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the name of Amalek is totally uprooted from the world. Only then much light on very important aspects of the Torah and the Hebrew
will God’s name be completely revealed. language, for the Torah itself is permeated with hidden structures,
which are only exposed through intense study, meditation, and
The promise of ultimate redemption – entailing the revelation of
God’s Presence, the return of Israel to its homeland, the rebuilding especially through the application of the PaRDeS system.
of Jerusalem and the Temple, and ultimately world peace – is found Indeed, much of the Kabbalah is based on these hidden structures
in the Torah, particularly in the book of Deuteronomy, as well as and paradigms: the three primary constructs being the ten sefirot,
throughout the books of the prophets. Many of these prophecies, the twenty-two Hebrew letters, and the four-letter name of God. In
especially in the book of Isaiah, revolve around a Messianic figure. addition there is an entire interpretive stratum dedicated to employing
mathematical patterns to reveal the hidden structures. Among the
Thus, we see that God’s name is revealed in three phases. First, God
revealed Himself to the patriarchs, albeit only partially, as He had not mathematical patterns employed are gematria; the tabulation of the
yet fulfilled His promises to them. Then, in the context of the exodus number of times letters and words appear in particular verses and
from Egypt, the revelation at Mount Sinai, and the entrance into portions and where they are located in the text; the tabulation of
the Land, He revealed Himself more fully to His people. However, the number of times a word appears throughout the Tanach; and
this revelation was still incomplete because evil still existed, thus the web of rich associations created by various words and concepts
preventing a full revelation and their true comprehension of God’s that share the same numbers, for instance all concepts or items using
oneness. Finally, the last and permanent revelation of God will only the number ten. Although the jury is still out regarding what are
take place when evil is vanquished as part of the final redemption commonly called the Bible Codes, computer searches of the biblical
during the Messianic era. Only then will God’s promise be completely text have clearly revealed truly amazing mathematical patterns and
fulfilled, resulting in a new and eternal revelation of God, as Isaiah a systematic order to the biblical text previously hidden from the
prophesied: “And the knowledge of God will fill the world like the human eye. The Torah’s structure, the medium, often reveals its
waters cover the sea” (Isaiah 11:9). message.
The Hebrew language is also an excellent example of the medium
being the message, as a Hebrew word is not merely a linguistic
symbol signifying a particular concept but the essence of the concept
itself. According to Kabbalah, the Hebrew word and the letters that
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Patterns in the Torah and the Number TenPatterns in the Torah and the Number Ten and animating the concept or entity being signified. Rabbi Akiva
Patterns in the Torah and the Number Ten
Tatz in his book A Letter to a Buddhist Jew points out that the same
Hebrew word (davar) means both “word” and “thing”; the “thing” is
the manifestation of the word.
Before discussing the symbolism inherent in the plagues being ten
in number at the end of this section and in the following one, we On an even deeper structural level, the Torah patterns itself on
will provide a relatively brief but important introduction to how hierarchal constructs revealed by the Kabbalah. In this case, too, the
the Torah uses structures and paradigms to convey its messages. We medium reveals the message. Succinctly put, the Torah’s secret inner
begin with a famous statement of Marshall McLuhan, an expert on dimensions, the sod level, are based on Divine models, structures, and
communication systems, who declared that as far as communication paradigms manifest on all levels of reality. (In Kabbalah, the lower
is concerned, “the medium is the message.” This insight sheds worlds mirror the upper worlds because the higher worlds contain
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