Revisiting "Seven"

4 Tammuz 5785 

On the 23 of Sivan, I wrote a post about the proliferation of the number seven around the current phase of this war and speculated as to its spiritual meaning.  [See "Seven" - What Does It Mean?]                     

Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Biton also noted it and his ideas and explanations are given over in a video hosted at the Arutz 2000 channel on Youtube.  I've provided a very inexpert translation of a bit of it below followed by the video itself which you may want to view with subtitles.  Here is an excerpt with my additions.

Rabbi Yosef Biton:  On the 7th of the 10th, the people of Israel were attacked by predatory animals. They shook here a whole country.  It happened on the 7th of the 10th (Oct 7.) okay.  You agree with me then we start the war against Iran when, on the 17th in Sivan again.  We are on the same axis of 17.  We finished the war with Iran with a missile that falls somewhere in Beersheva, once again seven, in a building between seven floors and on that day in our many sins we are informed about seven dead in the netherworld.  The number seven is spinning around for us here in this entire time zone and whoever is not seeing this is simply blind and we should not forget that all the powerful events are concentrated precisely at a time when the State of Israel is 77 years. 

 (ME:  Also, the missile attack took place just after 7 am. I would also add the the day of the first attack from Gaza took place on a double Shabbat - the weekly Shabbat but also Simchat Torah - another 7+7?)  Furthermore, from Oct '23 to Jun '25 is 21 months - 3 X 7! and there were 28 fatalities in the 12-day Iran War - another multiple of seven 4 X 7!  Finally, 7 soldiers fell in Gaza at the end of it all.)

Rav: ...when we talk about the seventh world it is actually the world that we all look forward to; it is six weekdays and entering the seven is the entrance to the extra dimension - to the spiritual dimension.  ...The earth is built in the form of six and seven - 6000 years [and] we are now entering the world of seven i.e. we are already as a whole -The nation - starting to prepare for the seventh world.

...What is written in the holy books, i.e. if we were wise in this short period of time when we are facing Iran to receive the divine message we were not supposed to end this war with the missile in Beersheba with the dead and with the seven dead . Unequivocally now pay close attention to where I am heading. The seven is a general concept look there is ...  We have seven days we have seven we can all around the axis of seven we have the seven weeks of Counting the Omer.  In the 50th year 50, there are 49 [seven sevens] and then we are entering the year 50.  We have seven wrappings of the tefillin.  Passover we have, Sukkot - seven all around.  The number seven, seven in Judaism is one of the highest concepts.

Most of all now pay attention well to what God has done for us during this period, took an entire country to where He put us in a closed room with thick concrete around us and we are all sitting inside this room and every house in Israel is in fear and trembling lest that Iranian missile enter his house and destroy his house and kill all the members of his house, pay attention well, says the prophet Isaiah, "Go my people, enter your room and close your door.  For your sake, remain a moment until the wrath passes, ... For behold, my Lord is coming out of his place to punish the iniquity of the earth that dwells on him. 

...it is written, we, we are not finished, not with Iran, we are not finished, not with Hezbollah, we are not finished with Gaza, we are not finished with the Yemenites, we, oh by the way, we talked about 777, what was the whole strip of wars, we on seven fronts, we forgot the seven fronts, I mean, everything is seven, and I imagine that there is more we can expand so much on the seven,....

He speaks also about Shabbat - I just can't do any more right now.  I will add though something else that occurred to me as I was thinking about this.  When they declared the Iran War to be over, Trump made much of calling it the12-Day war - twice as long as the 6-Day war. With 12 as twice six, where is the seven in that?  Do you see they want to keep us in the world of six with them and not allow us to rise to the level of the world of seven?

Torah is an endless, deep well.  Please feel free to share your insights.  I'd be interested to hear.  Meantime, here is the video...

Between Gaza and Tehran: HeMekubal HaRav Yosef Biton On The Ceasefire and The Upcoming Hostage Deal