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Efraim Palvanov treats the plain ark and Babel stories as only the surface. With Midrash, Talmud, and Zohar, he turns both buildings into lessons about speech and hidden skill. Flood water, he says, matches a research report. The mantle holds far more water than all the seas, so a deluge from the depths is possible, not rain alone. Noah’s hearers were advanced. Given 120 years, they mocked him and boasted a device against a fire flood. A bright stone hung in the boat is read as a stand-in sun and moon. Palvanov likens Noah’s tevah to the covenant chest, which one talmudic measure found taking up no floor space. The stated size, 300 by 50 by 30, spells the Hebrew word for speech, so Noah speaks the craft into being. At Babel the builders uncover secrets the flood generation buried in Shinar and turn the holy tongue, including Sefer Yetzirah, toward revolt. Alongside Rabbi Yonatan Eybeschutz, a flying tower becomes a ship or a lift toward space. Speech is confused first, then the people are scattered.
Key points
- Mantle water is his physical warrant for a flood that rises from the deep.
- The warned generation is pictured as technically advanced, even against a flood of fire.
- A luminous stone and a dimensionless comparison turn the ark into more than a wooden box.
- The ark’s measurements are read as the Hebrew word for speech, so Noah speaks it into being.
- Babel’s builders rediscover buried pre-flood secrets and misuse the holy tongue.
- A flying tower is taken as a spacecraft or space lift, and confused speech is the fitting penalty.
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They're saying that in the mantle beneath the crust, there's three times more water in the mantle than in all the oceans combined.
Efraim Palvanov, Noah's ark and the Tower of Babel
He uses that research claim to argue that a global flood from underground water is possible. Watch at 9:54
So this Ark is now becoming some kind of artificial ecosystem.
Efraim Palvanov, Noah's ark and the Tower of Babel
The shining stone is what lets him picture the vessel as a self-lit living system. Watch at 26:59
He spoke the ark into existence through lashon.
Efraim Palvanov, Noah's ark and the Tower of Babel
His mystical reading replaces carpentry with prophetic speech. Watch at 40:33
Rabbi Yonatan Eybeschutz is suggesting that this was some kind of spaceship or a space elevator
Efraim Palvanov, Noah's ark and the Tower of Babel
This is the reading of Babel he prefers over a simple brick tower. Watch at 1:05:54
Speech is our most powerful tool.
Efraim Palvanov, Noah's ark and the Tower of Babel
The Zohar’s closing lesson, as he gives it, is that rightly used speech builds a life. Watch at 1:08:56
Video by Efraim Palvanov. Watch on YouTube.