I encountered the Ark of the Covenant, yes I was the East Africa correspondent for The Economist, so I was based in Nairobi in Kenya and a number of neighboring countries were countries that I reported on regularly and one of those countries was Ethiopia and in Ethiopia, by chance, very shortly after I had watched the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford very soon after I had watched that I was on a research trip in Ethiopia and it came to my attention that the Ethiopians claim to possess this object well obviously I was interested this fascinating, powerful, mysterious object and it's hidden in the mountains of Ethiopia I had never heard that before so I began to investigate that particular claim now at that time, which was 1983, the early 1980's I didn't have any particular interest in history, or in pre-history, or in archeology my interests were much more in current affairs but I also had the sense that I think any journalist would have presented by this information that there was something going on here because although archaeologists were rejecting Ethiopia's claim they were saying there was nothing to it, it was a complete fantasy my own eyes showed me that it was central to Ethiopian culture it was fundamental to Ethiopian culture that there was a community of Ethiopian Jews they call themselves the Beta Israel, the House of Israel they are known in Ethiopia as the Falashas and they practice a very ancient form of Judaism they do not know—they only became acquainted with the Talmud as a result of missionary activity from Israel they did not have the Talmud, but they did have the Torah so they're a very old form of Judaism they practiced sacrifice of rams and this, I believe, is forbidden in Judaism since the destruction of the first temple yes they practiced sacrifice of rams, and they had a rich history that told how they had come to Ethiopia, and how they had brought the Ark of the Covenant with them.
When Pleiades and other seeder-star maps come into view, I keep Pleiades and Orion and Pleiades in the Talmud as labeled sky sisters.
Pleiades in the Talmud: scripture / sky-lore sister (labeled different layer).
Josephus clearly names Amram as the father of Moses, and elaborates on the same tradition as the Talmud—Amram divorcing and remarrying Jochebed due to the Pharaoh’s decree.
Since the Talmud connects the flood to the removal of two stars from Kimah (Pleiades), it’s possible that ancient sky-watchers saw two large comet fragments moving from that direction toward Earth, giving them a reason to predict an impact.
Given that the Talmud and Genesis describe a celestial event affecting Earth's water systems, we must consider whether a Taurid impact event could have played a role.
In my research into sky lore on this site, I keep coming back to one Hebrew name: Kimah, the Pleiades in the Talmud.
The Talmud does something sharper.
This page stays with those Talmud passages.
I use short verbatim lines from Sefaria (William Davidson Talmud; JPS for the Bible verses), not loose paraphrases.
I am working from the Babylonian Talmud as presented on Sefaria, mainly Berakhot, Rosh Hashanah, and Bava Metzia, plus the biblical Kimah verses in Job and Amos.
This article does not import channeling claims into the Talmud text.
The Talmud asks why Pleiades is called Kimah.
That is the naming beat I want under the phrase Pleiades in the Talmud: Kimah as a crowded cluster, not only a Greek myth label.
I map that Pleiades-Orion pairing across cultures on Pleiades and Orion, including a Talmud/Kimah row; this page stays with the Talmud cites themselves.
On this site the same Talmud two-star Flood image already appears in flood research notes.
So Kimah also works as a practical calendar marker in the Talmud, not only as Flood mythology.
Those verses are the backbone the Talmud is arguing with.
For Pleiades in the Talmud, I stay with Kimah: naming, climate balance, Flood two stars, and the planting-sky marker.
I do not fold channeling Pleiadian claims into these Talmud quotes.
Stars and constellations in the Old Testament: Job and Amos Kimah verses the Talmud argues with.
Pleiades and Orion: cultural Pleiades-Orion table with a Talmud/Kimah row.
Was Nuh one of the last inheritors of advanced knowledge before the flood: already cites Talmud two stars from Kimah.
The Pleiadians: Seven Sisters foil; keep Talmud cites separate.
What does the Talmud say about the Pleiades?It calls them Kimah, explains the name, balances Kimah's cold with Orion's heat (Berakhot 58b), ties the Flood to two stars taken from Kimah (Berakhot 59a; Rosh Hashanah 11b-12a), and uses Kimah overhead as a planting-season marker (Bava Metzia 106b).
Is Kimah the same as the Pleiades?In traditional Talmud study and in Sefaria's William Davidson English, Kimah is rendered as Pleiades.
This was the time which the Talmud states was the setting of the Pleiades below the horizon, when the Holy Land was moved into a "region of terrible cold" for many generations—actually for 5,000 years until Noah’s flood, 6,500 years ago.
Related sky lore sits on Pleiades in the Talmud and Pleiades and Orion.
Pleiades in the Talmud: related Jewish sky lore (Kimah), kept separate from Daniel 3’s furnace scene.
The Western nations departed from this rule, and in these modern days we are beginning to realize the dangers of this article of food, on account of the trichina contained in it; and when we turn to the Talmud, we are told that it was forbidden to the Jews, "because of a small insect which infests it."
In the ancient language of the Hindoos, the Sanscrit--which has been a dead language for twenty-two hundred years--the magnet was called "the precious stone beloved of Iron." The Talmud speaks of it as "the stone of attraction;" and it is alluded to in the early Hebrew prayers as Kalamitah, the same name given it by the Greeks, from the reed upon which the compass floated.
Two of these, Babel and Erech, are the first two capitals of Nimrod, and the last one, Nipur, according to the Talmud, is the same as Calneh the fourth city of Nimrod.
These laws are mentioned in the Talmud and are thought to apply to all descendants of Noah—in other words, all people.
He noted that the real Old Testament comprises three core writings: the Torah, the Talmud, and the Zohar (the mystery teachings or Kabbalah).
The Talmud, for instance, forbade pork because of "a small insect which infests it."
Title: Legends of Old Testament Characters, from the Talmud and Other SourcesAuthor: Rev.
These stories are drawn from the Talmud and various other sources.
Source: Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat 151b, Erubin 100b)
In a passage unrelated to the curse on Canaan, the sixth-century Babylonian Talmud says that Ham and his descendants were cursed with black skin, which modern scholars have interpreted as an etiological myth for skin color.
Rosh Hashanah 11b: The Talmud mentions that during the flood in Noah’s time, the Holy One moved two stars from Pleiades (“Kimah”), causing the floodwaters to descend.
The scripture and sky sister page is Pleiades in the Talmud.
That Talmud page is Kimah and culture astronomy.
Pleiades in the Talmud holds the Kimah / sky sister page on a different trail.
Close pages are the 12 Elohim, Pleiades and Orion, the Pleiadians, Pleiades in the Talmud, and Aessir / Anunnaki.
Pleiades in the Talmud: Kimah / sky sister page (scripture layer, labeled).