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Tower of Babel - The Truth About Evolution
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When we see a Monkey or an Elephant we say a blessing: "Baruch Ata Hashem Elokenu Melech HaOlam Meshaneh Habriyot" "Blessed in God, King of the World, who Changes The Creations" - Rabbi Pessin shares a fasincating midrash about the Generation of the Tower of Babel
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there is a when you go to the zoo and
you see the monkey you see the elephant
you have to
say next time you go to The Zo make sure
you do it unless you saw these animals
within 30 days you don't say it if you
didn't you have to say it if you see the
monkey and the Elephant together you say
only one BR if you see them one after
the other you have to say two bras why
because they're strange they're weird
they're not so strange there are weird
looking animals out there stranger
looking bigger or whatever it is that's
what's so special about the monkey and
the Elephant that's the
question that I think 450 years ago in
Yemen he says the following remarkable
what was the punishment
of
oh that says there are three groups
within that generation one said let's
big build that big tower and go and
fight a some others say let's just move
up there and just sit up there and
others said let's go up there and ser
the Z and their punishment was
corresponding to their deeds the one
that said let's go up there and just sit
there dispersed them those that said
let's go up there and
fight turned them into monkeys in the
med has monkeys and elephants those who
said let's
Ser said made them that not be able to
understand each other
says since the monkey and the Elephant
were wants human beings change him into
monkeys therefore listen to the
formulation of
the we should have
said we don't say that what do we
say meaning he changes the creatures
these were once humans and now they
turned into monkeys and elephants and in
fact scientists say that the monkeys and
elephants are extremely smart elephants
can know up to 70 languages monkeys we
see how you know they can do things
almost almost like humans D these
specific ones why because they were once
humans comes out that Charles Darwin was
so so so wrong so wrong he thought his
grandfather comes from the ape no it's
the opposite out the other way around
the ape comes from his grandfather