[Avodah] everyone is a liar

[Arie Folger]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> The Romans, yes; but that was precisely one of their major inventions
> that allowed them to establish and control an empire greater than any
> previous one, for far longer than anyone before them ever managed.
> And there aren't many Roman roads in EY.  The standard road that Chazal
> discuss is a pre-Roman cow path, or even one that arose in the old way
> during Roman times.  "Sratia gedolah haholechet me'ir le'ir" is surely
> a Roman road, as indicated by the use of the Latin word for it.

How so? Chazal lived in the Roman period, they shared a common
experience on roads.

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