Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Mark & Mary Markham" <markhamm AT topsurf.com>]

This site explains how it is done! It is quite an interesting method and
this fine spoof shows how it can be done.

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html

This is a quote taken from the site:

The following challenge was made by Michael Drosnin:

When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister
encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them.
(Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)

Note that English with the vowels included is far less flexible than Hebrew
when it comes to making letters into words. Nevertheless, without further
ado, we present our answer to Mr Drosnin's challenge.

Go there!!

Grace to you,
Mark Markham
Heidelberg, Germany
-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Desnitsky <bsruss AT dol.ru>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 6:15 PM
Subject: Bible codes?


>Dear colleagues,
>
>When I have heard a couple of years ago about the the so called
>"Bible codes", quite naturally I considered them to be another trick
>of some clever guys with a computer. Quite recently I received an
>apology of the method from its supporter claiming that the results
>were proven statistically.
>
>I am still very cautious about the method but such a claim can't be
>simply discarded because we don't like it. What do you think? Do you
>have any other arguments? Has someone tried to repeat the experience
>or to do the same with another sequence of Hebrew letters? In a
>word, was there an independent expertise?
>
>To give you some impression, hereby I quote two abstracts from "The
>Mysterious Hebrew Codes" by Grant R. Jeffrey (from his book "The
>Signature of God") sent to me by a supporter of this theory. The
>whole article is available in *.htm format and can be sent by
>request as well as some other articles on the subject (all of them
>pro).
>
>Andre S. Desnitsky, Ph.D.
>Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
>Bible Society in Russia.
>
>-------------------
>...
>
>Recently, researchers in Israel discovered a staggering phenomena of
>hidden codes beneath the
>Hebrew text of the Old Testament that reveal an astonishing
>knowledge of future events and
>personalities that cannot be explained unless God inspired the
>writers to record His precise
>words. The material is possibly the most important evidence I will
>present in the book that will
>prove to any unprejudiced observer that the Scriptures are truly
>inspired by God.
>
>Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl, a brilliant Czechoslovakian Jewish
>scholar in astronomy,
>mathematics, and Judaic studies, found an obscure reference in a
>book by a fourteenth-century
>rabbi known as Rabbeynu Bachayah that described a pattern on letters
>encoded within the
>Torah. This discovery during the years before World War I inspired
>Rabbi Weissmandl to begin
>exploring for other examples of codes hidden within the Torah.
>During the war years he found
>that he could locate certain meaningful words or phrases, such as
>hammer and anvil, if he
>examined the letters at sequences that were equally spaced in the
>Hebrew text. In other words, if
>he found the first letter of significant word such as Torah, and
>then, by skipping forward seven
>letters he found the second letter of the word Torah, he continued
>to skip forward the same
>number of letters to see whether or not the complete word Torah was
>spelled out in the text at
>equally spaced intervals. Rabbi Weissmandl described this phenomenon
>as "equidistant letter
>sequences" (ELS). The rabbi was astonished to find that an
>incredible number of significant
>words were hidden in code within the text of the Torah at equally
>spaced intervals. These
>spaced intervals between significant letters varied from every five
>letters, every seven letters,
>and numerous other intervals. However, once they found a particular
>word spelled out at, say
>every 22nd letter, the balance of the letters from the words in this
>group were also spaced at an
>interval of every 22nd letter.
>
>Initially, Rabbi Weissmandl could not be certain if this phenomenon
>was truly significant or
>whether it was simply due to the great number of possible
>combinations of words and phrases
>that could occur by chance arrangement by skipping forward various
>intervals of letters in the
>Hebrew text. The proof that this phenomenon was evidence of a
>supernatural intelligence and
>design was confirmed almost forty years later in Israel. The
>invention of sophisticated
>computers and statistical analysis was finally able to analyze the
>text of the Bible to prove that
>these codes could not have been produced by random chance. Although
>Rabbi Weissmandl
>found many coded names by simply manually counting the letters in
>the text, he did not record
>his discoveries in writing. Fortunately, some of his students did
>record several examples of his
>code discoveries. Over the following decades, students in Israel who
>had heard about his
>research began searching the Torah for themselves to ascertain
>whether or not such codes
>actually existed. Their discoveries ultimately resulted in he
>research studies at Hebrew
>University that have proven the validity of this research. The
>introduction of sophisticated
>high-speed computers allowed Jewish scholars at Hebrew University to
>explore the text of the
>Torah in ways that previous generations could only dream about.
>
>Equidistant Letter Sequences
>
>A group of dedicated Jewish scholars in Israel, following up on
>Rabbi Weissmandl's research,
>found many additional hidden codes embedded within the text of the
>Torah. A paper called
>Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis, was published
>in 1988 in the scholarly
>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. This academic magazine is
>one of the most prominent
>mathematical and scientific journals in the world. The study was
>completed by Doron Witztum,
>Yoav Rosenberg, and Eliyahu Rips at Hebrew University and the
>Jerusalem College of
>Technology. This study has been republished in several other
>respected scholarly journals
>recently, including Bible Review, October 1995, and on the Internet.
>Their discoveries of
>complex Hebrew codes that reveal supernatural and prophetic
>knowledge about the future is
>causing tremendous consternation in the academic community because
>it challenges the
>long-held beliefs of liberal scholars who generally reject verbal
