The 15 Degrees of Forbidden Relations

“Fifteen women exempt their co-wives, and the co-wives of their co-wives, from chalitzah and levirate marriage, until the end of the world” (Yevamot 1:1).

According to the course, in the metaphysical nature of things, 15 different women are forbidden to a man.

Chemistry: 15 non-metallic elements (negative charge, receive electrons, receptive nature) combine with 71 metallic elements (positive charge, give electrons, giving nature).

Inter-human: 15 forbidden women (negative charge, receptive, feminine element) cannot marry a man (71, positive charge, giving, masculine element).

The parallel seems inverted, but, according to the course, it reflects the laws of the Torah: in chemistry, 15 negative elements combine with 71 positive; in biology, 15 women cannot combine with this man.

Man (positive charge) and woman (negative charge) are naturally attracted for the preservation of the species. But to the same extent that this centripetal law of attraction exists, an antithetical centrifugal law of repulsion exists.

“G-d has made the one as well as the other” (Ecclesiastes 7:14), literally “this against that.” First lesson of the Torah, according to the course: the first letter ב is worth 2, a dual, bipolar world; thesis and antithesis, ours to make the synthesis.

Chemistry, according to the course: once one of the 15 non-metals has completed itself with one of the 71 metals, they are no longer available to anyone, by their electronic saturation. Inter-human: divine law institutes Kiddushin; once married, these 71 + 15 form a conjugal unit that excludes everyone else.

Before Kiddushin: men and women potentially compatible, possibility of meeting, freedom of choice. After: 71 + 15 joined, exclusion of everyone else, sacred and definitive commitment. This status means that a set of women, again 15, will be forbidden to him (according to the course).

“And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife” (Leviticus 18:20).

The course cites the Talmud (Sotah 8b): whoever transgresses is punished by strangulation by water. According to the course, it is a natural law of retaliation: 71% of the Earth’s surface is water, and whoever touches these 15 elements (the woman = יה = 15) dedicated to a man (71) will be suffocated by water.

According to the course, water finds its existence in the letters יה written in full, three times: יוד הה יוד הה יוד הה = 10 + 20 + 10 + 20 + 10 + 20 = 90 = מים.

“If any man’s wife goes astray and commits a trespass against him” (Numbers 5:12). The Torah institutes a test by water: the Divine Name (26) is erased in water, which the woman drinks. The first two letters of the Name are יה (15), erased by water.

The course reports that the Zohar teaches that whoever passes 18 without marrying is pursued by the divine curse of being uprooted from the earth, since the world was created to be populated. Once married, mutual fidelity is required.

According to Rabbi Jonathan ben Uzziel (Numbers 5:27), the test works both ways: a man’s infidelity is punished in the same way, even if only the woman normally drinks the waters.

15 non-metallic elements (charge −) ↔ 15 forbidden women; 71 metallic elements (charge +) ↔ the man (71); in chemistry, electronic saturation = impossibility of a new bond; in biology, Kiddushin = impossibility of a new union; water carries out divine justice; יה (15) erased by water in the Sotah ordeal; mutual fidelity.

According to the course, the laws of the Torah reflect the natural laws of chemical and biological creation.