TALMUD AND CHOOSING NAMES

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Talmud Discusses Names Inspired by God

 In a discussion of names and prophecy, the Talmud (Gemara for Berachos 7b) indicates that God inspires parents to select a name that has significance unbeknown to the parent.  Many years later, the aptness of the name becomes apparent to all.

THE LONGER THE NAME, THE LESS LIKELY THAT IT WILL BE AT AN ELS.

Many Codes avocates have been proceeding under the rabbinical (Vilna Gaon) claim that everyone's life is predicted in Torah - birth, death, all details, etc.. But the full 10-letter Hebrew name for the United States (Alef Resh Tsadeh Vav Tav Hey Bet Resh Yud Tav, pronounced Artzot HaBrit) is not present at an ELS in unwrapped or wrapped Torah (or even if we search the entire Tenach/Old Testament). The most common ceiling of letters found at ELS without snooping for additional words before or after an axis term (first term sought) is 8 letters. Nine letter ELSs arise, perhaps 5% of the time, while 10-letter ELSs are probably found much less than 1% of the time. For example, suppose we just look for an ELS that has eight letters - Alef Bet Alef Bet Alef Bet Alef Bet. In wrapped Torah (where the computer makes several passes through Torah), it's there 48 times, but in unwrapped Torah (one computer search of the Torah) it's there only 5 times. What happens if we add a letter Alef at the end to make a 9-letter ELS to hunt for? We do not find this 9-letter ELS even once in wrapped Torah. We hit the ceiing at 8 letters. However, if instead of adding an Alef at the end of the first 8-letter ELS sought, we add a Bet at the beginning to get the 9 letters of Bet Alef Bet Alef Bet Alef Bet Alef Bet, we do find it at ELS once. But the 9 letters here is the limit, and it is only found in wrapped Torah. It does not exist in one pass through the Torah. There the limit remains at 8 letters.

My son, David Roffman, and I have performed many experiments looking for names of people, whether his school colleagues, or U.S. presidents, and the 8-letter limit was almost always there. So what about people with names that require more than 8 letters? We generally kick back to initials, or forms that eliminate vowel letters, but even then we don't always find everybody. Further, even if we did find everybody, it would generate serious questions about free will if their fates were prerecorded. This is a problem for Judaism, as our faith strongly backs the concept of free will.

So what is really going on? To understand, we need to consider another Code written by God - the Genetic Code. I have written in my book and to Dr. Rips before about DNA-structured Codes matrices, but this is not the point I wish make here.

Consider, if you will, the cases of murderers who have murderers up their family trees. There are many of them. But having fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers who were criminal does not mean that their descendants must be criminals too. There is free will, and people can overcome bad genes (as with modern Australians who trace their ancestry to prisoners brought there from England). People can learn from mistakes made by their ancestors, however, we are not shocked when they do not. So it may be with the Codes. Not everyone's name is at an ELS. But when a name is at an ELS, there may be a tendency for events to unfold in that life that match what is seen in the text that is close to the ELS name. Thus the Clinton matrix depicting the Lewinsky scandal. So a bad ELS location may imply a tendency to have something negative happen, while a positive environment in the Torah text may be a blessing. Therefore, parents should check the ELS location before settling on a name. However, it is more than possible that some names they might choose have no ELS - especially when the names are (a) very long, or (b) contain hard to find letters like zayin (Z), tet instead of tav for T, or samech instead of shin for S..

This also makes sense when we consider the issue of how a text as beautiful and coherent as Torah could possibly be written while the Author must consciously alter the proposed text to accommodate the fates of billions of people. No adjustment in text design was required. Rather, people adjust to their ELS location.

ABOVE: PHILADELPHIA shares a letter HEY with THE CITY in the open text.

All this means that if we find a statistical tendency to support the Codes with respect to the fates of people, it is not because they have been encoded to definitely do something. Rather, we are seeing the result of the analogy of good or bad genes with good or bad location of the names at ELS. The location of the ELS does NOT require the person to experience that fate, but it makes it more likely that they will experience the fate suggested than someone who has no such ELS location in Torah. I went looking for Philadelphia. In unwrapped text, it was only there once. But in wrapped text, Philadelphia is there 4 times. The first thing to look for? City. It matches perfectly with Philadelphia at skip -58,964 (ELS rank 3) in wrapped Torah (see image above). All of this implies that experiments designed should perhaps aim at matching names to a pre-specified set of related terms, very much as we did before. But we should not expect to find all names, or all fates encoded. For example, the Israeli Newspaper HaAretz spells the name Goldwasser (a prisoner of Hezbollah who was murdered in Lebanon) as Gimel vav lamed dalet vav vav samech resh, and this name does not appear at an ELS in Torah Codes. This is only 8 letters, but samech and gimel are low frequency letters

Also missing: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. His 10-letter nam (spelled Alef Hey Vav Dalet Alef Vav Lamed Mem Resh Tet) is not at an ELS. The six letters of his last name alone, Olmert, do occur 336 in unwrapped Torah. We can find Olmert followed (but not predeced by) by Resh Hey Mem, the abbreviation for Prime Minister, at skip -293 and in a 55-letter box along with the word for President or Prince (Nun Sin Yud Alef). Skip -293 is the fourth lowest skip of Olmert. But it should be noted that the three letters to form the abbreviation for Prime Minister are the third (Hey), fifth (Mem) and seventh (Resh) most common letters in Torah, comprising over 23% of it. We also find Olmert at an ELS in sequence with the same three letters scrambled in meaningless fashion after his name as Hey Resh Mem, and Resh Mem Hey, if we search wrapped Torah.

Many fates that don't match the names. However, if such a blessing or curse effect is present, we should expect to see a slightly greater rate of matching fates in Codes texts than in control texts - again, not because they are deliberately encoded, but because they have received a blessing or curse of some sort at name selection. While it may also exist, I am not yet confident of any deliberate encoding for terms that do not require redundant a priori course angles like the ELS Maps posted on this web site.