Giant Fish Conspiracy Theories: Does the Torah Reveal a Hidden Truth?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

La [singing] I N light La I I la I I I I high I am la. I I La I am I am la. [singing] La did it. I la there's a major conspiracy theory >> that we have to deal with right now. >> Oh gosh. >> Giant sea creatures. Oh, >> we believe >> Leviosa Lochess monster. >> Isn't Nessie somewhere off the coast of Scotland or something? >> In in >> Scotland. >> So, let's see what the Gamarra says. And it's good to have the Gansa Island here. So every one of the the most amazing things about Lud Maran is he takes you through an entire toyra. And then he says, "And oh by the way, this is the parish of what Rab Barbarana was experiencing which was a number of journeys that he went on on a boat all sorts of interesting travels that and they're their garbas and they're specifically like this wondrously often times mystical content inside the Talmud and Rabak explains you think you understand what the Talmud means you posit don't until you learn lutan. He's going to guide us through this talmudic passage but only because we spend the last five months going through toadal that we'll have an appreciation for what's happening here. So says the Reb perish and this is the parish. This is the explanation of the famous series of incidents specifically here this particular incident of Rabba Barbar. So he says like this it was one time >> once upon a time I was going on a boat. So far so good, right? And I saw a giant fish. A cara. Cavra is a fish. the Yasf valet a buier and I saw that went in to its nostrils a type of sher type of rodent a reptile a lizard something reptilian entered into its nostrils and this giant animal died.

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2. 4:09talmudic passage but only because we spend the last five months going through toadal that we'll…
3. 8:34say that it's a separate city there had to be space between the cities and therefore…
4. 13:02from the fish they were sawing them down and they were making beams like 2x4s. And…
5. 17:23thing about driving bikes on dirt and that's unifying people and that's >> Yeah. Because what's…
6. 21:39When you jump in water, are you suffering? >> When fish fish jumps out of water,…
7. 25:21sphina in Aramaic means something saf which means something hidden and something sphina is something important…
8. 29:44>> a lot. >> This is the fish of the land. that the Jewish people will…
9. 34:08to bring the which is God's presence in this world back up to unify with and…
10. 38:28where all the begins the destruction of the bal How do we do that? >> So,…

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