The following is from page 711 of HaTekufah HaGedolah. I'll translate the part after the letter.
On the outside of the letter is written:
בהיפו"י
למו"צ דק"ק יצ"ו
ויל"פ
בצדקה תכונני
דברו אל י'ש'ר'א'ל'
למ"מ שיבב"א
Inside the letter itself is written:
"יום ג' פ' לך לך. מאלקא רבא קדישא, דשכין שמיה בקרתא קדישא, שלמא רבא ונפישא, לעמיה קדישא ופרישא, ע"י הדא איגרתא קדישא, דהיא זעירא ורבי' פרישא.
מיבע שטמט מטדמל
אביו שבשאמ נאי בתערמ ותותוצ מארה ללא וללא וימצב ותדוא וי"ח לתקע"בג וילי הכד אוי אמת ואמכם ציון
והאות על זה
שבד' מספר כ"ו ינוח שם רמ"ח בן מ"ב עם אבותיו שם ב"ן ושם ס"ג
שמי א' ש"א.
According to the tradition it is told in the introduction to the letter that was brought to print (Warsaw 5696) that the GR"A left after him a closed letter with an attached instruction not to open it until 100 years had passed since his death.
When the time came, the letter was opened in the "קלויז" of the GR"A, but no one knew how to decode its secrets. The wise men of the "קלויז" sent a copy of the letter to all the important communities which had mekubalim, so that they would try to decode it. When the letter reached Yerushalayim it was printed in 5658 in the periodical "Torah MiTzion" (3rd year, number 3).
In 5662 it was brought to print by Rav Pesach Cohen Pinfer in his book "The Tradition of the Torah and the Prophets", and on the sides was printed a letter of Rav Shmuel Chaim Luria to the publisher, saying that "the letter of the GR"A is in my hands", and that he got it from the Rada"l. He added that the words of the Rada"l that "there is no man in the world that can write an explanation for this, but in the future Eliyahu will explain it". Rav Pesach was requested himself to try to decode the letter.
The letter was printed again in the introduction to a book "Divrei Eliyahu" of Rav Avraham Dovid Bloch, from the students of "קלויז הגר"א", and also printed and distributed in many forms by Rav Pinchas Arkin from Briansk. Rav Pinchas would say that he knew the secret of the letter, but he said it was forbidden to him to reveal it in Chutz La'Aretz, and therefore he asked that he be assisted to go up to Yerushalayim, there he can reveal the secret. In the days of the gathering of Rabbanim that took place in 5695 in Warsaw, Rav Pinchas arrived to the offices of "Agudas Yisrael" and gave a copy of the letter to Rav Zusha Friedman. But he didn't reveal to him its secret, and he passed away in holiness and purity on the steps of the mikveh in Otbotsk, and the secret, he took with him.
In the year 5696 the letter was brought to press by Rav Y. Dimdus, and he also tried in his powers to achieve the meaning of the letter, saying that the GR"A hinted at the secrets of the Geulah.
On the side of that printing, it was written that in the near future there will be a detailed explanation of the letter, with the agreement of the great mekubalim, at their head Rav Shimon Tzvi Horovitz of Yerushalayim, but nothing is known of this printing.
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למ"מ שיבב"א
ReplyDeleteלמלך המשיח שיבוא במהרה בימינו אמן
It is written further:
"יום ג' פ' לך לך. מאלקא רבא קדישא, דשכין שמיה בקרתא קדישא, שלמא רבא ונפישא, לעמיה קדישא ופרישא, ע"י הדא איגרתא קדישא, דהיא זעירא ורבי' פרישא.
Tuesday of parshat Lech Lecha. From the Great and Holy G-d, that dwells his name in the Holy City, much peace, to His holy and reclusive nation, by this holy letter, which is small and (has many explanations?) (is very reclusive?)
תקע"ב, that is what we just discussed here. The intersection of the two counts minus 3? There seems to be a date here.
ReplyDeleteתק = ע"ב
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תקע"ב = 5572 which was the year Talmidei HaGR"A re-established the Ashkenazi Yishuv in Yerushalayim, see last page of Kol HaTor chapter 5 part 1.
And what do you mean the intersection of the two counts minus 3?
