Amazing Biblical Code: Which Verse in the Bible Mentions Rabbi Uri Zohar?
The people of Israel are struggling to say goodbye to Rabbi Uri Zohar, one of the greatest figures in the modern return to faith movement. Here's the verse in the Bible where his name is encoded.
The biblical code is a method for finding various expressions in the Torah by reading them with equidistant letter skips. This way, the name "Uri Zohar" can be found by skipping a certain number of letters at a regular interval. For instance, in a particular verse, the letter Aleph appears, five letters later a Vav, and continuing in this pattern reveals the name.
Using fixed equidistant letter skips, messages (in the form of words or entire sentences) can be discovered in Bible verses so that these words convey a clear message, often fittingly related to the verses in which they appear.
This fact was already known to the ancients, and in the holy Zohar, we find the use of skips to discover secrets hidden in the Bible. The esteemed Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg, in his endorsement of the book "VehaKol Emet," writes that the codes discovered in the Bible by computer are compelling proof that the Torah is from Heaven.
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Rabbi Uri Zohar's name is encoded in the Bible in a verse that explicitly discusses the mitzvah of repentance. In the book of Deuteronomy 4:30, the verse states: "And you shall return to Hashem your God and listen to His voice." Precisely in the word "return," at a skip of 7145, appears the continuous sequence "Uri-Zohar."
This verse, in which the name of this great man, one of the leading returnees to faith in our generation, is hidden, is a verse concerning the repentance movement that will arise in the last generations before the coming of the Messiah. This is explicitly emphasized in the verse: "In the latter days."
Rabbi Uri's name begins in the verse: "To sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel," hinting at the immense sanctification of Hashem that Rabbi Uri accomplished — leaving the peak of success, wealth, and honor to adhere to the holy Torah and the observance of mitzvot.
Surrounding Rabbi Uri Zohar’s name appears his birth year: 5696 (Hebrew calendar), and also the year of his passing: 5782.
Further discoveries indicate that above Rabbi Uri's name, at the exact same skip, his main profession before returning to faith appears: "director." Below his name, from the verse "to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel," appears, in a similar skip, the important message he worked tirelessly to spread to the entire generation after his return to faith: "let us return."
"A shiver ran down my spine" - Rabbi Zamir Cohen on the biblical code. A life-changing lecture. Watch:
