Conference taveng::bagels

903.0. "Torah Codes and Torah Online" by SICKO::WOLF () Thu Mar 08 1990 20:41

    I am adding a note to this conference on the subject of the Torah
    online, rather than replying to a similar previous note, so that
    it would get more visibility.
    
    Yes, I do have the Torah online at my home.  In fact, I have the
    entire Tenach on 5-1/4" diskettes.  The 5 Books of Moses use about
    464,000 bytes of disk space, and the whole Tenach requires a couple
    of megs.                                                  
                                
    The main reason why I obtained a copy of the Torah on disk was to
    write Torah Codes programs.  That is, we were interested in finding
    hidden messages in the Torah for analysis and to prove that G-d
    wrote the Torah.  The programs work incredibly well, and the results
    have been fascinating.
    
    One such Torah Codes program (and the most popular) is called Equal
    Jumps.  Given a search word, the Equal Jumps program attempts to
    find the letters in the search word spelled out at equal intervals
    (or jumps).  For instance, you might find Hertzl (in Hebrew, of
    course) spelled out every 36 letters in a certain section of the
    Torah.  Perhaps, also, zion and Abraham are each found with different
    jumps (intervals) in the same section of text.  The results are
    often uncanny.
    
    Another Torah codes program is called MWS (multiple-word search).
    Given a list of search words, MWS finds any instance wherein
    all the search words are found within so many words of each other.
    For example, you may want to find an instance where Hertzl, 
    Abraham, and Zion are found within a 50-word block of text.
    
    In addition, I've written several different Gematria programs
    and a Bible concordance.
    
    Let me know if you have any use for these programs or any results
    of running similar programs yourself.
    
    --Brian.
                                                 
    

    Hi Brian!
    
    I'm very interested in these programs. How about some more infos?
    For ex. is it possible to run these programs on a PC...if the later...
    which one (POS/MS DOS...?). If they run on a VAX only...is it possible
    to get a copy?
    
    Cheers,
    
    Dom Keller 

    RE: 903.1
    
    Lots of folks have been asking about the Torah Codes programs. 
    So, here's some more particulars:
    
    I've written over a dozen programs that do a lot of different types
    of searches.  They range from an Equal Jumps program, to a concordance,
    to a Fibonacci search.  All of the programs were developed (and
    now reside on) a 286 AT-compatible machine running MS-DOS.  Some
    of the programs were written in Turbo Pascal 4.0, and the rest were
    written in MicroSoft FORTRAN.  The Pascal programs generally use
    some screen-handling/graphics and a few Turbo built-in data structures
    (such as STRINGS), but otherwise can be translated to VAX Pascal
    if necessary.  The Fortran programs are almost entirely standard,
    except for INCLUDE statements which have a slightly different syntax.
    
    If you want to contact me directly by phone, my new number is
    	DTN 438-7350
       (301)306-7350
    
    Best regards,
    
    Brian

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