>inspiration of the Bible.
>
>This scientific discovery is earth-shaking in its consequences
>because it reveals a staggering
>level of mathematical design and intelligence which could only have
>been produced by a
>supernatural mind, providing unshakable mathematical proof that the
>Bible was truly inspired by
>God. The incredible data demolishes forever the false claim by
>liberal scholars and skeptics
>that the Bible was written and edited by uninspired men and that it
>is full of errors and
>contradictions. Despite the fact that numerous scholars and
>scientists have attempted to
>challenge the validity of this Torah research, the evidence has not
>been refuted.
>
>...
>
>Adolph Hitler, the Nazis, and the Death Camps Were Prophesied in the
>Bible
>
>Truly one of the most incredible of the hidden codes is their
>discovery of the words "Hitler",
>"Nazis" and names of several of the actual death camps embedded
>within this text of the Book of
>Deuteronomy: "For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of
>lords, a great God, a might,
>and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: He
>doth execute the judgment of
>the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him
>food and raiment. Love ye
>therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
>Thou shalt fear the Lord thy
>God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear
>by his name. He is thy praise,
>and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible
>things, which thine eyes have
>seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten
>persons; and now the Lord thy
>God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude"
>(Deuteronomy 10:17-22).
>
>In the Hebrew text of Deuteronomy 10:17-22 , the word "Hitler" in
>Hebrew is spelled out at a
>twenty-two letter interval. Beginning with the second last
>appearance of the Hebrew letter (bet)
>in this passage, researchers counted every thirteenth letter from
>left to right. To their amazement
>they discovered that the coded letters spelled out the phrase,
>"b'yam marah Auschwitz", which
>means, "in the bitter sea of Auschwitz". As they carried the
>counting forward another thirteen
>letters they came to the letter resh . From this resh, they counted
>every twenty-second letter from
>left to right. To their amazement they found the word "Hitler", the
>name of the greatest enemy of
>the Jews in history, the one who almost conquered the Western World
>in World War II. It was
>Hitler's satanic obsession against the Chosen People that motivated
>him to create the Final
>Solution which ultimately slaughtered over six-million Jews and
>another six-million Poles and
>Russians in the murderous death camps in Eastern Europe, such as
>Auschwitz. Amazingly, the
>actual names of the Nazi concentration camps, "Auschwitz" and
>"Belsen", were also encoded
>close to the word "Hitler" and "Berlin" in a cluster of letters
>hidden within the text of this
>passage in Deuteronomy.
>
>Scientists found the Deuteronomy 33:16 also contained a hidden
>message about the Nazi
>Holocaust. Beginning with the first Hebrew letter mem , they counted
>every two hundred and
>forth-sixth letter from left to right and found that the coded
>letters spelled out the phrase, "Melek
>Natzim", which translates as the "King of the Nazis". Another group
>of nearby letters spelled out
>the phrase, "laiv m'Laivi" which means, "the heart from Levi",
>referring to the Levites, one of
>the twelve tribes of the Jews. Incredibly, this same passage yielded
>another hidden code about
>the rise of Nazi Germany; the phrase "kemi bait rah", "an evil house
>rose up".
>
>One of the most fascinating of these Nazi codes appeared in
>Deuteronomy 32:52. Beginning with
>the appearance of the first letter aleph , the researchers counted
>from left to right every six
>hundred and seventy letters throughout the passage, and discovered
>the name "Aik'man", which
>is a Hebrew form of the name "Eichmann". Adolph Eichmann was a Nazi
>official who designed
>the Final Solution, the evil system of concentration camps used in
>the Holocaust. Eichmann and
>Hitler were among the greatest killers in history.
>
>The whole series of hidden codes dealing with Nazi Germany ended in
>Deuteronomy 33:21 with
>a final astonishing code. Beginning with the letter resh that
>appeared in the word "Yisrael",
>researchers counted every twenty-second letter from left to right
>and found the tragic phrase
>"re'tzach alm" describing the terrible sufferings of the Jews during
>the Holocaust, which
>translated as "a people cry murder, slaughter". I have often been
>asked by Jews about why the
>Bible's prophecies do not say anything about the Holocaust, the
>worst event in the history of
>God's Chosen People. Now we can see that God included these coded
>words beneath the text of
>the Bible describing this terrible time of persecution.
>
>Skip           Word(s)
>-------------------------
>50             the Holocaust
>
>
>Found in the passage of Deuteronomy traditionally quoted as
>foreshadowing the Holocaust- "and
>I will hide my face on that day because of all the evil that you did
>for you turned to other gods
>..." (5 31 16).
>                      Other close word-pairs found on Hitler
>                   Word(s)
>                                                      Skip
>                   Germany
>                                                      153
>                   Berlin
>                                                      -4
>                   the troubler
>                                                      9
>                   Nazi
>                                                      12
>                   he was a great hunter
>                                                      1
>                   the breaking of the Jews
>                                                      153
>                   Hitler
>                                                      -31
>                   Nazi
>                                                      -1
>                   the butchery
>                                                      14
>                   for the heart of a man is evil from his youth
>                                                      1
>                   Auschwitz
>                                                      119
>                   the Holocaust
>                                                      -2
>                   Holocaust
>
>
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