Lots of interesting stuff to share with you guys. I'm running on very little sleep after a VERY busy day, but since I don't want to go to sleep with wet hair (I don't need to get even sicker), I figured I'd take a few minutes to share all this cool stuff. Also, please consider the fact that this are just my observations - I'm not taking any of this to be true - so please correct me or give me your own opinion:
1. you know the evolution vs. creation debate? ya, not necessarily 2 seperate things. On the 5th day G-d creates the fishes and animals and such. But the translation (according to the Tanach I was using earlier) says "Let the waters teem with teeming living creatures". The animals that G-d creates come from the waters, just as evolution (from what I remember from science class) says all living organisms evolved from the water.
2. some number stuff - the Jews walked for 40 years in the desert, Noah's Ark floated along for 40 nights, and every time Moses went up the mountain to chat with G-d, he was up there for 40 days at a time. Why? Because 40 days is how long it takes for a metamorphoses. And 3 days (seen in the Jonah story and the Akidah) represents the amount of time needed to make a decision.
3. The story of Jonah is read on Yom Kippur. What was Jonah swallowed by? Nope! Not a whale, but a FISH! A really big FISH! For those not up to date on the story, Jonah is told to make his prophecy to a group of people, and he's like "No Thanks, I'd rather not" and G-d is like "haha, that's what you think" and the story is spent with Jonah acting out against G-d trying to go against G-d, but fulfilling G-ds wishes "accidentally" (cuz, you know, G-d is like, totally in charge when it comes down to it). The story itself is written really crazy with all these parallels and when you're done reading it, you're like "so how am i supposed to believe that Jonah was actually hanging out in the belly of a fish for 3 days?" And "why are the animals repenting and wearing sackcloth and fasting with the people?" WELL, you know how G-d said Jonah was going to have to make a prophecy? He does! By writing this story! In the end he does his prophecy through his story that teaches us that we can't run from G-d, and that in the end, G-d can forgive us.
4. Did you ever thing about how much Pinnochio is like the story of creation / Jonah? Gepetto (G-d) creates Pinnochio (Adam) out of wood (something from the earth). Pinnochio is swallowed by the whale (FISH) (Jonah reference). Pinnochio is saved by Gepetto (G-d) and is turned into a real boy (given a soul). Cra-zy!
5. In the Tanach, right after the Shema comes the Ve'ahavta. So where does that second line come from? (You know, Baruch shem k'vod...) Moses stole that line from the angels! So, technically, when we say the Shema we're supposed to whisper the second line. Only on Yom Kippur, when we're allowed/supposed to act like the angels (a longer story) do we get to say the second line just as loud as the first!
6. Now, the best part. How do dinosaurs fit into the Tanach?? When you read the english translation it says something along the lines of "big creeping creatures" were created on the 5th (?) day. Apparently, the word (in transliteration) hit-ni'nim really means something more like LIZARDS. That means, giant lizards aka DINOSAURS were created on the 5th day. And I was trying to figure out how it works, like, when do the dinosaurs die and such (because they obv have to die before adam is created) and scholars translate a "day" to really be more like "millions of years", THEREFORE the dinosaurs could've been killed off sometime between the 5th and 6th day.
Wow I amuse myself to no end.....
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