Details within the details (what can I say, it's a magnet!):
37 The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. 38 In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.
"Bul"
The modern name [Mar]cheshvan is simply the"month of 8", the 8th month; that's its meaning. Bul = increase, numerically being 2 + 6 + 30, 8 + 30.
Chet = 8
Chet is the letter of life (chaim, from the root chayah, whose most important letter is chet). We are taught in Chassidut that there are two levels of life “essential life” and “life to enliven.” God Himself, as it were, is in the state of “Essential life.” His creative power, continually permeating all of reality is “life to enliven.” So in the Jewish soul: the essence of its root, at one with God, possesses the state of “essential life.” The reflection of the light of the soul which shines below to enliven the body and its physical experience is at the level of “life to enliven.” The second level of life, life as we know it in general, manifests itself as pulsation, the secret of “run and return.”
According to the Ari z”l,” the letter chet is constructed by combining the two previous letters, vav and zayin, with a thin bridge-shaped line, referred to as the chatoteret (“hunchback”). The new energy effected by the union of the vav—or yashar–and the zayin—or chozer–is the secret of “hovering” or “touching yet not touching.” The image of “hovering” appears at the very beginning of Creation: “And the spirit of God was ‘hovering’ over the water.”
http://www.inner.org/hebleter/chet.htm
(Many allusions to Rachel are in the first few verses of the Torah.)
Bul = increase, spelled 2 (bet) + 6 (vav) + 30 (lamed)...
2 --> 6 --> 30, an increase, literally, in the basic letter values:
2 x 3 = 6
6 x 5 = 30
(I see a pattern developing, 1,2,3,5,8,13...)
30 x 8 = 240...
The interesting thing about Ziv is that it means brightness, and is spelled zayin vav, which = 13 = one. More than that, those same letters are the foundational components of the letter chet, which is 8.
Furthermore, the months are counted with an inherent duality, e.g the 1st month (Tishri) of the new year being the 7th month counting from Nisan, the "beginning of months". Hence the 8th month is also the 2nd month.
Ziv = brightness = the 2nd month = zayin + vav = the letter chet = 8, which is Marcheshvan. The 8th month is also the 2nd month, as we already know. Here it is in these names.
The Exodus is dated 240 years after the death of Rachel, 8 x 30.
(As soon as we let doubt in, then Amalek comes.)
[Rachel died in year 2208, when Joseph was 9 according to tradition. It can be calculated by the Torah that Joseph was 39 (17 + 13 + 7 + 2) when the family was reunited. This was when the 70 souls came together in Egypt, and the 210 (7 x 30) year count to the Exodus commenced, meaning the reunification was 30 years after the death of Rachel, and 30 + 210 = 240]
The time in the wilderness was 40 years, meaning that the entry into the Promised Land occured 280 years after Rachel died and Ben-oni appeared for just a flash, the name having been conceived based on Rachel's hard labor on the 11th of the 8th month. 280 = 40 weeks
The foundation was laid in Ziv, zayin + vav, which = 13 = one, and completed in the month of increase, the 8th month.
The Foundation was laid in the Fourth year, and Finished in the eleventh year...
More concerning 8's, octaves (think musical scale, pianos which have 8 x 11 keys), the 4th is the same as the 11th. In the key of C (see), no sharps or flats, the 4th key is F, and the 11th is also F, one octave higher.
When there is a 13th month on the calendar, Cheshvan 11 plus 9 lunar months (38 weeks) comes to Tammuz 11, 4/11. Ordinarily that would only be 8 months.
The patterns are quite detailed in the matter of building and completing the Temple. There's much more in all that; it's too much to type. It's a flood like the Mabul, mem (40) + Bul (8 + 30). See what I mean? :)
Gen 7
10. And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth:
11. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened:
12. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights...
Bethlehem, the house of lamed + chet + mem, IS the "house of [30 + 8] + 40", the Mabul (40 + 8 + 30).
It goes on. Fascinating stuff.
Year 78 is right around the corner.
