Isaiah - ישעיהו

57.15

For thus says the High and Exalted One Though I may inhabit eternity and holiness and whose Exalted Name is Holiness [know that] I dwell with the despondent and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the despondent

כִּי כֹה אָמַר רָם וְנִשָּׂא שֹׁכֵן עַד וְקָדוֹשׁ שְׁמוֹ מָרוֹם וְקָדוֹשׁ

אֶשְׁכּוֹן וְאֶת דַּכָּא וּשְׁפַל רוּחַ לְהַחֲיוֹת רוּחַ שְׁפָלִים וּלְהַחֲיוֹת לֵב נִדְכָּאִים

5995=28=10=1

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For thus says the High and Exalted One

כִּי כֹה אָמַר רָם וְנִשָּׂא

1453+5 words=1458=18 (Mem 600)

 Though I may inhabit eternity and holiness and whose Exalted Name is Holiness

שֹׁכֵן עַד וְקָדוֹשׁ שְׁמוֹ מָרוֹם וְקָדוֹשׁ

1908=18

3118+6 words=3124=10=1(Mem 600)

 [Know that - דע ]

I dwell with the despondent and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the despondent

אֶשְׁכּוֹן וְאֶת דַּכָּא וּשְׁפַל רוּחַ לְהַחֲיוֹת רוּחַ שְׁפָלִים וּלְהַחֲיוֹת לֵב נִדְכָּאִים

3194=17=8 or + 11 words=3115=10=1

This is the Torah of "Hai"- חַי18.

D'varim 28.6

 דברים 28.8

.Blessed shall you be when you come in,

and blessed shall you be when you go out

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה בְּבֹאֶךָ וּבָרוּךְ אַתָּה בְּצֵאתֶךָ 

1812+6 words=1818=18

The verse can be divided so:

·         Blessed shall you be when you come in- בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה  בְּבֹאֶךָ(659+3 words=662=14=8 or 1619=17=8 counting final Kafs as 500);

·         And blessed shall you be when you go out-וּבָרוּךְ אַתָּה בְּצֵאתֶךָ (1153=10=1 or 2113+ 3 words=2116=10=1 counting final Kafs as 500).

Rashi comments here that the verse relates to your parting from this world that it should be like your entry- without sin (Baba Metzia 107.a).

 Your coming in-    בֹאֶךָ =503 =           8

  Your going out-  צֵאתֶךָ =991=19=10=1

1494=18 

(Kafs 500)

D'Varim 11.4

 דברים 11.4

The Destruction of Evil-Till This Very Day

4.’And what He did to the army of Egypt; to its horses and to its riders, how He flooded the waters of the Reed-Sea over them as they pursued after you, and Hashem caused their destruction until this very day-וַאֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה לְחֵיל מִצְרַיִם לְסוּסָיו וּלְרִכְבּוֹ אֲשֶׁר הֵצִיף אֶת מֵי יַם סוּף עַל פְּנֵיהֶם בְּרָדְפָם אַחֲרֵיכֶם וַיְאַבְּדֵם יְהוָה עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה(4240=10=1 or 9600+21 words=9621=18 counting final Pehs and Mems as 800 and 600).

The number 4240 is 10 fold the number 424:

 Mashiach son of David

 מָשִׁיחַ בֶּן דָּוִד

424=10=1

This teaches us that the destruction of all the enemies of Israel at the End of Days- "until this very day"- עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה will be 10 times as powerful as the destruction of the Egyptians at the time of the Redemption from Egypt. The Torah of Mashiach will tear apart the entire world political-economic system based on lies and corruption in order to replace it with one based on Torah/Truth to the benefit of all Mankind in the Messianic era.  

The words "until this very day"- עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּהalso teach us that the words of this passage are relevant to all times and to the time of the defeat of the enemies of Israel at the time of the Final Redemption. The words "waters of the Reed-Sea"- מֵי יַם סוּף can be understood as "waters of Jerusalem End"- מֵי י"ם סוֹף.The enemies of Israel will be destroyed when they come to wage war on Jerusalem at the End of Days.

Intermarriage

הִתְבּוֹלְלוּת

D'varim 7.4

 דברים 7.4

4.’For he will turn away your son from following Me, and they shall serve other gods, and the anger of Hashem shall be inflamed against you, and He will destroy you quickly-כִּי יָסִיר אֶת בִּנְךָ מֵאַחֲרַי וְעָבְדוּ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים וְחָרָה אַף יְהוָה בָּכֶם וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ מַהֵר (2493=18).

The verse can be divided so:

·         For he will turn away your son from following Me, and they shall serve other gods- כִּי יָסִיר אֶת בִּנְךָ מֵאַחֲרַי וְעָבְדוּ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים (1475=17=8);

·         And the anger of Hashem shall be inflamed against you, and He will destroy you quickly- וְחָרָה אַף יְהוָה בָּכֶם וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ מַהֵר (1018=10=1).

Rashi comments here that from this verse we learn that the son of a non-Jewish son-in-law will turn away your grandson (his son) from following Hashem. Thus we learn that such progeny is called “your son”. But the son of a non-Jewish daughter-in-law is not called “your son” but “her son” (Yevamot 23.a; Kiddushin 68.b).

From here we also learn that Jewish lineage is through the mother.

The rate of intermarriage- הִתְבּוֹלְלוּת (“Hitbollelut”) between Jew and gentile in Israel and throughout the world is on the increase and more Jews have been “lost” than slaughtered by our enemies. 

D'varim 4.29

 דברים 4.29

29. ’And you will seek from there Hashem your G-d and you shall find Him if you search after Him with all your heart and with all your soul-וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ כִּי תִדְרְשֶׁנּוּ בְּכָל לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל נַפְשֶׁךָ (3862=19=10=1 or 6422+12 words=6434=17=8 counting final Mems and Kafs as 600 and 500).

The verse can be divided so:

·         And you will seek from there Hashem your G-d and you shall find Him - וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ(2258=17=8);

·         If you search after Him with all your heart and with all your soul-כִּי תִדְרְשֶׁנּוּ בְּכָל לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל נַפְשֶׁךָ (1604+6 words=1610=8).

With all your heart and with all your soul

בְּכָל לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל נַפְשֶׁךָ

1574=17=8 (Kafs 500)

With all your heart

בְּכָל לְבָבְךָ

586=19=10=1

Where is "from there"? 

Yerushalem

יְרוּשָׁלִַם

586=19=10=1

Yerushalem is the Heart of the Universe!

If one is prepared to sacrifice heart and soul for Hashem and Jerusalem then there he will find Him and there he shall be at 1 with Him and receive from Him eternal life (18).

In the words of King David (Psalms 137.5):

If I forget you Jerusalem-may my right hand lose its cunning

אִם אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלָםִ תִּשְׁכַּח יְמִינִי

3424+5 words=3429=18 (final letters)

B'Midbar 33.54

במדבר 33.54

54.’ And you shall settle the Land by lot according to your families; to the numerous you shall increase its inheritance, and to the few you shall decrease its inheritance; wherever the lot falls to him, that shall be his according to the Tribes of your fathers you shall inherit-וְהִתְנַחַלְתֶּם אֶת הָאָרֶץ בְּגוֹרָל לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתֵיכֶם לָרַב תַּרְבּוּ אֶת נַחֲלָתוֹ וְלַמְעַט תַּמְעִיט אֶת נַחֲלָתוֹ אֶל אֲשֶׁר יֵצֵא לוֹ שָׁמָּה הַגּוֹרָל לוֹ יִהְיֶה לְמַטּוֹת אֲבֹתֵיכֶם תִּתְנֶחָלוּ(11785+24 words=11809=19=10=1 counting final Zadik and Mems as 900 and 600).

The verse can be divided so:

·         And you shall settle the Land by lot according to your families; to the numerous you shall increase its inheritance, and to the few you shall decrease its inheritance; wherever the lot falls to him, that shall be his-וְהִתְנַחַלְתֶּם אֶת הָאָרֶץ בְּגוֹרָל לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתֵיכֶם לָרַב תַּרְבּוּ אֶת נַחֲלָתוֹ וְלַמְעַט תַּמְעִיט אֶת נַחֲלָתוֹ אֶל אֲשֶׁר יֵצֵא לוֹ שָׁמָּה הַגּוֹרָל לוֹ יִהְיֶה (7443=18);

·         According to the Tribes of your fathers you shall inherit-לְמַטּוֹת אֲבֹתֵיכֶם תִּתְנֶחָלוּ ּ (2412=1+8 counting Mem as 600).

Rashi comments here that the Tribes were those that went out from Egypt (Baba Batra 117.a; Rashi to B’Midbar 26.55). Also, that the Land would have twelve borders which would correspond to the number of Tribes.

Here is support of Rashi's conclusion:

And you shall settle the Land

וְהִתְנַחַלְתֶּם אֶת הָאָרֶץ

3006=1+8 (final letters)

Children of Israel

בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל

 603=1+8

3006+603=3609=18

It is no coincidence that the word the Torah uses for “inheritance”- הִתְנַחְלוּת is the word used today for “settlement”- הִתְנַחְלוּת ("Hitnachlut").

Settlement

הִתְנַחְלוּת

899=26=8

+ 1 word=900=1+8

The number 26 is the gematria of the Name "Hashem"-יְהוָה.

By building Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel one unifies and glorifies the Name of Hashem and by uprooting them one causes a desecration of the Name. It is that simple. Hashem will not stand idly by and let His name be desecrated with impunity.

Thus He has sent the entire world against Israel at the End of Days and He will take revenge on those that have acted against the Law of Torah.

It is that simple!

