Don't miss the important announcement at the end of the post! While reading Moby Dick this summer, I was surprised to come across a reference to a concept found in the Gemara: On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen... Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else... And even when recognised at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
The Beasts of the Sea
The Beasts of the Sea
The Beasts of the Sea
Don't miss the important announcement at the end of the post! While reading Moby Dick this summer, I was surprised to come across a reference to a concept found in the Gemara: On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen... Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else... And even when recognised at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.