The starry sky is a book of the heavens and earth for those who can read it like the Rabbi and son from the tale about the precious book of Daniel in the time of the Babylonian King. We are now in a forty five day period as a new kochav/comet moves from it’s perihelion passage of the sun(full moon of tevet) towards perigee(close passage with Earth) on Rosh Chodesh Adar. The night sky is always singing to us if we could only hear. This weeks parsha on Bo has an incredible posuk on the night that lead to the original geulah/redemption and making of the people of Yisrael. “It is a night(leyl) of anticipation for haShem to take them out of the land of Mitzrayim/Egypt, this was the night(laylah) for haShem; a protection for all the Children of Yisrael for their generations”(Shemot/Ex:12:42). The Zohar has a fantastic commentary on these two forms of night mentioned here. “”the night shined as day; the darkness was a light(Ps.cxxxix,13). Nothing so miraculous was witnessed since the creation of the world.”Come and see” he said, it is written: “It is a night(leyl) of observations unto HaShem for bringing them out of the land of Mitzrayim; this is a night(laylah) of HaShem…Now, why “observations(shamurim) in plural , and :night” first in the masculine gender(leyl) and then in the feminine(laylah? To indicate the union which took place on that night between masculine and feminine aspects in the Divine attributes, and also the same union which will take place in the future redemption”….Zohar II38b(trans. After Sperling) And now we are in that “future” redemption and the night of this winter is being thrilled with a new kochav/comet whose passage past Earth corresponds with the six weeks of Shovavim(first six parshot of Shemot/exodus) that bring the wheel/shanah of the year from winter to spring(from exile to freedom). The forty five days seem to say that they are a remez/hint to the words in the Book of Daniel chapter 12, about the need in the keitz; the “end of days”, to wait for 45 days after the completion of an initial 1290 days. Much speculation has been done on these periods of time. This new comet Lulin is very rare in that it moves opposite the general motion of the planets in the solar system. It is like another very famous comet with a brilliant history(mentioned in Talmud as the 70 year star) and that is Halley’s comet. In the Talmud, it is mentioned that "There is a star which appears once in seventy years that makes the captains of the ships err" (Horioth, chap. III). Halley’s bright passage in the secular year 66 CE presaged the destruction of the second temple and the long period of exile and diaspora. If we add up the number of days in each orbit of this comet Halley which is now in it’s 26th (gematria 26=YHVH)orbital period since the temple was destroyed; adding the the days that it moved from perihelion to perigee in each orbit when it was visible(about 49 to 50 days), we come very close to the figure of 1290 days mentioned in sepher Daniel as the time period since the Temple offerings ended. The angel in the Sepher Daniel told Daniel that the counts would not make sense until the period of the keitz/end when knowledge would be "increased". Is the Laylah/night speaking to us now pretty clearly. After the forty five days is passed on the new moon of Adar(feb24th) we will have more to say about how the blessing of the union of the nights is streaming into our new Earth. Remember/Zachor the Sabbath!
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