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Divinity Part 16: Torah Codes- The Secrets Hidden In The Torah : Proving Judaism Part 3

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Rabbi Yehoshua Zitron

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you are a spy and you want to send a message to your mother country, motherland, right? Whatever you want to call it. All right, assuming you're Russian. So, um cuz there's Is there any other There's no mother USA, right? It's only mother Russia, right? Everyone else I think is male. Um so, in any case, you're going and you're you're a spy, you want to send your message to your country. Now, think about it in the olden days. You want to send a letter, you want to send some sort of document, you can't just say straight out, "Hey, by the way, you know, they have nukes in this location and this and this location and this and this location. Be careful of this cuz then they're just going to, you know, intercept it and they're not going to It's not going to uh be successful. It's not going to reach its destination. So, what you can do is do something through codes. You could You could uh um hide a message through codes. So, you could be like, "Hey, Mom, everything is great down here in Siberia. I'm having a blast and, you know, and just continue writing a normal letter and then you tell them beforehand, "Every 10th letter, circle that letter." And then afterwards, forget about everything else that I wrote, everything else at the end, that's how you know my my real message is is that you circle every 10th letter and then you'll find

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  1. 0:30you are a spy and you want to send a message to your mother country, motherland,
  2. 6:24Otiyot is the skipping of letters and that's what we're going to be dealing today. The
  3. 12:36letters you get a tav over here. It's going to spell backwards Torah but again at
  4. 18:52the highest possible. Was one of the highest. And how do they explain it? A regular
  5. 25:12you know myself, but the majority of them is all taken from other rabbis of Weismann
  6. 31:30Torah. He put it together in a 14 volume book and we use it very very
  7. 37:51this is Yaakov telling telling Yosef Rachel What is this dream that you that you dreamt?
  8. 44:11the trees, yeah. From the ground. Now, this is the area that it's referring to where
  9. 50:29at the top two, it says over here badam mavet. Death by via the blood. AIDS
  10. 56:48translation of War and Peace, the Hebrew translation of Moby Dick. And they said, "Run them

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