Copyright © Lyuben Piperov December 2007
The
AD 2006 Torah Code: A Wonderful Tale of a Comet
Lyuben Piperov
Abstract: Codes of high significance
about a comet spectacularly shown up recently and an occultation of a star – a
rare event – have been discovered in the Torah. In the course of research,
codes about the Messiah have been revealed too. Special attention has been paid
to semi-independent clusters of lower significance in larger matrices, which
obtain a very high significance when examined separately. The role of hints in
Bible code research has been discussed thoroughly. Although the code is
pointing unambiguously to events happening in AD 2007, its designation has been kept as AD 2006 because of the
post facto insight.
Introduction:
On 24th of October 2007, one of the strangest and most interesting events ever observed by astronomers started happening. Suddenly, within hours, a faint, obscure and lacking any importance comet increased its brightness by a factor of about a million. Such rapid increases in luminosity may have been observed with explosions of supernovae, but never with comets. Although unusual from scientific point of view, the event did not attract much public interest and had been superficially, if at all, covered by the media. I follow the news regularly, but I have missed this incident and, had not been invited to an anniversary celebration party for a Bulgarian astronomy magazine, I may have remained unaware of it forever. There, I happened to meet a young astronomer, who explained me enthusiastically his own observations and, being still impressed by the recent excitement spread all over the highly professional circles worldwide, introduced me to the specific features defining the event as an unusual one. For instance, its coma (the dust ball around the comet, meaning hair in Greek and giving the name of the objects as hairy stars) has made it for some time the largest visible object in the Solar system, exceeding in size even the Sun! Being an amateur astronomer myself, I realized at once that it is the most exciting and extraordinary event observed for many years and, in some aspects, even ever. Moreover, it happened in a year predicted to be astronomically “uninteresting”. Being an amateur Bible code researcher as well, I was puzzled by the unexpectedness of the event and intrigued about its significance. At that party, a name was mentioned most often and very easy to remember: the name of the British amateur astronomer, who first observed the comet, Edwin Holmes. He observed this comet on November 6th 1892. Therefore, his name is immortalized in the name of the comet [1]. His namesake, which everyone knows since his boyhood, has become the symbol of deductive reasoning, abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) and astute observation for solving knotty cases. And, strangely, which is also, as a matter of fact, the discovery’s coeval – “born” in 1887…
What are the facets that make this event so unusual? First, such spectacular outburst of a comet has never been observed before. Second, although the comet has increased enormously its brightness, there has been no visible disintegration and it seems that the core remains unbroken. No one has given a satisfying explanation of what and how has happened. Next, comet explosions occur when they are close to their perihelion – that is, the nearest point of the orbit to the Sun. According to the latest estimations, the comet Holmes has passed the perihelion on June 13 2007 – more than four months before the outburst. In terms of time, the comet was well away from the perihelion. However, its elliptical orbit is with relatively small eccentricity, (it measures how oblong is the orbit; no eccentricity means a circular orbit) and it never goes farther from the Sun than the orbit of Jupiter and closer to it than the orbit of Mars. The latest calculations of its periodicity give the value 6.9 years. Another somewhat unusual characteristic of the comet Holmes is the inclination of its orbit – over 19° - that is, the angle between the plane of the comet’s orbit and that of the Earth’s. This makes possible a position high in the night sky. Most comets, although spectacular shining objects, are invisible because the planes of their orbits are close to the plain of the Earth’s orbit. Therefore, while the comets are in their perihelion, the extremely bright sunshine dims the light coming from the comets. The latter could be observed usually for a short time after sunset or before sunrise, low above the horizon. Many comets have been unseen while dazzling, being spotted later, much dimmer themselves, but against more appropriate dark background. Therefore, by “climbing up” high above our heads, the comet Holmes made certain that it will not remain overlooked.
