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abbi Daniel Mechanic
believes the Torah
has predicted the
future — not blatant-
ly, but in code.
Numbers and occur-
rences of letters in various
patterns are his proof. And
even statisticians, com-
monly known as a most
skeptical group, are unable
to disprove his theory and
are agreeing with him.
Rabbi Mechanic spoke
last Sunday at the
Discovery Seminar, pre-
sented by Aish HaTorah
College of Jewish Studies.
He was joined by Rabbi
Chaim Weiss. Both are
part of the Aish HaTorah
faculty in New York.
Their goal was two-fold.
Together they attempted to
prove there is a God who
gave the Jews the Torah,
and that Torah is the same
today as it was several
thousand years ago.
Rabbi Weiss began the
program by taking about
30 participants on an imag-
inary trek to Israel. The
audience was on a select
intelligence mission, deter-
mining whether a message
from a spy was authentic.
Five criteria had to be
met: the message must
come in code; the signature
must have identifying
information, an obscure
fact only the spy and his
government would know;
the transmission must be
good, as lesser spies would
send the same message to
back up the original; out-
side verification must sup-
port the message; and con-
trol must exist, the spy
must be trusted to carry
through the mission.
Israeli
intelligence
demands code, transmis-
sion and outside verifica-
tion to determine - authen-
ticity.
"We'd like to show you
the Torah contains code,
identifying information,
transmission, outside veri-
fication and control, too,"
Rabbi Weiss said.
Rabbi Weiss pointed to
the laws of kashrut to
explain identifying infor-
mation.
The Torah says only
meat of animals with split
hooves that chew their cud
may be eaten. Yet its
author continues, giving

examples of four animals
which meet only one of the
criteria, like pigs and
camels.
"How did the author of
the Torah know there were
four, and only four, ani-
mals which have one
kosher sign?" Rabbi Weiss
said. "If a man wrote this,
would he take a chance
that this fact could be
wrong or could change?
Why chance that? Only a
Divine author could know
this."

Computers are
used in Bible
sleuthing.

Questions were raised by
participants regarding the
possibility of extraordinary
knowledge of humans as
opposed to a Divine source.
Rabbi Mechanic ap-
proached the topic of codes
in the Torah.
"I'm trying to present /
rational evidence that it
was the Divine who wrote
the Torah," Rabbi
Mechanic said.
Codes,. Rabbi Mechanic
believes, ensure the mes-
sage of God was not gar-
bled in transmission.
"This is prophesy. All the
changes in the world have
been written about in the
Torah. The facts haven't
changed. Also, no sane
human being would write
what he could not prove
later," he said.
Codes do the same work
in a more cryptic fashion.
Rabbi Mechanic spoke of
significant numbers such
as seven, and variables of
seven. The first verse in
the Bible contains seven
words. Giving each letter a
numerical value, the first
verse adds up to 777.
According to Rabbi
Mechanic, the first verse of
the Torah contains 30 dif-
ferent patterns of the num-
ber seven.
Jumps, the number of
spaces between letters to
form words within sen-
tences, also were dis-
cussed. For example, every
fifth letter in a sentence
might spell the word
"peace."
It's not quite that sim-

