Slides from Barry Simon's Talk on Torah Codes

Linked to this page are copies of the slides that I used in my Sept. 8, 1998 talk at JSI in Los Angeles.  These are copies of the slides that I prepared.
Because of time constraints, not all of them were used in the talk.

The Slides

1. Title Slide
2. Rav Weissmandl's Example in Genesis (ArtScroll Text)
3. Rav Weissmandl's Example in Genesis
4. Rav Weissmandl's Example in Exodus
5. Rav Weissmandl's Example in Leviticus
6. Rav Weissmandl's Example in Numbers
7. Rav Weissmandl's Example in Deuteronomy
8. Rav Weissmandl's Example in Leviticus (Second Try)
9. A Chanukah Example from the WRR paper
10. A Second Chanukah Example
11. The WRR Paper
12. Overview of the Main Talk
13. Cast of characters
14. Drosnin #1
15. Drosnin #2
16. Drosnin #3
17. Religious Myth #1
18. Graphic for Religious Myth #1
19. Religious Myth #2
20. Religious Myth #3
21. Religious Myth #4
22. Religious Myth #5
23. Graphic for Religious Myth #5 (ArtScroll Text)

24. Religious Myth #6
25. Scientific Myth #1
26. Scientific Myth #2
27. Scientific Myth #3
28. The Big Three Problems
29. What is Wiggle Room, Part 1
30. What is Wiggle Room, Part 2
31. Similar Clusters, Example 1: Chanukah in War and Peace
32. Similar Clusters, Example 2: Moby Dick, I
33. Similar Clusters, Example 2: Moby Dick, II
34. Similar Clusters, Example 3: The Unabomber Manifesto
35. McKay's Email
36. The Famous Rabbis Experiment: Overview
37. The Famous Rabbis Experiment: Centrality to Proponents
38. The Famous Rabbis Experiment: Complexity of the Method
39. The Famous Rabbis Experiment: Date Forms
40. The Famous Rabbis Experiment: Appellations
41. Mathematicians' Statement, part 1
42. Mathematicians' Statement, part 2
43. Sloppy Methodology: Esther Example
44. Sloppy Methodology: Nations Experiment
45. Summary
46. The Wisdom of the Rashba