It's always just plain fun. I never know where I'll end up day-to-day.
UFD... Unidentified Flying Davids? Could be anyone?
One of my favorite wanderings was the search for the missing David. All I wanted to know was where was David no. 1076, and what were the circumstances behind that particular search result anomaly.
Then it turned out that not only was David located in plain sight in Florence (being the most famous statue in the world, inventory no. 1076), he was hiding in the very verse about his being noticed *because* he would be discovered missing.
Then I saw that the printed English Bible text is likewise formatted to indicate that he's there. The simple reality, then, is that he was stashed there undercover as the letter vav ("him").
Maybe he's like a person with a middle name in quotes, only in this case it's the middle letter. Vav -- the letter of connection, dot + dot.
"Jerusalem" spelled out by the letters-as-words = 1076, and everyone knows that Jerusalem is "DC", David's Capital.
"Discover the story. Embrace the connection."
It's not one thing or another, but the total experience. It's just not normal. Okay, well in my world it is. It's always something.. I lived the verse, like when Gumby turned aside to slip into a book to become part of the adventure.
"If you've got a heart then Gumby's a part of you."
Come to think of it, one of the famous opinions about the Messianic name "Shiloh" is that it should be read as shai-lo, "a gift for him".
Sound-wise that's perfectly reasonable, but the last letter is a hei, ergo "a gift for her". Yet it is pronounced shai-lo, not shai-lah. I never see this addressed, so it bugs me.
Is Shiloh a gift for him, or a gift for her? Who can tell anymore? Heh, I might have just answered my own question.
Preferred pronouns -- it's a modern topic of vexation and woe, in any case. People are triggered by pronouns.
It's not complicated. I gave one of the chickens the name Shiloh because she's shy.
'We can't handle it'
The tRUTH is out there, but folks are distracted off the way, too busy arguing. 🫤
Eh, meanwhile... I find the best stuff. Top shelf.
Lighter subject:
מ
Rotating the "L" in the 4 by 180 degrees:
סוד
401 = 40, thus
יסוד
"In at'bash, mem transforms to yud, the point of wisdom or revealed insight, the drop of water emerging from the fountain of the mem."
"Betzalel", meaning in the shadow of L [אל], 50:
"Tzaddik yesod olam"311. CREATION BY LETTERS
With letters, heaven and earth were created, the oceans and rivers were created, all the
world's needs and all the orders of Creation. And each letter flashed over and over again
like lightning.
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Bezalel, the architect of the tabernacle, knew how to combine the letters through which
heaven and earth were created.
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312. THE SHINING LETTERS
Most people derive pleasure from eating and drinking, not from the light shining through
the letters. The Tzaddik, however, derives no pleasure from eating or drinking or other
bodily pleasures. Instead, he is renewed by the shining letters, and derives all his plea-
sure from them. For the letters of the holy tongue animate every object. And the Tzaddik,
when reaching for an object, can actually grasp the letters within it.
Basic kabbalistic doctrine holds that the interaction of the letters of a word is di-
rectly linked to what that word represents. Indeed, every object has at its essence the
letters that make it up. Most people are oblivious to this inner truth, the letters glow-
ing inside of every object. But the Tzaddikim -- the righteous ones -- are well aware of
these letters and are even able to grasp them. Here Rabbi Nachman expands, as he
often does, on the remarkable spiritual insight of the Tzaddik.
יסוד = 80 = מם