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The third world, was the Dor haMabbul, the contemporaries of Noach who were destroyed by the deluge. It was in this generation that had a most uncommon environment. The sages (Sanhedrin 108A) ascribe to them the fortune depicted by Job 21:8-13, as the all too common circumstance of scoundrels: Their children grow up healthy, and their descendants stand before their eyes. Their homes are peaceful, without fear, and the rod of Elokim’s discipline is not used on them. His bull impregnates his cow, and does not reject; his cow drops the calf, and does not abort. They send their children outdoors like sheep, and their infants dance. They play music on drums and harps, and they cheer to the sound of the flute. They spend their days in good times….
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 106–112.
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May 6, 2008 - 1 Iyar, 5768
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Until the third day of creation the earth was level and as featureless as a plain, and water covered the whole earth. When Elokim said, “The waters shall gather,” the mountains and hills arose from the ends of earth and spread over the entire globe. The places without these features became the valleys and the lowlands. The water flowed into depressions in the earth and they became the seas.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 101–106.
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April 29, 2008 - 24 Nisan, 5768
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We read in the Torah that the people at the time of the mabbul were punished by water, and the people of S’dom were punished by fire. From the use of the word “רבה” (great), in both instances, we deduced that the generation of the mabbul also suffered by fire, and the citizens of S’dom too were punished by water. For twenty-five years prior to the destruction of S’dom Elokim brought tremors onto the land and made mountains around S’dom quake to warn the people that they must repent, but they did not take the hint. Therefore, the four cities of S’dom and its suburbs were situated on one table of rock. The angel turned over the rock and with that one act the cities were overturned.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 96–101.
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April 22, 2008 - 17 Nisan, 5768
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We now begin to understand the source of skulls of ape-men discovered by paleontologists who describe them as “species” ancestral to man. The Sages tell us, we now recognize, not that men evolved from these quasi-apes, but, on the contrary, that the ape-men evolved from men.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 89–96.
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April 15, 2008 - 10 Nisan, 5768
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There are any number of like references. From the point of view of the earthly observer to whom the Torah is addressed the sun “rises,” “sets,” and “warms up”. So, too, though objectively the atmosphere, with its belts of water vapor and gases, circles the earth, from the point of view of one standing on earth the gases form a sack for the sun. Chazal describe the water vapor as a pool of water which dilutes the strength of the sun’s rays, that is, it screens out deadly radition. With this knowledge, we must assume that if, during ma’asa Brayshis, the earth was closer to the sun, the atmosphere must necessarily have been denser than it is now to screen out the greater emissions of ultraviolet. If so, we can readly imagine that the atmosphere was dense enough to refract the rays of light reflected from the earth around the globe. (I am informed that a five -fold increase in atmospheric sensity would accomplish this.) It would have acted, in effect, like a global mirror, in the center of whose interior the earth was suspended. A person at any spot on earth could any other places on the globe, as the Chachomim insist.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 84–89.
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April 8, 2008 - 3 Nisan, 5768
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When the Torah was given to Yisrael the noise travelled all around the world. All kings of the earth trembled in their palaces and sang praises to the power of Elokim. They all gathered to confer with Billom and asked, “What is this terrible noise we hear? Is Elokim again bringing a mabbul to destroy the world?” Billiom answered, “Do not worry, Elokim has sworn not to repeat the mabbul.” They countered, “Maybe He swore not to repeat a mabbul of water; perhaps He will bring a mabbul of fire.” Billom responded, “He has sworn that He will not again destroy His creatures.” The kings asked, “So what is this horrible noise?” Billom told them the secret; “Elokim has a precious treasure that He had stored for 974 generations prior to the creation. He is now giving it to His children.”
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 79–84.
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April 1, 2008 - 25 Adar II, 5768
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The psalmist (29:7) proclaims, “An ignorant man does’nt know, and a fool doesn’t understand.” An ignorant Jew is not a lost cause, for he may consult the sages and they will teach him Torah. However, a gentile, even a great scientist, is inevitably a fool, for he has no access to Torah and therefore cannot truly understand what he knows.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 73–78.
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March 25, 2008 - 18 Adar II, 5768
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