The Origin of The Universal Magic Word

The Talmud, the venerated commentary on the Torah, relates that Rabbi Yosef (ca. 270 C.E.) knew the mysteries of the Markava – the Way of Spiritual Ascension and had studied the Ways of Creation. The Rabbi's students, Rava (299-353 C.E.) and Rabbi Zeira learnt the lessons of their teacher well and were credited with the saying “If the righteous desired, they could create a world”. The ancient tradition holds that these two learned men worked for three years meditating, and when the finally mastered it, created a calf, which they had butchered and fed it to their entire community. So great were their powers that once “Rava created a man” and sent him to Rabbi Zeira; when the latter asked the creation a question, he found it could not talk. For reasons quite rational, it was shown the creation was not perfect. The phrase “Rava creates a man as he speaks” in Hebrew is "רבא ברא גברא - Rava Ba'Rah Ga'Bahra. Putting this same phase in first person, it becomes “אברא כארבא” or Avra Ka'Davra. The letter בּ – B is frequently written without the dagesh – the diacritical mark, which is its double letter ב – V. Those translating the above phrase confused the two letters giving us the most used magic word of all times: Abra'ka'dabra.

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