Torah Codes: A Glimpse into the Infinite Professor Robert M. Haralick Professor Eliyahu Rips Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson I The book contains scriptural passages and we request the reader to treat this book with due respect. Copyright @2005 Robert M Haralick All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the authors, except in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. Library of Congress Cataloging•in•Publication Data Torah Codes: A Glimpse into the Infinite by Robert M. Haralick, Eliyahu Rips, Matityahu Glazerson Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0•9722273•1•8 II ,el exiy ,el exnf .eiz`ltp lka egiy .cinz eipt eywa Sing to Him, Chant praises to Him, Speak of all His wonders.1 Seek His face continually.2 1.1 Chronicles 16:8 2. Ibid. 16:11 III Rabbi holding Torah, painted in 1964 by Yetta S. Haralick, mother of Robert Haralick IV Thankyou to Ethel Gottlieb for help in editing the manuscript of this book. Thankyou to Rabbi Earl David for help in printing the book. Thankyou to Leonard Himelsein Torah foundation. V TTaabbllee ooff CCoonntteennttss Foreword IX About The Authors XII Chapter 1 • Introduction 1 Chapter 2 • Equidistant Letter Sequences and Code 4 Cylinders Chapter 3 • The Torah Code Hypothesis 9 Probability 10 Chapter 4 • The Experiment and Its Protocol 20 Experimental Protocol Variations 23 Chapter 5 • The McKay Experiments 29 Moby Dick Combined Assassination Experiment 44 McKay’s War and Peace Chanukah Table 46 Chapter 6 • What The Critics Say 49 The Great Rabbis Experiment 64 The Cities Experiment 66 The Ingermanson Experiment 68 Chapter 7 • The Crown of the Torah: Torah Codes 70 Chapter 8 • The World Trade Center: The Twin 90 Towers Spiritual Commentary on the Twin Towers Disaster 100 The Emotional Responses in the Twin Towers Table 104 Twin Towers, the End of Days, and Yishmael 108 Twin Towers, Islam, and Bin Laden 116 Chapter 9 • Terror Attacks 130 VI Al•Qaeda 130 Taba Hilton 133 Beslan Massacre 139 Madrid Train Bombings 144 Chapter 10 • The Philistines and The Palestinians 150 Chapter 11 • Snow White And The Madness of Truth 158 Chapter 12 • The US Election 162 Chapter 13 • Tsunami 164 Chapter 14 • Teshuvah, Maschiach And The End Of 178 Days Appendix 1 • The Hebrew Letters 185 VII Foreword This book is about Jewish spirituality. It contains many Torah teachings particularly suitable for our times: teachings from the Torah, the Talmud, the Midrashim, and the Kabbalah. Our discussion is from the point of view of Torah Codes and gematria. Explaining Torah teachings with the aid ofgematria has been a well•known longstanding tradition in Judaism. Our sages have told us that information derived from the Torah by means of equal letter skips is also in the same class asgematria. With the advent of the computer in the last fifty years, automated searches to find equidistant letter sequences became possible. More recently, this search has expanded into the statistical realm in order to help differentiate between equidistant letter sequence relationships that arise by chance and those that do not arise by chance. Those that do not arise by chance may be shown as Torah Code tables. We also explain the standards for Torah Code tables. We clarify the protocols and statistics governing the kind of tables that constitute Torah Codes and those that give rise to tables that do not constitute Torah Codes. Those readers who are interested in the technical material will find chapters 3 and 4 very helpful in understanding the depth of the statistics. Those who are not interested in the technical material can skip those chapters and just read the Torah Code table sections. There they will find that we bring together a remarkable set of tables and explain their meaning through an interpretation of the Torah verses that constitute the table or by the Oral Tradition which teaches why certain terms are related. There is a controversy regarding Torah Codes. The existence of codes in the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, about events that would take place thousands of years after the Torah was given on Mount Sinai is not consistent with a world view that takes the Torah to be a natural man written document. If it is not man written then, it either must have been written by an alien time traveler (for those who are science fiction oriented) or God (for those who are religious oriented).3 There are many people with world views that are inconsistent with either of these beliefs. When these people are confronted with evidence that is inconsistent with their world view or belief system they will feel a strong cognitive dissonance. The inconsistent evidence is then dismissed either by ignoring it or by rationalizing why it is not correct so that they may preserve their world view or belief system. This indeed has happened. One of the most important elements in participating in a dialog on the Torah Code Controversy is clarity. We have to know what the Torah Code hypothesis is and what it is not. And we have to be able to separate any assumptions arising from our personal religious beliefs from the logic of the statistical debate. This is because the debate isnot a religious debate. The Torah Code hypothesis is a hypothesis in the statistical domain about the Torah text that we have today. Its language is the language of probability and statistics. The debate is over the different experiments that have been performed and whether or not the experimental results that have been observed can be explained in "natural terms" or not. One side of the debate maintains that the experiments are proper experiments and there is no natural explanation for the observed results. And hence the Torah Codes are real. The other side of the debate holds that there is indeed a natural explanation: simply that the experiments were either not propera priori experiments or were experiments with flawed methodology and, therefore, the Torah Codes are not real. 3. Our orientation is strictly religious. VIII The politics of the debate has religious and secular elements opposed. Underlying the discussions are often strong emotions and this makes it more difficult to be logical and to be clear. And confusing the matter even more is the fact that the debate takes place in an environment in which there is a tabloid•like layer that is certainly orthogonal to the rigors of the statistical debate. This tabloid•like layer, due to popular books, from religious (Jewish and non•Jewish) and non religious people provide a variety of tables showing apparent remarkable closeness among historically or logically related key words. However, when these kinds of examples are not generated in accordance with aa properpriori experimental protocol, they must be regarded as either meaningless or anecdotal. Proper a prior experimental protocol means that first the related key words are specified, and second a proper experiment is run which determines a probability that a randomly sampled text in a “specified monkey text” population would have a table as compact as the given table. Further complicating the issue is that in this situation "chance" does not have a unique meaning. To estimate a probability requires that a control or monkey text population be specified. The control population can be specified as a set of randomized texts or a set of randomized pairing of key words, where randomized itself can have a variety of different possible meanings. The important point about the control population is that it is designed not to have very many significant events. Change the population and we change the probability. Likewise change the experimental protocol and the chance probability will change. In this book we provide some tutorial information about the technical side of Torah Codes. We give a clear statement of the Torah Code hypothesis. We discuss the criteria by which a table can be judged: does it constitute a valid table or an invalid table. We devote a whole section to the argument against the Torah Codes and the parody tables purporting to illustrate encodings in texts such asWar and Peace and Moby Dick. We also develop a number of examples of Torah Code tables and discuss the interpretation of the content of the table in association with the place where the table occurs in the Torah. This is the inner layer, which consists of the Torah interpretations and teachings the tables have. These Torah teachings arise from the meaning of the Torah verses contained in the tables and the relationship between the historically logically related key words whose compact arrangements are in the tables. The teaching is always consistent with the Written Tradition, which is the Torah given on Mount Sinai and the Oral Tradition, which was given at the same time on Mount Sinai. In most cases our tables are shown in a context of Torah teachings. Some of the tables arise from propera priori experiments. These tables will have associated with them the probabilities that they arise by chance in accordance with a given experimental protocol. Other tables are nona priori developments of these tables and we associated no probabilities with them. They however support the Torah discussion associated with the table. We also provide some tables that may be either nota priori or not statistically signficant. They are furnished solely because they support the interpretation of the Torah verses that they contain. As of this writing there are thousands of statistically significant tables developed by Torah Code researchers.