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Toras HaSafari: Torah Evolution; Kruger National Park - Journey to South Africa

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see this colony of monkeys over here a very interesting that the r brings that even though for you can't just have water on its own you need to have you have to have manow manpow has to pour the water on you if a monkey pours the water on you for the ri asks why why would a monkey be different than any other animal and the says well maybe that monkey is lavka could be a monkey is lavka why why would the be that a monkey could do furthermore the that on the monkey you make the of we discussed that a little bit why a monkey more than any other unusual animal is a monkey really more unusual than a camel a camel looks pretty unusual I mean we've seen some pretty unusual species why on a monkey and what's most interesting is that aside for a human being only a monkey and an elephant are the only two animals that have a menstrual cycle which means that it has a physical commonality with man and there's a very interesting idea Advanced BYOB ketki in the msov also in the that like based on thear in sanedrin that those who are involved in in the Dara those men were transformed into Kim into monkeys and therefore their physical makeup is similar to man to the extent that they still it still has halic significance that if Mr Monkey would come along right now before suda and pour water on your hands he's still considered a halik man to the extent that you'd be the Mitzvah ofas Y in fact the the of the brings that there's a Yiddish expression that people refer to monkeys as far shalina mention they're called faral mention they're called Cursed Men And he says if this is a Jewish expression it must be laid in with meaning from the gamarra and indeed the monkey population were those who are involved in the daraga and this was their punishment so says the by way we mentioned earlier a different lesson from the monkey who tries to mimic man but basically a person always has to think about the ramifications of their actions because you never know what the ramifications will be sometimes they are so severe that you could become a completely different entity and not everything has a complete tick on so this is one of the ideas that we see from Mr Monkey