ReplyDeleteלתקע"בג
ReplyDeleteל"תקע בשופר גדול a nutrikun.
We had י'ג at 5769/5782 in ע"ב but alternatively, slightly shifted and one year less, 5771/5783 in ת"ק. I was suggesting it could be 5768/5779. That would be 11 years, ס"ג minus ב"ן. If so, check this year, Tuesday of Lech Lecha would be 4 Cheshvan, plus 61 gets 7 Tevet, plus 411 leads to 5 Sh'vat. That is close to what I can understand. Plus 18, it seems to say.
ReplyDeleteAt this stage it still seems unclear. I think we need to understand it in context as well. We should note that this line has 2 words with " in them. Those in particular might be rashei teivot.
ReplyDeleteמ"ב I guess is ת"ב letters, Gevura, מ"ח I guess משה חויה.
ReplyDeleteוהאות על זה
ReplyDeleteI was just learning Shmuel Aleph perek bet last night, same phrase. It is a sign of fulfillment of the entire thing. So the prior sentence describes a process, the last line describes something at the beginning.
האות is a sign, sure.
ReplyDeleteI thought to add that in the line before האות , just about all "words" must be numbers, but one word stands out as an explicitly number, י"ח. The question is why. I tend to think it is not 18. Perhaps it means another number, like two, yud minus chet, similar to לתקע"בג perhaps meaning לפי תקע"ב minus ג.
לעניות דעתי
ReplyDeleteThe inyan of the אות would be a singular event perhaps, whereas the line before is the big picture.
I.e. akin to the full secret of the 72 instead of just telling you an event that occurs at 59/60 (or 66).
What would you say if someone claimed to have a perush for the whole letter?
ReplyDeleteI would say they are most welcome to post it. The believability factor is there as this quotation from Kol HaTor states that at least 1 or 2 people have figured it out.
ReplyDeleteAlternatively:
ReplyDeleteThe longer line has a system for understanding time, but the last line is like a singular result for using it. Like presenting General Relativity, and then showing a resultant discovery.
I remember that the letter is mentioned in Kol HaTor, in chapter 5, but I do not remember the claim that people solved it.
ReplyDeleteThe claim is not in Kol HaTor... it is in the text that I copied here (the part that I translated to English) in the original post.
ReplyDeleteDo you know someone that has made this claim?
I won't be able to publish the wole thing, but I think I have it. B'Chasdei HaShem.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing it is not with you at current. Would you care to take this to offline?
ReplyDeleteThat would be truly amazing to have a glimpse at its meaning.
ReplyDeleteMore proof that this all comes direct from the GR"A (like the other proof which you told me of, which btw I have not succeeded in figuring out).
Towards the end of chapter 5 part 1
ReplyDeleteלפי המובא בזוה"ק פרשת וירא (דף קיז) ובשית מאה שנין לשתיתאה יתפתחון תרעי דחכמתא דלעילא ומבועי דחכמתא לתתא וכו'. ומשנה זו, היינו משנת ת"ר ואזלך מתחיל קול התור באורו של רבנו הגר"א ההולך ואור עד נכון היום. והדבר נרמז גם בסוד מכתב רבנו הסגור בפקודתו לא לפתחו עד עבור מאה שנה היינו שנת עת לחננה לפ"ק.
I will write you. After Shabbat. I need some time to reflect.
ReplyDeletePerhaps this will shed light on the beginning of that same paragraph in Kol HaTor, regarding the 7 pekidin.
ReplyDeleteI await your email. Take care
You have emails waiting for you when you get a chance.
ReplyDeleteI hope you did not ask too many hard questions :-) I will check in the morning hours, Bli Neder. I saw I made a typo this morning, and wrote בתערה instead of בתערמ
ReplyDeleteNot too hard, I don't think.
ReplyDeleteI profess a misunderstanding on my part. I had gotten the impression when you said you "had it", that you possessed a peirush that you didn't realize that you had, and therefore my first email indicates this.
And you didn't mean 66 for תק as much as you meant 506.
דבר אל ישראל is = 784
And I caught the typo, it threw me off for a bit, made me get out the sefer.
Yashar Koach
506, you are right. Get out of the sefer? I apologize.