No one knows how long this 3.4 km sized body has circled unnoticed around the Sun. Comets are dim objects and they could be seen only within a short time, when they come close to the Sun. Even so, most comets are practically imperceptible by naked eye. The discovery of this particular comet happened in a period of rapid development and perfection of astronomical tools. Nonetheless, it would have hardly be observed had not two events coincided: the interest of the astronomer in a particular small zone in the sky and the rapid increase of the brightness in a way similar to what happened in October 2007, but on a smaller scale. Then, the comet increased its luminosity from 17 to the approximate magnitude of 4 or 5.[1]
After its discovery in 1892, it has been observed, as predicted, in 1899 and 1906. But during the next several decades, it “disappeared”. No one could spot it in the sky at the predicted time and in the expected place. Just after intense search, the US astronomer Elizabeth Roemer managed to see it again as late as in 1964. Since then, every next return has been observed aided by computer calculations [1]. The behaviour of the comet Holmes during these 115 years is a fantastic story in itself. As it became clear recently, its flashings when coming close to the perihelion are governed by “corrections” of the orbit carried out by the gravitational field of the massive planet Jupiter [2]. Apparently, the degree of the luminosity is proportional to the distance from the Sun at the point of perihelion, which has changed several times in a period of about a century. Thus, the instants of its showing up have been detailed in space and time in a way similar to the methods scientists have used to succeed in adjusting the trajectories of spacecrafts in this very century.
What does all this mean? Has the Creator used this comet to give us evidence of His Omnipotence? If so, were these timed illuminations intended just to humble our pride or there is a more profound meaning in them? Hasn’t the trajectory and composition of this celestial body, which, compared to the Earth is like a mustard seed compared in weight to largest watermelon or pumpkin, been set in the Beginning? Isn’t it a hint at the signs of the times, which the Lord God is giving us? If there is such a deeper meaning, it should be definitely hidden in His Word…
Who gave the Names to the Comets?
In ancient times, there were no telescopes, so the appearance of a comet was considered significant happening. The names of such comets had been linked to major events such as epidemics or wars. Later, after the invention of the optical telescope, the observation of a comet had been still a rare occasion and the name of the astronomer who first noticed it, was quite sufficient for its identification. The comet Halley is the best known example. In the course of time, however, the number of the comets increased dramatically and there were many systems invented to classify them. The system used previous to 1995 was complex [3]. The current system for designation of comets was introduced in 1995. According to it, the comet Holmes is comet 17P.
The letter, P, means that the comet is proven to be periodic. Number 17 has nothing to do with the magnitude 17 mentioned above. It signifies that the comet is the seventeenth comet ever proved to be periodic. A periodic comet receives a permanent number prefix after its second observed perihelion passage. Note that it does not contain the name of the discoverer. Currently, less than 200 periodic comets are known.
Number 17 is יז in Hebrew. P would be validly written as פ, the more so as one of the words for periodic(al) in Hebrew is פריודי. Therefore, I believe that the designation 17P should be translated into Hebrew as יזפ. I checked the Hebrew for Holmes. It appeared to be, as I expected, הולמס. Comet is a 4-letter word, שביט. I tried to find these three terms in a matrix with a main term תשרקתשרקו, 2006, with which I managed to find several significant codes since the summer of 2004. The term 2006 occurs in the Torah against infinitesimal odds, so I set the parameters accordingly and tried with the three terms. Even the very first matrix, which the computer displayed, using the CodeFinder program, astonished me. See Figure 1.
Figure 1. 17P (יזפ) at skip 4 and the main term at skip 14 965.
My astonishment was provoked not so much by the chance in favour of significance of this small matrix. It is impressive indeed, less than 1 in 20 000, but no experienced Bible code researcher would find it extraordinary. In addition, there was still no trace of the other two words. I was surprised to see the only occurrence of this three-letter term touching the main term, although I have allowed for a matrix containing 220 columns and the skip setting up to ±20! There are over 130 occurrences of יזפ within this skip interval in the Torah, but no other occurrence happened to fall within a rectangle 21 rows high and extending over 110 columns to the left and as many to the right from the main term in the centre. I firmly believe that the absence of a term could be not less significant than its presence.
Apart from being amazed, I was also deeply intrigued. 17P יזפ appeared to be a hit just because it happened that the comet Holmes is the seventeenth discovered comet proven to be periodic. But what if it were the 16th, or 18th? Unlike giving a name to a newborn baby in a family by his or her parents, the name 17P is a result of internationally established procedure combined with the exclusive circumstances leading to its first observation in the night sky above Britain and the establishment of its periodicity in the early twentieth century. If the former depends on human will, even the wills of many people, the latter is a sheer blind chance. Therefore, I decided to check for all three-letter terms 11P to 19P. I set skip values -4 to 4 for the terms corresponding to the skip 4 of 17P or less and ran the program. The result is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. 17P (יזפ), four occurrences of 11P (יאפ) and one occurrence of 12P (יבפ) and 18P (יחפ) at
skips -4 to 4 and the main term at skip 14 965.
