The Hidden Codes of the Torah — Lesson VII, Rav Ziegler zatsal
Lesson VII · Rav Haim Ziegler זצ״ל

The Hidden Codes of the Torah

What the text of Bereshit yields when read at fixed intervals
A teaching of Rav Haim Ziegler zatsal · Éditions Gueoula
Translated from the French original; the French version remains the reference text.
The Hidden Codes of the Torah
What the text of Bereshit yields when read at fixed intervals

Rav Weiss-Mandel zatsal, who saved thousands of Jews during the Shoah, found the first codes in the Torah in the 1940s.

After him a team of Israeli researchers — Prof. Eliyahu Rips, Doron Witztum, Yoav Rosenberg and others, from the Technion and the Hebrew University — carried the work forward.

The method rests on two rules: search for words by skipping a fixed number of letters, and keep only the smallest skip found in the whole text.

The Rav’s conclusion: “We are very close to the Mashiah. The end of the exile has begun.”

📖 Read the lesson
1 A discovery, and where it comes from
“What you are about to see is the text of Bereshit laid out by computer, revealing codes which prove that Moshe could not have known these future events — unless he received them from the Creator.”

Rav Weiss-Mandel zatsal, who saved thousands of Jews during the Shoah, found the first codes in the Torah in the 1940s.

After him, a team of Israeli researchers took up the work: Prof. Eliyahu Rips, Doron Witztum, Yoav Rosenberg and others, from the Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Their results were published in Statistical Science, an internationally peer-reviewed journal, and the calculations were examined by leading statisticians, including professors at Harvard.

2 The method, in two rules

Search at a fixed interval. The computer looks for a word by skipping, each time, a fixed number of letters in the text.

Minimal skip. Among all possible occurrences, only the one with the smallest skip in the entire text is kept.

This second rule is what gives the method its strength: it forbids choosing the interval that suits you and imposes the one the text imposes.
3 What the Rav concluded
“We are very close to the Mashiah — truly very close. The end of the exile has begun.”

The Rav did not present this work as a mathematical curiosity, but as a road sign: a marker given to the generation able to read it.

Did you follow the lesson?

Five questions on the teaching of Rav Ziegler zatsal.

1
Who found the first Torah codes, in the 1940s?
Rav Weiss-Mandel zatsal, who saved thousands of Jews during the Shoah. The Israeli team came after him.
2
What is a search at a fixed interval?
A constant skip, applied across the whole text.
3
When a word appears several times, which occurrence is kept?
The minimal skip — that is what prevents choosing a convenient interval.
4
Where were the Israeli team’s results published?
An internationally peer-reviewed journal.
5
What did the Rav conclude from this work?
He saw a road sign in them, not a curiosity.

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