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What we have exposed is that there is a hidden text in the Torah, and what we see encoded in this text is the future, the present, and the past. Thus it encompasses all things, and that's why there's so much opposition."

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Doron Witztum
Physicist/Code Co-Discoverer
Israeli TV Channel 1

"There are several things that have to be understood about 'equidistant letter sequence' encoding. Just looking for words--virtually any words as an equidistant letter sequence--you'll find them in the book of Genesis, you'll find them in War and Peace, you'll find them in any sufficiently long text that you try to find them in, particularly if you are using a computer. In any case, what is found is generally random. You have to apply statistical analysis to determine whether or not what you found is in fact random, or is in fact well beyond what you'd expect to find at rando

Harold Gans, Director of Research for Aish HaTorah,

spent 28 years as Senior Cryptologic Mathematician with the
National Security Agency, United States Department of Defense.

                  The phenomenon of hidden codes in the Bible is real, and   its implication should not be minimized. While it is temptingto lose oneself in a sea of prophesy, what is trulyastounding is that serious scientific evidence supports this       contention and points to a divine author of the Bible.   With discussions and advice on every topic from busines and health to marriage and relationships, the Bible has guided people for thousands of years. The existence of hidden codes would be yet another piece of "evidence" that this anchor of faith, on which entire belief systems and      ways of life have been built, merits careful and serious     study. After all, if it is of divine origin, who wouldn't want to consult it on life's most important             issues?While theologians and lay people alike have always found insights in the Bible, and the concept of "hidden"   information encoded within the text can be found in thework of many of the classical Jewish commentators,    computers and mathematics have now made it possible to examine the Bible in a way never before possible. In a   carefully controlled experiment, the internationally renowned mathematician Eliyahu Rips, physicist DoronWitztum, and Yoav Rosenberg successfully searched the
                  Hebrew text of the Book of Genesis for the encoded names and dates of birth and death of 32 rabbis who lived
           between the ninth and eighteenth centuries. Their study concluded that the existence of this information in the text could not be a chance occurrence. They published their work in the prestigious peer review journal, Statistical Science in August1994.          In the three years since publication, many have tried to find    the "fatal flaw" in the "Great Rabbis Experiment," and none    has succeeded. I myself, a cryptologic mathematician with       nearly three decades of experience cracking codes for the        United States Government, was initially highly skeptical of        their results, and was not only able to validate their work, but using their method was able to extend it by p   these names, dates, and cities cannot be reasonablyairing the cities of birth and death with the names of the rabbis on their list. Statistical analysis shows that the presence ofattributed to mere coincidence, the probability of such an occurrence being vanishingly small.
                     What conclusion can be made about these and other      statistically verifiable codes? Only one--that the information
                  was deliberately placed in the Bible by its author. Yet the Bible has existed in its present form for thousands of years.How then, could its author have known such details aboutmen who would not be born for centuries? Logic would dictate that the author could not be human, could not be     bound by the limits of time. It would then be natural to   conclude that the author is a divine being.      Whether you agree with me or not, the implication of the   hidden codes discovery is clear and profound: the search   for God and the meaning of human existence should be as compelling a pursuit at the turn of the millennium as it was at the beginning.   So, if we cannot use the information in the hidden codes to look to the future, for what purpose can it be used? As I'vesuggested, only to appreciate the nature of the Bible's   author. Several major adult religious educational   organizations, including the one with which I'm affiliated,use the codes phenomenon as a tool to re-interest and
         reintroduce people to the Bible - to suggest that they take a       second look at how its wisdom applies to their own lives.
                 Clearly the presence of hidden codes in the Bible hints at    evidence of great mysteries yet to be revealed.       suggested, only to appreciate the nature of the Bible's author. Several major adult religious educational       organizations, including the one with which I'm affiliated,use the codes phenomenon as a tool to re-interest and   reintroduce people to the Bible - to suggest that they take a     second look at how its wisdom applies to their own lives. Clearly the presence of hidden codes in the Bible hints at evidence of great mysteries yet to be revealed.

Roy Reinhold, a Bible Code software consultant says, "The debate is raging as to whether you can foretell future events from the Bible Code. The original Bible Code discoverers--Dr. Eliyahu Rips and Doron Witztum--who have concentrated their work on the five books of the Torah, say 'No'." Reinhold points out, though, that one-third of the Bible is prophecy.

