The Gematria of This Year's Appellation

 Jews like to take the year they're in and give the year a titular title, to suggest that that title will prophesy for them the general scenario that will play out that year.

This year, 5786, has been personified (by a Rabbi Y. Ginsburg) by the acronym for

"It will be a year of 'Be fruitful and multiply'"

תהי׳ה שנת פרו ורבו

And what would the Gematria of that potentially prophetic phrase predict assuming its numerical find is significant?

The gematria of 1670 in Torah is found in only two verses:

Below are those verses, and their translations:

1) Devarim (2:15)

וגם יד יהוה היתה בם להמם מקרב המחנה עד תמם

2) Parsha Shoftim (20:4)

כי יהוה אלהיכם ההלך עמכם להלחם לכם עם איביכם להושיע אתכם 

1) Also the hand of the Lord was upon them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

2) For the Lord, your God, is the One Who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

My hope is these verses portray the end of terror - the end of Hamas and the end of hate of the Jewish People - this year.

WATER in Tanach

It is interesting that the 3 letters that spell water, namely, מים, can have all letters of the Hebrew alphabet immediately precede them, with one exception -- the letter פ.

Water is a special substance. It can contain all sorts of ions and molecules that we know about, but water itself defies the rules. When frozen, water expands; all else contracts. It's got at least 4 phases: Solid, EZ gel phase, Liquid and Vapor or Gas. It comprises most of us, through and through. It energizes with far infrared light, which itself is ubiquitous. It can resonate inside our tissues and provide electricity.

How fitting that the word מים can attach to all letters. 

Anyone have an idea about the פ exception? Only these letters cannot be found attached in Tanach ==> פמים

One quick thought: Did you know Arabs can't pronounce that letter. They cannot say "Pay". Instead they say, "Bay". What's the connection? No idea!


P.S.   How did I learn of this "discovery"? I searched for מים to see how many times the word, water, appeared in Torah, but this one word happens to be, as I now found out, after having used the toraware.org program for many many years, a problem my program could not handle. None of my search options could significantly reduce the number of hits I got so I can at least visually try and assess the right count. It is extremely cumbersome because every letter but one can precede this suffix.

Some GEMATRIA to Consider Regarding Years 5784 - 5786

During 5784, we were warned of the horrors that can befall us if we misjudge the innocent and instead favor the wicked.

The gematria of 5784 matches the 3 successive verses in Tehillim that read:

How long will you judge unjustly and favor the wicked forever?
עד מתי תשפטו עול ופני רשעים תשאו סלה
Judge the poor and orphan; justify the humble and the impoverished.
שפטו דל ויתום עני ורש הצדיקו
Release the poor and the needy; save [them] from the hands of [the] wicked.
פלטו דל ואביון מיד רשעים הצילו

We paid a heavy price on October 7, 2023 for appeasing the Hamas neighbors when according to Jewish law we should have taken the offensive - long before October 7th! We were obligated by Torah law to attack them and kill them! See Shulchan Aruch below. Not only did we not kill them, not only did we offer them food, water and electricity, we even allowed them to enter our borders to earn money.

The year after:
The gematria of 5785 matches this single verse in Torah:

Or if it was known that it was a [habitually] goring bull since yesterday and the day before yesterday, and its owner does not watch it, he shall surely pay a bull for a bull, and the dead body shall be his.
או נודע כי שור נגח הוא מתמול שלשם ולא ישמרנו בעליו שלם ישלם שור תחת השור והמת יהיה לו

Last year, 5785, we hesitated to kill the raging bull, allowing world opinion to stop us from destroying the enemy. Until today, in fact, the enemy still has water, food and electricity that sustains them - at our mercy. We must simpy destroy them with no compromise. Alas we paid a dear price this year as well in terms of human life.

I am not insinuating the solution is psychologically simple and that we must not consider saving the hostages, but according to Torah, the law is clear - we should stop all their access to food and electricty. We must obliterate them.

Now that 5786 is upon us, there are two successive verses in Torah - again related to a bull:

You shall bring the bull to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lean their hands upon the head of the bull.
והקרבת את הפר לפני אהל מועד וסמך אהרן ובניו את ידיהם על ראש הפר
You shall then slaughter the bull before the Lord, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
ושחטת את הפר לפני יהוה פתח אהל מועד

Again we see that in 5786, we need to slaughter the bull. Period.

What, in fact, is the Torah laws that apply to this "Palestinian"/Hamas question? We need look no further that Orach Chaim #329:

עכו"ם שצרו על עיירות ישראל אם באו על עסק ממון אין מחללין עליהם את השבת באו על עסק נפשות ואפי' סתם יוצאים עליהם בכלי זיין ומחללים עליהם את השבת ובעיר הסמוכה לספר אפילו לא באו אלא על עסקי תבן וקש מחללין עליהם את השבת: הגה ואפילו לא באו עדיין אלא רוצים לבא [א"ז]:
Regarding non-Jews who besiege Jewish cities: if they come for money, we do not desecrate the Shabbat [to protect ourselves], but if they came to kill or come with no presented reason, we go out with weapons and desecrate the Shabbat. In a city that is near the border, even if they just come for straw or hay, we desecrate the Shabbat. Rem"a: Even if they haven't come but they want to come (Or Zarua).

יש מי שאומר שבזמן הזה אפי' באו על עסקי ממון מחללין שאם לא יניחנו ישראל לשלול ולבוז ממונו יהרגנו והוי עסקי נפשות [ומ"מ הכל לפי הענין] (פסקי מהרי"א סי' ק"כ):
There is one who says that in our times, even if they come for money, we desecrate the Shabbat, because if we do not allow them to plunder the money, they will kill, and so it becomes a case of saving life. (In any event, everything is according to the situation(Piskei Mahara'i Chapter 156).)

