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How Did Kabbalah Predict Continental Drift 2,000 Years Ago? (AI)

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Rabbi Zamir Cohen

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] let's move on to the third day and God said let the waters be gathered together under the heavens into one place and let the dry land appear and it was good at this stage the Earth was completely covered by water on the third day God commands let the waters be gathered together under the heavens we saw that the heavens refer to the atmosphere of the Earth the Earth into one place and let the dry land appear meaning the land began to rise and fall this created a geological system geological changes all over the world thus dry land emerged and the waters gathered in one place according to this verse we should have seen one continent regardless of its shape but just one continent surrounded by one ocean of water today everyone is familiar with the map of the continents of the world there are different opinions in the there are different opinions in the scientific World about whether to divide the continents into five some say seven continents and the more accepted opinion is that there are seven continents on the surface reality seems to contradict the verse just 80 years ago a German geologist named vega noticed an interesting phenomenon and he said look the Bulge of the African continent seems as though it came out of the gap between the two American continents and the Bulge of South America fits perfectly into the Gap in

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  1. 0:00[Music] [Applause] [Music] let's move on to the third day and God said let the waters…
  2. 0:30the Earth into one place and let the dry land appear meaning the land began to…
  3. 1:00there are different opinions in the scientific World about whether to divide the continents into five…
  4. 1:30into the Gap in Africa there is an enormous distance between them with an ocean separating…
  5. 2:00continent and they found the same rock on another continent and it is a giant rock…
  6. 2:32place place and let the dry land appear what we today call a continent he calls…
  7. 3:04speaks about seven continents Rish may his memory be blessed lived 2,000 years ago America had…
  8. 3:35and the people dispersed but others say that in those days when the Earth was divided…

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