An Odd Day

President Obama unveiled more than 100 cuts within his proposed new budget this morning, their sum total–$17 billion; also, Thursday, 5/7/09, features three consecutive odd numbers. It is one of only six such dates this century that will feature three consecutive odd numbers.

Today is definitely an odd day, but the number 17 is the gematria of Tov/Good; the 5-7-9 equals 21 which is the gematria of Ehiya–God’s Futuristic Name Aleph-Hey-Yud-Hay. The Conclusion is: odd is not bad only odd

It is odd that even numbers are equal to odd numbers, but still they have the negative connotation of being odd. All perfect numbers are even. How did this basic imbalance occur?

The Zohar-Book of Secret speaks of hidden worlds that do not reveal light and worlds of illumination where light is free to travel. When God said as revealed in the Torah/Teaching that the light was good, then creation knew that God preferred the light to the darkness, as recorded in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor.