Evidence of Superhuman Knowledge in the Torah: Unveiling Secrets from Outer Space

For thousands of years, the Jewish people have claimed scientific knowledge on various subjects. At that time, the scientific world asserted the opposite, considering the Jews' claims as ridiculous and lacking logic. With modern technological advancements and scientific progress, discoveries have emerged proving that what was claimed in Jewish sources is indeed true. These scientific discoveries would not have been known without the sophisticated instruments available in the scientific world, and without technological tools, yet the Jewish people have known them for thousands of years through the Jewish literary sources that contain the secrets of creation. In this article, we will present an example of such knowledge, and those wishing to expand their knowledge on this subject can find numerous examples in Rabbi Zamir Cohen's series of books 'The Transformation'.

In ancient cultures, before the development of science and the advancement of technology, it was impossible to estimate the number of stars in the sky. Ancient non-Jewish astronomers claimed that there were between 4,000 and 6,000 stars in the universe. In contrast, the sages of the Talmud, written around 1,500 years ago, claimed a staggering number: 1,064,340,000,000,000,000 stars, which is 10 to the power of 18, plus 64,340,000,000,000,000.

The source of the knowledge of the number of stars appears in the Talmud, which provides an estimate of the stars through a calculation of multiplying numbers in structured systems existing in the universe, such as galaxies, clusters, superclusters, and more. Here is the wording in the Talmud: 'The Holy One, blessed be He, said: My daughter, I created 12 constellations in the sky, for each constellation I created 30 camps, for each camp I created 30 legions, for each legion I created 30 divisions, for each division I created 30 battalions, for each battalion I created 365 myriads of thousands of stars as many as the days of the sun, and I created them all for your sake, and you said I left you and forgot you' (Tractate Berakhot, page 32, section B).

And now we calculate:
Myriad (ten thousand) = 10,000
Thousand myriads = 10,000,000
It is said 'and for every battalion I hung 365 thousand myriads of stars'. That is:
In every battalion there are 36510,000,000 x (thousands of myriads) stars, which is 3650 million stars = 3,650,000,000 stars.

And now we calculate how many battalions exist in the universe:
Multiply: 30 battalions x 30 divisions x 30 legions x 30 camps x 12 constellations = 291,600,000 battalions.
To get the total number of stars in the universe, multiply the number of battalions that we just calculated by the number we calculated earlier - the number of stars in each battalion - 3,650,000,000.

And we get:
291,600,000 x 3,650,000,000 = 1,064,340,000,000,000,000 stars.

Today, sophisticated computers calculate astronomical numbers through satellites transmitting images from space. As science advances and progresses, the estimate of the number of stars is drawing closer to the number stated in our sacred Torah.
Today, NASA scientists claim there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, which is 10 to the power of 21. It should be noted that NASA's calculation is merely a rough estimate, based only on samples from space. In contrast, the sacred Torah does not rely on samples, but reveals to us the exact reality of the world from the One who created the world.