Short story: A Rabbi talks about life balance
By emptychair
@innertalks (23220)
Australia
September 20, 2025 9:50pm CST
Rabbi Budlev Ruskevski was talking to his students about numbers, and their significance in one's life.
He claimed that our very name was linked to a number too, and this number connects us to our birthdate in a unique way too.
Rabbi Budlev, called this connecting number, our "balance number."
It was rather easy to calculate too.
You simply calculated the number of letters in your name:
For example, in the Rabbi's full name, of Budlev Morecai Ruskevski, there were 22 letters.
Then, you would add together the date of your birth, with its month, (not including the year).
The Rabbi was born on 28 March, and so his number here would be 28, plus 3, or 31.
Now, the closer that this number matched your other number, the more balanced a life you would be leading, and the greater the discrepancy between the two numbers indicated that a lot of unbalancing factors, mainly karmically based, were acting in your life to influence you to live in this unbalanced way too.
If the numbers were equal, you came into the world balanced, and are likely to quickly grow into being a master without the hindrance so much of any incoming karma, that has all been already resolved in past lives.
The Rabbi had had to work hard in his own case to achieve a balanced outlook on life too, as he tended to become unbalanced, due to his need to understand things in a scholarly way, rather than following the lead of his higher self, which knew the truths before his mind ever could.
We understand truth at some higher level then, and our mind just tries to catch up to our higher self, and understand the truth for itself too.
The lesson here is to become heart people first, and so decide to follow our intuitional knowing, instead of our questioning mind, in every instance of our life.
Our name should not be doctored to try to achieve any matches here either, as in Judaism, a name is divinely inspired, and is meant to be almost prophetic in the way that it connects one to their blessings, and spiritual gifts, given to them by God, to live this new life from.
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The Rabbi worked hard on himself to achieve more balance in his life. A balanced life is a well-lived life.
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@arunima25 (92443)
• Bangalore, India
21 Sep
Very true that a balanced life is a well lived life. And each one should strive to bring that balance.
In recent years, numerology has picked up some popularity, especially with many celebrities changing the spellings of their names.
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@arunima25 (92443)
• Bangalore, India
22 Sep
@innertalks Yes, there are beliefs and many have a cultural root. In our Hinduism, no number is considered unlucky. But rituals are around numbers. Like 3 knots for marital bond, as you are bonded in heart, head and will. 7 sacred rounds around scared fire by couples, each round for the promise that they give to each other. 108 for any chanting ( it's the multiplication product of 9 planets and 12 months) etc.
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@arunima25 (92443)
• Bangalore, India
22 Sep
@innertalks Yes. I have read about that. We have 3, trinity of Brahma( creator), Vishnu ( preservor) and Shiva ( destroyer).
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@innertalks (23220)
• Australia
22 Sep
@arunima25 Even Buddhism has this 3 aspect to their teachings too.
They refer to what they call the three jewels of their religion.
The Buddha (the founder), the Dharma (his teachings), and the Sangha (the Buddhist spiritual community, his followers)
@RebeccasFarm (93689)
• Arvada, Colorado
22 Sep
Speaking of names, and correct names..I have a sister that will argue with you til the end of time saying that Jesus name is not Jesus..and says that prayers will not be answered unless we say the right name..Y something or other..but yet she calls me by the wrong name all the time.
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@RebeccasFarm (93689)
• Arvada, Colorado
23 Sep
@innertalks Yes and Ill call Jesus Jesus if I want to.
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@innertalks (23220)
• Australia
22 Sep
Of course, this brings in another whole aspect about names; their translation into other languages.
Here is what AI says about this:
[Jesus's original name was Yeshua, a common Hebrew, and Aramaic name meaning.
"YHWH" means "salvation" or "to deliver/rescue".
The name "Jesus" is the English form of the Greek Iesous, which came from the Hebrew Yeshua, and was carried through Latin as Iesus.]
With numerology then, we usually use the spelling of the name in the first language, that they were given it in, or their birth original language of their parents. With Judaism, the parents will usually give their child a Jewish name in Hebrew, like Baruch, Aaron, Ariel, etc
@Shiva49 (27551)
• Singapore
21 Sep
A few fall prey to numerology purveyors and change their personal and business names.
Numerologist is a clear winner forget those who relied on him.
Balance in life leads to fulfillment as otherwise we get too attached to a particular lifestyle and any setbacks therefrom leads to misery.
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@innertalks (23220)
• Australia
21 Sep
I have heard it mentioned a few times that a master will change the name of a student once they have become more awarely balanced in their lives.
So, names do often reflect something about the person sporting the name, and the person with a certain name is often spurred on in some ways by their names too.
Some numerologists do believe in their craft, where others are snake oil sellers; the same with astrologists, and psychics too, I guess; some fake, and some more "genuine" than others too. Who knows where the full truth lies in these things.
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@innertalks (23220)
• Australia
22 Sep
@Shiva49 I have been to spiritualist churches where the clairvoyant gives free readings to the audience, something like a stage hypnotist does too.
They do not charge, but perhaps they are trying to build a following, and reputation, so that they can then drag in clients to their real business, of giving physic readings to paying clients also.
Once hooked, these pseudo religions, (like the Church of Scientology) and individual practitioner's, do charge enormous fees, and fleece their clients, and customers, bare.
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@Shiva49 (27551)
• Singapore
22 Sep
@innertalks It happens too in the Indian film world.
Names of actors are changed by Producers and Directors to catchy ones from their originals which may look bland otherwise.
Yes, charlatans abound in every trade where the bottom line is belief.
I knew one who promised a fortune for our business and quoted a fee that floored me.
I told him that amount was more than six months our total salary which we were struggling to meet every month! And on top of that all our stationery had to be changed leading to another loss which we could ill afford. Thanks, but no thanks!
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