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Judy Racz's Vav

The Jewish mystical book 'Zohar' speaks of the mystery of the three vavs. The letter vav represents the letter six. This number is connected to the concept of 'man' as man was formed from the dust of the earth on the sixth day. He was created as the connection between Heaven and Earth and the first vav of the Bible is found in the first sentence of Genesis at the beginning of the sixth word. Bereshit bera Elohim et haShamayim ve-et haAretz (In the beginning God Created the heavens and (va) the earth). Here we see the concept of the vav connecting the heavens and the Earth.

6+6+6=18 and 18 is connected to the word life (Khai). In the Jewish mystical system the vav also represent the male or man.

The Catholic ordination of the three former Anglican Bishops as priests at Westminster

The last few days have been very exciting for those Catholics of Anglican background and for those Anglicans desiring to become Catholics in the Anglican ordinariates.

As many of my regular reading know I have made a couple of blog articles about the prophecies of Pedro Regis. For some reason I felt to put them on this blog even though some may have wondered what this had to do with Catholic Jews or Hebrew Catholics. Recently I noticed that a number of sites on the Internet mention that Pedro Regis is a Catholic of Jewish ancestry or a Jewish Catholic. So I realise posting about him was very appropriate to this blog.

Among the mysteries of the Bahir is discussed the mystery of the Mother who is the created Wisdom and Glory of God. She is seen as a mirror of the Divine Heart. In English editions of the Bahir in a couple of places the word for 'mother' or 'my mama/imma' is translated as 'If so'. Rabbi Kaplan in his translation does mention in his notes that a variant reading is 'mother' which is preferred by many of the Jewish mystics.