[Avodah] flat earth

[Eli Turkel]

<<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>>

Yes some but not all chazal. I have a book that claims that in general
the scientific knowledge of Rav Yochanan was greater than Shmuel in
spite of Shmuel's statement. Hence, it would not be surprising that it
is the Yerushalmi that got it right.

In the blog it also bring prrof from the Rambam. OTOH Rambam says
there are only 4 elements and the stars are living.
My LOR was once told by chababnik in the name of LR that one is
forbidden to believe there are 100+ elementary elements as it against
a psak (!) of the Rambam.
BTW at the Torah and Madda conference I asked a physicist about
Copernicus and he was incredulous that any modern rabbi could brrand
this as lacking in emuna as there are good estimates of the spped of
the earth around the sun (and even of the sum moving in the universe)

kol tuv

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Eli Turkel