This is the year (5786) it is incumbent upon us to slaughter the enemies at out borders - once and for all!

ALL Hostages Will Be Released This Hebrew Year - 5785!

This Shabbos happened to be Tu B'Av, the 15th of Menachem Av. This day in Jewish tradition is extremely significant; It is held to be one of the most joyous days of the year. It ranks with Yom Kippur! Many great events in Jewish history occurred this day. They stopped dying in the desert ... Unmarried girls went out dancing ... etc

On this Shabbos we read the Torah portion of Veetchanan (ואתחנן). Possuk 5:4 reads as follows:

פנים בפנים דבר יהוה עמכם בהר מתוך האש

That verse's gematria equals =  תהי׳ה שנת פדיון כל השבויים

It just so happens that this is the only possuk in the entire Torah with that gematria value of 1743!

I hope the Torah is trying to tell us something; That we have great news albeit not yet noticed. 

There still remain about 1¹⁄₂ months before we arrive at year 5786. 

May it occur in this very year, that all the hostages finally get to come home!

The Recent Jewish Turnaround Amid a World of Rebukes

In Torah portion KiTavo, Hashem lists many curses that will betake Jewish people should they stray from Torah's ways. After mentioning several such horrible circumstances, there's an interruption, a break in the string of horror events. There is this one verse that's interjected as a promise of Hashem. Then Hashem continues with a much longer list of horrible events the Jews might suffer.

This one interjected verse is Hashem's promise to exact these miseries upon the Jewish people should they not follow Torah's precepts, saying that it will be a forever promise.

The implication of this verse is to remind Jews that they have a choice in the matter, for all generations to come.

This single verse in the midst of many frightful verses, says, as I understand the words to mean, “It can be good or bad, and you and generations after will always have this switch you can turn off or on, to control your destiny. It could be horrible at one point, but suddenly, as easily as a flip of the switch, Jews can immediately reverse the tide to flow in the opposite direction, to make it all good. Literally the possuk (KiTavo 28:46) says, “And they will be as a sign and a wonder, upon you and your offspring, forever.” "They" refers to the curses, "sign" refers to the actual tragedies, and "wonder" I figure could mean when it's all good, and this promise will stand "for all generations", today's included.

It's as if Hashem is telling us, after having begun His long list of tragedies that can happen, a by-the-way sentence in midstream, that we should know that all this bad stuff here to be recounted need not befall the Jews if only they choose to go in Torah's ways.

The gematria of this one verse, might give us a hint that points to the same thesis. The gematria of KiTavo 28:46, 1573, we find that it is equal to the value of 7 words inside a verse found in Esther 9:1, namely, the phrase: "ונהפוך הוא אשר ישלטו היהודים המה בשנאיהם"

This phrase from the Purim story is exactly appropriate because it alludes to the miraculous turnaround we experienced in Persia under Queen Esther and King Achashverosh, and that which we see happening in Judaism today.

Today too Hashem is remodeling the lives of Jews everywhere. Until only a century ago, Jews were hounded whereever they lived, usually oppressively, yet today there's hardly a Jew anywhere on the globe that cannot be free and do as he wishes, without any oppression at all. And no Jew is so far in identity from being out of reach.

And the most recent events, as Israel has triumphed miraculously against so many of its enemies in a matter of weeks and months, while destroying Iran's (x-Persia) nuclear might and threat from all its proxies in the North, South and West of Israel - we are are the good path - on a great path towards final redemption, it seems quite clear.

Open your eyes folks, we're into the new Era of Final Redemption and soon will greet our King Moshiach.

Reconciling with Truth

Can people have completely opposite views? Can a so-called Palestinian believe the exact opposite of what a Jew wholeheartedly believes, when both are certain of their truths?

Torah, the only source of ultimate truth, confirms this contradictory possibility. 

Consider an example from Torah's word "abomination", which means absolutely disgusting or hated. 

Torah first mentions the word "abomination" in the story of Joseph, when he sets two tables apart for his 2 groups of house guests, for a meal. One table he sets up for his Jewish brothers. For his fellow Egyptians he sets up a separate table. Why this separation? Torah (Miketz 43:32) explains that Egyptians would not share in the beef eaten by the Jewish guests because they regarded sheep as divine. Partaking in such a meal they would deem an abomination. It would nauseate them seeing Jews eating what they considered sacred and divine.

Here then is an example where the same animal is regarded from entirely opposing viewpoints. One view regards the animal as holy, while the other relishes it as edible.

The second appearance of that word in Torah (Achrei Mot 18:22) is when Torah commands the Jews to avoid male homosexuality. The verse says, "And a male you should not bed as you would a woman for that is an abomination."

Is the word "abomination" used in Torah merely as a figurative hyperbole? Is its mention used just to appear stringent but not strictly punishable? Perhaps it just means bad, but not extremely bad?

The 3rd mention of this same word in Torah (Kedoshim, 20:13) answers this question in no uncertain terms: "The man who beds another male as he would a woman, both committed an abomination, both should die, the blood is on their hands."

So we see, what is an abomination to one person can be what another actually aspires for. Two people or two nations can have entirely opposite and contradictory viewpoints.

Of course the final truth between opposing views can only be as Torah deems it. It's up to individuals themselves to learn the real truth because only one side is ultimately correct.