"Many of these same Christians -- who say the Bible Code of pre-ordained encoded information cannot be used for predictive purposes -- are themselves busy making predictions everyday based on their interpretations of the prophetic scriptures." Reinhold says. "If this is not considered sorcery, then one can hardly apply the sorcery label to future findings encoded in the Bible by God."
"When I first heard about the Bible Code, I thought it was utter nonsense. I was in Israel to meet with the chief of Israeli intelligence on a totally different subject, and I heard by chance about the work that a very famous mathematician in Jerusalem had done. He had found the exact date that the Gulf War would begin in a code in the bible. I thought this was just nonsense... Instead of spending an hour with Dr. Rips, I spent a week with him, and at the end of the week, I knew he was on to something real."

"The Bible Codes are dramatic demonstration that what we have here is the word of God and not simply a historical tradition. The Bible's sixty-six books penned by forty different authors over thousands of years are collectively a supernatural given and skillfully engineered message system."

--Dr. Robert Aumann
Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University
"Our referees were baffled. Their prior beliefs made them think the book of Genesis could not possibly contain meaningful references to modern-day individuals, yet when the authors carried out additional analyses and checks, the effect persisted. The paper is offered to Statistical Science readers as a challenging puzzle."

--Dr. Robert Kaas
Editor, Satistical Science
Chairman of the Department of Statistics
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh

"The implications of the proof that the Bible Codes are genuine is the claim that is found from Genesis to Revelation that 'Thus saith the Lord.' The Bible claims repeatedly that it is the inspired word of God. This is remarkably unlike any other religious literature in the world. The Bible Code provides evidence that the statement is actually true."
--Grant Jeffrey

Author, The Mysterious Bible Codes

"The best evidence that the bible Codes are authentic comes from the words that can be composed from the letters which are equidistant from each other. Those words frequently predict the future or shed light on the surface text from which they are taken. As a result of the Bible Codes, there will be a great upsurge in belief and observance both in Judaism and Christianity. I believe, that the world will be a more peaceful and equitable place to live because people will take the lessons of the Bible more seriously."

--Rabbi Dr. Abba Engelberg
Computer Science Professor
Jerusalem College of Technology

"While the critics of the bible Code continue to attack the original Bible Code discoveries, numerous Bible Code software developers have commercially advanced Bible Code discoveries way beyond the pioneering findings of the late 1980s. This old, ongoing academic debate between Bible Code proponents and critics is no longer relevant nor do they even address the new research and discoveries of today. The Bible Code is real with the face and findings of Bible Code research changing rapidly."

"Computer Bible Code Software research and development is moving at light-year speed--yet it will be years before the full extent of what the Bible Code has to tell us is fully known. We now know that the entire tannach, commonly known as the Old Testament, has encoded information within the Hebrew text. Originally, it was thought that only the Torah contained Bible Codes. New equidistant letter sequence research is mocing beyond the nominal word association pattern discoveries of the past to complex matrix discoveries--instantly decoding from any Old terstaent book in-depth information about a person or event."

"The scientific research carried out by Doron Witztum, Yoav Rosenberg and myself shows that there is a code in the book of Genesis. Details of events that took place thousands of years after the Bible was written are enclosed in the bible. In a few cases, details of events have been found in the Bible vefore they happened. My colleague, Doron Witztum found the exact date that the first SCUD missiles would be launched against Israel, weeks before the Gulf War started. And Michael Drosnin found a prediction of the Rabin assasination encoded in the Bible, and showed it to me more than a year before the prime minister was killed."

--Dr. Eliyahu Rips
Code Co-Discoverer/Professor of Mathematics
Hebrew University, Jerusalem

"I think if the Bible Codes are demonstrated to be real--both Jews and Christians will have to re-examine the bible and see how it impacts their lives. I think the world will ignore much of the information. It has ignored important lessons in the past. However, the personal message will be, 'How do you run your life in light of this new information.'"

"While much Bible Code research to date has been on finding historical information about deceased historical figures and past historical events, the new matrix decoding systems combined with translation software, lexicons, and dictionary searches open up the strong possibilities that people may be able to find themselves and/or future events in the Bible Code. The technology and software is close at hand to determine once and for all if this is possible!"

"In my research of the Bible code in the Masoretic text of Hebrew -- without the aid of a computer -- in Genesis, first chapter, I have found over 800 names of biblical characters and places. God has encoded all of history in advance. The names of God -- Jehovah, Jesus, Messiah -- as well as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Israel are just a few examples of the codes within the first chapter of Genesis. Every one of these names are verifiable throughout Scripture from the surface text. The first chapter of Genesis is an awesome matrix of codes."

"The Bible Codes are there so when the future happens, it confirms Scripture as the divinely inspired
word of God."