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Codes Opening the Sealed Book A Little More of the Story In every synagogue there exists a special copy of the Torah. Not a mass-produced, hard-bound copy of the latest edition, but a Torah scrolla manually inscribed copy of the 304,805 letters of this Holy Book. The Leningrad Codex, the oldest known intact copy of the Torah dates from 1008 AD. All printed copies in use today are identical, down to the last letter, as is the electronic version used in the computerized search for the codes. Whatever letter-level drift the Torah suffered prior to 1008 AD cannot be determined with absolute certainty, but there is no doubt that for nearly a thousand years it has remained completely unchanged. And note: the scribes who made successive copies of the Torah over the past thousand years did not have access to the Leningrad Codex. It would be centuries before the introduction of the printing press, yet human error did not creep into the Torah during this period. As you learn more of the story, I think you'll begin to feel comfortable with the notion that the Torah scribes have preserved this information with remarkable diligence and accuracy. As to its specific author or authors, I leave that for to you to decide. Is it a message from God? A message from another civilization? Might it be a message sent back in time from our own civilization? Could it be the product of humanity's collective unconscious? If there's another possibility, please let me know. How does one explain the existence of these codes? A part of me still rages that they can't be there. Yet there they are. Now, about those codes... Codes |