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	Michelangelo 'hid secret code in Sistine Chapel'

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6-20-2008 1:04 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/211cc6fe-812b-4140-a52d-cad7183728c3/72081406-6AB3-440D-9FBA-3E6255C9EDCF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html"><H1>Michelangelo 'hid secret code in Sistine Chapel'</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html"><H2>Michelangelo hid a secret code in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel made up of mystical Jewish symbols and insults aimed at the pope, according to a new book. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/1493573C-1187-4803-8CFD-B58A1D033F06" alt="The Sistine Chapel was intended to be decoded, the authors believe" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html"><DIV class="piccaption">The Sistine Chapel was intended to be decoded, the authors believe</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html">the Sistine Chapel</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html">is actually a "bridge" 
  between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish faith,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html"><P>
The book, which is already on the New York Times bestseller list, is the work 
  of Rabbi Benjamin Blech, an associate professor of Talmud at Yeshiva 
  University in New York, and Roy Doliner, a tour guide at the Vatican.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html"><P>
Scanning through the arrangement of figures on the vast 14,000 square foot 
  ceiling, the authors have found shapes that correspond to Hebrew letters.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html">the book states, the figures of David and Goliath form the shape 
  of the letter <I>gimel</I>, which symbolises <I>g'vurah</I>, or strength, in 
  the mystical Kabbalah tradition.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-%27hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel%27.html">Kabbalah is a set of ancient esoteric teachings which are meant to decode the 
  inner meaning of the Tanakh</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/72081406-6AB3-440D-9FBA-3E6255C9EDCF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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