[Avodah] birchat hachama

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:03:50 +0300
Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com> wrote:

...

> Reminds of the modern proofs that chazal knew the earth is round while
> early generations
> took the gemara (in several places) more literally as dealing with a flat earth.

It's not all revisionism, though.  It is pretty clear that at least some
of Hazal did know that the earth was a globe:

http://fkmaniac.blogspot.com/2009/03/chazal-earth-is-made-like-ball.html

Yitzhak
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