MOSHE FEIGLIN'S DESIRE TO BE THE MESSAIH

A right wing Israeli politician, M. (Moshe) Feiglin, is found at an ELS in a 42-letter matrix with Netanyahu, the current prime minister of Israel.  Odds against a meeting this close were 151 to 1.  On April 20, 2009, an article appeared in the Jerusalem Post in which Feiglin declared that if he were elected prime minister, he would “take away control over the Temple Mount from the Wakf [the Islamic trust] and reinstate Jewish sovereignty over the entire mount and, hopefully, rebuild the Temple."  While this would probably ignite a war, the Jewish concept of the Messiah includes the idea that he will rebuild the Temple. So what happens if, in addition to Netanyahu, we look for Messiah and Prime Minister?  We can find these terms in a 208-letter matrix with M. (Feiglin and Netanyahu.  But when might such an event occur?  There is a raging controversy among top Torah Code scholars about using the Code to make such predictions.  Much of the furor surrounds trying to link such an event with the year 2012, which has significance in the pagan Mayan calendar, but little support among most Orthodox Jewish scholars.  Before proceeding any further, let me state that by my normal protocol, I would not want to expand the 208-letter matrix much further to try to fit in such a year.  The spreadsheet that is at the bottom of this page makes clear why this is an unsound mathematically.  But for now, let it be noted that to fit in the Hebrew year 5772 (which most of 2012 is), required the matrix to be expanded from 208 to 540 letters.  The larger the matrix, the less the significance of terms previously seen.

WHY THE MATH REALLY MATTERS.  If we want to pair somebody’s name with Messiah (which means anointed), it is most desirable to link it with that title when it appears in Torah at skip +1 (as with open text).  This word appears at skip +1 four time in Torah.  With M. Feiglin, Messiah at skip +1 does not occur on the matrix.  It is there at skip +2.  But for any skip other than +1 (or special case skips like -1, or the skip of the axis term – here M. Feiglin at skip 21,516), I use a combination of the Roffman Skip Formula, Skip Tables, Torah searches for the term at skips dictated by the two items just mentioned, and spreadsheets like that seen below to do the final calculation about significance.  This method has been repeatedly shown to be accurate by Monte Carlo permutation techniques.  

So what does my method reveal here about M. Feiglin, Messiah, and the abbreviation (Resh Hey Mem for Rosh HaMedina – Head of State) for Prime Minister?  In the 208-letter matrix with M. Feiglin and Netanyahu, there was about 1 chance in 5 for Messiah to be there (not significant), and the abbreviation for Prime Minister was a virtual certainty.  The year, 5772 , was not there.  When we expanded the matrix to 540 letters in order to see 5772, its p value (.038) was the equivalent of one chance in 26 – still not very significant.  But the odds for Messiah to now be on the plot were reduced to about one chance in 2. Again, the abbreviation for Prime Minister was even more certain to be there.  This plot is a classic example of why extreme caution is needed before making too much out of matches with the terms Messiah, Prime Minister, or a year.  Added to these concerns is the obvious one from the point of Jewish theology.  The Messiah is seen as the man who ends war.  To date, Moshe Feiglin’s positions have been belligerent, however events often have a way of taking turns not foreseen. His desire to restore the Temple is certainly in line with Orthodox Judaism.  The issue is how does he accomplish his goal?