Term Translation Skip R Factor (in
Matrix) Start End
תשרקתשרקו2006 14965 2,253 4,614 Exodus
38:31.36 Deuteronomy 4:19.86
יאפ 11P 2 -2,247 0,115 Genesis
32:31.36 Genesis 32:31.40
יאפ 11P -3 -2,423 -0,061 Genesis
32:31.23 Genesis 32:31.17
יאפ 11P -3 -2,423 -0,061 Genesis
50:25.34 Genesis 50:25.28
יאפ 11P -4 -2,548 -0,186 Genesis
32:31.42 Genesis 32:31.34
יבפ 12P -3 -2,204 0,158 Genesis
50:25.15 Genesis 50:25.9
יזפ 17P 4 -1,457 0,904 Leviticus
16:30.4 Leviticus 16:30.12
יחפ 18P 4 -1,972 0,390 Leviticus
26:8.46 Leviticus 26:9.2
The ELS reference is 14965 characters between rows.
There are 8 displayed terms in the matrix.
The matrix starts at Genesis 32:30.7 and ends at Deuteronomy 4:20.18.
The matrix spans 209598 characters of the surface text.
The matrix has 15 rows, is 88 columns wide and contains a
total of 1320 characters.
There are 5 significant
terms in the matrix
The matrix odds
are 1 chance in 6594,951 in favour of significance.
The cumulative
‘R’ Factor for the displayed matrix is 3,819.
The matrix and the report present few eloquent facts. First, the report provides evidence that no other term present in the matrix would have higher significance even if “moved” closer to the main term. The main term, 2006, and 17P “make” 3,157 of the overall value of the R-Factor, 3,819. This means that these two terms would have significance well below 1 in a thousand even in the enlarged matrix. I tried with even more columns and modified the matrix by removing all insignificant terms, but except for two occurrences of 12P (יבפ) at skips -1 and -3, nothing interesting occurred. Even so, 17P retained the highest R-Factor besides the main term.
The second fact is also very interesting. In the column in the field to the left of the matrix and below its lower border in Figure 2 is the list of all the examined terms. The figures to the right of each one, in brackets, are the actual numbers of occurrences and the expected numbers of occurrences divided by a forward slash. Note that most of the terms occur rarer than expected. The only exceptions are 15P (טופ), 16P (טזפ) and 19P (יטפ). (I performed a special search for 15P (טופ) and 16P (טזפ) because of their lower number of expected occurrences allowing for much larger skips but obtained no significant occurrence.) Due to the high values of both the expected and the actual numbers of occurrences, 12P (יבפ) shows highest deviation from normal distribution in terms of statistical significance. However, as a proportion of the expected number, the actual number of occurrences is lowest for 17P (יזפ): 59.3 %. At these low skips, this fact means that such close occurrence of י, ז and פ at small equal intervals is untypical for Hebrew language. Moreover, because the calculations of odds the program performs are based on the expected number of occurrences, it also means that the real significance of the picture in Figure 1 is much higher. There is certainly something very special in this occurrence of 17P in immediate proximity to the main term…
How useful could be Analytical
Chemistry in Bible Code research?
I immediately realized that 17P (יזפ) falls in the small area full of terms I have found in my earlier works. One particular zone contained terms that refer to shining and light [4]. It was while writing that article in the summer of 2005, when I spotted the diagonal term רמז, meaning hint. Then, I did not pay attention to the lamed before it, which means for, thus enlarging the term to the four-letter לרמז, for hint, allusion, inkling, etc.
There is also light, אור, at skip -1. One of the terms that I remember finding most intriguing was יזרח at skip exactly three times that of the main term: 44 895. Then, I linked it with Isaiah 60:2: …but the Lord shall arise upon you and His glory shall be seen upon you. The word designates rising of sun or other celestial objects as well (Job 9:7). I added more words meaning illumination, radiance, etc. and ran the program. The result exceeded all my expectations! See Figure 3.
Figure 3. Statistically significant terms 17P (יזפ), Light (אור) and
Splendour (זוהר) and
the statistically insignificant “for hint” (לרמז), (He) rises/will rise (יזרח) and “to see” (חזה) with the main term 2006 at skip 14965. The significant terms –
the top three in the list to the left – have been sought within the interval
±(their skip value in the matrix).
