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	'''Eliyahu Rips''', also '''Ilya Rips''' ({{lang-he\|אליהו ריפס}}; {{lang-ru\|Илья Рипс}}; born 1948) is a ]n-born ]i ] known for his research in ]. He became known to the general public ~~following his~~ coauthoring a ~~paper~~ ~~about~~ the ~~phenomena~~ of the ], ~~popularly~~ known as 'Bible ~~Codes~~', ~~which~~ are ~~words~~ ~~and~~ ~~phrases~~ about ~~historic~~ and ~~contemporary~~ events ~~allegedly~~ ~~appearing~~ in the ~~Hebrew~~ text of the ] ~~(first~~ ~~five~~ ~~books~~ of ~~the Bible)~~.<ref></ref>		'''Eliyahu Rips''', also '''Ilya Rips''' ({{lang-he\|אליהו ריפס}}; {{lang-ru\|Илья Рипс}}; born 1948) is a ]n-born ]i ] known for his research in ]. He became known, to the general public, for coauthoring a scientific article, published in the journal ''Statistical Science'' and described in the best-selling book '']'' by ], about the phenomena of the Torah Codes, known by the popular expression of 'Bible Code', that are 'Equidistant (or Equal-distance) Letter Sequences' about historical and contemporany events <ref></ref>, that appear in the original text of the 3300 year old hebrew ] - the "Five Books of Moses".<ref></ref>

	Rips grew up in ] (then part of ]). He was the first high school student from Latvia to participate in the ]. On 9 April 1969, Rips (who was a 20-year old graduate student at the ] at that time) attempted ] in a protest against the ]. After that, he was incarcerated by the Soviet government for two years but, under pressure from Western mathematicians, was allowed to emigrate to ] in 1972.		Rips grew up in ] (then part of ]). He was the first high school student from Latvia to participate in the ]. On 9 April 1969, Rips (who was a 20-year old graduate student at the ] at that time) attempted ] in a protest against the ]. After that, he was incarcerated by the Soviet government for two years but, under pressure from Western mathematicians, was allowed to emigrate to ] in 1972.
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	==The Bible Code controversy==		==The Bible Code controversy==
	In the late seventies, Eliyahu Rips was the first researcher to make a modern systematic study of the Codes of the hebrew Torah in a computer, focusing on the beginning of the Book of ]: Rips is the founder of the modern systematic research of Codes in the Torah. In the early eighties, Doron Witztum started to work together with Rips, producing a stream of remarkable findings <ref></ref>. In 1994, Rips, together with ] and ], published an article in the journal ''Statistical Science'' which claimed that they have discovered encoded messages in the ] text of the ], a part of ]. In 1997, their claim was then described in a popular book '']'' by journalist ]. Rips distanced himself from the interpretations of Drosnin in a public statement.<ref> Public Statement by Dr. Rips on Michael Drosnin's theories</ref> Since Drosnin's book, ] have been a subject of controversy, with the claims being criticized by ] and others.<ref>http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/bdm/dilugim/torah.html</ref>		In the late seventies, Eliyahu Rips was the first researcher to make a modern systematic study of the Codes of the hebrew Torah in a computer, focusing on the beginning of the Book of ]: Rips is the founder of the modern systematic research of Codes in the Torah. In the early eighties, Doron Witztum started to work together with Rips, producing a stream of remarkable findings <ref></ref>. In 1994, Rips, together with ] and ], published an article in the journal ''Statistical Science'' which claimed that they have discovered encoded messages in the ] text of the ], a part of ]. In 1997, their claim was then described in a popular book '']'' by journalist ]. Rips distanced himself from the interpretations of Drosnin in a public statement.<ref> Public Statement by Dr. Rips on Michael Drosnin's theories</ref> Since Drosnin's book, ] have been a subject of controversy, with the claims being criticized by ] and others.<ref>http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/bdm/dilugim/torah.html</ref> While some critic voices continue to discuss the validity of the Torah Codes <ref></ref>, new developments in the testing of matrixes as well as the use of apriori words, by the scientific team of the Torah Codes leaded by Eliyahu Rips, ] and rabbi Matityahu Glazerson <ref></ref>, have completely revolutionized the approach of finding codes in the Torah, in the present (year of 2012), that produced many important findings.<ref></ref>

