks
could have spiritual implication: we have to be vigilant. The process of
counting would prepare our minds and hearts for the coming Day. In addition, we
will be aware of how much time is left before the Day comes…
The religious importance and the spiritual depth of the
Pentecost/Shavuot could hardly be overestimated. Historically, this was the Day
when Moses received the Torah on Mount Sinai on behalf of all Israel [5]. About thirteen centuries later, another
historical event happened on the same Day: the Holy Spirit of the Lord descended on the Lord Jesus’
apostles. Therefore, it is much surprising that Pentecost/Shavuot does not find
due recognition worldwide today. What is more, it seems that its significance
has rapidly decreased in the last few generations. Monday after Pentecost,
which once had been official holiday in most Christian countries, is becoming
an ordinary day throughout. But maybe this fact should not be surprising at all.
A call for spirituality will be normally cried down by worldly craves in this
materialistic epoch. It is noteworthy that the East Orthodox churches regard Pentecost
as the second to Easter only feast in importance. Being more mystical than the
Catholic or Protestant denominations, they were seeing profounder significance
in the voluntary act of dying on the cross followed by the Resurrection of the
Messiah the King and the descending of the Spirit of God from heaven – a
consequence of this Feat, corresponding to the giving of the Torah – than in
the relatively more mundane act of His birth. In the East, Christmas gained its
current aspect of a period of demonstrative spending mainly under the influence
of the West on the last several generations.
I was much intrigued by this rapid change of the significance of the
religious feasts both in Judaism and Christianity. The Codes state
unambiguously: God IS with us on Pentecost/Shavuot… But God is with us always
when we turn to Him with broken hearts. God was with Israel in the night of the
first Pesach, when the Angel destroyed every firstborn in Egypt and spared the
firstborn of Israel. What makes Pentecost/Shavuot unique?
On Pesach, the Lord spared Israel as people, but under the
condition that each member of the people
had to adhere to His commandment to sprinkle the doorposts of his house with
the blood of the Paschal lamb. On Shavuot, He created the Nation of Israel by giving the Torah to Moses on the
Mount Sinai. The remarkable difference here is that the Lord did this Feat through one man: Moses! Although many Israelites sinned by making the
golden calf, they were not destroyed due to the interceding of Moses with the Lord for the nation of Israel.
Now I was able to understand how God allows us to come closest to Him
permanently: through His Chosen Man only! His standards are so high that they
are unachievable by ordinary persons. He would be pleased to have a Nation of
persons. However, these human individuals would be unable to approach Him
without leadership. The best the Lord
could do with larger masses of people is to spare their lives. This is not His
flaw. Simply higher objectives need compliance with higher standards. Generally,
people are susceptible to follow their own sinful desires (Genesis 6:5).
However, history has proved that the activities of large masses of humans could
be concentrated on certain good purposes through a suitable leadership of
individuals. So, there were Moses and the prophets as well as judges, kings and
many more fine men and women in the Tanakh. Then, the Only Begotten Son of God
was born, the Lord Jesus, Who is the Prophet Moses was told that the Lord will rise from among Israel, a
Prophet like him (Deut. 18:15, 18-19).
There were wicked leaders as well of course, just to prove the validity of this
rule. These have dragged away many.
Even though Pentecost/Shavuot marked the zenith of the revelation of
God to Israel in the Tanakh, it has gradually become insignificant in these
final materialistic days. Liberal democrats cannot assimilate the idea of
something good coming through one man. Genuine wisdom is believed
now to be a phenomenon emerging out of conscious way of thinking and – to even a
higher degree – to the unconscious desires of large masses of people. Skeptic
Bible scholars could easier assimilate and “explain” the origin of Pesach as a
memorized historical event. I have read many attempts for “scientific”
interpretations of the ten plagues. I have not seen, however, a single
plausible materialistic reasoning on the giving of the Torah from
above within one day and as a string of letters to Moses. Even most of
the religious leaders consider Torah a piece of literature written within a
period of time. The only difference from materialists is that the former say
that this process had been carried out under “divine inspiration”. The notion
that Torah has already existed by the time of Creation is too much for a carnal
mind. Therefore, it cannot digest the deeper spiritual significance of the
giving of Torah. This is why, I believe, Pentecost/Shavuot is a one-day feast.
It is reminiscent of the most spiritual time in history: the Day of the Lord!
All this could elucidate another interesting psychological aspect of
the general attitude kept in the Biblical record. When Moses ordered what
Israelites were to do with the Paschal lamb, they rushed forward to carry out
strictly what they were told to do. The story in Exodus does not mention even a
single case of disobedience or disbelief. Just about few months later, however,
these same people were both disobedient and desperate – wanting to stone Moses
– and skeptic: As for this fellow Moses
who brought us out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him (Ex.
32:1). Keeping in mind that both the Paschal lamb and Moses are two of the
several archetypes of the Messiah, we can see that the egoistic human nature
readily accepts Him in the role of sacrificial offering, but is reluctant to
recognize Him as Glorious King.
