12Counting the Heartbeat
revelation
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Back in his quiet room, Tali asked, 'Can we find it ourselves?' Grandpa showed him the counting game. They went back to Genesis 22, to the word ha-mizbeach — the altar. 'Count forty-seven letters.' Tali counted — one, two, three — and found a Yod. Forty-seven more, a Shin. Forty-seven more, a Vav. Forty-seven more, an Ayin. YESHUA.
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Tali stared. His finger was still on the last letter — the Ayin. Y-S-V-A. YESHUA. 'It's really there,' he whispered. Grandpa nodded. 'It has been there for three thousand years, Tali. You are just the first to find it in your language.' The letters under the word for 'the altar' pulsed with quiet light, like a heart that had been beating beneath the page since Moses was a boy.
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