Term Translation Skip R Factor (in
Matrix) Start End
תשרקתשרקו 2006 14965 2,253 5,506 Exodus 38:31.36 Deuteronomy 4:19.86
יזפ 17P 4 -1,457 1,796 Leviticus
16:30.4 Leviticus 16:30.12
אור Light -1 -2,508 0,745 Exodus 38:31.31 Exodus 38:31.29
זוהר Splendour, Radiance -3 -0,859 2,394 Leviticus 8:34.13 Leviticus 8:34.4
לרמז For Hint 14966 -4,325 -1,071 Exodus 29:42.25 Leviticus 16:30.8
יזרח (He) rises/will rise 44895 -4,348 -1,095 Exodus 29:42.28 Deuteronomy 4:19.81
חזה To
watch, to look at, to see 29934 -5,411 -2,158 Exodus 38:31.27 Numbers 6:14.52
The ELS
reference is 14965 characters between rows.
There are 7 displayed
terms in the matrix.
The matrix
starts at Exodus 29:42.24 and ends at Deuteronomy 4:19.93.
The matrix
spans 134702 characters of the surface text.
The matrix has
10 rows, is 17 columns wide and contains a total of 170 characters.
There are 4 significant
terms in the matrix
The matrix odds
are 1 chance in 15423227,104 in favour of significance.
The cumulative
‘R’ Factor for the displayed matrix is 7,188.
The matrix odds are below 1 in 15 millions! What is more surprising is that in this matrix, as seen in the list in the left in Figure 3, all significant terms occur at lower frequencies in the Torah than expected! I was surprised to see splendour (זוהר), zohar, with such high significance. Then I realized that splendour, or radiance, is the most appropriate word for emphasizing the uniqueness of the recent event in the Northern sky. Looking at the matrix, I comprehended something that would have never come up to my mind back in 2005. Then, I was seeing in the main term the number 2006 and nothing else. But let us pay more attention to the statistically insignificant terms in the matrix. Both (he) rises (יזרח) and for hint (לרמז) intersect the zayin ז in 17P and both terms add one row on the top of the matrix. Therefore, the numerical value of the column containing the main term increases by 1 – the numerical value of aleph א - and becomes 2006 + 1 = 2007.
Moreover, I managed to find another three-letter term, חזה (pronounced probably khaza), a verb used many times in the Bible. Its primary meaning is seeing spiritually, perceiving and understanding [5]. It occurs for the first time in Exodus 24:11, when the [seventy] nobles of the people of Israel saw (ויחזו) God, and ate and drank at the Mount Sinai. This word occurs most often in the book of Daniel, where it refers to the visions the prophet saw. As noun, it designates seer. It occurs in Isaiah 47:13 where, in combination with כוכב (kohav = star; masculine in Hebrew!), it forms stargazer. I wouldn’t have paid so much attention to this word had it not shared the letter zayin ז with 17P, hint and (he) will rise. Although the programs assess such occurrence as statistically insignificant, it occurs within a small area and emphasizes the specific clustering around this relatively rare Hebrew letter. (Interestingly, the numerical value of zayin ז is 7. Isn’t this an additional hint that the encoded events are to happen in the seventh year of a millennium?)
This cluster reminded me of the characteristic location of atoms in a molecule. A molecule is not just a heap of particles, but possesses a structure. Same atoms could arrange in different ways, so that they will form molecules differing significantly in their properties – the so-called isomers. Therefore, there are two facets of the composition of a chemical substance: the overall number of atoms of each element (that is, their quantity) and their participation in specific groups. A nitrogen atom could be the basic atom of an amino group, but it could be included in a structure that is disparate in its properties from amino group. An oxygen atom could be a part of a hydroxyl group as in alcohol, a part of a carboxyl group as in acetic acid, etc. These groups are so much specific, that they could be recognized even if “attached” to moieties differing vastly in their own, independent characteristics. This is possible because such clusters, although included in larger clusters retain their vibration frequencies practically unaffected. In reality, this phenomenon may, say, show up as light absorption at definite wavelengths. The phenomenon is so specific and the test method is so precise and exact, that makes possible identification of chemicals at the other end of the Universe.