The Number of Letters in the Word
as a Code of a Cycle of History
I believe that the Messiah had already been the sacrificial offering
– about two millennia ago – for salvation and eternal life for everyone who
believes in His Name. Now, we are looking forward to seeing Him coming as the
promised King to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth. Therefore, the
significance of Pentecost/Shavuot matched with the significance of the year
5768 (=2007/8) corresponds to the coming of the Messiah in His aspect of
Glorious King. What we have found so far in the Bible is in almost perfect
harmony with the date of Shavuot
according to the Jewish calendar calculated based on the skip value of the
2006/7 term starting from 7 June 1967. However, although expressed in years the
account is accurate, there is a 10-day discrepancy if we apply the stricter
counting in term of days due to the extra days in the leap years passing
meanwhile. I checked also the dates of the Christian Pentecost, but both West
(11 May) and East Orthodox (15 June) dates appeared to be even further away
from the 14 965 days count since 7 June 1967 (28 May 2008)…
I was trying to understand the reason for this discrepancy when a
sudden thought dawned on me. The number of letters in the Tanakh is
approximately eight times
149 615. But the latter number is almost exactly ten times 14 965, which is about 41 years. Therefore, the
number of letters in the Tanakh would correspond to the number of days in
approximately
41 × 10 × 8 = 3 280 years!
Has something significant
happened about 3 280 years ago?
I read the article on Torah in Wikipedia. This is what is written
there about the date of the giving of the Torah [5]:
Rabbinic writings offer various ideas on when the entire Torah
was actually revealed to the Jewish people. The revelation to Moses at Mount Sinai
is considered by many to be the most important revelatory event. According to
datings of the text by Orthodox rabbis this occurred in 1280 BCE. Some rabbinic sources state
that the entire Torah was given all at once at this event.
1 280 years BC are about 3 287 years ago! I carried out
more accurate calculation. I divided the number of letters in the Tanakh
version used by the CodeFinder program, 1 196 925, by the number of
the days in a Julian year, 365.25 (exactly!):
1 196 925 / 365.25
= 3 277.0020533880903490759753593429
This result is astonishing! It is almost a whole number of years – the deviation is 1/487, that is, the
accuracy is better than one day! (1/487th
of a year is 18 hours.) It is manifestation of a very interesting mathematical
phenomenon! Starting from 1 461, which is 4 times 365.25, every 1 461st
number divided by 365.25 gives a whole number. Within this interval, the result
of division comes closest to a whole number three times: every 365th/366th,
730th/731st and 1 095th/1 096th
number. These are the only six
numbers giving such small deviations from a whole number factor within a range
of 1 461 numbers. These deviations, which are less than 1/365.25 = 4/1461,
or “one day”, are 1/1461, 2/1461 or 3/1461 = 1/487. As it turns out, the abovementioned number of letters in the Tanakh is
the 366th number of such a cycle. Were the letters in the Tanakh
just one less, the deviation would be the smallest possible: 1/1461. The next
numbers giving such high accuracy are 366 less (giving as a result the whole
number 3 276) or 365 and 366 more (giving 3 278 ± 2/1461) than
1 196 925.
There is something more intriguing with this number 1 461. It
brings us back to… Egypt! It is the lowest whole number of Egyptian years of
365 days each corresponding to a period of time expressed as a whole number,
1460, of Julian years of average 365.25 days each. This period is called Sothic cycle, after the Hellenized name
of the star Sirius [6]. Ancient
Egyptians defined the start of their year as the heliacal rising of this
brightest star in the sky, but defined the duration of the year as only 365
days. Therefore, the heliacal rising shifted every next year by about a quarter
of a degree, making a full circle in 1461 years. This astronomical fact sometimes
is of irreplaceable help to archaeologists and historians in their attempts to
establish dates of events in Egyptian history.
In Search for Deeper Meaning
I tried to understand the significance of this discovery. First, I performed
the calculation with the number of the letters in the Torah, but the result
appeared to be well away from a whole number. I tried also with the prophetic
year of 360 days as well as with lunar years consisting of 12 or 13 months of
29.53 days each. The results were similar. It appears that the particular
version of the Tanakh generating the “President Medvedev” code incorporates
also a specific temporal facet. It is linked to the solar year, hinting in an
intriguing way at the number harmonizing the ancient Egyptian calendar with the
Julian calendar, which is in the core of the modern calendar system applied
globally. Therefore, it implies time
linked with Gentiles.
But why it should be in the Tanakh and not in the Torah? In
addition, there are versions of the Tanakh, which do not contain this property!
Moreover, if we accept the rabbinic dating of the First Shavuot on the Mount of
Sinai, when the Torah was given to Moses, and count a day-for-letter since
then, the time that the calculation above yields should have elapsed some 10
years ago…
This could be put in accord with a very strange opinion of Judaism [5]:
It is commonly believed within Judaism that had
Israel been faithful to the God of Israel, the rest of the Tanakh or Old Testament would have been
unnecessary.
That’s it! Had the first human couple been obedient to the Lord God, sin and death would have not
entered the world and there would be no history of the type we know it. As the
first sin of eating the forbidden fruit had started a gigantic cycle of time,
so in a similar way the unfaithfulness of Israel to the Lord God had caused the generation of another time cycle.
Keeping in mind that the books after the Torah reflect mainly the relations
between Israel and Gentiles, it is reasonable to expect that this part of the
Word would contain – both in plain text and as a secret code portion – some
attributes specifically concerning Gentiles. Perhaps this is why there is only
one version of Torah, while there are more versions of the Tanakh. In this way,
maybe, they reflect the versatility of peoples and nations.
