Breaking The Cycle Of Error

Regarding the gematria 666, DovBear links its message to Nero(-n) Caesar (nrv-n qsr) by several methods, writing with respect to one of those methods:

"First explanation: There are those who insist that in the first century, a Jew like Revelations author, would have referred to the Emperor as "Neron." Indeed, the Jastrow dictionary uses this spelling and the extra "N" at the ends adds 50, bringing our total to 666."

Given that in gematria a nun sofit (ן) pertains to the idea of "perpetuation" and "continuity" (Maharal), the idea that Nero was used as a symbol for the "perpetuation and continuation" of something further supports my earlier post that 666 refers to perpetuating the error associated with the tree of knowledge in Gan Eden. R. Michael Munk (Wisdom In The Hebrew Alphabet) writes:

"After the first sin , G-d said to Eve 'I will greatly increase your suffering ... in pain you will bear children' (הרבה ארבה עצבונך ... בעצב תלדי בנים , Bereshit 3:16). The expression for pain appears in 2 different forms in the same sentence. עצב refers to the short-lived pain of childbirth; while עצבון [in this verse with the possessive suffix - עצבןונך] refers to צער גדול בנים, the long term tribulations of child-rearing (Rashi). Thus, with the long final nun, עצבון indicates an ongoing process which continues over an extended period. [Likewise to Adam] the final nun of "through suffering you shall eat of it" (בעצבון תאכלנה, Bereshit 3:17) denotes constant toil and suffering (Pesachim 118a)."

Clearly, from this connection between 666-Nero-nunsofit-GanEden, we can see that 666 is linked to the idea of "perpetuating the sentence" Adam and Chavah received in Gan Eden from prematurely eating of the tree of knowledge.

666 as a code for "perpetuating" some sequence also finds support in the treatise Hemshech Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Tof Reish Samech Vov. R. Gershon Jacobson writes:

"In Chassidic lingo this treatise is called “Hemshech Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Tof Reish Samech Vov,” or more informally and intimately: plain “Samech Vov.” Samech vov is the number 66, short for the year 5666. Hemshech means a “continuation” or “sequence,” referring to the dissertation that began on Rosh Hashana 5666 and extended for 3 years, consisting of a total of 61 individual Maamorim (discourses), which were written and then publicly delivered by Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860-1920), known by his acronym as the Rebbe RaSHaB, the fifth Chabad Rebbe, in direct line from Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi."

Consequently, we can see that "666" is indeed rooted in the Jewish tradition, even though it became adopted by and incorporated into the Christian tradition. "66" is likewise an embedded code in a Jewish kabbalistic treatise suggesting a remedy for cutting off "perpetuation" of the "666" error, thereby "fixing" the world, through addressing the questions "why are we here?" and "how do we make a dwelling for the Divine in the corporal world"?.

Moreover, through understanding the Hebrew letters, 666 can be directly related to the debacle of Gan Eden. In Christian tradition, 666 is indirectly related to the Gan Eden debacle through the story of a "beast" (the beastly or animal soul) and its battle with the g-dly soul.

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