The Truth About Dinosaurs | Rabbi Zamir Cohen

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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.

Many people are convinced that the discovery of dinosaurs dates back to around 350 years ago. A British scientist, while digging in England, found a giant bone and didn't understand what it was because there was no such creature. There were different assumptions, various theories, and more expeditions were sent out to dig until they uncovered the entire world of dinosaurs. There are religious people in the world who were so frightened by the discovery of dinosaurs that they said there was no such thing because it goes against their beliefs and they don't understand. But Judaism knew about these things long before. The Torah says that the God created the great taninim on the fifth day. In the creation story, there are no proper names when it is written and God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth." There are no specific names like lion, bear, or tiger, only general family names. So, why are the taninim specifically mentioned? And why the great ones? It is written that Moses went before Pharaoh, took his staff, threw it before

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1. 0:00Many people are convinced that the discovery of dinosaurs dates back to around 350 years ago.…
2. 0:30The Torah says that the God created the great taninim on the fifth day. In the…
3. 1:02him, and the staff turned into a tannin, crocodile. Later, when God spoke to him, he…
4. 1:34'And God created the great taninim,' this means he created the great reptiles, general family names,…
5. 2:04is never abandoned. This means you can never uproot the verse from its simple meaning and…

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