Subject: Re: When is the year of Jubilee?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:51:26 +0000
To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>

From:         Diana Gallovich
To:            heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject:       Re: When is the year of Jubilee?

Dear Roi,

You asked why, in Leviticus 25:9,10, the Hebrew words "shall return" is
spelled without a vav.  There is a very fine book entitled "The Secrets of
Hebrew Words," by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, that addresses that very question.

He states the following from page 214:

......."The Hebrew word for "ye shall return," (TaShuVU), seems to be spelled
incorrectly.  Grammatically is requires another (vav).  It ought to read
(TaShUVU).

Why is it lacking the letter (vav), which stands for 6?  Tav Shin Vet Vav
(without the vav) is a prediction to the Jewish people of ultimate return to
their national homeland.  Tav Shin Vet Vav in numbers adds up to 708: (tav) =
400, (shin) = 300, (vet) = 2, (vav) = 6.  When we write the year, we ignore
the millennia.  In 1948 on the secular calendar, we witnessed the miracle of
Jewish return to Israel.  On the Hebrew calendar it was the year 5708.  That
was the year predicted by the incomplete word (TaShuVU), you shall return.  We
did return, lacking 6 -- an all-important 6 million of our people who perished
during the Holocaust."

Shalom,
Diana Gallovich
8th Day Assembly

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