It is very unlikely that any given set of rabbinic appellations is well matched to birth and death dates in the book of Genesis. But with so many ways of choosing the names, it’s not at all improbable that among all the choices there would be one that made the Torah look uncannily prescient. Given enough chances, finding codes is a cinch. It’s especially easy if you use Michael Drosnin’s less scientific approach to code-finding. Drosnin said of code skeptics, “When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby-Dick, I’ll believe them.” McKay quickly
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