Rabbi Eliyahu Maksumov - Divinity Series - Torah & Science - Fins & Scales

the torah tells us in deuteronomy chapter 14 verse 9 everything that has fins and scales are allowed to be eaten god says to the jewish people that he put into the body of every single creature that is living within the ocean within the water that he placed within the two witnesses if you find fins and scales in the body of the creature you are allowed to eat it now let's keep in mind 72 percent of the world is water the deepest we were ever able to get into the ocean was 11 and a half kilometers can you guess how deep that is that's about eight miles that's how deep with our most sophisticated submarines we were able to get so deep into the ocean that's very deep there were more than 33 600 types of recognizable fish about 40 000 types of fish and of course over time they're making more fish in the ocean that we're not even aware of there are billions of different species within the ocean where the torah was given more than half of them didn't even exist artificially scientists are emerging and cross-breeding all these fish just to uh for their own experiments and for their own reasons now the torah says it was given to you and for every generation to come which means once the torah makes a statement it it's applicable for all time what you eat must have two signs fins and skills this is a rule when torah makes a statement it's not just talking about his day within its day and age it's not let's talk about now until forever chapter six in the night mission listen carefully hear the oral law promises by the cradle of the world anything that you are going to find in the ocean from now until the end of time that has scales for sure has fins is now if you find scales and you scratch it and it falls off then for sure it must have fans guarantee no investigation needed now we're gonna have to ask ourselves the following question question number one is like this why is the creator of this book trying to impress me with his knowledge over the world i mean this is supposed to be a religious book tell me about shabbat tell me about kashrut tell me about being modest tell me about uh all the other thought that we have titi tiffin this is the religious tamil nice stories abraham why are you coming to talk to me about the the fish in the ocean what is this what's the purpose what is his objective what is he trying to accomplish by telling me that you will never find such a fish within the ocean my second question is do you know a person that lived 3 320 years ago that's going to be able to make such a guarantee and within all the trillions of billions of things in the ocean that are moving right now from now on until forever that you'll never find that one not one within the ocean that has skills but no fins could you can you can you tell me somebody who you know who makes your statement it will be impossible for any human to make such a broad statement nobody could make a generalization about the marine world the marine life and within the ocean in order to write such a thing you would have to know all the fish that live within the world simultaneously everything that's living within the world now we know that over time we're discovering more types of fish and we said over time scientists are merging and cross breeding all these fish for their own purposes and there are bible critics who are trying to find this fish what do you think they found such a fish it's been happening here thousands of years since the torah was written and the torah made a statement and it said i make a guarantee now i'm telling you something that proves to us that this torah must be 100 divine no doubt about it because for a human being to write such a thing is very risky he's writing the torah with chapters upon chapters trying to sell his book and all it takes is to write one foolish thing and all it takes is one person to go and disprove him and the entire torah will be false the whole thing will just be torn apart nobody's gonna take it seriously yet the creator of the world is giving you something that nobody else will give you nobody else could provide you with such information because nobody could know all the fish that are living within the ocean and it's not like you tried to play it safe you know he said you know in this river you'll never find this fish or in this lake or in this stream he's talking about all the five bodies of water within the entire world all the oceans the pacific the the all of all the oceans that are the indian ocean every single atlantic every single ocean you could think of all the fish deep as deep as you can go you'll never find such a fish and throughout uh this entire time we did not find such a fish all it takes is one person one fisherman just or one scientist to do one experiment or to catch such a fish and then to air torah of course we'll go down the drain but of course no person has the ability to to make such a statement and to prevent something that just shows you the control he has over the future that he's not just talking about something that he knows about now he's talking about i'm telling you right now i have full control over the future hashem and he's saying that i will never allow it to happen because i've created the world in such a way that it's impossible now again do you know a person that has complete knowledge over the control over the entire world nobody could write anything except for the creator of the world you