Francis kissed the hands of six holocaust survivors at the Yad Vashem memorial. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a holocaust survivor is “any Jew who lived for any period of time in a country that was ruled by the Nazis or their allies.” This means one need not have been in a concentration camp during the second world war to be a holocaust survivor. Did you know that dear reader? You could have been a Jew living in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia or one of Hilter’s Jewish soldiers and still have been a holocaust survivor.
So why did Francis kiss the hands of six Jews? The significance of this number comes from Gematria a system of numerology used by Jews. Its practitioners are most often but not always steeped in the esoteric Kabbalah. According to Rabbi Geoffry W. Dennis, in The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism on page 104, gematria “is a complex hermeneutic technique in which numbers are used to reveal messages in texts and thereby derive insight into the order of the universe.” As Rabbi Benjamin Blech relates in the last two pages of his book, The Secret of Hebrew Words, the word TaShuVU (in English this translates as, “you shall return”) is misspelled in the Torah. This has been done for a very important reason by God. For when one adds up the numerical value of misspelled TaShuVU one gets the year 1948 AD (5708 jewish date). This is the year the state of Israel was founded!
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