Fast, or good?
Here's where I "loose" people, but perhaps not everybody, soooo...
Yesterday [before I knew about this pay-to-appear-kosher scheme] I had been thinking about the Hebrew word koach/28. Power, force -- the number on the "Jews in Space" spaceship, which was the hint for the sequel to HOTW Part I. Spaceballs, the spoof on Star Wars. There's much commentary out there for koach/28.
Which led me to think about the force -- the Schwartz which means black. But then another color dawned on me -- blue -- because blue (kachol, כחול) begins with the force, koach [כח]. It's also a pun on a keyhole, ki-chol, "as [כ] the sand [חול]".
And, "chul" [חו"ל] is the word-acronym for being outside the land, abroad, like when Abram was told to look up:
Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.("The" stars, ha-kokavim = 5 stars, the best of the best, Abram's seed through Isaac, which is the simple meaning why the letter hei was added to Abram's name. His seed is the best of the best. But on the one hand, apparently not everyone is willing or able to count to 5.)
ROY G. BIV
OTOH, what can you do? Gotta laugh. The Dark Side never learns because it already knows everything already. Galley slaves, convinced that the quickest way to arrive at Freedom's shores is to row at ramming speed until it kills them. No concept or appreciation of hovering.
This led me right back to the reason I had been thinking of the word koach in the first place: HaRav Ginsburgh's analysis of the [current] month of Cheshvan:
In Hebrew, Cheshvan is written with the four letters: חשון. The borders (the first and last letters) of Cheshvan are chet - ח and nun - ן, which together spell the word chein - חן, meaning "beauty." The word chein - חן, "beauty" equals 58. The 58th day of the year is the 28th day of Cheshvan.
Why the connection to blue check marks, the blue bird's symbol of verification:
Because blue... kachol also reads as "koach and 30" (see Pirkei Avot 5:21, "בֶּן שְׁלשִׁים לַכֹּחַ"), koach being the same letters as the numeral 28, hence 28 [כ"ח] + [ו, "and"]
30 [ל] =
= 58
I notice these sorts of things because I am committed. 😜
Paradoxically, it's the only way to be free.
The Spirit of Elohim [רוח אלהים] = 300, so you can see how it all adds up from the very beginning.
out of the blue:
without warning; unexpectedly
It's a well-known sign, slogan:
About the blessing:
More commonly, chen [חן] is translated as grace. "Grace? She passed away 30 years ago." < --- Literally.
Re that yearly trek to the family home -- it's the annual sacrifice for all the family, because there's never enough room.
"I did it." ~ Sparky
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