Thirteen

According to the Washington Post, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan became a country after 1300 years into the Islam calendar; thirteen is also the half way point in the Mayan calendar which will be reached in winter equinox of 2012–in Hebrew 13 is the gematria, the numeric value of the word Echud/One.

Some suggest that it would have been better to have let the Russians with their brutal ways wipe out the ancient tribal peoples who cling to a strictly vicious interpretation of the Koran, but the recurrence of the number 13 tells a different story.

The purpose of the human being is to bring light into the world and make the world a better place–it is a common human value. Our commonality is a sign from the Creator of Heaven and Earth that in essence we are Echud/One and as the world evolves into the light it is important to remember that our purpose is to turn the darkness into light–not to try to destroy what is dark.

It is for this reason that the Jewish People were commanded in the Torah to live together with the ancient Palestinians a fierce people, the first to forge weapons out of iron.

Out of the darkness comes the greatest light.