The verses of the Torah were first publicly numbered (as we find them today) by Robert Estienne (Robert Stephanus) in 1571, but the move was not without criticism at the time from traditionalists. The original manuscripts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in a numbered form. Hebrew … [Read more...]
Ezekiel’s “living creatures”…
The biblical text that is most associated with the Divine Chariot is Ezekiel; who gives an account of a vision where there were wheels inside of other wheels, and a living creature of four faces; that of an ox and a lion and an eagle and a man. The vision is actually a calculation to indicate that … [Read more...]
What the apple really was… (spoiler alert – it wasn’t sex).
Introduction. The bible is stuffed with apparently unexplained metaphors, which is one of the reasons why people have speculated over it for thousands of years; in the seeming absence of any type of clarification people have delighted in putting forward their own. In the case of the fruit … [Read more...]
In the beginning… when?
Can Gematria tell us when the Heavens and the Earth were created according to Genesis 1:1? Actually - yes it can! The Gematria of the Merkabah[1] has long been hidden and secret yet it is the only gematria that actually works with the Tanakh. בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ In the beginning … [Read more...]