I felt overwhelmed by these data and especially by the strange
coincidences. However, there was no exact
matching of two values! On the other hand, the way we have obtained these seems
to me remarkable. What is the profit
of all these and, above all, what is their meaning?
At first, I believed that the codes define specific date(s) or
years(s). What we all are most interested in is the Day of the Lord Jesus’
Return. However, we know very well that it is impossible to know the day and hour (Matt. 24:36; Mark
13:32). We can hardly even imagine how this Day will look like! On the other
hand, the codes suggest that Shavuot in the year 5768 (8/9 June 2008) is likely
to be a special day. This fact elucidates to some extent the character of the
Bible codes. They always contain some uncertainty. If the nature of an event is
revealed more explicitly, the time of its occurrence lacks exactness. In the
same manner, if a certain date occurs unambiguously revealed, what will happen
then is hinted at vaguely. The latter case is even more sophisticated because
we often realize the significance of what has happened at much later time. Even
in the Beginning, the Lord God
told Adam that on the day (ביום) he eats the fruit from
the forbidden tree, he would surely die (Gen. 2:17). Yet the Bible record
states that Adam lived for at least 900 years
after he broke the Lord God’s
commandment (Gen. 5:3-5). Much later, we come to realizing that with the Lord, a day is like a thousand
years and a thousand years are like a day (2 Peter 3:8).
Is there an ultimate Meaning?
This immanent uncertainty of the codes corresponds to the character
of physical law. It shows that everyone and everything in the Universe are
intertwined. It convinced me for the last time that the Bible code research and
the results thereof are a type of quantum computation and its product. In
certain sense, it means that the Bible codes do not a priori exist. Or, put in slightly different way, there is
enormous number of codes “waiting” to be found. Only those that are “needed”
come up to the surface. I will explain my idea with an example that everyone
knows well: petrol.
Oil fields exist for millennia. Nonetheless, they remained
practically untouched up to about few centuries ago. Why? Because they had not
been “necessary”. Had the internal-combustion engines not been invented and
modern chemical industry not been developed, the resources would have remained
intact. Humankind would still be blind for these riches. It is clear that
exploitation of oil fields cannot be considered separately from the other human
activities. We cannot imagine the contemporary world without oil. Neither can
we imagine the invention of cars without the availability of the – once thought
of being inexhaustible – oil fields. The use of any natural resource is an
event occurring when specific human activities intersect with its qualities and
availability.
The emerging character of the Bible codes could be illustrated also with
examples from the unanimated matter. The crystal structure of ice is “encoded”
in the water molecules’ characteristics even when they are in the form of
steam. But a particular glacial structure forms only when the conditions, i.e. temperature, pressure, tempo
of cooling and the presence of impurities, if there are any, become
appropriate.
Some Bible code skeptics – especially those among them who are
believers – reject the codes applying the reasoning that Lord God should not require the
invention of computer to allow revealing of His codes. In my opinion, these
skeptics should apply the same reasoning to the need for printing as well. Just imagine how the Word could reach everyone on
the planet who wants to read it without the billions of copies printed in every
language. Yet the art of printing was invented (especially for this purpose!)
some fourteen centuries after the last book of the Bible was written. Protestantism
would be hardly possible without printed Bibles, I dare say.
What seems to me more plausible is to regard the codes as riches –
similarly as with petrol – which needed the proper technology in order to be
exploited. Moreover, it is not the computer only we need to understand the
Bible codes! Profoundest understanding needs also, I believe, deepest
comprehension of the way the Universe had been built, that is, the character of
the physical law. This had also been impossible just few generations ago. The
need of such understanding goes in harmony with another basic principle of
revelation of the truths in the Word of God. The time of any revelation is
specified so that it would exert maximum effect on the people – both believers
and skeptics. If God has a plan for the duration of the time circle, what would
be the use for the generations living centuries ago to know exactly what will
happen in the 21st century? Just imagine how much desperation will
befall on us if we get reliable information that we will have to wait another fifty
– or even fifteen – years to see the Messiah! The need for vigilance combined
with some uncertainty is in the core of the Lord Jesus’ teaching about the
suddenness of His return (Malachi 3:1; Matt. 24:43-44; Luke 12:39-40 and
elsewhere). In this connection, Bible codes seem to be a sign of the times.
Do you know this Face?
Torah is Law; therefore,
it should be associated with the fundamental laws ruling the Universe. I
believe that this association is two-way.
Let us consider the physical laws mirrored in the Word of God. One
of the greatest achievements in the last few decades is the understanding of
how quantum computers work and even the building of the first – though inferior
in performance to the classical computers so far – primitive quantum computers.
The deepening of this understanding was going along with the development of the
Bible code research both as methods and worldwide spreading. At the dawn of the
computerized Bible code research some twenty years ago, it was believed that
the codes are a type of computer programs to be executed on classical
computers. In a word, they were regarded as pre-existing and therefore
pre-determining the events!? Such concept raised unpleasant questions of
philosophical and moralistic character. Although much effort had been put in to
evade this uneasiness through emphasizing the probabilistic character of the
codes, the bitter aftertaste remained lasting.
Fortunately, it gradually became clearer meanwhile that the Universe
is constructed much more complex than once was thought. I will not go into
details, but will suffice to consider the basic property that is in the core of
the difference between the two types of computation devices. It is that the
elements of the classical computer – the switches, or gates – can exist in one
state at a time only, usually defined as 0
and 1. They are activated by a
signal, which should be directed specifically to them and therefore the state
of a switch is independent of the
states of the other elements of the classical computer. This is valid also for
its function. We may remove an element from a computer and place it in another
one; it will execute the same function in its new place.