Therefore, analogously to a chemical examination, I decided to carry out an independent analysis of the cluster containing the statistically insignificant terms in Figure 3. For this purpose, I chose for hint (לרמז) as a main term and carried out a search within the interval -15 000 to 15 000. There appeared to be over 20 000 occurrences in the Torah. I set a specific rule: take into account those occurrences only, which intersect both light (אור) at skip ±1 in resh and 17P (יזפ) at skip up to ±4 in zayin. Besides our group, only one similar group occurred at skip 11 949, with lower odds due mainly to the shorter skip of יזפ: -3. However, it is close to the end of the Torah and there are no occurrences of higher significance than in our matrix of splendour (זוהר) or any one of the other two statistically insignificant terms present in our matrix. Both matrices with substantial quantity of contiguous text are shown for comparison in Figure 4.
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Figure 4. The only two occurrences of double
intersection of Light (אור) and
17P (יזפ) with the main term “for hint” (לרמז) at skips up to ±15000. The odds for the one above (skip 11949)
are 1 in about 17000. The one below is the group in our main matrix, at skip
14966, with odds 1 in about 7800.
As we see, only two out of few thousands of occurrences of “For hint” (לרמז) pass the test. These results prove the considerable meaning of the terms in the cluster in our main matrix, which is independent of the main term, 2006. I evaluated the finding as a justification for the search for the encoded event within the year AD 2007. However, I decided to keep on using the “old” term 2006 in the presentations henceforth as I did in my earlier work from the summer, when I found encoded the election of Mr. Shimon Peres as President of Israel [6]. The codes we will see later occur at such infinitesimal odds that the least they need is inflation of significance.
Ferreting about for the Greatest
Sleuth’s Namesake
At the skip of the main term, תשרקתשרקו, the text of the Torah forms a band of only 20 to 21 rows. If we split the rows in half, we will double the width of the band. Moreover, we will decrease twice the skip of the new matrix and, knowing that the lower is the skip of the term the higher is the significance of its occurrence, we could hope to obtain something valuable. Then we could split the rows in three, four, etc., each time allowing more occurrences in the widening band. It was something of this sort I expected to happen with comet (שביט) and especially with the 5-letter Holmes (הולמס). What I saw in the screen, however, even after the first step of splitting, stunned me! Holmes entered at skip 1, the only occurrence in the Torah at this skip, close to the main term! See Figure 5.
Figure 5. Holmes (הולמס) at skip 1 and 17P (יזפ) at skip 4 with the main term. The skip of the matrix is 7483.
Term Translation Skip R Factor (in
Matrix) Start End
תשרקתשרקו -2006 14965 2,253 4,974 Exodus 38:31.36 Deuteronomy 4:19.86
יזפ 17P 4 -1,457 1,264 Leviticus
16:30.4 Leviticus 16:30.12
הולמס Holmes 1 0,000 2,722 Numbers
10:2.43 Numbers 10:2.47
The ELS reference is 7483 characters between rows.
There are 3 displayed terms in the matrix.
The matrix starts at Exodus 38:31.25 and ends at Deuteronomy 4:20.3.
The matrix spans 119762 characters of the surface text.
The matrix has 17 rows, is 34 columns wide and contains a
total of 578 characters.
There are 3 significant terms in the matrix
The matrix odds are 1 chance in 1733803,998 in favour of significance.
The cumulative ‘R’ Factor for the displayed matrix is 6,239.
We have found encoded the full name of the comet, 17P/Holmes, exactly as astronomers designate it, picturesquely presented, even with the main term as a forward slash, in Hebrew! The odds are well below 1 in a million! I did not expect such tremendous confirmation of the genuineness of the code! However, something was still puzzling me… Where is the comet? If the occurrence of 17P/Holmes in a small area is very significant, not less significant, in my opinion, was the absence of the term “comet” (שביט). I went on searching, but it did not occur within the next several attempts. Finally, it occurred after the eight splitting, at skip -7. Even so, the occurrence was rather disappointing – the matrix had enlarged so much so far that the significance of the occurrence is balanced by the reduction of the significance of the other terms and the cumulative ‘R’ Factor turned out to be lower! (See the report below.)
Term Translation Skip R Factor (in
Matrix) Start End
תשרקתשרקו 2006 14965 2,253 4,343 Exodus 38:31.36 Deuteronomy 4:19.86
יזפ 17P 4 -1,457 0,632 Leviticus
16:30.4 Leviticus 16:30.12
הולמס Holmes 1 0,000 2,090 Numbers
10:2.43 Numbers 10:2.47
שביט Comet -7 -0,855 1,235 Numbers
11:8.34 Numbers 11:8.13
The ELS reference is 1871 characters between rows.
There are 4 displayed terms in the matrix.
