Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

this rabbinical level of interpretation called Sod the mystery level of interpreting the Torah?

Meanings in the Years Since each letter of the Hebrew alphabet holds a number value, numbers can also be translated back to letters of the alphabet. For example, the number one represents alef , the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The number two is beit , the second letter, while the number three is the value of gimel , the third letter, and so on. This numbering system concludes with tav , the twenty-second letter, whose value is four hundred. Rabbis began to notice that when Jewish years are translated back to letters of the alphabet, at times they contain a code revealing a prophetic event or theme that occurred on that particular year. I will share one example. The year 1997–1998 on the Gregorian calendar was the Jewish year 5758. (The years overlap, as the Jewish new year begins in the fall, and our new year begins January 1.) When translating the Jewish year 5758 to the value of the Hebrew letters, the last two numbers, 58, are the Hebrew letter nun , whose value is 50, and c het , whose value is 8. These two