WHERE WAS PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA BORN?

     On July 14, 2009, Major Stefan Frederick Cook had his orders to Afghanistan revoked, apparently based on his belief that President Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya (his grandmother seems to agree with this).  Cook's contention is that Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States because the Constitution requires every president to be born in the U.S.  The major is correct about Constitutional requirements, but the Supreme Court has refuses to hear arguments about Obama holding the office illegally.

     While the President contends that he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, there are two birth certificates to consider, one from Honolulu, Hawaii, and the other from Mombasa.  Can we use the Torah Code to provide any answers about Obama’s place of birth?  Although the entering argument for the Torah Code was based on a study about the birth places of 66 rabbis, we now know about the existence of Counter-codes and Nonsense codes.  In another words, while one researcher might find an ELS that says Yeshua is the Messiah, another could find something like Mickey Mouse is the Messiah (Messiah a mouse is found on CodeFinder at skips -72623, 130924, and -149260).  So before we get too excited about one sequence, we must check not only the Control to see if it’s there too, in non religious texts, but we need to see what else can found that contracts the apparent message found.  And while doing all this, we must remember that Torah Code is far from proven to be deliberately encoded.  In this case it must also be mentioned that the axis terms BORN IN HAWAII  (see Hawaiian birth certificate) and BORN IN KENYA (see Kenyan birth certificate) apply to millions of people.

    So what does the Torah Code appear to say about the birth of Obama?  We can find an ELS for each possibility. So it comes down to evaluating which matrix seems to be more significant.  The longest ELS (9 letters) for an axis term is found with BORN IN HAWAII on Figure 1.  Under my protocol, I do not assign any statistical value to an axis term.  It either is there, in which case the search for a priori associated terms goes forth, or it isn’t there, in which case the search terminates at that point.  But Dr. Alex Rotenberg assigns R values to terms, and the more positive, the more significant they are.  There is a slight positive R value for BORN IN HAWAII, 0.114. On Figure 2, the axis term is BORN IN KENYA.  It is only 8 letters, and is slightly less significant by Dr. Rotenberg’s standards with an R value of -0.230.  So where do we go from here?  Again, we look at the a priori terms associated with the axis terms.  The two first sought here were OBAMA and PRESIDENT.  They are both on Figures 1 and 2.  Which figure is more compact, and therefore a better match?  Figure 2 is 544 characters, but to just show the first two a priori terms (in the white background) requires 480 letters (15 rows and 32 columns). Figure 1 required 740 characters (20 rows and 37 columns).  

     The next term sought had to do with an obvious fact.  Birth certificates from Kenya and Hawaii for the same man can not both be true.  One is an obvious lie.  There are several words for LIE in Hebrew.  The most common is pronounced sheker.  On Figure 1 this 6-letter term is found in an 11 row by 6 column (66 character) box with BORN IN HAWAII.  The word is not on Figure 2, but a 5-letter word for LIE is on that figure.  To show it with requires 17 rows and 17 columns (289 characters) so this is not as good a match in terms of area as was seem on Figure 1, but 3-letter ELSs are extremely easy to find, whereas this is not so true with 5-letter ELSs. 

   What about the association of LIE with Obama.  Here the match on Figure 2 is better than on Figure 1.  For one thing, OBAMA and LIE have the same exact skip, 22608.  The two terms are found in a 7 row by 15 column (105-character) box. By comparison, on Figure 1 the two terms are found in a 14 row by 37 column (518-character) box.  What, if anything does this mean?  There is a better match of LIE with BORN IN HAWAII than BORN IN KENYA but it is neither extraordinary (nor significant).  There is a slightly more interesting match of OBAMA and LIE  on Figure 2 (BORN IN KENYA).  If these matrices were deliberately encoded, they would cast more doubt on the Hawaiian birth than the Kenyan birth, but there is nothing here that says, “Aha!  The Hawaiian birth certificate is a fraud!”  We still need hard evidence that the Code is real.  To date, the best evidence for this belief probably lays in the ELS Maps found on this web site, and under the sands at 31 degrees 9 minutes North, 33 degrees 4 minutes East on the El Zuqba peninsula in Egypt.  If that site does indeed hold the Ark of the Covenant, then we shall have real reason to start taking matrices like Figure 1 and 2 more seriously.  Until then all we have are statistical arguments, and in this case, documents of dubious authenticity.  One curious note though - the Kenyan birth certificate has a number on it, the Hawaiian one has the certificate number blacked out.  The criticism of the Kenyan document (In addition, the birth registration purports to be an official document entered at the District Registry Office in Kenya on August 9, 1961. Kenya did not gain independence until December 12, 1963.) seems unjustified.  For one thing, the document is actually a certified copy that was signed on February 17, 1964.  That would be on a date when Kenya was independent.  The document thus reflects reality for Kenya when the document was issued.