gematria
Clothing of Geulah and Cosmic Friday's Mincha Gedolah
In the parsha podcast a few weeks ago, I mentioned the interesting point that when Yosef comes out of jail, he immediately receives a change of clothing, which is referred to as שמלות. Similarly, when Yosef finally reveals himself to his brothers, he gives them each a change of clothing – חליפות שמלות. This reference…
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After reading Shirat Devorah’s post about the gematria of Obama’s name coinciding with the gematria of דצ”ך עד”ש באח”ב, a little bell went off in my head, reminding me of what I saw in my rebbe’s book “Machat Shel Yad” (pp. 39-43). There Rabbi Frankel mentions that the matteh that Moshe used to perform all…
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The passuk uses the words “והיה ביום ההוא” in numerous places to refer to the time of Moshiach. On the surface these words are quite innocuous. The gematria of these words is 101, which would seem to be insignificant. It gets interesting when you break down the letters as follows: וי”ו ה”י יו”ד ה”י (והיה)…
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In the parsha this week, the passuk says the famous line: והיית אך שמח Interestingly, the gematria of the consecutive letters in bold is תשס”ט corresponding to the year 5769 that begins on the 30th day of September. Someone commented on the last gematria post that אליהו התשבי is also תשס”ט I also had mentioned…
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As I was saying the Kinos on Tisha B’av day, I was struck by something very interesting in the eighth Kinah. It goes like this:אילותי לעזרתי תרתי חזות, אימתי בכל שנה אומרת היא השנה הזאת, אידע לכל כי מודעת זאת, אם לא כי יד ה’ עשתה זאת The Artscroll translates:I seek to witness [the fulfillment…
Read More5768 & 5769 in gematria
The first few posts here are posts that originally appeared on Dreaming of Moshiach. In the Haggada, there’s a song at the very end, and I dont know who wrote it, but it seems he may have known something. it says:קרב יום אשר הוא לא יום ולא לילה the gematria of the bold is תשס”ח…
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