Unlike these, the elements of a quantum computer can exist in any state between 0 and 1. This takes
place during the process of computation. However, when the quantum computer has
to show the result of a computation, it displays this result in the same terms
as the classical computer does – the elements should “choose” to be in either 0 or 1. The choice any element makes – and this is very interesting – depends on the choice the other elements
make as a whole ensemble! Therefore, if we consider letters as elements or
“switches”, an aleph is an aleph in every plain text in Hebrew. It defines the
meaning of a particular word and does not interact with letter(s) in the other
end of the text. As a “switch” in a Bible code matrix, however, this aleph must
have a specific position and – in some more intricate studies – its numerical
value is of specific importance.
Let us make use of all this. There is a very subtle difference
between the character of the result a classical computer displays and the
result obtained from a quantum computer. It is in the accuracy or rather the repeatability. Classical result is
accurate because the end product of a classical computation is pre-determined. The
program algorithm specifies which switches will be activated/deactivated and in
what sequence. Repeat a calculation a million times and you will get a million
times the same result. Results will be undistinguishable.
Slightest change of the initial conditions will result in an answer that will
differ from the pervious one in accordance with the algorithm.
The quantum computer, however, gives the most probable answer as the result! Quantum computation is rather
like a hot-warm-cold game. The process is aimed to suggest the ultimate value;
it is carried out through making the less likely results fall out. This
is why slight changes in the initial conditions may not change the final
result! We can see how it works in recognizing a human face. This is a very
good example of quantum computation. We recognize the people we know when
seeing them after many years, although grown up or aged, and we recognize our
close ladies even when their new hair-styles have “terrifically beautified”
their faces. In these cases we believe we have recognized the right person
because he or she “cannot be anyone other”. This difference between the two
types of computers is so much characteristic, that in order to prevent pirates
using computer machines from intruding into web sites, servers may ask customers
to dial several distorted and/or blurred characters shown on the screen.
I digressed for a while because I believe that the study I have
carried out so far corresponds to the quantum computation model described
above. Indeed, like recognizing a face, we see an entity consisting of known
and unknown parts something we must identify. These parts served as means for
hinting at the next step we had to do thus making our next suggestion more
reasonable; that is, leading more easily and quickly to the right answer. As
the reader has surely noticed, the process of Bible code research includes many
ruling-out steps!
The first step of this type was the confirmation of the date of
inauguration of Mr. Medvedev as President of Russia: 2 Iyyar 5768 = 7 May 2008.
But the same process has carried out in my mind when I noticed that the first
four digits of the skip of a term that had not been involved in this study is
the same as those of the maximum possible skip value of a 9-letter term in the
Tanakh. Then, it was repeated with the expected number of occurrences of “year
5768” and “2006” (Fig. 8). I had to compare the pairs of “faces”
14 965 and 149 615; 0.01459 and 0.01452,
each pair consisting of “known old” (red) and “unknown new” part.
Were these two pictures of a same face? It seems they are, likely…
Then, we saw another “face” – the fractional part of the result of a
division
.0020533880903490759753593429158111…
The “known” part of this decimal row is the two red zeroes showing
that the result is very close to a whole
number. The biggest contribution of the other characters comes from the 2
in blue. Every next one in the row has ten times lesser significance. However,
without this known part, I would never come up to realize that the whole string
of 34(!) digits is just 1/487. Or, is it? You cannot obtain the whole number 487 as reciprocal value of the figure above. No computer exists,
which could take the whole expansion because it is infinite. The string above
contains an infinitesimal part of it. However, even the value obtained with
these digits differs slightly from 1/487. Every calculator rounds the result. But
do we need greater exactness? Even the simplest calculator taking the first 7
digits will give a result with accuracy better than 1 in 20 000!
(This is a good opportunity to compare the data processing in
classical computers with that in our brains. The reciprocal value of any number
that is not divisible by 2 and/or 5 only is expressed as an endless string of
decimals. This string consists, from a certain place on, of specific sequence
of digits that reiterates endlessly. It is clear that no computer capacity
could exist in the whole Universe, which could contain unlimited quantity of
data. Therefore, the computer has to “cut” the decimal expansion somewhere. This
is what it does when displaying the string shown above. However, it “knows” the
source of the data it has just
processed. Therefore, if you ask it to give you back the original number, which
is the reciprocal number of the displayed one, the computer will write it back
correctly. But if you dial the first members of this decimal expansion – those
the computer is capable to take in – and ask it to perform the same operation,
it will display a number that differs, even though slightly, from the original
one.
For instance, dial on your computer calculator 487. Click R on the main
keyboard or 1/x on the calculator
keyboard. It will display the decimals we already have. Click again R or 1/x. The computer will write back 487. Click again R or 1/x. It will display again our row.
Now, go to Edit in the calculator
menu. Select Copy. Clear the display
with C. Go again to Edit. Select Paste. The computer will take the number from a memory, which does
not account for the origin of the data and will cut the last four digits of the
string in the display: 0.002053388090349075975359342915. Then ask it again to
give you the reciprocal value of the number by clicking R or 1/x. The number you
will obtain is
487.00000000000000000000000019237
This number differs from the whole number 487 by the tiny value of
about 1.9 × 10-25.
