Q&A: Seven-Year Cycles in the Torah and in the Human Body
Seven-Year Cycles in the Torah and in the Human Body
Question
Hello Rabbi,
I understood that according to science, roughly every 7 years all the cells in the body are replaced, which is like the Sabbatical year cycle in the Torah. In your opinion, is there any significance to that connection? And if so, what?
Best regards,
Answer
I don’t know. What I do know is that the explanations people offer for these phenomena are usually little homiletic quips that are worth nothing. In most cases these aren’t phenomena that require any explanation. Here you have a result of “roughly” that parallels roughly seven years, which are ten thousand days or a few million seconds. So what? What does that mean? Nothing at all.
Discussion on Answer
I would put a question mark on the factual claim too, and on this “roughly.” There are cells in the human body that do not get replaced at all throughout life, and others that are replaced at a very different rate, with very large variation.
Oren,
Yes, certainly there is significance to the correspondence between the exalted number seven of the Sabbatical year and the cycle of the body’s cells.
Why, it is already known that the seven Sabbatical years correspond to the seven dwarfs of Lady Snow White. The seven dwarfs correspond to the seven wisdoms of the world. The seven wisdoms of the world correspond to the seven sages of Greece, who emanated from their wisdom to the god Apollo in the temple at Delphi.
But this secret may not be publicized to the masses, only to one who is wise and understands on his own.