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The Zohar and the Mystery of Underground Creatures (AI)

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Rabbi Zamir Cohen

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in the Zohar it is written that there are certain places in the world though not everywhere on Earth where beneath the ground there exists seven levels and each level is inhabited by a different type of creature the Zohar even describes what these creatures look like it also recounts a story about one of the sages from the time of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohi who saw such a creature emerging from a crack in the Rocks an opening leading from its underground domain the sage described the creature's strange and unusual appearance strange and unusual appearance something that by today's standards people might call an alien in the first volume of the book Mah the revolution there's a chapter addressing the question of whether life exists on other planets in this chapter I discussed the Zohar account along with the opinion of the saer Habit which interprets the verse oromos as referring to a star the saah harit suggests based on this interpretation that there could be life

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