Do you see? The classical computer cannot ignore this tiny
difference, as our brains would do. It would never look for meaning or significance of a data. We sacrifice unnecessary exactness for
economy. In this case, the economical pattern comes from the theoretical
impossibility to obtain the accurate value by loading the decimal expansion. We
can get 0.333333333… from 1/3, but we can never get 1/3 sharp from 0.33333333….
even if we continue entering 3’s up to the end of time. This is because 1/3 is a
universal number. It represents something that is three times smaller than
another entity. It does not depend on what system we use to express it. On the
other hand, every system – decimal
and binary are the most commonly used – imposes certain limitations on the
expression of the fractional ingredient of a numbers.)
Had I not dealt with Julian and Egyptian years, I would probably
remain forever ignorant of the fact that 1/487 is 3/1461 and that the number of
letters in a version of the Tanakh is the 366th number of a specific
cycle…
The most stunning fact of this part of the research is that all that
is written above came from the “other side”. I know that the fraction part of the number is 1/487 = 3/1461 because
every result of the division of a whole number by 365 ¼ is a whole number plus
a multiple of 1/1461. Had I encountered the string above first and tried to
derive number 487 from it, there would always be slight uncertainty in my
conclusions. The uncertainty that makes the sound doubts of the skeptic differ
from the optimism of the idiot?...
In many cases, I look at the matrices the programs yield as if they
are faces. Beauty and expressiveness are not dimensions and proportions only.
As I mentioned above, Hanukkah gave a matrix with “in year 5768” and “God with
us” terms at odds only about 50 % higher than the odds for the matrix with
Shavuot. Hanukkah is a highly respected and strictly observed festival in
Judaism. It lasts for a whole week, nights being predominantly the time for
activities. The space in the Hebrew article in Wikipedia devoted to Hanukkah (7
odd pages) is more than twice as much as the one devoted to Shavuot (3 pages). Therefore,
I decided to compare the respective matrices. See Figure 9.
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Figure 9. Which “face” is more “attractive”? The
matrix in the left is with Hanukkah (חנוכה), blue, at its lowest skip in the Torah, 3. The one in the
right is with Shavuot (שבועות), blue at -130 – the third lowest skip in the Torah. The odds
for the matrices differ little – had the left one been some 10 rows shorter,
they would be equal.
The “face” in the left is somewhat lifeless, static. The “face” in
the right is full of life and dynamic. Note how the 6 letters of Shavuot are
placed right over the 6 letters of “in 5768”. Looking at this “face”, I got the
impression that it has prepared especially for our meeting, putting make up and
even smiling…
Is everything dubbed Impossible in the Bible just Allegory?
Now, let us pay more attention to another aspect of the Bible codes
manifesting itself in this study: their emergent character.
An achievement in the recent years is the understanding that what we
can establish as physical laws are emergent
phenomena. That is, the
properties we observe in experiments are not preliminarily fixed or
predetermined, but emerge as an outcome of the interaction between all the
elements taking part in the phenomenon. Such understanding is correct because
what we actually observe in our experiments are effects caused by zillions of
tiniest particles. These effects are amplified
and averaged contribution of each one of them. In a word, the
physical law is manifestation of the “will” of the random basic element
multiplied incredibly large number of times. Similar to the election results estimated
as the free will of the average voter multiplied by the number of the electorate.
Indeed, both these processes and results thereof are characterized by the same
statistical data processing.
This undeniable success has been used by evolutionists to state (in
my opinion, unjustifiably) that there is no design. Not only everything emerges
as it is and we are all here by mere chance, they say. Perfection emerges out
of imperfection. On the other hand, any evolution in the future – be it human,
environment and wildlife, or universe – will be regulated by the basic forces
of interaction between the respective elements. There is no place for Creation
– everything kicks off from the Big Bang…
What the proponents of these ideas do not take into account is the feedback.
Although this is the word used in the description of the interactions, in fact
it should be “rebound”. Feedback implies making sense of the signal, i.e., thinking over it. In its turn, thinking
implies suggestions and hints. In this sense, every creative process involves computation.
We have seen so far that the result of a quantum computation, which is what our
brains perform, is emergent. It could be predicted to some extent, but the
exact outcome, up to unlimited accuracy, is unpredictable. This is particularly
well manifested in the sport activities and games. Indeed, even the best player
in whichever sport or game is not absolutely independent of his opponent. Every
next move is “hinted at” by the rival. The best striker cannot be certain when
will score, if at all, during the match, nor can the world chess champion say
in advance what will be his, say, 31st move in the next game if it would
keep on so far. The most we can know in advance is that the better is the
player the higher is the probability
that he will be the winner.
This phenomenon is subtler in scientific research. We do not have
rivals and opponents, but we need the same type of hints as in the games. I
hope that the reader has recognized the path of the code unveiling in this
study. The way is long and lasted for years. Had I not known Russian well
enough to link Mr. Medvedev’s surname with bear,
I may have never started this research. Had I not found recently God with us (עמנואל) in Deuteronomy 1, I
would never suggest any significance in the otherwise trivial occurrence of in year 5768 (בהתשסח) in the same chapter. Had
I not worked for years with the 2006
(תשרקתשרקו) term, I would be unaware
of the numerical coincidences discussed above.
