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The Sun's Sheath: The Surprising Science Behind the Teachings of Chazal (AI)

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Rabbi Zamir Cohen

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] an apparently strange sentence appears in the midrash written about 2,000 years ago the sages say the sun has a sheath as it is said the sun is inside a tent typically what does a sheath do it protects what is inside it and the sages say that when the Holy One Blessed Be he say that when the Holy One Blessed Be he takes the Sun out of its sheath the whole world heats up an immense heat that reaches the nations of the world whenever people saw this sentence they dismissed it entirely what is the son whoever saw a sheath for the Sun but the sages say there is a verse and we know that it is so the entire Bible is divine revelation and here we are talking about a verse in the Bible a verse in the Bible means it is true there is an astronomer from the British royal observ

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  1. 0:00[Music] [Applause] [Music] an apparently strange sentence appears in the midrash written about 2,000 years ago…
  2. 0:30say that when the Holy One Blessed Be he takes the Sun out of its sheath…
  3. 1:00astronomer from the British royal observ Dr Vidal and he writes in his book The Heaven's…
  4. 1:30it is assumed that the the sun's core is a nuclear furnace releasing immense amounts of…
  5. 2:01absorb the heat rate ration coming from the Sun and also block the shocks caused by…

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