Health

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More than money, health is THE most important thing in our material world. As we don’t live in the generation of Noach anymore, in the days before the Flood, we are forced to take care of our body. In the times before the Flood, this was not the case because the people had a totally different DNA. After the Flood, G – d changed the DNA and from then on, we won’t live up to 500 or 600 years anymore. Furthermore, we became vulnerable to illnesses. 

Sometimes I wish myself back to the generation of Noach but, on the other hand, this may not be that pleasant as it seems. When you take a deeper look, and the Talmud Sanhedrin explains it, you may find yourself in a totally messed up Ma’aseh Bereshit world. 

For more than half a year, I have been suffering from a pain in my knee as well as in my foot and, after all kinds of x – rays, I finally got an appointment at a knee specialist. He told me something surprising: That there is nothing wrong with my knee but only with my foot. Because I sometimes walk funny when I am in pain, I am putting too much pressure onto the knee and this causes the pain in the knee. The doctor put me on medication and guess what: The knee got instantly better. However, I need to go to a physiotherapist in order to heal my foot. I have already got appointments but I am glad not to undergo any knee surgery or anything like it. A few weeks ago, a Rabbi and his wife told me to believe in miracles and here it comes: A tiny miracle saving me from a knife in my knee. 

Nevertheless, reality is that the physiotherapist, a Haredi, told me that we need to find the cause of the foot pain. About 50 % of the population suffer from the same problem but don't feel any pain. They don't even know that they do have such a "problem". 

So, for the upcoming weeks, we will search the cause and hopefully find it.:-) 

Where are the skeletons of the generation dying in Noach's Flood ?

"Noach's Ark was not a ship, as you see it on many pictures or in movies but shaped like a box.

Photo: Chabad

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Should Israel not be full of skeletons of Noach’s Generation dying in the

Flood (Mabul) ? If the Flood really took place in Israel, archaeologists should find enough evidence as well as skeletons of those people who died. Why is this not the case and no one has everdug out anything from the days of Noach ?

The Gemara (rabbinic discussion) in the Talmud Tractate Zevachim 113a discusses the question whether the Mabul took place in Israel, elsewhere (e.g. Syria or Iraq) or elsewhere AND Israel. Did the water cover our entire planet or only the Middle East ?

As usual the Gemara lists us plenty of responses and opinions. When we are taking into consideration that, after the Mabul, the human DNA, the climate or nature changed, than it is obvious that the Flood took place in Israel. Commentators and the Talmud tell us that the “Hot Springs” in Tiberias originate in Noach’s Mabul. All those people didn’t just drown in the water but they burnt to death. As the Talmud Sanhedrin teaches, the earth opened up and boiling hot water came out burning the entire population.

G – d didn’t only save Noach and his family but also the fish (Talmud Zevachim 113). Why the fish ? Because the fish didn’t participate in the sexual perversion, as most of the other animals did. In those days women became pregnant when they had sex with animals. You can imagine how those creatures looked ! Furthermore, animals had sex with each other and not only with its own species. A cat had sex with a peacock or a dog with a donkey. G – d’s entire creation was messed up and I assume (in Talmud Sanhedrin 108 the reason for the Flood is thievery) that this was the real reason for the Mabul: A messed up creation and who knows what would have happened to the whole planet. After the Flood, G – d changed the human DNA, nature as well as the climate. From now on it was impossible that woman could get pregnant from an animal.

However, the fish didn’t participate and G – d decided to save them. Before the Mabul started, the fish escaped into different waters. But what happened to the skeletons of the people ? Talmud Zevachim 113b teaches that the dead can be found in a place called SHINAR (in Babylon). Shinar is the place where 340 years later, Nimrod and his followers were building the Tower (Migdal Bavel). It also says in Zevachim that whoever eats from the earth of Babylon (Iraq) it is as if he is eating his ancestors.