These numerical coincidences uncover a new feature of the Bible
codes. When a program estimates that a matrix occurs against the odds of, say one
in a million in the Torah, this means that one should scan in average about one
million texts of the size of the Torah in order to obtain a similar matrix.
However, matrices possess the property of rapid increasing the odds for
occurrence with the enlargement of the text. The increase of the odds for
occurrence of any term at any skip within moderately enlarged text is drastic
because not only we will search for it in more space, but also because the
number of the skips in the longer texts is higher. At the dawn of the Bible
code research, every so often skeptics boasted about finding terms in Hebrew
texts outside the Bible. The supremacy of the Bible codes is not so much in the
impossibility to be found elsewhere, but in the fact that all of them have been
anticipated! For instance, the 2006 (תשרקתשרקו) term occurs in the Torah
against the chances of 1 in trillions (SD = 10.53). Within the about four times
longer text of the Tanakh, the estimation of the odds is billions of times
higher: one in 2 000 (SD = 3.34)! Therefore, if we scan, say, Encyclopedia
Britannica translated into Hebrew, it would not be a miracle if the term occurs
there, even more than once…
It is another matter, however, when we look for specific skip of a term. The
odds do not change so radically with the enlargement of the text. The standard
deviation of the occurrence of 2006 (תשרקתשרקו) at skip ±14 965 in
the Torah is… SD = 1 882.32! Within
the Tanakh, the SD value turned out to be 1 043.16.
Notice that I do not use the word odds,
chances, or probability here! My imagination is too feeble to grasp the
significance of this number! Even within the symmetric interval of one hundred
skip-values ±14 915 to ±15 015, SD
is above 100!
Standard deviation is a parameter linked to chances, but not
linearly. About two thirds (68 %) of a
set of normally distributed values are within one SD unit marked with the Greek
letter σ (sigma). This means that one third of the values is normally to
be found outside 1σ, or SD = 1. Only one of 20 values (5 %), however, is
outside SD = 2. Then, only 1 in 370 values is outside 3σ. Scientists
believe that 3σ is the limit of practicality. Further, the proportion of
the set outside each next σ unit decreases drastically. For instance,
there is only 1 in about 385 billions
(3.85 × 1011)
values that is outside SD = 7! The exponent order (red) is going ahead of the
SD-value (blue). Therefore, an SD about two thousand should define chances of 1
in 10 to the power of many thousands! We cannot even imagine such a number, I
dare say, because the number of all particles in our Universe is believed to be
of the order of 10100…
This study considers the significance of the skip-values of more
than one term. The 2006 term
especially should be within very narrow limits in order to make sense of the
findings. Therefore, let us estimate what are the chances to find it at this particular
skip value, ±14 965, outside the Bible. As I mentioned above, the odds for
occurrence in this case do not increase so rapidly. I found experimentally that
SD values decrease by a factor of about
1.345 every doubling the length of the text. (Strictly, this is valid as
long as the proportion of each letter constituting the term remains within the
new text the same as in the Tanakh, but the weight of this parameter is not of
decisive significance and we will ignore it.) Now, let us start with the value
for the Tanakh, SD = 1 043.16,
which we should bring down to a value that would not make research pointless.
For this purpose, we have to enlarge the new text. How much?
Let us establish a reasonable limit for the odds not less than 1 in
100. This corresponds to SD-value about 2.5. Therefore, the SD-value of about
1 000 must decrease to 2.5, which is 400 times. I will not bother the
reader with calculations. (See the Appendix for details.) The result is as
follows: We need more than a million
times larger text than the Tanakh in order to provide 1 in 100 chances for one
occurrence of the term 2006 (תשרקתשרקו) at skip ±14 965! A text of
such length should contain some 1.5
trillions of letters.
The Gospel of John ends with a very strange expression: Jesus did many other things as well. If
every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the
books that would be written. (21:25). It is interesting that the word John
uses for world is cosmos (κοσμοζ),
which implies physical world; the
word commonly used for the inhabited earth in the Gospels is oikoumenee
(οικουμενη). It has been thought
so far that this is just a strong eastern expression to emphasize the great
number of miracles the Lord Jesus did. In the light of the just discussed,
however, we could see that these words may have more literal meaning.
Another deep Connection between
Word and World
The Bible states that the Creation is one, brought to existence through the Word of God. This implies
closest connection between the Word of God and the physical world. Even in the
very first verse of the Bible, a special significance is ascribed to the Earth.
It has been believed for ages that this means that the Earth is in the
geometrical centre of the Universe. This misunderstanding has been in the core
of fierce disputes reflecting the naivety of the people that often mars the
clarity of His Word. Bible codes give us the opportunity to penetrate into this
profound character of the Truth embedded in every single word of God.
In a previous work of mine, I have discussed the numerical values of
the Hebrew letters expressed in the binary code. The table below contains the
numerical values expressed both in binary (center, shaded) and decimal (right) systems.
