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Rabbi Eliyahu Ellis - Codes: The Hidden Genius of the Torah

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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okay guys i guess we're on the road um again welcome to discovery question on the table is who wrote the torah was it god was a man we're looking for some sort of information in this whole seminar that points to one side or another okay did you guys have the spy scenario this morning like how to validate a message through you know the mossad the whole scenario you had that okay so where this class fits in the scobies codes you know abc in the spy world you have to have a code question has anyone here ever heard about codes in the torah yeah okay question number two is anyone like a little bit skeptical about codes and the torah yeah okay before we start then let me ask a question and it goes like this why would i even think to start to look for codes in an ancient hebrew text i mean it's a little strange if you think about it so don't listen ancient hebrew tests and let's look for codes why would even start to look for codes in the torah does anyone have an approach to that anyone have an answer that god wrote the yeah and you think that has all this knowledge then of course you're going to try very very good okay if it's true god wrote the torah i'd expect to see a little bit more depth in this book than

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  1. 0:46okay guys i guess we're on the road um again welcome to discovery question on the
  2. 5:33letters long the torah is the torah is 304 805 letters long is there any wonder
  3. 10:12get him hopefully we can get them in 1968 when russian tanks invaded czechoslovakia ilya who
  4. 15:49ritz began to employ a computer program that could search for skip codes like this at
  5. 20:28another one they found the word maccabee who are the maccabees anybody yeah there's the names
  6. 25:47kislev that was the day of his death the yord said now by the way they
  7. 30:25going on they had no idea what's going to happen three and a half years later
  8. 35:07like shot through the roof it's unbelievable now just to make it short what happened was
  9. 40:31hundred fifty letters who is a malek anyone know yeah well if i could say such
  10. 45:21towers two airplanes they look for matusi meepilu plural airplanes knock them down but then someone

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