The Waters Above: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science (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.

let us explore a profound mystery from the second day of creation as written in the Book of Genesis God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters this passage describes the creation of a division Waters below the firmament and Waters above it but what are these Waters above according to Jewish s above according to Jewish s in ancient midrashic texts written over 2,000 years ago these waters are not physically resting on the firmament but are instead above it situated in Space the sages describe them as galadim Frozen water ice suspended by Divine command they further stated that the upper Waters far surpass the lower Waters in volume our oceans cover nearly

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1. 0:00let us explore a profound mystery from the second day of creation as written in the…
2. 0:30above according to Jewish s in ancient midrashic texts written over 2,000 years ago these waters…
3. 1:01Waters in volume our oceans cover nearly 2/3 of the planet containing incredible volumes of water…
4. 1:32knocked people off their ft even 60 km from the impact site this event known as…
5. 2:02this icy fragment likely originated from the or Cloud a distant region at the edge of…
6. 2:35left scientists in awe now imagine opening an ancient text written thousands of years ago and…

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