The matrix starts at Exodus 38:31.12 and ends at Deuteronomy 4:20.10.
The matrix spans 119782 characters of the surface text.
The matrix has 65 rows, is 38 columns wide and contains a
total of 2470 characters.
There are 4 significant terms in the matrix
The matrix odds are 1 chance in 1621810,097 in favour of
significance.
The cumulative ‘R’ Factor for the displayed matrix is 6,210.
I was very much perplexed. It was clear that there is a code! Why the “comet” was not significantly there? In addition, I could not find a significant occurrence of any one of the words for explosion I have tried with. Then I recalled that the astronomers were also puzzled by the comet’s behaviour. In fact, the comet did not manifest a typical explosion – its core remained intact… As it remained intact when spotted for the first time by Mr. Holmes… It had to return periodically… The period has changed several times and at present it is 6.9 years…
Were it exactly seven years, the value should be expressed with the same accuracy as 7.0 years. Taking away the decimal point, we get 69 and 70. I have always linked these numbers to Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy, which is clearly divided into periods summing up to 69 weeks and 1 separate week. However, now we have years, not weeks! Knowing that a year consists of 365.25 days (astronomers use exactly this value!), I calculated in my mind that 69/70 of this number is approximately 360. I checked the ratio in the calculator and it appeared to be 360.032. Thus, 360.0 are well within the accuracy of determination of the period. But 360 is the number of days in a prophetic year! What a hint could be this value but to look for prophetic aspects? Indeed, the period of the comet 17P/Holmes turned out to be exactly seven prophetic years!
I had to rethink my plans. The codes found so far meant that there is something even more profound in this astronomical event. I defined the main term, תשרקתשרקו (2006), almost exactly three and a half years ago, in the summer of 2004. It was an attempt to combine the numerical value of the number corresponding to the year, which is characteristic for the Roman chronology, and the clear distinction of each millennium indicated by the corresponding letter in alphabetical order in the Hebrew system. However, I started feeling that time has come to explore the comet Holmes code deeper using the Hebrew date system. I tried with the year of discovery. November 6/7 1892 corresponds to 16/17 Heshvan 5653. The full expression of the year 5653 is התרנג. Heshvan is חשון. I managed to find occurrences at odds below one in a million. One of them was even with in Heshvan, בחשון. But in this particular case, the year was missing. Playing with the Row Splitting option, I obtained few matrices, but never had all significant items clustered together. When date components were present, Holmes was missing and vice versa. Then I tried with the current Hebrew year, 5768 תשסח(ה). I managed to find significant occurrence with the concise expression, but the overall behaviour of the clusters was similar to the abovementioned. Sometimes comet (שביט) occurred, but I was unsatisfied with the results. There were also splendour and hint flickering there…
I was close to the limit offered by the CodeFinder program when suddenly, at the tenth Row Splitting, almost all terms showed up in a matrix at odds that stunned me! See Figure 6.
Figure 6. 17P/Holmes, splendour, hint, years, months
and The/His Star.
Term Translation Skip R
Factor (in Matrix) Start End
תשרקתשרקו 2006 14965 2,253 3,855 Exodus 38:31.36 Deuteronomy 4:19.86
יזפ 17P 4 -1,457 0,145 Leviticus
16:30.4 Leviticus
16:30.12
הולמס Holmes 1 0,000 1,602 Numbers
10:2.43 Numbers 10:2.47
התרנג 5653 =
1892/3 10 0,201 1,803 Numbers
1:51.49 Numbers 1:52.30
תשסח (5)768 = 2007/8 9 -0,370 1,232 Deuteronomy
16:8.43 Deuteronomy 16:9.19
חשונ Heshvan 1 -0,903 0,699 Numbers
4:10.28 Numbers 4:10.31
חשונ Heshvan 1 -0,903 0,699 Numbers
7:17.59 Numbers 7:17.62
כסלו Kislev 1 0,000 1,602 Numbers
34:21.17 Numbers 34:21.20
זוהר Splendour -3 -0,859 0,743 Leviticus
8:34.13 Leviticus
8:34.4
זוהר Splendour -5 -1,081 0,521 Exodus 38:3.37 Exodus 38:3.22
רמז Hint -1 -1,333 0,269 Leviticus
25:3.24 Leviticus
25:3.22
רמז Hint -1 -1,333 0,269 Deuteronomy
14:5.30 Deuteronomy 14:5.28
הכוכבו The/His Star -2 1,032 2,634 Deuteronomy
24:13.44 Deuteronomy 24:13.34
The ELS reference is 1497 characters between rows.