			The Torah Codes constitute one of the dimensions of the hidden light and the less open part of the ], carried by oral and written tradition, called the ]. And the expression 'Torah Codes' is, in reality, a contemporary standart term for a very old concept of the original and real sense of the Hebrew Creationism : everything that exists, in the Universe, is in the Torah, that was gived, by God, to the jewish people, through ], in ] <ref></ref>, on pure sapphire plates, recorded with 304,805 Hebrew letters, engraved by the hand of God, that containing the commandments, viewable from both sides multi-dimensionally. The hebrew letters of the Torah are the DNA of Creation <ref></ref>. The Torah was created prior to the creation of the world, and was used as the ] for ].<ref>Vol. 11 Trumah Section 61</ref> Varying the characters in its infinite possibilities, the words of the hebrew Torah form new words, that are the building blocks of all Universe. The evolution of the Universe (and of the Earth) is derived from an infinite combination of the letters of the Torah, that have created, by the action of God, in power, all type of phenomena that exists and form them, gradually, until the so-called ].The original conception of the Hebrew Creationism is often unknown by the western scholars, since the establishment of the universities in Europe, in the Middle Ages, leaded by the ], manipulated, during several centuries, by the ], which were limited to teaching Greco-Latin culture <ref></ref>, beyond the fact that the Greco-Latin Western Theology distort, completely, the true idiosyncrasy and the true identity of the ], of the ] and of the original sense of the ] language <ref></ref>.

			One of the structural consequences of the discovery of the Torah Codes is that they are a fact that proves the divine origin of the Torah and they give ontological validity to the Hebrew Creationism and to the substantial notions and values of the traditional Judaism. The Hebrew Creationism is not a myth<ref></ref> and is very rational, with a type of rationality much more advanced than the actual most advanced science: the contemporary Biology and Physics corroborate<ref></ref> the views exposed in the ], in the ], in the ] or in the ]<ref></ref>. The Torah Codes proof too that the Humankind is in a eschatology, the Jewish eschatology (in this sense, exists only one type of eschatology, that will be revealed from the Land of ]), directed to the ]. Like ], famous mathematician and Nobel Prize awardee, member of the National Academy of Science of America, says <ref></ref> : "If this research of the Torah Codes is born out, behold this is the greatest discovery of three hundred years of scientific research." <ref></ref> In the present (year of 2012), the Torah Codes are real and mathematical proved, which surpasses anything previously discovered.<ref></ref>

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	Eliyahu Rips, once an atheist, is now an ].~~{{Citation needed\| date=February 2012}}~~ He married with Deborah Ben-Horin (sister of the prominent ] activist Michael Ben-Horin), and they reside in ], in ].		Eliyahu Rips, once a "fierce atheist" <ref></ref>, is now a religious ]. He married with Deborah Ben-Horin (sister of the prominent ] activist Michael Ben-Horin), and they reside in ], in ].

	==Selected papers==		==Selected papers==

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Eliyahu Rips
Born	1948 (age 76–77) Latvia
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	University of Latvia Hebrew University
Known for	Rips machine Vietoris–Rips complex Torah Code
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Hebrew University
Doctoral advisor	Shimshon Amitsur
Doctoral students	Lev Birbrair Zlil Sela

Eliyahu Rips, also Ilya Rips (Template:Lang-he; Template:Lang-ru; born 1948) is a Latvian-born Israeli mathematician known for his research in geometric group theory. He became known, to the general public, for coauthoring a scientific article, published in the journal Statistical Science and described in the best-selling book The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin, about the phenomena of the Torah Codes, known by the popular expression of 'Bible Code', that are 'Equidistant (or Equal-distance) Letter Sequences' about historical and contemporany events , that appear in the original text of the 3300 year old hebrew Written Torah - the "Five Books of Moses".

Rips grew up in Latvia (then part of Soviet Union). He was the first high school student from Latvia to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad. On 9 April 1969, Rips (who was a 20-year old graduate student at the University of Latvia at that time) attempted self-immolation in a protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. After that, he was incarcerated by the Soviet government for two years but, under pressure from Western mathematicians, was allowed to emigrate to Israel in 1972.

After recovering from his wounds and finishing his Ph.D., Rips joined the Department of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1975, he completed his PhD in mathematics at Hebrew University. His topic was the dimensional sub-group problem. His dissertation was recognized as being of international interest and he was awarded with the prestigious Aharon Karzir Prize. In 1979, Rips received the Erdős Prize from the Israel Mathematical Society, and was a sectional speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994.

Since completing his PhD, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics, at Hebrew University where he holds the position of Professor. His current research interests concentrate on geometric and combinatorial methods in infinite group theory. This includes small cancellation theory and its generalizations, (Gromov) hyperbolic group theory, Bass-Serre theory and the actions of groups on R-trees.

Rips' (mostly unpublished) work on group actions on $\mathbb {R}$ -trees has been widely influential. The Rips machine, in the hands of Rips and his student Zlil Sela, has proven to be effective in obtaining classification results such as a solution to the isomorphism problem for hyperbolic groups.

