From: hayim@locus.com (Hayim Hendeles)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Discovery
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:30:13 GMT
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California

In article <1992Jul25.132815.9642@starbase.trincoll.edu> nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
>
>Someone wrote the other day asking for precise details.  He 
>will never get them.  He will ask for concrete examples of
>some of these spectacular findings.  He will never get them.
>	...

He can never get them if he doesn't want them, or if he is afraid
to see them. But if he is honest with himself, and would like to
see them, attend one of the Discovery seminars described in a
previous post.

>
>
>Norman Miller

If anyone is interested, there is an entire book filled of examples
on this topic. This book is called "Toras Chemed", it is written in
Hebrew, by Rabbi Weissmandel ZT"L --- long before they had computers.

There is a book, recently published in Israel, called "Meimad Hanosaf",
also in Hebrew, filled with examples (found via computers) about these
findings. This book does contain some formal mathematics. I have been
told that this work is currently being translated into English.

Aish Hatorah (found in many major cities) publishes a booklet filled
with the examples found with the use of codes. Please contact them
for your own copy - or better yet, attend one of their Discovery Seminars.
You will find it absolute fascinating and quite enjoyable.
(Most of their examples, however, were found via computers.)

I also have a formal mathematical paper written on this topic proving
that these findings are way beyond statistical randomness. This paper
has been reviewed by leading mathematicians world-wide, and even
convinced an honest hard-core Russian-athiest-mathematician to rethink
his beliefs, and return to his people. The top statistician in the
world, at Harvard University, has been trying unsuccesfully to disprove
this paper for the past several years. He has suggested numerous
controlled experiments but (unfortunately for him) all of these
experiments, when completed, just served as more evidence to the
original thesis that the Torah can only have been of Divine origin.

As far as concrete examples are concerned, the Aish Hatorah booklet
includes one remarkable example, where in the Chapter detailing the
Flood (which was the destruction of the World at that time), can be
found the names of all the chief Nazis along with references about
the concentration camps, gas chambers, and Jewish extermination.
Needless to say, complete references such as this cannot be found in
any other chapter in the entire Bible.

(Also, if my memory serves correctly, the exact Hebrew date which the
Torah describes as the End-of-the Flood, was the same date as the
end of World War II.)

If you want the exact references, please drop me a note.

Another example included in the booklet is a profound correlation
between some oddities found at the end of the Book of Esther (which we
read on Purim) describing the execution of 10 rabid Anit-semites
(Haman's sons) and the 10 Nazi war criminals killed after the Nuremberg
trials. Even more uncanny, is the last words uttered by Streicher (?,
one of the 10 Nazis) before he was hung, as reported by the New York
Times. His last words were "Purimfest", which according to the Times is
a reference to the Biblical story ...

This one, when presented in complete detail is enough to give you the
shivers - But I am reluctant to post the details for fear that I cannot
do justice to this one in a post - it really ought to be presented as
part of lecture.  It is worthwhile attending the Discovery seminar just
for this one alone.

Now you may enjoy the Aish Hatorah booklet more because it is replete
with modern-day historical examples, found via the computer.
But, personally I enjoy Rabbi Weissmandel's work more,
perhaps because it was done before they had computers. My favorite
example:

Maimonodies, is typically referred to as the RAMBAM, which is an
acronynm for his name. As most of you know, he had a MAJOR impact
on world Jewry. His magnum opus was the "Mishne Torah", which was
intended to be a complete summary of the entire Torah, including
both the Written and the Oral Law - encompassing all 613 mitzvot
found in the Torah.

Now, In Exodus 11:9, the verse reads "Rabos Moftai Beeretz Mitzrayim" -
I will accomplish great miracles in the land of Egypt. Nachmonodies
writes that this verse is a hint to the Rambam, for if you take the
first letter of each word it spells RaMBaM who indeed was a great
scholar who lived in Egypt.  Cute - but not earth shattering.
But start looking closer:

Begin with the letter "M" in Moftai. Count 50 letters, and you will
get a "Shin". Another 50 letters a "Nun", still another 50 you will
get a "Hei". Skip x letters (I'll come back to this later), and
you get a "Taf". Continuing this skip of 50 letters we get a "Vav",
"Reish", "Hei". Putting this all together gives us
"Mishne Torah", which was the Rambam's magnum opus.

What about the "x" letters skipped between the 2 words? It turns out
to be exactly 613 letters.

Hayim Hendeles