Who Was Og the Giant? (And Other Big Questions in Genesis)

[@dkbrain3434]

Excellent format. Thank you.

[@mendey14]

Blessings to you and your family and friends and the Jewish people

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you, may you be blessed as well!

[@shoshannafachima1306]

This was a wonderful Q&A session By the way,the נחש as we know had four limbs,so if you see a high resolution x-ray of a snake you can actually see residuals of those limbs. יישר כוח ותבורך מפי עליון ושוב רוב תודות. נ.ב.אני ב"ה מחר מזמינה את כרך 3 של garments of light

[@shoshannafachima1306]

Very interesting discussion Thank you so much and,יישר כוח ברוך תהיה

[@sh.lslate3517]

Love it!

[@Solelytruth]

Zaken! Ephraim my teacher you are awesome!

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you so much!

[@hayleyhessen6642]

Thank you very much...I have been thinking for a long time...about the question of Adam knowing the future and still sinning

[@gybx4094]

I don't have enough faith for Genesis. I must view it as allegory from chapter 1 to chapter 11.

[@abj136]

Think of it as pre-history but told in symbolic language. They describe the character of things remember, that truly happened, but perhaps not conveyed in terms a scientist would understand.

[@tommyboy4051]

The whole bible is allegory.

[@KononR-gz4vo]

❤Please Note Joshua 8:34-35 declares - *"And afterward he* [Joshua] *read all the words of the Torah, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the scroll of the Torah. THERE WAS NOT A WORD that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them."* ☝🏽This passage shows us Karaite Jews and Karaite Noahides are correct: THE TORAH WAS "ALL" WRITTEN. THERE WAS NOTHING PASSED ON BY WORD OF MOUTH. *IT WAS ALL WRITTEN.* 🙏🏽

[@Eli-wv9bn]

As for his bed being only nine cubits, the commentaries explain, that the cubits were cubits measured by Og’s feet. Therefore there’s not a contradiction between his bed being only 9 cubits, and Moshe only being able to hit his ankle.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Depends on the commentary. I am aware that Rashi and others say it was a cubit according to Og's own size. However, there are also those (like Ibn Ezra and Chizkuni, for instance) who affirm that it was a standard human cubit. The simple understanding of the Torah is clearly that it was a standard cubit, since the verse (Devarim 3:11) directly states that it was a cubit "b'amat ish", according to a regular man, not a giant.

[@davedaves3489]

@@EfraimPalvanov thank you for this. Ibn ezra's teachings are great blessings b"H.

[@Superiorvirus]

Love it

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thanks!

[@knowledge-jm5dn]

Do you figure the nacash was a serpihuim or cherubim? perhaps the same cherubim that held the flaming sword & guarded the entrance when Adam & Eve left the garden?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

I believe one of the Seraphim.

[@ferdinanddaratenas3447]

The script is called "Ashuri" but it has nothing to do with the Assyrians (the people or empire), they used a completely different script (Akkadian I think). Ashuri if I'm not mistaken comes from "beauty" or something.

[@abj136]

Some Orthodox Christians suggest the fallen angels met again with men after the flood, and thus produced new giants, and Og was from this new line.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Please see the class on fallen angels here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaWViZeco9qSg9U

[@jonathanadams2651]

If the land of Israel was not flooded, why don’t we just make that a simple explanation for the survival of Og and Sichon as well as the nephilim who “lived before the flood and after”?

[@tryagain4469]

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[@rachaelfleming7132]

Noahs Grandfather was a giant

[@rachaelfleming7132]

Sarah was one of the daughters of men that one of the fallen chose to procreate with she had a fallen hybrid badssed bloodline of that encounter... Sarah

[@simonjohnwright5129]

Geshem not rain, comet ice.

[@KingRamiForever33]

Have you spoken to the Dual Spirit yet? Who are you really?

[@alexanderluzin7022]

Why Abraham didn’t met Og ?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

He did!

[@alexanderluzin7022]

@@EfraimPalvanov then why we dont have this text in the bible? or why they didnt fight ?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

@@alexanderluzin7022 Please read my essay on it here: www.mayimachronim.com/the-giant-og-king-of-bashan/

[@dovbarleib3256]

Eliyahu because of his complaints against Klal Yisrael, during the time immediately after slaying the Priests of Baal and Ashtarot, when he tried to return the Torah to Heaven by returning to Horev, lost the privilege of heralding Mashiach ben Yosef, an equally heretical time at the end of days to his own time. This is such the case that this last pre-Messianic leader described meticulously in Zekharia 12 will spend most of his Premiership behaving with the rebelliousness of Achav ben Omri, and only at the end will repent as Yoshiyahu the great teshuvah king of Yehudah. When he is assassinated, in Zekh 12:10, he will be given a eulogy to reflect both his life when he was like Achav and his life when he was like Yoshiyahu. His yichus as a Levite from the House of Natan, well that PM is Binyamin Netanyahu! This is why Eliyahu lost that privilege. The 5 Vavs correspond to the five MBYs who would come (4 of whom have already perished through violent deaths because they did not succeed in their mission). The 5th one, Bibi, is hanging in the balance as we speak.

[@davedaves3489]

The last question is soooooo ridiculous. I dont understand why u even engaged it. The earth is a huge rock. Cover its surface with h20 and it will still be the exact same huge rock. Crust mantle it doesnt matter. 1 year of surface water and then a return of the groundwater isnt going to do anything.

[@dovbarleib3256]

There is a lot more than solid rock. There is a molten iron core too. Earth's Geology is much more complicated. The iron core allows for the earth's magnetic field. No Iron- no magnetic field.

[@dovbarleib3256]

Then there are the shifting tectonic plates.