The Bible Code controversy

In the late seventies, Eliyahu Rips was the first researcher to make a modern systematic study of the Codes of the hebrew Torah in a computer, focusing on the beginning of the Book of Genesis: Rips is the founder of the modern systematic research of Codes in the Torah. In the early eighties, Doron Witztum started to work together with Rips, producing a stream of remarkable findings . In 1994, Rips, together with Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg, published an article in the journal Statistical Science which claimed that they have discovered encoded messages in the Hebrew text of the Book of Genesis, a part of Bible. In 1997, their claim was then described in a popular book The Bible Code by journalist Michael Drosnin. Rips distanced himself from the interpretations of Drosnin in a public statement. Since Drosnin's book, Bible codes have been a subject of controversy, with the claims being criticized by Brendan McKay and others. While some critic voices continue to discuss the validity of the Torah Codes , new developments in the testing of matrixes as well as the use of apriori words, by the scientific team of the Torah Codes leaded by Eliyahu Rips, Robert Haralick and rabbi Matityahu Glazerson , have completely revolutionized the approach of finding codes in the Torah, in the present (year of 2012), that produced many important findings.

The Torah Codes constitute one of the dimensions of the hidden light and the less open part of the Torah, carried by oral and written tradition, called the Kabbalah. And the expression 'Torah Codes' is, in reality, a contemporary standart term for a very old concept of the original and real sense of the Hebrew Creationism : everything that exists, in the Universe, is in the Torah, that was gived, by God, to the jewish people, through Moses, in Biblical Mount Sinai , on pure sapphire plates, recorded with 304,805 Hebrew letters, engraved by the hand of God, that containing the commandments, viewable from both sides multi-dimensionally. The hebrew letters of the Torah are the DNA of Creation . The Torah was created prior to the creation of the world, and was used as the blueprint for Creation. Varying the characters in its infinite possibilities, the words of the hebrew Torah form new words, that are the building blocks of all Universe. The evolution of the Universe (and of the Earth) is derived from an infinite combination of the letters of the Torah, that have created, by the action of God, in power, all type of phenomena that exists and form them, gradually, until the so-called Messianic Age.The original conception of the Hebrew Creationism is often unknown by the western scholars, since the establishment of the universities in Europe, in the Middle Ages, leaded by the Roman Catholic Church, manipulated, during several centuries, by the Inquisition, which were limited to teaching Greco-Latin culture , beyond the fact that the Greco-Latin Western Theology distort, completely, the true idiosyncrasy and the true identity of the Torah, of the Halakha and of the original sense of the Hebrew language .

One of the structural consequences of the discovery of the Torah Codes is that they are a fact that proves the divine origin of the Torah and they give ontological validity to the Hebrew Creationism and to the substantial notions and values of the traditional Judaism. The Hebrew Creationism is not a myth and is very rational, with a type of rationality much more advanced than the actual most advanced science: the contemporary Biology and Physics corroborate the views exposed in the Written Torah, in the Talmud, in the Midrash or in the Zohar. The Torah Codes proof too that the Humankind is in a eschatology, the Jewish eschatology (in this sense, exists only one type of eschatology, that will be revealed from the Land of Israel), directed to the Messianic Age. Like Robert Aumann, famous mathematician and Nobel Prize awardee, member of the National Academy of Science of America, says : "If this research of the Torah Codes is born out, behold this is the greatest discovery of three hundred years of scientific research." In the present (year of 2012), the Torah Codes are real and mathematical proved, which surpasses anything previously discovered.

Personal life

Eliyahu Rips, once a "fierce atheist" , is now a religious Orthodox Jew. He married with Deborah Ben-Horin (sister of the prominent Kach and Kahane Chai activist Michael Ben-Horin), and they reside in Ramot, in Jerusalem.

Selected papers

Rips, E. "Group actions on R-trees". preprint.
Rips, E. (1982). "Subgroups of small cancellation groups". Bull. London Math. Soc. 14 (1): 45–47.
Rips, E.; Sela, Z. (1994). "Structure and rigidity in hyperbolic groups. I". Geom. Funct. Anal. 4 (3): 337–371.
Rips, E.; Sela, Z. (1995). "Canonical representatives and equations in hyperbolic groups". Invent. Math. 120 (3): 489–512.
Rips, E.; Sela, Z. (1997). "Cyclic splittings of finitely presented groups and the canonical JSJ decomposition". Ann. of Math. 2. 146 (1): 53–109.
Sapir, Mark V.; Birget, Jean-Camille; Rips, Eliyahu (2002). "Isoperimetric and isodiametric functions of groups". Ann. of Math. 2. 156 (2): 345–466.
Birget, J.-C.; Ol'shanskii, A. Yu.; Rips, E.; Sapir, M. V. (2002). "Isoperimetric functions of groups and computational complexity of the word problem". Ann. of Math. 2. 156 (2): 467–518.

References

Grūtups, A. (2009). Observators. Rīga: Atēna.

External links

The Real and the True Story of the Torah Codes
Torah Codes and 2012
Torah Code 2012 : the last updates
The Bible Code, transcript of a story which aired on BBC Two, Thursday 20 November 2003, featuring comments by Drosnin, Rips, and Brendan McKay.
A photo of Professor Eliyahu Rips
Eliyahu Rips at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Eliyahu Rips's results at International Mathematical Olympiad

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