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The Ratio of the Ark to the Flood

1.1K views · Apr 7, 2025

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A discussion on the symbolic meaning of the Ark's size during the Flood according to the Ramchal.

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Ram says something very interesting. He says that if you want to know how much Z was there or how much did the Sultan have much sparks of holiness was in the kaduca side and how much was in the side of the Sultan. So he says the proportion of the tava to the sea to the marble is the proportion of the amount of that was left out of the sun's head. Read this. I we're looking at

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  1. 0:00Ram says something very interesting. He says that if you want to know how much Z…
  2. 0:310.01, right? That was all that was left in the satusha. The rest was all in…
  3. 1:01and so on so forth you know but the world was much worse in those days…

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