There are 13 displayed terms in the matrix.
The matrix starts at Exodus 38:2.20 and ends at Deuteronomy 24:14.4.
The matrix spans 151271 characters of the surface text.
The matrix has 102 rows, is 74 columns wide and contains
a total of 7548 characters.
There are 13 significant
terms in the matrix
The matrix odds
are 1 chance in 295550980787534,165 in favour of significance.
The cumulative
‘R’ Factor for the displayed matrix is 14,471.
Before comments of the shocking odds, I owe some explanations. There are two “new” terms in the matrix. These are the Star (כוכב) and Kislev (כסלו), which is the Hebrew month following Heshvan – usually November-December. I searched for star because comet doggedly refused to align with the other terms. Had it occurred at significant odds, the thought of trying with star would possibly have never come up to my mind. As for Kislev, I inserted the term in the list because I had in mind another significant event that happened within this month, in the current year. I found also the month Tevet (טבת) at skip -1, with some significance. However, although this is the current month (December-January) and the comet certainly will continue to be an object of intense observation, I decided not to include it in the list: first, because I found it post facto and second, because I do not believe that the Bible codes could be and/or should be used for predictions. The events I found encoded in the Torah had already occurred at the time of the beginning of the search.
The matrix odds are 1 in about 300 trillions! We can hardly get a real perception of how infinitesimal this number is. 300 trillions is the mean diameter of the Earth’s orbit – that is, twice the distance to the Sun – expressed in millimeters! However, the matrix is remarkable with other amazing features as well. In width, it stretches from Holmes (left) to 5653 = 1892/3 (right). These two terms are linked within the frame of a historical event: the time of the discovery of the comet and the person who did it. In height, the matrix stretches from The/His Star in the bottom to Splendour/Radiance on the top! This is another pair of terms in strong semantic connection. In addition, the matrix consists of 102 rows. Now, 102 years is the period from the discovery of the comet (November 1892) to the time of its designation as 17P (official from January 1 1995; the system has been approved during the 22nd General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union held in August 1994).
All this shows why I inserted in the list the term hint (רמז). This term was used by the ancient Jewish sages to define a higher level of wisdom in the Word of God. Its original implication has been hinting at different meanings of a term emerging from variations in vowelization or word breaks [7]. In this research, the term has helped me very much so far and I found it useful and continuing hinting in the course of the search. In the matrix above, it hints at something even deeper.
Note something very interesting in the repeating of some terms. First, the term for hint occurs twice in the matrix at the same skip, -1. Splendour/Radiance (זוהר) also occurs twice! Finally, the month Heshvan (חשון) appears twice in the matrix – at the same skip of 1! Amazingly, this duplication corresponds to the reality even in the details! The comet was discovered in the month of Heshvan in 1892 and now again attracted the attention of the astronomers in the month of Heshvan – its outburst occurred in the end of October 2007. In both cases, it increased its brightness very much. Therefore, there is a good reason for the repeated occurrence of Splendour/Radiance. Even the absolute values – 3 and 5 – of the skips denote the difference in the brightness: it was of magnitude between 4 and 5 at the time of discovery, while the recent outburst was estimated as increasing the brightness up to magnitude between 2 and 3! The comet became easily visible and was a “new” yellow “star” among the brightest stars in the constellation Perseus. Now it is time to see why the month Kislev is in the matrix…
A Celestial Couple amuse themselves
tossing a Comet
The party I mentioned above took place in the evening of November 19. The young enthusiasts hoped that they could show us the remarkable event happening almost right above our heads. It was worth watching indeed. They had prepared the telescopes and the cameras and picked up a good spot for observation. Alas, almost all Bulgaria was overcast for several days. Our wish for watching the event was so strong that we even went out in open air later in the night to see if the clouds had dispersed. But to our deepest displeasure, cold rain was drizzling and we could do nothing but to pour more red Bulgarian country wine in our glasses and to continue the interesting conversation enjoying the Mavrud and the delicious Chinese cuisine in the cozy China restaurant in downtown Sofia hoping that someone somewhere else in the Northern hemisphere will be luckier that night.
