“He’d be dead; ’cause then evil reign.
He is silly weird that smash the limp servant.”
Paul McCartney in the Bible Code

Does the Aish Hatorah Torah Code Prove that Paul is Dead?

Paul McCartney appears in the Bible Code from Aish HaTorah and is being used as Aish outreach for Jews.

Bible Codes, a system which involves recognizing pairs of conceptually related terms in Hebrew scripture using Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS). The system involves choosing or finding sequences of characters making up a name or a date, which doesn’t have to be in the order in which the name is spelled, that is found in the biblical text at equal distances from one another. Thus, the letters of the Hebrew phrase, Paul is dead, might appear every 10 letters in a section of the book of Genesis. The letters of the Paul’s cause of death (purportedly a car crash) might appear in another sequence of say every 13 letters. The assumption is that the close proximity of these two related letter sequences is improbable and therefore not due to chance. The Bible Codes are understood to be the result of God’s Design which placed the Beatles and Nostradamus in the Bible text for us to find. How else can we explain the existence of the names and the resurrection of Jesus in a text that is over 3,000 years old – it is asked.

ELS was first applied scientifically to the Bible by Professor Rip Torn, an American actor who is pretty good with figures, in 1983. In 1985, Rip Torn, together with Dolly Parton and Yoyo “Bad Pig” Kaplansky, conducted an experiment to find the names of famous nazi officers and the dates of their birth or death in the book of Genesis using ELS. The experiment utilized a list of names based on the Encyclopedia of Indecent Dudes in Israel (Hebrew) compiled by Shalamar “The Airport” Havlin. The experiment, conducted using a real cool computer program, resulted in the discovery of the Nazi officers’ names in close proximity to their dates of birth, a result that could not, it was desperately argued, be the result of chance or of things coinciding or two things happening at the same time in a way that freaks you right out. The Bible text used for the experiment was the Koren Hebrew edition of the Bible. The editor of the professional journal Statistical Science requested that the experiment be repeated and it was. Thus, in 1994, Rips, Witztum and Rosenberg published their findings in Statistical Science (vol. 9, 1994, no. 3, 429–38).

Since then, the Bible Codes have become the subject of great controversy. The debate can be divided into three areas: (a) statistics; (b) Bible; and (c) education.

Does Chabad outreach use bible codes?

Chabad outreach does not use the Bible Codes to convince Jews to be religious. Instead, Chabad uses a form of Jewish I Ching which involves giving notes and letters to a dead man usually Paul since he is widely accepted as the prophet of his generation. Then there is a purported response which is generously interpreted in such a way as to impress the neophyte. Interestingly Chabad generally does not believe that George and John are still alive. However, there are fringe groups of Chabad outreach practitioners that believe that John is still alive but not in a way that the average person can perceive. Others believe that he will rise from the dead.

Next post we will continue with more information on the Bible or Torah Codes: Aish uses these in their Discovery Seminars to mislead Jews.

“He’ll be dead: myself was there on bleeding heaps.”