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The Watermark

where Yeshua is the name

Fourteen spreads that follow a name hidden in the Hebrew Torah for three thousand years — first as shadows in the stories, then as letters that quietly spell it out.

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Contents

  1. Tali held the candle close. The book was older than his grandfather, o…
  2. Tonight, grandpa said, they would look for the name hidden through the…
  3. Long before Tali, long before his grandfather's grandfather, there was…
  4. Then one day the first people chose the wrong tree, and something tore…
  5. When Abraham came back from the battle, a king he did not know came to…
  6. Abraham did not know who he was. Only that he was a king, and a priest…
  7. Abraham walks up the bare limestone hill with his son Isaac. Each step…
  8. Then Abraham saw it. A ram caught in a thicket, just for this moment. …
  9. Jacob was very old when he called his twelve sons to his bedside. He g…
  10. 'Shiloh will come,' Jacob whispered. The twelve sons looked at one ano…
  11. Four hundred years passed. Jacob's family had grown into a whole peopl…
  12. Inside the house, the family ate the lamb with bitter herbs, their san…
  13. On the Day of Covering, two goats stood before the High Priest. One wa…
  14. Before the wilderness walk, two goats had stood before the High Priest…
  15. High on the cliffs of Moab, a pagan seer named Balaam was hired to cur…
  16. Fourteen hundred years later, wise men from the east followed the same…
  17. Before Moses climbed the mountain to die, he gathered the people one l…
  18. Centuries passed. The lonely hilltop where Abraham found the ram becam…
  19. Inside the Temple, the curtain was woven of tekhelet blue, argaman pur…
  20. Another thousand years passed. The gold of Solomon's Temple was gone. …
  21. At the center cross hung a man. Above his head, the sign in three lang…
  22. Back in his quiet room, Tali asked, 'Can we find it ourselves?' Grandp…
  23. Tali stared. His finger was still on the last letter — the Ayin. Y-S…
  24. 'Some people think these names appear by accident,' Grandpa said, 'lik…
  25. Grandpa gathered the beads back together and arranged them in a single…
  26. The candle was low. The scroll was open. Tali placed the brass key fro…