The event we missed was the occultation of the brightest star in the constellation Perseus. Officially, it is designated as Alpha Persei. However, as most of the brightest stars, especially in the Northern celestial hemisphere, it has either a Greek or an Arabic name. This particular star has even two names: Mirfak (some spellings Merfak) and Algenib [8]. Algenib is a name of other stars as well, in different constellations, so its use could bring some confusion. The astronomers gave currency to Mirfak and this was the name I remembered from the talk. Later, I saw that this is the name used in the net. This was probably the name of a celestial object that was uttered most often within the last few months, along with the comet Holmes, of course…
Perseus is a mythical, but probably a semi-historical, character, a hero who had killed the infamous monster Medusa by cutting her head. An interesting aspect of Medusa’s character is that whoever happened to look at her, died at once petrifying - a very strange reciprocity to the bronze serpent on the pole (Numbers 21:4-9). Although a Greek hero, there is a proposition that the name is of Semitic origin. Greeks believed that it means “destroyer”, “slayer” and the Semitic root PRS (פרס) means just this – to cut, to divide [9].
This name, Perseus, intrigued me mostly. It reminded me of the surname of Mr. Shimon Peres, about whom I managed to find a code in the Torah pointing to his election as President of Israel, in this very year, 2007! There are coincidences even in the details: Mr. Peres’ election took place on June 13 2007, on the same day when the comet Holmes passed its perihelion! In fact, it was one of the motives to carry out this study. This coincidence was an additional hint that the 2006 code “extends” to the end of the current year 2007. Amazingly, it is the term remez that persistently hints to the joining of the aleph immediately above the “old’ 2006 term with it, thus making the numerical value of the extended, 10-letter term 2007 – right in accordance with the function the Jewish sages would expect.
I knew very well, of course, that PRS (פרס) is in the matrix – it occurs twice at skip -8. I had to check for the full name of Perseus in Hebrew. I could not find it as the name of the constellation, but found it in the article on the mythological character. It appeared to be פרסאוס. I had the old matrices in hand, so I decided to check manually. The one in the left failed at once. The term in the right had the right letter, א, eight places further. My heart started beating violently. Then, another eight places to the right, was ו! The adrenaline level in my blood could certainly break into pieces any measuring device… But then the frustration came… the letter eight places further was not samech… I sobered down and realized that I want too much. Samech ס is one of the rarest letters in Biblical Hebrew and פרסאוס occurs only seven times in the Torah, the lowest skip being 1765.
Anyway, astronomers rarely use the full name of the constellations. A system has been developed for designating each one of the 88 constellations with a three-letter code. It is usually the first three letters of the name – in our case, Per. In Hebrew, these three letters should be פרס, naturally. In this case, we have already got the encoded name of the constellation in our matrix, with good significance at that. So I turned to the star, Mirfak. It turned out that the name is Arabic and means elbow. Knowing that Arabic and Hebrew are “cousins”, I supposed that the Hebrew word will be close to the Arabic one. In fact, it appeared to be the same – in pronunciation. It is a four letter word: מרפק. I tried allowing for large skips, but to my amazement, it occurred at skip 1 – along with 17P and Holmes! Although at skip 1, it does not mean elbow. This word never occurs in the Bible.
Then I checked for the Hebrew term for occultation. It is a five-letter word, used specifically in astronomy: ליקוי, which means also blemish, deficiency and flaw. It also occurred in the same matrix at skip 3 – the lowest in the Torah! I was looking astonished the terms in the matrix and the only thought that came up to my mind – and I am sure it would come up to anyone’s mind while looking at it – was miracle! I had to pick up the word for miracle and decided that the most appropriate one would be mofet (מופת) – the word designating also sign, wonder. This is what I found in [10] about this word, under the title Wonder:
מופת m. a miracle, a prodigy, from יפת to persuade. Spoken chiefly of miracles, wonders,
exhibited by God and his messengers to produce conviction; often joined with
signs. Since prodigies were accounted as tokens of divine authority, this word
also signifies a sign, token, proof, e.g.
of the divine protection, and of the divine justice in punishing the wicked. Spoken
also of a sign given by a prophet in confirmation of his prediction or promise.
A sign of something future, a portent, omen: Isa. 8:18; 20:3; Zech. 3:8.
This word used the Lord when encouraged Moses and Aaron while sending them to stand before the Pharaoh (Exodus 4:21; 7:3 and elsewhere).
מופת occurred four times in our matrix – fully within the frame formed by the other terms! I checked this matrix by changing the settings several times, but every new matrix, which extended to include more occurrences, appeared to be of lesser significance. See Figure 7 and the report below.
