It’s in the Numbers

President Obama traveled to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to lobby Democratic lawmakers on his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, ahead of votes in the House and Senate this week.

Thirty-six is a seminal number in Cabala which makes a science out of the interchange between numbers and letters. For example, 36 is twice 18-Chai/Life and twice 36 is 72 known as AB the highest number directly related to God’s Name YHVH. Each letter of the YHVH is giver of life and when combined together gives life to the four different forms of existence: inanimate, growing, animal and human who live within the four elements of fire, air, water and earth in the four directions upon the earth.

During these unsettled days it is appropriate to look for some sort of heavenly indication, a Simon Tov/Good Sign, for reassurance. In the Book of Esther which records the end of the first exile—the king says I will give to you up to half the kingdom. Thirty-six is half seventy-two.