Codes about the Messiah

We have found a number of intriguing codes about the Messiah. He is described in Jewish tradition as the son of David, referring to King David. King David was the son of Jesse, and the Messiah is also described as son of Jesse, for example in the Friday evening prayer, "Lechah Dodi", welcoming the Sabbath.

The following code, found by Dr. Leib Schwartzman and Professor Rips, started with the simple question "who is Messiah?" in blue. The extension, in red, was the first additional ELS to be noticed. With this extension, the entire vertical string now reads: "Your request: who is Messiah?" The next surprise was the promise of an answer, in green. The third unexpected addition was the string "son of Jesse". The fourth surprise was the extension to "son of Jesse" (see the phrase highlighted in yellow). The fifth surprise (August 2007) is the occurrence of "son of David" as a very compact 1D code (highlighted in 2 shades of purple). Such a compact 1D configuration (with skip 1 or -1 for son of) occurs only 3 or 4 times in the whole Torah.

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Each of these surprises is on its own significant, but (once again) we are unable to assign a p-level without extensive study since most of the surprises were not a priori. We did survey over 20 Hebrew speakers, having them evaluate the long phrase (highlighted in yellow) which extends son of Jesse. It ranked among the top 3% of competing phrases (using the bin Laden Component Analysis method - see the Twin Towers section - link at upper left). This is not actually outstanding, but it indicates the validity of the phrase.

Yet another suprise is that this phrase crosses the word "Messiah" in the bin Laden sentence:

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As a simple but telling additional test of the basic key words, we checked for "son of Jesse" with Messiah", to see if they appear elsewhere together. In fact, they appear in parallel, with a very small skip of 26 (in red and blue respectively):

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Next, we have a phrase for "son of David", with skip 183 (first minimum for son of David in Exodus):

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This phrase ranked among the top 1% of competing phrases (as ranked by the same Hebrew speaking reviewers, again using the bin Laden Component Analysis method). In addition, the references to timing and to being exalted are in a style similar to what we find in Biblical passages from the Prophets.

Again, we checked the most basic key words, this time "son of David" and "the Messiah". Again, we found them in a significant configuration, this time back-to-back and collinear (son of David, in yellow and red, runs up the page, while the Messiah, in blue, runs down the page):

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Next, we have 3 cases of codes combining David, Jesse and/or Messiah. First, house of David (an expression referring to his dynasty), is in blue, with the extension "and Jesse" in red:

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Next, son of Jesse is in blue, in the same column and sharing one letter, with son of David in red:

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One more combination table is similar to the above in its collinear portion (son of Jesse [blue] back to back and sharing one letter with son of David [red]). In addition this table contains a 1D code at the bottom, with Messiah in red and son of Jesse in green.

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p-levels must be re-calculated and verified, but the combined effect of all of these individuvally strong tables once again gives high significance for the overall topic at hand.

Finally, here is a long phrase surrounding "Messiah" itself. This was the third and final phrase rated by the Hebrew speaking reviewers, and it was comparable to the "son of David" phrase above (top 1%).

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If we think about the wording involved in the 3 long phrases on this page, we see yet more repetition (as I like to repeat). We see the idea of "no obstacle to the coming" repeated in the phrase "joy is coming". And we see the three phrases "will be exalted", "will rise", and "on high" also repeating a theme.

Interpretations: once again, we do not attempt to read meanings into what we are seeing. The ideas of "joy" and "no obstacles" are certainly hopeful, but the Talmud tells us that we have free will, and there is no guarantee for the timing of any particular outcome. We must simply do our best to fulfill what the Torah prescribes, starting with the Ten Commandments.