By Lot

 עַל פִּי הגוֹרָל

434

Mashiach son of David

 מָשִׁיחַ בֶּן דָּוִיד

424=10=1

Return unto Me, and I shall return unto you
שׁוּבוּ אֵלַי וְאָשׁוּבָה אֲלֵיכֶם

776

Moses is Israel and Israel are Moses

מֹשֶׁה הוּא יִשְׂרָאֵל וְיִשְׂרָאֵל הֶם מֹשֶׁה

1835=17=8

+1

=

1836

Shem Hai- Mashiach

שֵׁם חַי- םָשִׁיחַ

1836=18

  In the Beginning-In The “Raishit”

 בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ

 

                                                           

1.’In the beginning G-d created the Heaven and the Earth-בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ (2701=10=1 or + 7 words=17=8 or 4631=14=8 counting final Zadik and Mem as 900 and 600).

The verse can be divided so:

·         In the beginning G-d created- בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים(1202+3 words=8);

·         The Heaven- אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם(1356+2 words=17=8counting final Mem as 600);

·         And the Earth- וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ (703=10=1 or 1513=10=1counting final Zadik as 900).

Rashi here begins his commentary of the Torah with the fundamental words of the Tanna Rabbi Yitzhak which I have quoted above in the Introduction to the Parsha. So fundamental are these words to understanding the “reason d’être” of the Creation of the Universe and its ultimate “end” that I shall repeat them:

“In the beginning”: Rabbi Yitzhak said: G-d need not have begun the Torah but from “This month shall be for you [the beginning of the months]” (Shmot 12.2) because it is the first commandment which Israel was commanded. What is the reason that it began with the book of Beraishit (Genesis)? It began thus because [it wished to convey the message of the verse in Psalm 111:6], “The power of His acts He told to His People in order to give THEM the estate of nations.” So that if the nations of the world will say to Israel, “you are bandits, for you conquered the lands of the seven nations who inhabited the Land of Canaan,” Israel will reply to them, “The entire earth belongs to The Holy One, Blessed is He. He created it and He gave it to the one found proper in His eyes. By His wish He gave it to them and by His wish He took it from them and gave it to us” (Beraishit Rabbah 1:2).

This then is the purpose of Creation; for Israel to inherit the Land of Canaan as Israel is Hashem’s first-רֵאשִׁית and there Creation began. The first point of contact between the Metaphysical and Physical worlds was the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This Place was promised to Israel, His Firstborn as the Place where they would serve Hashem. 

This explains why the Torah ends with the word “Israel”-יִשְׂרָאֵל as the end (Israel) is its “Beginning”- רֵאשִׁית. 

All of Israel are in the “Head”-ראש (“Mind”) of Hashem at the beginning as they are at the end:

Before My eyes (I swear)! All of Israel are in My Mind

לְעֵינֵי! כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּרֵאשִׁי

1274=14=8 or + 4 words=18

At the End of Days Israel will return to its rightful place, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in the Land of Canaan to serve Hashem their Father for the benefit of all Mankind. This is the ultimate purpose of Creation, the dwelling of the Jewish People in the Land of Israel which is the Will of Hashem from before the beginning of time as we know it.

Rashi adds that this verse requires expounding (as there is no noun in the sentence); the verse is to be understood that Hashem created the Universe for the Torah which is called “the beginning of His Way”- רֵאשִׁית דַּרְכּוֹ and for Israel who are called “His first of His Crop”-רֵאשִׁית תְּבוּאָתֹה (Mishlei 8.2; Jeremiah 2.3; Tanchuma Yashan 3; Vayikra Rabbah 36.4).

Torah-The beginning of His Way

תורה- רֵאשִׁית דַּרְכּוֹ

1752+3 words=18

Israel- His First Crop

יִשְׂרָאֵל רֵאשִׁית תְּבוּאָתֹה

2266+3 words=19=10=1

All of Israel are in the Raishit

כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּ-רֵאשִׁית

1504=10=1

Israel in My Head

יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּ-רֵאשִׁי

1054=10=1

Israel

יִשְׂרָאֵל

541=10=1

Rashi also explains that from the words “In the Beginning He Created”- בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא one cannot understand the order of Creation, and that Hashem created the Heavens and the Earth first as there is no example in Scripture of the word “Raishit”- רֵאשִׁית which is not attached to a noun after it (see Rashi here for examples). Rashi concludes after his long commentary to this verse that the versecannot possibly teach us the chronology of what was created- earlier or later. Rashi states that the waters preceded the creation of the earth which we learn from verse 2 and the waters even preceded the Creation of the Heavens, as the Heavens were created from fire and water (verse 8 below; Chagigah 12.a).

In other words according to Rashi the first verse of the Torah stands alone.

This supports my opinion as expressed in the section above “Before The Beginning” that the initial thought of Creation on Shabbat cannot be separated from the end, the Shabbat to come at the End, “the Day that is all Shabbat"- יום שכולו שבת. “The End” was thus created at the same instant as “The Beginning” and everything was, is and will be in the Mind of Hashem simultaneously at one point, the mid-point.

This point is Shabbat- שבת.

In other words, the first verse of the Torah relates to what entered the Mind of Hashem on Shabbat which as I explain above is one day divided into two half days, one half before the physical creation and one half at the end of the creation process- the World to Come, that already Came.