ReplyDeleteNo apologies necessary. It is quite a giluy, especially the calendar item. I'm not sure there is signifance to that date in 2007 as you suggested though. We are definitely at a new level since Tevet, not sure why that day davka.
ReplyDeleteForgot to ask:
ReplyDeleteWhat is the meaning from this for the word וימצב
מיצב would generally mean something like giving someone a certain position, with a positive connotation.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you mean by 784?
Do you have any idea as to the specific meaning of וימצב? Is that a word that existed 200 years ago?
ReplyDelete784 as in (5)784. I don't take that too seriously, many gematriot exist like that.
I take it as ימוצב, a future variant of מוצב. I agree that grammar does not have it like this.
ReplyDeleteSo, I am sensitive to your problem, but on the other hand I would not know a better word in modern Hebrew for the complicated process that I think is going on.
ReplyDeleteIt would appear to follow the convention of the words that follow and preceed it, though it could be rashei teivot as well. There is no question regarding the 10th of Tevet, but what of the 7th?
ReplyDeleteI understand what you are saying, but I think the word must describe the development. As I see it, this letter was written so far above sechel that I have no problem with a modern word.
ReplyDeleteIt could have said 64 days until 10 Tevet and then 410. I think the code is saying this in a hidden way. I would not assign significance to 7 Tevet davka. Rather, I suggest to say that it indicates the time frame in which things changed.
Did you see that on July 24 2000 they gave up on "peace" in Camp David?
I vevy much remember that period back in 2000. I was still in college, retaking electromagnetism physics (I did much better that time). My teacher's assistant for the lab was an Israeli from Haifa, and we discussed it a lot. I noted at the time that it was as if Hashem had hardened Arafat's (ym"u) heart.
ReplyDeleteDid he teach you the relativistic formulation of the Maxwell equations? I shared your observation about Arafat. It was the Hand of HaShem.
ReplyDeleteThe German professor is the one that made the difference in understanding. Not sure I understand/remember what you mean. I definitely learned the inter-relatedness of the Maxwell equations, but relativity was the next semester. I have a science/technical background, but I am not a learned scientist, I profess.
ReplyDeleteThe understanding of the Jewish professor reveals beauty of the Maxwell equations that manifests itself by writing them in a "relativistically covariant" way. This insight paved the way to both General Relavity and advanced elementary-particle physics.
ReplyDeleteI am not enough of a Mekubal to understand completely, but it seems to me that the last line of the Igeret is referring to a solution to some sort of mathematical/kabbalistic problem, saying if you understand the prior line, you will be able to solve this riddle. That keeps triggering in my mind something analagous to figuring out how to develop the theory of everything, unifying theory, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe beauty and wisdom derives from the unity. The Ramchal says this is the purpose of Kabbalah, and you would agree, I'm sure.
I agree. And I have a theory about the last line, most of it at least, but please don't ask.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that if you think you are on to something, you also have a way of proving it one way or the other. Let me know.
ReplyDeleteSha'ar Be'er Sheva is very important. Kiddush Hashem.
אמת ואמכם ציון
You hit the button. Kiddush HaShem of this type is key. Another Kiddush HaShem that is key regards Eretz Yisrael. We must refuse to accept this P state and stop the rebellion. Prophecy will be the reward. (My mail tool does not want to work at this time)
ReplyDeleteThe question remains, is the reward 1 day after my brother's 2nd yartzheit or later by a few years?
ReplyDeleteYou should really consider gmail. I'll send you an invite if you like.
The return of prophecy goes in steps, and it is already happening. Sigh. I have so many mailboxes already (for professional life).
ReplyDeleteRegarding your pursuit here, perhaps the last line of the letter contains a hint at a certain level of interpretation. The Mem-Beth might refer to 42 years after the Pekida. Then, the Mem-Chet may refer to 48 years after the Pekida. The number 45 can be traced also: בד' מספר כ"ו may mean: In week 4, day 26. In other words, day 5 of week 4.
ReplyDeleteIs 26 the (potential) day of Tikkun for 5772?
ReplyDeleteIt is not a year of Chesed, but on a secondary level, yes, this would be the case.
ReplyDeleteAside from 5769, I know of no such year, aside from according to the tachanah. Shkoyach on the crypticness :)
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