I’m An Orthodox Jew Who Believes In Life on Other Planets

When people imagine UFOs, they almost always imagine a circle.
The old language was “flying saucers,” a disc in the sky. The newer language is orbs, spheres,
round lights, metallic balls. It is the same shape, seen across eighty years of witnesses, now
described by people with better cameras and sharper sensors.
For most of that time it was folklore, a rumor passed down through grainy photographs, late-
night radio, and Hollywood movies. Then the government started opening its files.
This year the Pentagon began releasing declassified UAP records. In a batch published on
August 7, an American gunship crew over the Gulf of Oman reported twenty-five sightings of
orbs flying in formation that appeared to react when the aircraft opened fire. The Pentagon’s
own investigators reviewed the case and could not explain it.
But that instance isn’t the story here. Three decades of the Pentagon’s own reporting shows that
the most commonly identified shape of UAPs is round.
So maybe the circle itself is worth looking at.

The number hiding inside a circle

Unlike a square or a triangle, a circle has no corners, no beginning and no end. It looks like the
simplest shape there is. But the instant you try to measure it, that simplicity cracks open and
something strange comes out: Pi. A number that begins 3.14 and never ends.
Pi is the invisible law underneath circularity itself. Wherever there is a ripple, a sphere, a wave, a
rotation, a cycle — Pi is there, governing the form from the inside. You cannot have a circle
without it.
And humanity did not always know Pi in the way we know it now. Archimedes, one of the great
mathematicians of the ancient world, famously used 22/7, which comes out to about 3.142,
remarkably close to Pi but still only an approximation. The deeper digits of Pi were hidden from
the ancient world in a way they are not hidden from us today.
Which makes the opening verse of the Torah both striking and puzzling:

בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

The Vilna Gaon taught that this single verse contains all the details of Creation. Not just the
opening of the story, but the blueprint of it. Jewish tradition points at this one line and says: if
you want to know how the world was built, look here.
So let’s look.
Taking the first letter of each word — ב ב א א ה ו ה — and adding their values, we get twenty-two.
Counting the words in the verse, we get seven.

The Creation Verse hands us 22 over 7, the ancient approximation of Pi, sitting in plain sight,
roughly a thousand years before Archimedes was born.
On its own, that would be a curious hint and nothing more.
But it does not stop there.

The same instruction, twice

The word תורה has a gematria of 611. Count 611 digits after Pi’s decimal point, add all of them
together, and the total is 2,701.
2,701 is also the gematria of the Creation Verse: בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ.

Now let’s run it again in small gematria: the system that strips the zeroes out of the Hebrew
letter values. In small gematria, תורה equals 17. Count 17 digits after Pi’s decimal point, add
them up, and the total is 82.
82 is also the small gematria of the Creation verse.

Here we have the same instruction both times. Take the value of Torah. Count that many digits
of Pi. Add them up.

This is not a number trick. This method does not bend. It is applied twice, identically, and it
arrives twice at the same place: the Creation Verse.
These findings progress much deeper through the recent discoveries of Rabbi Oren Evron, but
we do not need to turn this into a math maze to see what is in front of us. The verse gives us
22/7 on the surface. Then the word Torah tells us how far into Pi to walk, and Pi leads us back to
the Creation Verse. Then the word Torah tells us to try again in a different modality, and Pi leads
us right back again.
A signature, left exactly where Jewish tradition told us the blueprint would be.

Whose sky is it

If something is moving through our sky in circular form, then whatever else is true about it, it is
bound by Pi. And Pi, according to the verse itself, is a divine fingerprint pressed into the first
sentence of Creation.
Which means those objects, whatever they are, are not outside the Torah’s universe. They are
inside the same design that includes you and me.
This is not a foreign idea in Jewish thought. More than six hundred years ago, Rabbi Chasdai
Crescas argued in Ohr Hashem that Torah leaves room for life on other worlds. He points to the
verse from Tehillim: “Your kingdom is a kingdom of all worlds.”
Notice what kind of verse that is. It is a verse about kingship.
And we are days away from a coronation.
On Rosh Hashanah we do not crown God as King of the Jews. We do not even crown Him as
King of the earth. We crown Him as King — unqualified, unbounded, over every world,
including the ones we have not found yet. The day we do it is Hayom Haras Olam, the birthday
of the world: the anniversary of the very verse where the blueprint is hidden.
If the beings behind these encounters are real, their circular forms are not random and their
presence is not outside His authority. Whatever intelligence may be moving through the heavens
is moving through His geometry, inside His blueprint, under His kingship.
The God who created heaven and earth is also the God of the heavens.
And if there are aliens, then Hashem is their God too.

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