Blizzards, tornadoes, floods, record heat and drought, followed by wildfires – the first eight months of 2011 have brought strange and destructive weather to the United States.

The Talmud-Book of Law describes the stages of pregnancy ending with the eighth month, the hardest and most dangerous for the mother and child – a child born in the eighth month is a bad sign. The metaphor of birth applies, particularly in our time and situation.

The ninth month in the Roman calendar is the seventh month in the Hebrew calendar – both, good months to give birth. The first day in the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar is Rosh HaShana – the birth of the new year, 5772. The number 72 relates to the essence.

The Solar System, the earth and the human being are connected through the symmetry and mathematics of the YHVH; when these four letters are spelled out, their sums are – 45 gematria Adom/Human; 52 Behama/Animal; 63 essence of animal; 72 essence of the human being.

It has been a hard year, but now begins the actual birth. Something is being born in America, a free land in a country comprised of peoples from throughout the world melding together customs and ways. America the beautiful is about to give birth to something new.