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Letter
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Numerical Value
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א
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000000001
|
001
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ב
|
000000010
|
002
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ג
|
000000011
|
003
|
|
ד
|
000000100
|
004
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ה
|
000000101
|
005
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ו
|
000000110
|
006
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|
ז
|
000000111
|
007
|
|
ח
|
000001000
|
008
|
|
ט
|
000001001
|
009
|
|
י
|
000001010
|
010
|
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כ
|
000010100
|
020
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ל
|
000011110
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030
|
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מ
|
000101000
|
040
|
|
נ
|
000110010
|
050
|
|
ס
|
000111100
|
060
|
|
ע
|
001000110
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070
|
|
פ
|
001010000
|
080
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צ
|
001011010
|
090
|
|
ק
|
001100100
|
100
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ר
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011001000
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200
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ש
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100101100
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300
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ת
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110010000
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400
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The expressions are in the format
necessary for any machine to recognize each entity. This format requires the
same number of the characters for every letter. The machine takes up the
entities in “chunks”, which should be of the same size. Therefore, the letters
corresponding to smaller numerical values contain some zeroes filling the space
to standardize the expression. The size of the binary chunks is 9 digits, while
the decimal chunks consist of 3 digits. These zeroes in both systems are in
regular characters. The significant digits are in bold characters.
There is a very interesting fact I managed to find with both
systems. The 0’s to all the other digits ratio in the column with decimal
expressions is 44/22
= 2/1 – the first two Fibonacci numbers. The ratio of
the zeroes to all the digits in this column is also a Fibonacci number: 44/66 =
2/3. I realized that the former
ratio will not change if we add or take out a letter, but the latter ratio is
valid for an alphabet consisting of 22
letters only!
I was intrigued and concentrated my attention on the shaded binary
column. In an earlier work, I saw that it contains 144 zeroes and 54 units. The
0’s to 1’s ratio is 144/54: exactly 8/3. These are two Fibonacci numbers
again! I checked how this ratio changes with the variation of the number of
letters in the alphabet. The phenomenon disappears immediately. I did not find
such a perfect ratio going several letters up and down and adhering to the rule
for assigning numerical values to the new members of the alphabet. Is this a
specific hint that the alphabet used for the writing of the Word of God is to
consist of 22 letters?
(The shaded column contains the formatted expressions of the real numerical values. It could be
compressed from 9-digit to 5-digit long format corresponding to the serial
number of the letters in the alphabet. In this case, however, there should be a
need of a special machine called converter
to translate the compressed expressions of the letters from kav (כ) to tav
(ת) into their real values.
For instance, the 5-digit binary expression for the 13th letter mem (מ), 01101
(13), should be converted into 101000
(40). The phenomenon of the ratio of two Fibonacci numbers is lost with the
compressed values. It occurs with the real values only.)
Such specific coincidences with Fibonacci ratios with both systems
seemed to me a specific hint. The ratio obtained with the binary code – the primary
code of the Universe – is surely pointing to a fundamental 8/3 ratio. What is
it?
Almost everything we experience all the time is a result of the
interaction between electrically charged particles. This interaction takes
place through electromagnetic communication through photons. The energy
spectrum of these spreads out from the highest in gamma-rays to the lowest in
radio waves. Chemical reactions and the stability of our buildings depend on
the strength of this interaction, which in most cases is invisible because these
interactions take place within space of infinitesimal size deep in the
structure of the atoms. We ourselves, up to the processes carried out in our
brains, are woven of these interactions between matter and light.
The effects of these interactions are determined by a constant that
does not change. It is the same within the protein molecule folding in a cell
in our body and in the telescope receiving a photon from a distant galaxy. This
constant is dimensionless. It depends on the speed of light, the value of the
elementary electric charge, the permittivity of the free space and the Planck’s
constant. It is called fine-structure constant. The value
of this constant cannot be derived or calculated. It is established
experimentally and what we know for certain is that had its value differed
slightly, our life would be impossible. The reciprocal value of this fundamental
constant, with sufficient accuracy for our purposes, is 137.036.
We have dealt with the number of the days in a terrestrial year: 365.25. This is also a dimensionless
constant! (This assertion may surprise some readers, but 365.25 is not a measure of time. It shows how many
times the Earth turns around itself while doing a complete turn around the
Sun.)
Now, the ratio 365.25/137.036
is very close to 8/3: 2.665358... The
ratio of the number of zeroes to that of the units in the formatted binary
numerical values of the Hebrew alphabet! The difference from the exact 8/3
value, 2.666666…., is less than 1 in 2 000!
Were the diurnal cycle only about 45 seconds (!) shorter in average, the value
would be exactly 8/3. This ratio is also dimensionless and does not depend on what
units we use for measuring of any physical parameter.
Does this fact point to a specific significance of the number of the
days in a year and hence to the uniqueness of the Earth? There are many studies
on the specific distance of the Earth from the Sun in respect of the quantity
of the energy falling on our planet. It is well known that had the diameter of the
orbit been slightly smaller or larger, the conditions on earth would become
extreme – too much hot or too much cold. However, the number of the days is
very important because it defines the amplitude of the daily temperatures and
the whole rhythm of life. Were the Earth turning too fast around itself, there
would be very little difference between night and day temperatures. Alternatively,
very long days would cause overheating and very long nights – freezing. In the
light of the value of the fine-structure constant defining the characteristics
of the matter in general and the chemical reactions in particular, it may
appear that the duration of the day – given the amount of energy incessantly received
by the system – is of importance for the most effective utilization of this
energy, which involves processes ruled by the fine-structure constant.
When should we stop Calculation?
How long could we continue a research? What could be the criterion
for obtaining the ultimate result? Who would be authorized to establish it?
We started the research with the accidental discovery of President
Medvedev code in the Torah confirmed by another very significant occurrence in
a version of the Tanakh. But the role of these codes turned out to be
auxiliary. They led us to the uncovering of the significance of the current year
5768 of the Jewish calendar with the specific suggestion of the importance of
the Feast of Shavuot. In the course of the study, we found several coincidences
approximating in accuracy exact 1-to-1 correspondences or fundamental ratios.
Although the classic computer we have used does not provide exact values, our
mind loads the findings with significance. We believe that generally, the smaller
are the deviations from the “ideal” values the higher is their significance.
The exact values of the deviations are of not of great importance for our
minds. What makes these results important and meaningful is the source
of the data. We believe that they are set encoded in the Word of God at the
Beginning! The source of the data and the generated feedback process is what
distinguishes the quantum computation – the way our brains work – from the
classic, deterministic path of computation.
The process of
quantum computation is a process ruled by economy. It consists of ruling out
the less likely answers and looking deeper into the remaining possibilities. I
believe that this process is very much like sieving. Interestingly, this simple
technique is used for the illustration of separation of the God’s chosen ones
from the rest of the people in the Bible. In an earlier study, I prepared a
picture illustrating the basic principles of the quantum computation with the
example of sieving. See Figure 10.
Figure 10. Separation of particles by sieving
illustrates some of the basic principles of quantum weirdness.
When do we stop sieving? When the efforts we put in for shaking the
sifter cease to pay back. When the number of the particles going through the
strain in each oscillation is too small and the quantity we gain becomes
insignificant. If we separate material that is not expensive, we do not bother
about few particles. But if we want to give the chance to the last particle of
size enabling it to go through the sieve because the material we separate is
very expensive, we will be careful and wouldn’t mind keeping on shaking a
number of times. To a strange observer, all this may seem useless and what we
do is inefficient, but if we are the operators, we decide when to stop. Even
so, there must be an end to the process of separation…
God Himself is the Operator of the process of separation taking
place for eons. As “particles” in this process, we hope to be among His chosen.
In relation to the evaluation of the process of separation, however, we are
strange observers. Therefore, the best we could do is to assess how close we
are to the end of this process. Based on the effectiveness so far, we can see
that there are not many shakings remaining. Exactly how many are they, is His
business and no-one’s else. Has He given us hints even in this aspect?
I have observed a strange recurrence of number ten in this study. The number of the days from the
liberation of Old Jerusalem to this year’s Shavuot is ten more than the skip value of the term 2006, 14 965. The number of the letters in the Tanakh is equal
to the number of the days in the years since the Torah was given to Moses minus ten years. The maximum skip value for any 9-letter term in the
Tanakh, 149 615 is almost exactly ten
times greater than the skip value of the occurrence of the 2006 term. Although at the time I found this term I believed it
signifies number/year AD 2006, the actual events I managed to discover encoded
in the Torah happened in AD 2007. Amazingly, the numerical value 2007 emerges from the 2006 value when the aleph on the top of the old 9-letter term, of value 1, is added,
thus turning it into a ten-letter
term…
When Abraham pleaded with the Lord
for Sodom, the last number he mentioned of righteous people possibly dwelling
there was ten (Gen. 18:32):
Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me
speak just once more. What if only ten
can be found there?”
He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
April 29th 2008
Sofia, Bulgaria
References
Note: All my studies can be read and downloaded
from the following pages: http://exodus2006.com/BibleCodes5.htm;
http://www.carelinks.net/booksandarticles.html;
http://80.189.248.54/BibleCodes/
and most of them, in pdf format, from http://ad2004.com/Biblecodes/Hebrewmatrix/Hebmatrix.html
and http://ad2004.com/Biblecodes/articles/articles.html
[1] The AD 2006 Torah Code: A Wonderful
Tale of a Comet
[2] A Strange Code about AD 2006 Discovered
in the Torah
[3] The Writing on the Wall and AD 2006: A
Lateral Approach to Code-Breaking
[4] The AD 2006 Code in the Torah and the
Time of the End: A Connection between a President of Israel and a Lord Jesus’
Allegory Pointing to 2007
[5] Torah: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah
[6] Egyptian calendar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar
; and Sothic cycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sothic_cycle
Contact Lyuben Piperov at: l_piperov@yahoo.co.uk
Appendix
Calculation of the Size of the Text ensuring 1
in 100 odds for the occurrence of the 2006 (תשרקתשרקו) term at skip
±14 965
The calculation
is logarithmic. We have to reduce the standard deviation from SD 1 043.16
down to 2.5. This means we have to cut it exactly 1 043.16/2.5 = 417.264 times. Keeping in mind that
every doubling of the text length reduces the SD-value by 1.345, we write down
the equation
1.345X = 417.264
To solve it, we have to take the logarithm
of both sides of the equation:
Xlog1.345 = log417.264
X 0.1287 = 2.620
X = 2.620/0.1287 = 20.357.
This means that
we have to double the text 20.357 times. That is, we have to rise 2 to the power 20.357:
220.357 = 1 343 056
We have to enlarge
the text 1 343 056 times.
Most versions of Tanakh consist of about 1 200 000 letters.
Therefore, multiplying this number by 1 343 000 we get the approximate
value of 1.6×1012, or 1.6 trillion letters, needed to ensure
1 in 100 chances for the occurrence of the 2006 (תשרקתשרקו) term at skip exactly ±14 965.
