Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

Boats have always been an extremely intriguing subject. If you noticed, boats are very scientifically complicated. It requires a tremendous amount of density as opposed to weight that is less than the density of water. And Baruch Hashem, water has a tremendous density in order that it should float. It doesn't matter if you're as heavy as the Titanic. Officially, you can float until you hit an iceberg. Not a problem because as long as they had all those empty air chambers that they had in front of the Titanic, that five of them, which made it, quote-unquote, the unsinkable. And until you rip through all five of them, which which they successfully were able to do, so then you are able to still stay afloat no matter how heavy you are. That's the idea behind it, and it's all a very interesting idea. But imagine this, that it's been around for so long, these boats. It's already mentioned in the parsha in parshas Kitavo, where it mentions the idea of boats as It says, "I will ship you to Mitzrayim in I'm going to go ahead and return you to Mitzrayim in oniyot, in boats." Which the Ramban points out as similar to do cuz this parshas Kitavo is referring to the second Beis Hamikdash and it's referring to when we were taken by Titus on boats to Mitzrayim. When we were taken on boats to Mitzrayim, that's what the Ramban writes. We know already in the time of Noach that boats were around. Now, the Midrash does write that Noach had a tough time figuring out how this thing is going to float on the water and how's this apparatus going to work? Then Hakadosh Baruch Hu had to help him out a little bit. But in the end of the day, boats have been around for the whole entire history, basically, of mankind. We know, of course, Zevulun is the Kodesh Yam. He's the man who goes out to boat and go who goes on a boat, he goes out to sea in in to be able to do to do his business. It's interesting even of Rama Venu when he had a guest over when he had those three guests over those Malachim, one of them the Midrash refers to him as a captain of a boat. He understood that he was a captain of a boat. I never saw an Arab who was a captain of a boat. Al Kol Panim, that's what it is. I don't have to tell you about Yom Kippur when we read about Yona and of course Yona went ahead but Yakov Yakov Yona Livroach Tarshisha Beilifnei Hashem and he went to Yafo. He went to the port over there where he hopped onto a boat and he was able to do it. To be able to try to get away from Hakadosh Baruchu. The Kaf Hachaim brings something very intriguing, very interesting in Siman Taf Ayin Zayin. That's the Siman that has to do with making an taking Afikoman on Pesach. He says, "People who were sailors used to always keep a piece of the Afikoman." I assume we're talking about the Jewish sailors that they would keep a piece of the Afikoman and they would keep it in their in their sleeve or in their pocket or whatever it was. Why? Because they understood it was a great Segula when there was a dangerous hurricane or some type of tornado which was going to sweep away their boat, they used the Afikoman as a protective device when they went out to sea. There's another Midrash also you should know in Midrash Rabbah which brings that in between each piece of land in Israel in in between every Shevet it was broken up into 10 of the Shevatim which were in Eretz Israel as we know, each one was separated by a river and they actually had to paddle from one to the next to get there. Israel was a little Venice maybe it was a big Venice. A big Venice which was surrounded by a tremendous amount of water to get from one place to the next. That's what the Midrash says. It was a place that each Shevet was separated by some type of canals of water which people had boats to separate to to take from one one side to the next probably little canoes. Al Kol Panim, we see over and over again the boat is a very it's a phenomenon that we is goes over and over again in the Torah that we find in many many places. The Shem has the Chida says about his father he used to sign his name with a boat. Why did he sign his name with a boat? Because he had a miracle with a boat and he had a Korban Olah to Hakadosh Baruch Hu by signing his name with a boat to always remember the nest. He said they were banked very basically right when they stopped and went to the when they got to shore more or less before they were even able to manage to get to shore a massive storm came out and ripped the boat into two but since they were by shore they were basically able to save themselves and swim to shore. But they said but he says basically it was a difference of half an hour. If a half an hour before that that storm was there they would have never made it. They would have been finished. And from that day on as a remembrance to the nest he used to sign his name as a boat. I want to end with an interesting piece when we're talking about boats and that of course is the infamous and very famous Bermuda Triangle. We all know in the southeastern parts of uh Florida right in between Cuba uh Bermuda and uh and Florida over there is known in Puerto Rico right around that area. Over there there's a triangle a shape of an triangle of an invisible area in the Atlantic Ocean which is known as the Bermuda Triangle. Many books were written on this. One of the books which was written by a person named Charles Berlitz sold over 20 million copies. It's translated to 30 languages cuz of this intriguing topic. Nobody ever understood what is the secret behind this place but there were tremendous amount of stories of boats disappearing in this area. Already in the time of Christopher Columbus who reports when he was next to the southern part of the new world he said that he saw a burning fire underneath the water. Cabialo underneath the water of the Atlantic Ocean there was some type of burning furnace that he saw and he made sure to stay clear of that area. Incredible. Already back then, but through history, especially in the past 150 years, there's been a tremendous amount of stories. In 1919, there was reported a boat, the biggest one of the biggest navy boats of America at the time, the USS Cyclops, that was in that area and absolutely disappeared. 