Reb Eliezer: The number 47 has special meaning…..Chazal bring down that the 40 implies a time of radical transition or transformation (e.g. during the mabul, itrained for 40 days and 40 nights; Moshe Rabenu spent 40 days with Hashem on Har Sinai prior to matan torah; bnai yisroel spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness until they were allowed to enter Eretz Canaan…..etc.) The 7 is the most powerful number in daas torah starting with 7 day of barias olam, shabbos being the seventh day, the seven laws of bnai Noah, the seven Avos and Imahos,, the 7 lean and fat cows in Pharoh’s dream told to yosef, the 7 days of succos and pesach, the seven years leading to shmitah, the 7 arms of the menorah in the beis hamikdash; shevah barachos for a chassanah etc.
Now, what you may ask does all this have to do with GHW Bush v. G Bush and 41 and 43….well in Gamatria 41 plus 43 is 84 as in 1984 and its dystopian vision of a Trumpian America.
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