Aurora Mysteries: Exploring the Captivating Northern Lights

"Aurora" (Aurora) is a light display featuring various colors lighting up the night sky, commonly seen near the North and South Poles. Scientifically, it's caused by charged gas particles from the sun interacting with the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere. This phenomenon was only scientifically understood in the 20th century. But could ancient Jewish texts have hinted at the aurora thousands of years ago?

Here are the latest scientific insights about the aurora:

1. The Colors of the Aurora

Green is the most common color.

2. Aurora from Space

Images from NASA in the 2000s clearly show a green line encircling the globe. This green line wraps around the Earth at both poles. See images in the attached file.

Could this data have already appeared in ancient Jewish sources?

Interestingly, the Talmud, written between 1500 to 2000 years ago, states:

"A green line...

that encircles the whole world"

(Talmud, Chagigah 12a)

The Zohar, from approximately 1900 years ago, notes:

"A green line...

that encircles the whole world"

(Zohar, Bamidbar 2, Addenda Shelach)

It's fascinating that such detailed scientific information, which couldn’t have been discovered millennia ago, is described with incredible precision. How could any human have known this 2000 years ago? Unless... it wasn’t a human, but the Creator of the world.

Credit for the Insight:
This topic was first published, to the best of our knowledge, by Moshe Chaim on Facebook.

This text is taken from the book "Interlocking Worlds." To download and read the chapter in PDF format,click here.

The author holds a B.Sc in Physics with honors from the Technion.