Many well-established physical effects are weak. Some examples:

• A light presses bodies by a small force (so-called light pressure).
• The mass of a system (say, an atom) is less than the sum of masses of its components by a relatively small amount (so-called mass defect).

A weak effect hardly can manifest itself unless a special experiment is designed carefully, using an instrument sensitive enough to feel the effect and selective enough fo select it from among much stronger effects.

Even an extremely weak effect may tell us something important. For example, it was noticed after observing a super-nova, that the number of scientific papers exceeded the number of neutrinos (!) that gave rise to the articles.

The existence of a weak effect being not self-evident, we must be very careful. Otherwise an existing effect can be discarded, or a non-existing effect can be confirmed. The matter becomes very subtle if, in addition, the object is unique, non-reproducible. For the unique Universe it is very difficult to decide, whether the 7.82 energy level in carbon is a mere coincidence, or not; see p. 123 of the book [Feynman]. For the unique Torah it is very difficult to decide, whether the WRR effect is a mere coincidence, or not; see the recent exchange of Bar-Natan, Gindis, Levitan, McKay and Rips, available online through links from the section "An independent experiment" of Torah Codes by B. McKay.

The effect proclaimed by [WRR94] is weak. We have no algorithm that reads the Torah and writes another senseful text, hidden before. Rather, a special experiment was designed carefully, using a highly sensitive and selective algorithm. Nothing was produced from the Torah alone. The WRR algorithm reads two inputs:

• The Torah.
• A pair of words.

Though, maybe the phrase "via some event" is a careless generalization. For now, the available information is scanty. The only relation considered in the article [WRR94] is the relation between names and birth (or death) dates of famous personalities taken from the Encyclopedia of Great Men in Israel. (Some more experiments were made, and some are in progress.)

So, the techique is complicated, since it is a highly sensitive and selective mathematical device (invented and implemented by Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg) for detecting and measuring a weak (but real and striking!) WRR-effect.

[Feynman]

R. Feynman, The character of physical law, Cox and Wyman 1965.