Saturday, March 7, 2009

Emissions from Space

The MAGIC telescope in La Palma (Canary Islands), observed a quasar (a celestial body that emits large amounts of radiation) emitting a jet of particles that points directly towards Earth.

In the Talmud-Book of Law is written the following story. Rebbe Yochanan was teaching how the Third Temple which is destined to come down from the heavens will have pillars of diamonds. A student asked, how is it possible to have pillars of diamonds when in the whole earth there are not diamonds bigger than a fist. Rebbe Yochanan was silent.

The student went on a trip out to sea and during the night the heavens opened up and his saw the angels hard at work sculpting the diamond pillars of the Temple. When he returned he told his teacher what he had seen. Rebbe Yochanan said, and when I told you, you did not believe? Immediately, the student acquired the ability of submission and became as the dust of the earth.

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