309 passengers completely disappeared. To this day, it remains a mystery. In the word to this day, it remains a mystery. No one knows exactly what happened. In the words of the president, Woodrow Wilson, at the time, only God and the sea know what happened to that great ship. And even nowadays, they still have not been able to figure out and find um where where it exactly exists or what happened to that ship. They have not been able to find remains of it at all. Even 20 years later, in 1942, in the middle of World War II, also exactly in the same area, two other sister ships, which were also called the Cyclops, were in that area and also disappeared very unusually. Like I said, there's a tremendous amount of stories of different boats that disappeared over and over again. But there were many theories to be able to figure out where this happened or what's the reason why this occurred. Obviously, you can imagine they talked about on some type of aliens or sea monsters. You got Loch Ness Monsters rolling around over there, you know, maybe time warps, etc., etc. Atlantis, underwater, you know, cities which are sucking up people. There's even a theory that all the slaves that were thrown overboard because many owners during the feudal system, many owners would throw their slaves overboard into the ocean in order to claim insurance on the slaves. Take that one for for being nice. They would throw them in order and then they would have insurance on the slaves and they would be able to cash in on the lost slaves that they had. So, the spirits of those lost slaves are coming back to get revenge like Friday the 13th style. Anyways, very nice. Scientifically speaking, and it seems to be this is the correct direction as we'll see cuz there seems to be a McCord Halacha for this. It seems to be that there's a very strong magnetic pull in certain areas of the ocean, certain parts of the ocean. Because over there, especially in that area of the triangle, the north um the absolute north and magnetic north are lined up together, meaning the magnetic push is very strong there. And as a result of that, it's very possible that A, it can ruin people's compasses and they can get absolutely lost at sea. But even more than that, it can cause a certain amount of pull or gravitational pull that will pull them under the ocean on under underneath the ocean I I can take off. Or similar to that idea, there's some type of methane gas in very deep areas of the ocean which can actually make disrupt the density that's inside of the ocean. And like we spoke at before, if there's less density in the water, the boats going underneath. He's going underneath her because his density is going to overlap. We need a very dense amount of water in order for it to exist. So, I'll go put him that seems to be a couple of the theories. What's interesting is that while this we're finishing, there seems to be such an idea in the Otzenne flows the Torah and the Nachlas Yosef, they bring down a Rashi in Brochos, a famous Rashi in Brochos. Over there, when he's talking about the sickness of askar, very painful death, the Gemara refers to it like a rope, a thick rope which is pulling being pulled through a very thin mass. Meaning it's painful though the rope is being pulled and tugged through a very thin hole which is not able to successfully get through. That's how it's referred to. And Rashi says that similar to places in the ocean, he says the Atlantic Ocean, where it's not able to be so well my technique, it can't handle metal. And people go underneath the water because of their being in a metal type of boat. That's what Rashi says. What does that mean? I've no idea. So, the Rashash in the back of the Gamara explains these cryptic words and he says me in time cuz on the bottom of the ocean there's a magnetic pole. In some places it's stronger than others. And in certain places, such as the Bermuda Triangle, which he doesn't mention, seems to be that there's a much stronger pole over that's able to absolutely suck to suck in other boats which are not able to be managed. Okay, the safer a bridge brings a similar idea that there are certain places which only wooden boats seem to survive but metal boats don't because there are very strong magnetic attraction that's going underneath it. The Shulchan Aruch brings such an idea. It's incredible that we find these going back a number of centuries ago, even going back 800 years ago. So, if that's the facts, so now we have a report for the Bermuda Triangle, a lot more scientific. Maybe it was ET, I don't know. I can't be honest with you but probably not. Seems to be that there are very strong magnetic poles pulling these boats in but the idea behind everything that we're saying is as they say, necessity is the mother of invention. Boats were requirement from the beginning of time. Airplanes say that's a new phenomenon that wasn't absolutely required. But because of this phenomenon of the necessity of boats, they've been around from the beginning of time and that's why here we have it, they're mentioned even in the Parshas these Parshas right in front of us when it's mentioned the idea of I'm on yachts.