[Avodah] The Tahom

[Brent Kaufman]

Micha,
(It’s a good thing I proofread what I write, otherwise spell check would
have addressed this to Mocha)

Thank you for that fascinating information. I never saw that connection to
Bavel; and I’ve looked.
(The 12th Planet?)

>>Seems to me The Tehom was the single body of water before HQBH introduced
> yabashah, and was split into miqvei mayim called yamim.
>
> Then what is called Tahom after mikvei mayim?


> >>The most exact translation of "yam" is "seabed", not "sea". As in
> "mayim bayamim".



Do you have a source to translate it like that? In English we say “...all
of the water in the sea.” and still sea doesn’t mean seabed.

However, a friend of mine says that Rashi says (on Tahom in that 2nd pasuk
in Bereishis) that it the water just above the seabed “mayim al hayabasha”.
First, I believe that is incorrect; and rather means lakes and such that
 But also, what would that even mean? ‘Darkness was on the seabed’?
Technically speaking it is dark down there, but what is the Torah telling
us with that?

And the Tahom is also accessible inland, eg. the Tahom under the Even
HaShisiyah that threatened to drown the world until Dovid HaMelech threw
the Shem Hashem into it.

This leads to a broader aspect of Tahom. The yesodos of the world are
mayim, aish, ruach, and earth. Does mayim refer to all liquids? If so, then
the idea of earth Rokah on the mayim makes sense, in that land does float
on liquid rock. Otherwise, where is land floating on water, and moreover,
what are we making bracha on, every morning?

Can the Tahom be, or even just include, the Earth’s molten core?

Which frees up a possibles meaning to be applied to "tehom". After day 2,
> the "depths" (as per the cognates) of a sea or ocean.
>
> But again, is the pasuk saying that the Ruach H’ is above the water and a
little ways under that water it gets dark?

>
> Chaimbaruch


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