Tuesday, August 08, 2006

The Esoteric Meaning of Numbers - Numerology 108


Who knows EIGHT?
I know EIGHT.
Eight are the days of the milah.

The difference between seven and eight is that seven is the spiritual manifestation of Hashem in this world in a way resembling "nature" or natural, "derech hateva". Eight is the force of Hashem in this world that violates and overcomes and overpowers "nature", the presence of Hashem that is supernatural, "l'maala min hateva" above nature. That's the connection to the days of the milah. We take an eight day old child that cannot do anything and we "overpower" him and do this mitzva for him. If you think about it, a baby boy should be born complete, but he's not, he's born with something extra that we have to remove to perfect him, and create within him a new reality. That is not natural, it's above nature.
It would also seem to be that this would be a reflection of someone who was born on a corresponding day. If someone was born on the seventh day of the seventh month that person would seemingly be a very spiritual person but in a natural way, whereas someone born on the eighth day of the eighth month would be more supernaturally spiritual, and this would probably apply in some way to the other months as well.
The miracle of Chanukah did not take place in the natural course of events. It was supernatural, that's why we have eight days of Chanukah and eight candles that we light on the Chanukah menorah. On Yom Kippur, the Kohein Gadol does sprinkle seven below as mentioned last time, but he also sprinkles one above. The seven plus one, the eight, is the supernatural. Shmini Atzeres is brought down in Chazal as one of the holiest of holidays to connect to Hashem, it's on the eighth day. As David pointed out in his comment on #7, chazal tell us that the harp of mashiach, which is how the harmony will be played in the days to come, will have eight strings and consequently, we will then have eight musical notes.
The Torah is representation of the supernatural. When did we receive it, after seven full weeks, on the first day of the eighth week, we received the Torah. David Hamelech wrote the longest perek of tehillim, about the Torah. He constructed it with 176 pesukim, eight pesukim for each letter of the aleph bais. Why eight for each? Because the Torah is supernatural. The number 22 * 8 = 176 is of significance because the longest parsha, Naso, has 176 pesukim, and the longest mesechta, bava basra, has 176 dafim. Again proving that numbers are NOT a coincidence.
I recently stumbled onto an interesting discovery. There are certain perakim of tehillim that we tend to say when we are looking for (sometimes supernatural) salvation whether it's for eretz yisrael or for a sick person. The main ones that we say whether it's perek 121, 130 or 142...... each of them has eight pesukim.

8 Comments:

Blogger Neil Harris said...

Cool connection b/t Naso & Bava Basra, along with the Tehillim idea.

IIRC, from parasha Shemini, I believe that on the 8th day after the Mishkan was inagurated Aharon offered korbonos (which was when the Shechina actually came upon the Miskhan).

August 09, 2006 12:11 PM  
Blogger socialworker/frustrated mom said...

Nice find with tehillim, nice post.

August 09, 2006 1:07 PM  
Blogger anonym00kie said...

so inteeeeeeresting..

August 09, 2006 4:19 PM  
Blogger FrumGirl said...

First of all I think its so cool that you posted this on 8/8 at 8:08, lol :-)

So now I know what 8 stands for and its eerie that those perakim of tehillim all have 8 psukim. I do love the supernatural I wonder what that says about me....

August 09, 2006 9:05 PM  
Blogger chaverah said...

waiting for your MEME Mr. Frum Idealist. Let us peak alittle into your world....

August 11, 2006 1:36 PM  
Blogger David_on_the_Lake said...

I never knew that about the Tehillim thing..
Very interesting and thanks for the mention..
:-)

August 11, 2006 1:58 PM  
Blogger chaverah said...

still waiting...........

August 13, 2006 8:35 AM  
Blogger smb said...

cool, very interesting

August 14, 2006 2:22 PM  

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