Extraterrestrial Life? Science Discovers What the Zohar Always Knew (AI)

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

Are there life forms on other stars? In 1961, American researchers published that there should be about 10,000 civilizations in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Why did they come to this conclusion? Because they believed from their perspective that life would evolve on a planet by chance. So, they argue that if there was an evolutionary process on one planet out of billions, there must be other similar planets. Why here specifically? To the point that they invested a lot of To the point that they invested a lot of money, created satellite fields to capture signals from space, so that our friends out there would send us some signal and we would receive it here. Once they asked the Kabbalist Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi, of blessed memory, this was right before the Americans launched the first manned spacecraft to the moon. They asked him, "Rabbi, people are debating whether they will find living creatures on the moon or not." The Rabbi, a great Kabbalist, well-versed in the Zohar, said well-versed in the Zohar, said something. He smiled and responded, "I guarantee that they will find no life there, not there and not anywhere else." How does the Rabbi know this? He said, "There is a preface in the Zohar. He created the heavens and the earth, and in the earth he created trees and herbs, and the trees created the herbs, and human beings, animals, fish." The Zohar says, "This implies that life was created here, not elsewhere. Although this is not written explicitly,

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1. 0:09Are there life forms on other stars? In 1961, American researchers published that there should be…
2. 0:39To the point that they invested a lot of money, created satellite fields to capture signals…
3. 1:09well-versed in the Zohar, said something. He smiled and responded, "I guarantee that they will find…
4. 1:40Although this is not written explicitly, it is an inference he made from the Zohar, and…
5. 2:11known as a giant planet, has a much stronger gravitational pull. A person born on Jupiter…
6. 2:42oxygen level dropped to 5%, 10%, or 14%, people would have a very hard time breathing…
7. 3:12what would happen? A single match could ignite the entire Earth. Who ensures the balance of…
8. 3:43would be the great wonder that life was created on Earth because so many conditions had…

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