MMH Yarchei Kallah Panama 2025 - What Would Rebbi Akiva Say If He Saw the Panama Canal??

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay thank you Nafi for that beautiful presentation and the bus driver okay what do we learn from the Panama Canal whenever I think about the Panama Canal I always say to myself if only RAB AA could have seen the Panama Canal what do I mean by that well first of all it's very interesting we find in the beginning of the T that Rashi says on the word yamim Rashi says why are the Seas called Seas it's one great body of water Rashi sayso you can compare the taste of a fish from the sea of Spain to the taste of the fish off the Mediteranean why is Rashi telling us about fish tastes I believe the deeper meaning is water is Tyra it's a to there's different tastes of T there's the taste of Spanish TOA of of the r the ri the the rajv and is it's a different flavor of Tyra you know if you could be at a location in the world where there's an intersection between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean which are the two great bodies of water in the world this must be a great MIM of Tyra in the world that's why we chose for our 2025a Panama Panama is the Confluence of different types of TOA so I want to share with you what I think rabaka would say if he saw the Panama Canal before the Panama Canal if a sip wanted to travel from New York say to somewhere on the other side of South America they would have to travel all the way down south and circle around the tip of South America that could take many many days it was very expensive and fraught with danger the Panama Canal allows you to intersect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in only 8 minutes it takes a couple days to get from one end to the other but the actual Panama Canal to navigate only 8 minutes now the method of the Panama Canal is that the water is literally able to lift up a ship 85 ft in the air so you say right am I correct not 85 ft in the air thank you recently there was a Norwegian liner that traveled through the Panama Canal that weighed anybody know how much it weighed how many tons take a guess how many tons was the Norwegian ocean liner 168,000 tons 168,000 tons now the water levels are on different levels right the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are on different levels what's the difference in the water level the tie what no how what's the difference 18 ft in the Pacific and 2 ft in the Caribbean okay so they're very different water levels but the process of filling up the canal with water will lift up the ship 85 ft in the air how in the world could you lift up 168,000 tons 85 ft in the air the answer is there is one thing in this world that is so powerful that it can lift up over 100,000 tons and that is water water is so powerful it can lift up the heaviest items we know that Reika started with very humble Origins but when he saw water dripping on a rock he made the following argument that if water which is soft could Pierce a whole ackq then the toyra which is so powerful could certainly penetrate my heart I would think if only RAB AKA could see the Panama Canal he would be astonished he would be astounded I think RAB AKA would make the following kavak that if water which is so soft can lift up an ocean liner 168,000 tons 885 ft in the air if you want to know how high the toyra could raise you up if you want to know how powerful the toyra is if you feel heavy and bogged down think about what rako would say about the Panama Canal that if water could raise a Norwegian ocean liner 85 ft in the air imagine how high the toyra could Elevate you I think that's what Raba would say if only he saw the Panama Canal enjoy you've just just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com