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Mermaids in Judaism
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They may tell you that mermaids are just a legend and that they're not true, but in Judaism we look in our Torah sources - Rabbi Genish shares a few Torah sources for what seem to be discussing a mermaid. Half human half fish.
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do we know if mermaids really exist if
you open up the ocean geographers we of
course know that they'll say we never
say it's an old legend of the past you
can check it up on Google they'll say
these things don't exist seeing is
believing but guess what there's
a that says that there's a mg PL that
there's a type of Doug over there which
is known as a dolin something that we
might be called a dolphin says Rashi
what is
this they're half man and half man and a
half fish this is something that can be
paired that can reproduce from another
person if you tell me it's only Rashi
believe it or not the rivate in the
torim over there it's discussing T that
a man can be says the riv over here and
S something another type of fish he says
the top of the fish is similar to a man
and the bottom of the fish is similar to
a fish that's what it is especially
known of course as we know as the
mermaid and they
are oil so this is a real specimen that
definitely existed everything always
comes from the Torah I understand that
these are things that are known as
Legends but all legends are always based
on something that comes from the Torah
they don't just make it up and the Rak
actually writes in a in parake something
called the and he says
also from the belly button and down and
the of a
fish and that's why it's called a a half
a fish a sort of pseudo type of fish
that's what's known as a doin the and
apparently is something that exists
listen to the words of
the in Under The Words which I said is
well the sa AR was a re and he was older
than rashi rashi used to send him
letters to ask him qu questions and he
brings a m sh a real M that happened
with a king in the G says in Denmark in
Norway up in the northern Waters over
there he says that they were passing by
in a boat with a ship full of sailors
and and the King over there was sitting
at the end of the ship and they saw on
one of the rocks an image of a person an
image of a person where the bottom torso
was completely fish and the top of the
Torso was completely person female male
for whatever it was and immediately they
went to the
man they went to the other side of the
boat
screaming you should come and see these
incredible things Unfortunately they
weren't able to do selfies back then
they didn't have any any iPhones to be
able to pick this one up but in the
meantime while they did it when by the
time the king finally turned around
the mermaid figured out what's going on
and took a dive into the ocean
immediately took a dive and disappeared
and all the people in the ship promised
I'm telling you we saw it we saw it
that's what it is we saw that that's
what it is and he brings from the saer
even and then even more that he was 10
years ago in front of the king and the
King when he when he heard about this he
was quiet about this type of event I
will end with the words of the rivid the
rivid says that it's not just a mermaid
he says it's it has the power of song
and as theed writes that when when a SPH
would pass by this thing can actually
cause damage because it would play
Beautiful harmonies which would put the
whole ship to sleep which can actually
with its beauty actually put the whole
ship to sleep and would leave it astray
the boat can end up going off the wrong
thing as he says sometimes it would even
turn Topsy Turvy the whole boat can turn
upside down so these fish can actually
cause physical damage to what happens
and they bring a remise to this that's
what it says in
him the the boat that goes down the that
goes down into the ocean the no is
upside down and he says the reason why
the N is in order to say because a no
means a fish and the fish turns boats
upside down but it's an upside down fish
it's a fish that's only a half a fish
and not a human